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ASSASSINATION
1968 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.; the killing sparked a wave of riots across the U.S. (James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming his innocence and attempting to withdraw his guilty plea; he died in prison in 1998.)
WAR!
1945 During World War II, U.S. troops on Okinawa encountered the first significant resistance from Japanese forces at the Machinato Line.
2003 U.S. forces seized Saddam International Airport outside Baghdad.
TERRORISM
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors and marines.
DISASTER
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000.
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die.
1971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Québec).
1975 More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.
1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed.
1998 Sixty-three people were killed in an explosion inside a Ukrainian coal mine.
PATENTS
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam).
REVENGE
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes.
1984
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary.
JEWS
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem.
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement.
WILE E. PELOSI
2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad despite White House objections.
FLAGS
1818 Congress decided the United States flag would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state.
PC VICTIM
2007 Radio host Don Imus made offensive on-air remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. (Despite a subsequent apology, Imus was fired by CBS Radio and cable network MSNBC; he was hired elsewhere by year's end.)
IMPEACHED!
1988 The Arizona Senate convicted Gov. Evan Mecham of two charges of official misconduct, and removed him from office. (Mecham was the first governor to be impeached and removed from office in nearly six decades.)
BORN
1821 Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock).
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey author (Cheaper by the Dozen).
1915 Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man).
BIRTHDAYS
Author-poet Maya Angelou is 80. Sen. Richard Lugar, R.-Ind., is 76. Recording executive Clive Davis is 76. Bandleader Hugh Masekela is 69. Author Kitty Kelley is 66. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 64. Actor Walter Charles is 63. Actress Caroline McWilliams is 63. Actress Christine Lahti is 58. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 57. Writer-producer David E. Kelley is 52. Actor Phil Morris is 49. Actress Lorraine Toussaint is 48. Actor Hugo Weaving is 48. Rock musician Craig Adams (The Cult) is 46. Actor David Cross is 44. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 43. Actress Nancy McKeon is 42. Actor Barry Pepper is 38. Country singer Clay Davidson is 37. Rock singer Josh Todd (Buckcherry) is 37. Singer Jill Scott is 36. Rock musician Magnus Sveningsson (The Cardigans) is 36. Magician David Blaine is 35. Singer Kelly Price is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Andre Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 34. Actor James Roday is 32. Actress Natasha Lyonne is 29. Actress Jamie Lynn Spears is 17.
DEATH
1841 President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.
1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77.
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51.
April 4, the 95th day of 2008. There are 271 days left in the year.
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ACADEMIES
1802 President Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
WAR!
1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima.
1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.
2003 Five years ago: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq were attacked, it would take the war anywhere in the world "wherever there is sky, land or water." President Bush gave the United Nations one more day to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff.
TERRORISM
1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland.
1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas, who later murdered him.
1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen; he died in captivity.
1985 Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991.
1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed.
DISASTER
1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60.
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155.
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash.
DRAMA
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
QUIET
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded).
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London.
WOMEN
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (New York).
BOBBIES
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms.
ROCKETS
1926 rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass.
BYE
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union.
NAZIS
1935 Adolf Hitler decided to break the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany.
ST. PANCAKE
2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.
NANNY STATE
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted.
SCANDALS
1988 A federal grand jury indicted former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, fired White House aide Oliver North, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair. (Poindexter and North were later convicted, but had their convictions overturned; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count.)
ASSASSINATION
1978 Aldo Moro 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists.
JEWS
1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism.
1998 In a long-awaited document that Jewish leaders immediately criticized, the Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.
SURE
2007 Former CIA operative Valerie Plame told a House committee that White House and State Department officials had "carelessly and recklessly" blown her cover in a politically motivated smear of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publicly disputing President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of acquiring a nuclear bomb.
BORN
1751 James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.
1849 James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 82. Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci is 67. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 67. Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker is 66. Country singer Robin Williams is 61. Actor Erik Estrada is 59. Actor Victor Garber is 59. Actress Kate Nelligan is 57. Country singer Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) is 57. Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 54. Golfer Hollis Stacy is 54. Actress Isabelle Huppert is 53. Actor Clifton Powell is 52. Rapper Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 49. Rock musician Jimmy DeGrasso is 45. Folk singer Patty Griffin is 44. Actress Lauren Graham is 41. Actor Alan Tudyk is 37. Actress Brooke Burns is 30. Rock musician Wolfgang Van Halen is 17.
