Saturday, April 4, 2020
On this day in 1968,
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
SHOT AND KILLED
On this day in 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in the head and killed while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Just the day before King had given his last sermon saying, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop . . . And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”
Two months later Bobby Kennedy would be shot in the head and killed while campaigning for president in Los Angeles.
On this day in 1865,
LINCOLN DREAMS OF HIS ASSASSINATION
On this night in 1865, Abraham Lincoln dreamt of “the subdued sobs of mourners” and a corpse lying on a catafalque in the White House East Room. In the dream, Lincoln asked a soldier standing guard, “Who is dead in the White House?” to which the soldier replied, “the President . . . he was killed by an assassin.” Lincoln woke up at that point. On April 11, he told one of his best friends that the dream had “strangely annoyed” him ever since.
Ten days after having the dream, Lincoln was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater.
Video
Friday, April 3, 2020
On this day in 1860,
Pony Express Debuts
Delivers mail from Missouri to California in "lightning fast" speed of 10 days
Put out of business in less than two years by the telegraph
Video
Thursday, April 2, 2020
On this day in 1863,
The Richmond Bread Riot
Confederate Women Loot Stores in Capital of the Confederacy
Video summary
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
On this day in 1946,
Alaska Earthquake Causes Massive Tsunami
Kills 159 In Hawaii
Video with pictures of damage
In April, 1920,
Henry Ford Publishes Series of Antisemitic Newspaper Articles
Ford Becomes Only American Mentioned Favorably in "Main Kampf"
Hitler: "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration."
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
On this day in 1965,
On this day in 1965, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson lied to Americans about his recent deployment of the first 3,500 Marines sent to Vietnam, supposedly solely for defensive purposes to secure the U.S. base at DaNang. Johnson really had plans to send more troops to Vietnam and to use them offensively rather than just defensively. By the time LBJ was hounded out of office because of the war, he had sent 500,000 Americans to Vietnam. 58,000 American boys, many of whom were drafted and forced to fight in Vietnam, never came home.
LBJ Tells First Of Many Lies About His Vietnam War Plans
[See Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, "Dereliction of Duty" subtitled “Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam.” Gen. McMaster says Democrat President Johnson “disregarded the advice he did not want to hear in favor of a policy based on the pursuit of his own political fortunes and his beloved domestic programs." "The administration’s lies to the American public grew in magnitude as the American military effort in Vietnam escalated,” initially without the public’s knowledge or consent.]
Monday, March 30, 2020
Yale Pandemic Historian, Frank Snowden:
China Virus a Disease of Globalization
Carried initially by elites
Will cause decentralization/nationalism
On this day in 1867,
Seward's Folly - U.S. Buys Alaska
Part of plan to also buy Greenland, Iceland and Canada
Video: America's Crazy Plan to Buy Greenland, Iceland and Canada
Sunday, March 29, 2020
The man who presaged Trump, Pat Buchanan:
Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era?
"In engaging with the world, we should put our own interests first, as every nation in the world is doing now."
Jonah Goldberg
This Pandemic Will Change Us. We Just Don’t Know Quite How Yet.
Looking back at the Black Death can give us a few clues, though.
What a difference two months makes:
The Trump Admin’s expansion of its un-American travel ban is a threat to our security, our values and the rule of law. Barring more than 350 million people from predominantly African countries from traveling to the US, this rule is discrimination disguised as policy.
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On this day in 1973,
U.S. Withdraws From Vietnam
58,000+ American Boys Killed
40,000 Killed Ages 22 & Under
On this day in 1973, the last American troops left South Vietnam following the loss of 58,000+ American boys, most of whom had been drafted and forced to go to Vietnam to fight and die.
The names on The Vietnam Memorial Wall are arranged in the order in which they were killed by date and within each date the names are alphabetized.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass., listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps LCpl Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept.7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam.
1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, in "Dereliction of Duty" and subtitled “Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam” says Johnson “disregarded the advice he did not want to hear in favor of a policy based on the pursuit of his own political fortunes and his beloved domestic programs." "The administration’s lies to the American public grew in magnitude as the American military effort in Vietnam escalated,” initially without the public’s knowledge or consent.
Johnson’s “guns and butter” policies led to rampant inflation reaching 18%, political turmoil, and social shock waves felt for a generation.
58,000+ American boys killed.
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