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2024—Despite it all, Democrats still manage to lose the White House. 2006—Texas Asst. DA Bill Conradt commits suicide after a SWAT Team busts down his door. Chris Hansen’s “Perverted Justice” films it all. 1986—In a hijacked helicopter, ’Nam vet Ron McIntosh springs his girl from the prison he recently escaped. 1974—In New Hampshire, Louis C. Wyman gets 355 more votes than John Durkin. It ain’t over yet, though; 317 days later, Durkin’s a U.S. Senator. 1949—A devoted daily churchgoer and deranged WW II vet, Howard Unruh (1921—2009) shoots 16 people, killing 13, in Camden, N.J. 1943—A fascist pilot bombs the Holy See, trying to silence …

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2016—“Calm down,” reads the headline over a Washington Post column, “We’ll be fine no matter who wins.” 2008—Barack Obama wins, sparing the nation from Sarah Palin. 1988—Movie director John Carpenter releases his best film, and his only documentary: “They Live.” 1979—Militant Shi’ite Muslims take 66 Americans hostage in Teheran, dooming the Carter administration. 1975—A neocon cabal reshuffles the Ford cabinet for him. Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush take over. 1960—In Dallas, a vicious “Mink Coat Mob” angrily confronts Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Revulsion at its tactics cost Nixon Texas. 1958—A U.S. B-47 bomber carrying nukes crashes near Abilene, Texas. High explosives detonate. The radioactive stuff …

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2005—The Washington Post reveals that the CIA is “protecting democracy” by running a secret gulag. 2004—Warren Co., Ohio officials say a “terrorist threat” is why they’re counting votes behind locked doors. 2002—“We know he [Saddam Hussein] has chemical weapons,” says George W.[MD] Bush. [He doesn’t.] 2001—“Give war a chance,” writes the N.Y. Times’s Thomas L. Friedman. 2000—TV in Maine reveals George W.[MD] Bush’s 1976 DUI bust. 1972—The Seafarers International Union [SIU] gives $100K to Nixon’s campaign. The Justice Dept. drops an indictment of the SIU for making illegal campaign contributions. 1967—Pres. Johnson and his “Wise Men” decide what the Vietnam War needs is more upbeat …

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2003—N.H. Gov. Craig Benson [R.] welcomes the Free State Project. 2001—George W.[MD] Bush signs an Executive Order conveniently hiding his father’s misdeeds as Veep. 1981—TV is just “a toaster with pictures,” says FCC boss Mark Fowler. 1976—Mob fixer Roy Cohn lands Donald Trump a flattering profile in the N.Y. Times, written by the same rube who started 1970’s bogus “poison Halloween candy” panic. 1972—The Piscataqua Bridge opens. 1968—At My Tho, two limpet mines kill 26 aboard the USS Westchester County—the deadliest single incident for the Navy during the Vietnam War. 1966—Lyndon Johnson tells U.S. troops in Korea that his great-great grandaddy died at the Alamo. …

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2016—Chris Sununu claims Democrats bus voters in from Mass, a lie quickly cribbed by Donald Trump. 1977—Carter’s new CIA boss, Stansfield Turner, fires 200 spooks. They all go meekly, with nary a thought of covert retaliation against Democrats. 1973—Ex-Veep Spiro Agnew pays a $10,000 fine for not paying taxes on the bribes he took while in office. 1963—“I can safely say,” says Gen. Paul D. Harkin, U.S. commander in South Vietnam, “that the end of the war is in sight.” He’s in Tokyo, so…. 1939—FDR moves up the date of Thanksgiving by one week to stretch out the Christmas shopping season. 1938—Convicted murderer John Deering’s …

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