DEATH
37 Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula.
March 16, the 76th day of 2008. There are 290 days left in the year. Today is Palm Sunday.
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ICONS
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.
WAR!
2003 U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing.
DISASTER
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die.
1928 Hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight the evening of March 12.
1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145.
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake.
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed).
ATTEMPTS
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.
PATENTS
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs.
DEALS
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.
CLIMATE
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages.
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US.
INVENTIONS
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate.
ASSASSINATION
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.
NAZIS
1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda.
1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany.
TRIALS
1998 Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.
SCIENCE
1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He thought it was a comet.
1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.
JEWS
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany.
MURDER
1964 Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.
RESIGNING
1980 Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.
2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't resign.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
1988 yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.
TRAGEDY
1996 a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
2007 President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence.
ABORTION
2003 The Senate voted 64-33 to ban partial birth abortion.
BORN
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death).
1908 American billionaire, publisher and diplomat Walter Annenberg (TV Guide) was born in Milwaukee.
BIRTHDAYS
Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 83. Country singer Jan Howard is 78. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 75. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 58. Actress Deborah Raffin is 55. Comedian Robin Duke is 54. Actress Glenne Headly is 53. Actress Dana Delany is 52. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 48. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 46. Actor Christopher Collet is 40. Actress Annabeth Gish is 37. Actress Tracy Wells is 37. Rapper Common is 36. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 36. Singer Glenn Lewis is 33. Actor Danny Masterson is 32. Actor Emile Hirsch is 23. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 22.
DEATH
1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis.
1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80.
Today is March 13, the 73rd day of the year. There are 293 days left in 2008.
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GAMES
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented.
WAR!
1945 during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait.
TERRORISM
1981 anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
2007 A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of Baghdad, killing 30 people.
DISASTER
2007 Ten people were killed in the Bronx, N.Y., when fire tore through their home.
CIVIL RIGHTS
1965 A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
PRONOUNCEMENTS
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles".
SPORTS
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of the spitter.
PRO WRESTLING
1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion.
HEALTH NAZIS
1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life.
OH NO
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1993 Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant.
JAZZ
1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ.
LABOR
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4.
1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971).
KILLERS
2007 Sex offender John Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.
POLITICS
1850 In a 3-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1975 The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
PATENTS
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
PROGRESS
1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place, between New York and London.
JEWS
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter.
COMING WAR
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce.
1936 Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
1998 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking in Rome, said the U.S. wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
ASSASSINATION
1951 Ali Razmara Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated.
BORN
1849 horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian Alan Sues is 82. Photographer Lord Snowdon is 78. TV personality Willard Scott is 74. Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 70. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 68. Former Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Michael Eisner is 66. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 65. Actor John Heard is 62. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 62. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 62. Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 58. Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 56. Actor Bryan Cranston is 52. Actress Donna Murphy is 49. Actor Nick Searcy is 49. Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 48. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 45. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 44. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 44. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 43. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 41. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 37. Actress Rachel Weisz is 37. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 35. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 34. Actress Jenna Fischer is 34. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 33. Actress Laura Prepon is 28.
DEATH
322 -BC- Aristotle dies.
1959 Hinsdale Smith developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88.
1985 Victor W Farris inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies.
1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] transvestite actor (Hairspray, Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies in Los Angeles at 42.
1999 movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.
March 7, the 67th day of 2008. There are 299 days left in the year.
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ICONS
1904 Dr Seuss [Theodor Geisel] children's book author (Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who!) was born in Springfield, Mass. He wrote and illustrated 44 children's books. However, they are still enjoyed by many adults.
WAR!
1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston.
1943 The World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea began; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.
1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam.
TERRORISM
1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum.
1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists.
1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru.
1998 The U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's deal to open Iraq's presidential palaces to arms inspectors.
2003 Iraq crushed another six Al Samoud II missiles, as ordered by U.N. weapons inspectors.
2007 The bodies of 14 kidnapped policemen were found northeast of Baghdad.
DISASTER
1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die.
1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan.
1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA).
1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy.
1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil.
1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed.
2007 A charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Bluffton University in Ohio plunged off an Atlanta highway ramp and slammed into the pavement below, killing seven people.
TYPICAL
1939 Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the Bill of Rights; 147 years late.
