Monthly Archives: November 2009

Gun control activists cheered the new background checks that would be required by the new law for those who wanted to purchase guns.   It was seen as a middle of the road position that both sides of the gun rights … Continue reading →

The official government investigation, The Warren Commission, found that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting on his own, was responsible for the crime.  Since then, alternate theories and evidence to support those theories, have been presented showing that Oswald was part of a … Continue reading →

This decision was then appealed to the US Supreme Court by the George Bush legal team.  The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ordered the recount to by stopped – on the legal basis that the Florida courts had no … Continue reading →

In Jonestown, Guyana – cult leader Jim Jones convinced 900 of his followers to commit suicide by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit punch.   He was also found dead of a gunshot wound to the head.  

Here is the Washington Post’s coverage and the NY Times’ coverage of Nixon’s press conference that day in Orlando, FL.  However, the facts would soon reveal that Nixon was a crook.

In a campaign of “total war”, General Sherman of the Northern Army burned to the city of Atlanta to the ground then began a 70-mile “March to the Sea” in which his troops destroyed everything in their path – homes, … Continue reading →

The dedication ceremony and opening to the public happened 4 years later.  The construction of the memorial was, as most DC monuments, not without controversy (removing cherry blossom trees) or a connection to the Freemasons (John Russell Pope).

Herman Melville’s classic novel of a sailor, a captain and a giant whale.

The United States saw dramatic changes in racial issues with President Truman’s desegregation order for the military.  Those changes continued through the 1950s and 60s.  This 1956 Supreme Court decision was brought on by Martin Luther King’s Montgomery Bus boycott … Continue reading →