Tag: Volume 267 | No. 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Nov 5

2004—Report: Bush got 3,893 votes in one Franklin Co., Ohio district, where only 638 ballots were cast. 1986—’Nam vet Ron McIntosh hijacks a helicopter and uses it to free his girlfriend from the Federal prison he escaped six days earlier. 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 Senator. 1968—George Wallace wins five states in the deep South. 1964—A loaded KC-97 crashes on takeoff at Pease: five crewmen die. 1949—Deranged WW II veteran and daily churchgoer Howard Unruh (1921—2009) shoots 16 people, killing 13, in Camden, N.J. 1935—After cheaply buying …

Fri, Nov 4

2016—“Calm down,” reads the headline over a Washington Post column, “We’ll be fine no matter who wins.” 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. 1964—Lenny Bruce is found guilty of obscenity in New York City. 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. Nuclear materials are recovered later. 1955—CIA HQ responds to Caracas Station re: report that Adolf …

Thurs, Nov 3

1986—A Lebanese newspaper reveals that the U.S. has been selling arms to the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. 1979—Communists are fired on by Klansmen and Nazis in Greensboro, N.C.. Five die and 11 are wounded, but three trials yield no convictions. 1973—After a flight crew’s unauthorized experiment, a DC-10’s #3 engine explodes over New Mexico. Everyone makes it safely to land expect the guy in 17H; he’s sucked out the window to his death. 1969—In a speech which proves to be fatally effective, Richard Nixon conjures up his “Silent Majority.” 1964—Lyndon Johnson—the peace candidate—is elected President. 1956—Israeli Defence Forces kill 275 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. …

Wed, Nov 2

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—“A month into the war on Afghanistan, the hand-wringing has already begun over how long this might last,” writes the N.Y. Times’s Thomas L. Friedman. “Give war a chance.” 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 …

Tues, Nov 1

2001—George W.[MD] Bush signs an Executive Order conveniently hiding his father’s misdeeds as Veep. 1981—“[T]elevision is just another appliance—it’s a toaster with pictures,” says FCC Chair Mark Fowler. 1972—The Piscataqua Bridge opens. 1968—At My Tho, two limpet mines kill 26 aboard the U.S.S. Westchester County—the Navy’s deadliest single incident of the Vietnam War. 1966—Lyndon Johnson, lying, tells U.S. troops in Korea that his great-great grandaddy died at the Alamo. 1963—Generals in Saigon lay seige to the Presidential Palace—with U.S. government approval, of course. 1955—Angry with his mother, who left him in an orphanage, Jack Graham kills her and 43 other people. He’s only charged for …

Mon, Oct 31

2016—Chris Sununu claims Democrats bus voters in from Mass. He’s lying, but D. Trump adopts the line. 1977—New CIA boss Stansfield Turner fires 200 spooks, all of whom meekly accept their fate and refrain from covert retaliation against Dems. 1973—Ex-Veep Spiro Agnew pays a $10,000 fine for not paying taxes on the bribes he took 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”…but he’s in Tokyo. 1939—FDR moves the date of Thanksgiving ahead by one week to boost Christmas retail sales. 1938—Convicted murderer John Deering’s heart rate is …