BELOVED
1950 Silly Putty invented.
SURE THEY DID
1977 The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.
TABLOIDS
2007 Anna Nicole Smith was buried in the Bahamas following a lavish memorial service.
NANNY STATE
1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances.
JEWS
1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine.
ZEAL
1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin PA.
POLITICS
1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808.
1836 The Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.
1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory.
1861 US Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories.
1877 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. Shades of Al Gore and the 2000 election.
1917 Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act.
POLICE STATE
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't.
PROGRESS
1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1923 Time magazine debuts.
1977 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson.
1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV.
1983 Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers; most-viewed TV show ever.
DISNEY
1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest.
SPORTS
1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game.
1991 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history.
PARKS
1899 Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state was established.
IMMIGRATION
1819 US passed its 1st immigration law.
WOMEN
1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York NY.
MOVIES
1933 The motion picture "King Kong" had its world premiere in New York.
1965 The movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere at New York's Rivoli Theater.
OUTLAWS
1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead.
EURO-WEENIES
1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000.
ASSASSINATION
1973 Cleo Noel US ambassador to Sudan is assassinated.
1979 Sir Richard Sykes British ambassador is assassinated in Holland.
CRICKET
1898 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England.
SCANDAL
2007 Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned following a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
EXPORERS
1958 A multinational expedition led by British geologist and explorer Vivian Fuchs completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica by way of the South Pole in 99 days.
BORN
1793 The first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Va.
1917 Desi Arnaz Santiago Cuba, singer/actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy).
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Jennifer Jones is 89. Bluegrass singer-musician Doc Watson is 85. Actor John Cullum is 78. Author Tom Wolfe is 78. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 77. Actress Barbara Luna is 69. Actor Jon Finch is 67. Author John Irving is 66. Singer Lou Reed is 66. Actress Cassie Yates is 57. Actress Laraine Newman is 56. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., is 55. Singer Jay Osmond is 53. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 52. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 50. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 49. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 46. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 45. Actor Daniel Craig is 40. Rock musician Casey (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 32. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 31. Actress Heather McComb is 31. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is 27. Actor Robert Iler ("The Sopranos") is 23.
DEATH
1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell Negro baseball league great, dies at 87.
March 2, the 62nd day of 2008. There are 304 days left in the year.
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POLICE STATE
1993 A gun battle erupted at a compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began.
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect.
WAR!
1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento.
1917 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI.
TERRORISM
1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street.
2007 A federal judge in Miami ruled that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla was competent to stand trial on terrorism support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by 3 1/2 years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig.
DISASTER
1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100.
1844 A 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others.
1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes.
1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA.
1975 More than 40 people were killed in London's Underground when a subway train smashed into the end of a tunnel.
1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45.
SLEEPING
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church.
EXODUS
1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation.
SEALS
1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic).
SMOOTH
1935 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers.
POGROMS
1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed.
KILLER WHALES
1977 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles CA).
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1940 1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37).
1983 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch.
1984 26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8.
1989 Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public.
POPULATION
1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%)).
SPIES
1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia.
DRUG WAR
1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine.
NAZIS
1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion. Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD).
GOLD!
1849 The California gold rush began in earnest as regular steamship service started bringing gold-seekers to San Francisco.
WITCHES
1692 Salem witch hunt begins.
PROGRESS
1827 The first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated by the state of Maryland. It ran from Baltimore to Wheeling, WV (then part of Virginia).
1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
POLITICS
1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI.
1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery.
1861 The Territories of Colorado and Nevada organized.
1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor.
MAFIA
1951 The Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued an interim report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the U.S.
PATENTS
1893 Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum".
1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
SHOOT-OUTS
1997 In North Hollywood, Calif., two heavily armed masked robbers bungled a bank heist and came out firing, unleashing their arsenal on police, bystanders, cars and TV choppers before they were killed.
NANNY STATE
1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections.
1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US.
1998 In their weekly radio addresses, President Clinton and the Republicans sparred over education, with Clinton describing tests showing American high school students lagging behind those of other industrial nations as a "wake-up call" while the Republicans blamed the disappointing results on a "hungry bureaucracy in Washington" that gobbled up education funds.
2003 The Food and Drug Administration announced that every bottle of ephedra would soon bear stern warnings that the popular herb could cause heart attacks or strokes, even kill.
ATHEISTS
2003 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stood by its ruling that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because of the words "under God."
