The Alleged Editor

2003—George W.[MD] Bush finds a way to fall off a Segway. 2000—The Energy Department admits that two hard drives holding top-secret data on nuclear weapons have been missing for over a month. 1991—White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu takes a government limo from D.C. to N.Y.C. to attend a rare stamp auction. 1981—President Reagan, failing to recognize the only black person in his Cabinet, calls Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce “Mr. Mayor.” 1969—The Army Corps of Engineers stops the American Falls at Niagara. 1967—The Supreme Court rules interracial marriage is legal. 1963—Medgar Evers is shot and killed in Mississippi; his murderer is convicted 31 …

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1995—In Claremont, N.H., Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich shake hands and pledge to reform lobbying and campaign financing. Yeah, right. 1990—The Supreme Court rules flag desecration laws unconstitutional. 1984—The Supreme Court says illegally obtained evidence is OK if prosecutors can prove that it would have been discovered legally. 1963—Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. 1963—To prevent desegregation in Alabama, George Wallace takes a stand in the schoolhouse door—briefly. Then he scuttles away. 1962—John and Clarence Anglin, with Frank Morris, escape from Alcatraz. Maybe they drown, maybe not. 1920—Republicans meeting in the original “smoke-filled room” select, to their discredit, …

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1990—British Airways Captain Tim Lancaster is sucked half-way out of Flight 5390 when his windshield blows out over Oxfordshire. The plane lands safely. Lancaster recovers and later resumes flying. 1988—A bicycle messenger is denied entrance to the Justice Department because he’s wearing a T-shirt that says, “Experts agree: Meese is a pig.” 1975—The Rockefeller Commission finds that the CIA’s CHAOS operation spied on 300,000 Americans and infiltrated political movements. 1968—The Supreme Court says cops can stop & frisk based on “reasonable suspicion” [or racist whim]. 1964—Sen. Clair Engle [D-Calif.], 52, silenced by a brain tumor and just seven weeks from death, raises his hand and …

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2016—Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law, and campaign manager meet at Trump Tower with a whole slew of Russians with peculiar associations. 1989—James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s Interior Secretary, admits to a House committee that he was paid $400,000 for making a few phone calls on a topic about which he knew nothing. 1978—The Mormon Church drops its policy of excluding black men from the priesthood. 1963—Under orders from Winona, Miss. cops, jail inmates beat civil rights pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer, 45, nearly to death. 1958—Atop an armored car in Cyprus, British writer Auberon Waugh shakes the barrel of a malfunctioning machine gun, accidentally shooting himself in the …

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2003—Condoleeza Rice admits Pres. George W.[MD] Bush’s State of the Union claim that Saddam tried to buy uranium from Niger was “wrong.” 1991—Washington, D.C. hosts a “National Victory Celebration,” complete with Abrams tanks and 8,800 active duty troops. In 85° heat, the tanks wreck Constitution Ave. 1967—Israeli planes and boats attack the unarmed U.S. spy ship Liberty with rockets, machine guns, and napalm; 34 sailors are killed, 171 wounded. 1966—Over Barstow, five USAF jets fly in formation for a photo at the request of GE marketers. Two crash, including the Valkyrie, worth $5 billion in today’s money. Two pilots die. 1956—Tech. Sgt. Richard B. Fitzgibbon, …

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2018—Attacked by a bobcat in her Georgia driveway, DeDe Phillips, 46, strangles the rabid animal. 1997—Activists are arrested for passing out the Bill of Rights outside the pro-nuclear Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos. 1971—The Armed Forces Journal publishes an article saying “our army…in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse.” 1971—Busted for “disturbing the peace,” [i.e., wearing a jacket with “Fuck The Draft” on the back in a California courthouse], Paul Cohen is sprung by the U.S. Supreme Court. 1969—Marine PFC Dan Bullock is killed in ’Nam. He is 15. 1966—Walking for voting rights and freedom, James Meredith, 32, gets three blasts from a …

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