REVOLT
1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die.
ECONOMY
1982 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day.
2007 Wall Street rebounded fitfully from the previous session's 416-point plunge in the Dow industrials as investors took comfort from comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that he still expected moderate economic growth.
SCIENCE
1953 Scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes.
2003 NASA released video taken aboard Columbia that had miraculously survived the fiery destruction of the space shuttle with the loss of all seven astronauts; in the footage, four of the crew members can be seen doing routine chores and admiring the view outside the cockpit.
ASSASSINATION
1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran.
1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.
BORN
1824 Charles Blondin France, acrobat/aerialist.
1928 Smokey The Bear.
1943 Donny Iris, singer.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Charles Durning is 85. Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin, is 82. Actor Gavin MacLeod is 77. Actor Don Francks is 76. Actor-director-dancer Tommy Tune is 69. Auto racer Mario Andretti is 68. Singer Joe South is 68. Actor Frank Bonner is 66. Actress Kelly Bishop is 64. Football player Bubba Smith is 63. Actress Stephanie Beacham is 61. Actress Mercedes Ruehl is 60. Actress Bernadette Peters is 60. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is 53. Basketball player Adrian Dantley is 52. Actor John Turturro is 51. Rock singer Cindy Wilson is 51. Actress Rae Dawn Chong is 47. Actor Robert Sean Leonard is 39. Rock singer Pat Monahan is 39. Actress Maxine Bahns is 37. Country singer Jason Aldean is 31. Actor Bobb'e J. Thompson is 12.
DEATH
1966 Charles A Bassett II astronaut, dies in a crash of T-38 jet at 34.
1966 Elliot McKay See Jr astronaut, dies in T-38 jet crash at 38.
1977 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71.
2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. died in New York at age 89.
February 28, the 59th day of 2008. There are 307 days left in the year.
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NASCAR
1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH).
WAR!
1862 Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, was inaugurated for a six-year term as president following his election the previous November.
1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war.
1967 More than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border.
1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal.
2007 Britain's Ministry of Defense announced that Prince Harry, a second lieutenant in the British army, would be deployed to Iraq. (Officials later reversed the decision because of insurgent threats.)
TERRORISM
1935 It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die.
1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals".
2007 The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran had ignored a Security Council ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment, and instead had expanded its program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges.
AHHHHH!
1989 Finland ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress.
WAGERS
1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration.
SPUNKY
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville CA).
NANNY STATE
1872 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH).
FIVE & DIME
1879 1st 5¢ & 10¢ store opened by Frank W Woolworth in Utica NY.
FUR
1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA).
WOUNDED
1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted.
ESPANOL
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award).
NYC MAYORS
1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful).
MARRIAGE
1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37.
1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed.
1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32).
FRIENDLY FIRE
1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578.
1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die.
POPCORN
1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn.
UNREST
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India.
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters.
SUICIDE
1998 Sandy Hume correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28.
GOP
1854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan.
1856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh).
MISTAKES
2003 Jesica Santillan, the teenager who'd survived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to get a second set of donated organs, died two days after the second transplant at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.
POLITICS
1819 Spain agreed to cede Florida to the United States under the Adams-Onis Treaty.
1865 Tennessee adopted a new constitution that included the abolition of slavery.
1889 President Cleveland signed an omnibus bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1924 President Coolidge delivered the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addressed the country over 42 stations.
SOCCER
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht Portsmouth vs Newcastle United.
ASSASSINATION
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero Mexican President at 39, and Suarez, Mexican vice President, assassinated in a military coup.
JEWS
1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site.
1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland.
1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp; Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam.
MIRACLES
1980 the U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
BEHEADED
1943 Hans Scholl German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24. Sophie Scholl German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded.
CRICKET
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours.
BORN
1732 The first president of the United States, George Washington, was born at his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony.
1788 Arthur Schopenhauer Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist).
1810 Frédéric F Chopin Polish/French pianist/composer.
1891 "Chico" Marx New York NY, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers).
BIRTHDAYS
Announcer Don Pardo is 90. Actor Paul Dooley is 80. Hollywood "ghost singer" Marni Nixon is 78. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., is 76. Movie director Jonathan Demme is 64. Actor John Ashton is 60. Actress Miou-Miou is 58. Actress Julie Walters is 58. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving is 58. Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 49. Actress-comedian Rachel Dratch is 42. Actress Jeri Ryan is 40. Actor Thomas Jane is 39. Actress Tamara Mello is 38. Actress-singer Lea Salonga is 37. Actor Jose Solano is 37. Tennis player Michael Chang is 36. Actress Drew Barrymore is 33. Actress Liza Huber is 33. Singer James Blunt is 31. Actor Daniel E. Smith is 18.
DEATH
1998 Abraham A. Ribicoff, the former Connecticut governor and senator who served as President Kennedy's secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, died in Riverdale, N.Y., at age 87.
February 22, the 53rd day of 2008. There are 313 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
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Source:
* Today in History
* Today in history
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
WAR!
1898 USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
1989 More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
1918 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland.
1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq.
TERRORISM
1993 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia.
DISASTER
1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans.
1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die.
1961 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102.
1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die.
1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die.
DREAMS
1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23).
VAMPIRES
1931 1st Dracula movie released.
SERIAL KILLERS
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL.
1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys.
CLINTONS
1998 Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, continued his harsh criticism of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for alleged leaks of information to the news media, charging on CNN that his client's constitutional rights were being trampled.
TOYS
1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.
FINANCE
1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
CONDIMENTS
1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia.
BEETLES
1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game).
BEATLES
1965 John Lennon passes his driving test.
BOOTLEG
1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted.
FAKES
1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced.
GLOBAL WARMING
2007 National Guardsmen in Humvees ferried food, fuel and baby supplies to hundreds of motorists stranded for nearly a day on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania because of a monster storm.
CARTOONS
1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released.
COMMIES
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party.
POPULATION
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion.
MEAT
1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin.
SPORTS
1956 Pirates & Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham AL, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white.
SLAVERY
1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery.
JEWS
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt.
CLIMATE
1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans.
CHESS
1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23.
SCANDAL
2002 Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
TREASON
1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped.
RESCUE
1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave.
TREES
1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down.
WOMEN
1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
ASSASSINATION
1933 Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
EXECUTED
1979 Mehdi Rahimi Iran General/military Governor of Tehran, executed.
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed.
CITIES
1764 St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.
COMMIES
1984 Leamon Hunt US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists.
BORN
1564 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
1803 John Augustus Sutter Swiss/US colonist of California gold rush fame (New Helvetia CA, Sutter Mill).
1820 Susan Brownell Anthony Adams MA, women's suffragette.
1882 John Barrymore [Blythe], Philadelphia PA, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Tempest, Beloved Rogue).
1907 Cesar Romero New York NY, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Kevin McCarthy is 94. Actor Allan Arbus is 90. Country singer Hank Locklin is 90. Former Illinois Rep. John Anderson is 86. Comedian Harvey Korman is 81. Actress Claire Bloom is 77. Author Susan Brownmiller is 73. Songwriter Brian Holland is 67. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 64. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 64. Actress Jane Seymour is 57. Singer Melissa Manchester is 57. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 55. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening is 54. Model Janice Dickinson is 53. Actor Christopher McDonald is 53. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 49. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 49. Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 48. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 44. Actor Michael Easton is 41. Actress Renee O'Connor is 37. Actress Sarah Wynter is 35. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 32. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 32. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 25.
DEATH
1943 Thomas "Fats" Waller US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38.
1973 Wally Cox actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48.
1984 Ethel Merman singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76.
February 15, the 46th day of 2008. There are 320 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
On this date:
POLITICS
On Dec. 8, 1987, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty at the White House calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
WAR!
In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington's retreating army crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania.
In 1863, President Lincoln announced his plan for the reconstruction of the South.
In 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In 1949, the Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa as the Communists pressed their attacks.
RELIGION
In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception.
TERRORISM
In 1982, a man demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage, threatening to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. After a 10-hour standoff, Norman D. Mayer was shot dead by police; it turned out there were no explosives.
In 2006, a gunman went on a rampage inside a downtown Chicago law firm, killing three people before being shot dead himself by police.
LABOR
In 1886, the American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
ASSASSINATION
In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by Mark David Chapman.
DISASTERS
Ten years ago: Federal hearings opened in Baltimore into the TWA Flight 800 disaster which had claimed 230 lives.
SCANDAL
In 2006, the House ethics committee concluded that Republican lawmakers and aides failed for a decade to protect male pages from sexual overtures by former Rep. Mark Foley, but that they broke no rules and should not be punished.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
Actor-director Maximilian Schell is 77. Actor David Carradine is 71. Actor James MacArthur is 70. Flutist James Galway is 68. Singer Jerry Butler is 68. Pop musician Bobby Elliott (The Hollies) is 65. Actor John Rubinstein is 61. Rock singer-musician Gregg Allman is 60. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) is 59. Actress Kim Basinger is 54. Rock musician Warren Cuccurullo is 51. Rock musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard) is 50. Country singer Marty Raybon is 48. Rock musician Marty Friedman is 45. Actor Wendell Pierce is 44. Actress Teri Hatcher is 43. Rapper Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) is 41. Singer Sinead O'Connor is 41. Actor Matthew Laborteaux is 41. Rock musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) is 35. Actor Dominic Monaghan is 31. Actor Ian Somerhalder is 29. Actress AnnaSophia Robb is 14.
Saturday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2007. There are 23 days left in the year.
Source: AP - Today in History December 8 2007
compiled by Mondoreb
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Forty-four years after it happened, details continue to come to light about the assassination and the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
World Net Daily has a story of more intrigue: an attempted whistle-blower in the form of a secret service agent; the agent's imprisonment; the recanting of the testimony of a key witness against the agent; and, the story of another November plot to assassinate JFK.
From JFK assassination plot uncovered in Chicago?:Ex-Secret Service agent reveals tip caused president to change travel plans 3 weeks before Dallas shooting
More food for thought for both those interested in full disclosure of the JFK story's details and JFK conspiracy theorists.
Former agent Abraham Bolden, 72, told Chicago ABC affiliate, WLS-TV, Kennedy was waved off from a much-publicized visit to Chicago on Nov. 2, 1963, to attend the Army-Air Force football game at Soldier Field and ride in a parade after the Secret Service received a report from a motel manager who told of seeing several automatic weapons with telescopic sights on the bed of a room rented to several Cuban nationals. They had an outline of the route Kennedy was to follow from O'Hare airport that would take his motorcade past the motel. The route had been printed in Chicago newspapers.
Bolden, a former Illinois state trooper, was the first black agent to protect a president.
The Secret Service was already uneasy about the presidential visit because an outspoken critic of the president, Thomas Vallee, had arranged to take off work for Kennedy's visit. Vallee was arrested before the planned visit with an M1 rifle, a handgun and 3,000 rounds of ammunition in his possession.
News of the Cuban nationals triggered an investigation but, Bolden charges, the surveillance was mishandled and the Cuban suspects disappeared and were never identified.
"No one was sent to the room to fingerprint it or get an ID. The case was lost and that was the end of it," he said. The day of the planned flight from Washington, D.C., with a suspected Cuban hit team somewhere in Chicago, the Secret Service urged a change of plans.
Bolden tried to come forward at the time, but his story about the assassination attempt and the bungling by officials was overshadowed by another story: that of a secret service agent arrest for bribery.
"The morning of the game, the special agent in charge of the Chicago office called the White House and recommended the president cancel his trip to Chicago," Bolden said.
News reports at the time blamed the change in plans on illness and a diplomatic crisis. South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated in Saigon on that same day.
But Bolden told WLS-TV neither illness nor crisis were the reason plans were changed – JFK stayed away from Chicago because of the suspected assassination plot.
It was hard for Bolden to make much noise from a prison cell.Following Kennedy's murder in Dallas three weeks later, Bolden said he tried to inform the Warren Commission of the Chicago plot and misconduct by Secret Service agents, including on-duty drunkenness, but his efforts were thwarted when he was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to prison for soliciting a bribe from a counterfeiter.
This story is an illustration of the times: with so many sources of media available to people--the Internet and blogosphereare bit two--it's hard to imagine the story staying out of the public eye today.
Bolden, who served six years, claims he was set up to silence his criticism of agents' behavior and is hoping to clear his name after the main witness against him recanted his testimony.
The same media voices who chastise the blogosphere as some sort of irresponsible "Wild West" environment are the same ones who left this story unreported for years.
There's a difference between the media of 1963 and the media of 2007.
It's the difference between having 5 or 6 points of view and having a choice of thousands.
Given his choice between the sanctimonious gatekeepers of Traditional Media and today's Internet news resources, Abraham Bolden would probably cast his vote for the "Wild West".
by Mondoreb
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