Volume 268 | No. 25

2019—Meteorologist-in-Chief Donald J. Trump tweets that Hurricane Dorian will hit Alabama hard. 2005—New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin calls for George W.[MD] Bush and FEMA to “get off your asses and do something” about his flooded city. 1989—Narcs trying to score crack near the White House for a George H.[H.]W. Bush presidential photo-op get the drug on their third try but not the film—their camera operator gets mugged by a homeless person. 1989—Bible-thumping huckster Jim Bakker’s fraud trial is briefly interrupted when, professing that he’s hallucinating, he’s taken to a mental institution in handcuffs and leg shackles. 1983—The USSR shoots down KAL Flight 007. Among the …

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2019—Portsmouth’s Daniel Street Post Office closes for good. Thanks a lot, Councilor, Congressman, Governor, and Senator Judd Gregg. 1973—The Gainesville Eight, antiwar veterans charged with conspiracy to riot at the 1972 Republican National Convention, are acquitted. 1965—President Johnson signs a bill making draft card burning illegal. 1963—Robert Bork publishes an article in The New Republic opposing the Civil Rights Act. 1959—President Eisenhower says, “people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” 1954—Hurricane Carol slams New England; 65 die. 1948—An LAPD setup bears fruit: Robert Mitchum is busted for pot. 1939—German …

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2011—The Federal Election Commission bestirs itself and OKs an investigation of Rep. Frank Guinta [R-N.H.]. 2007—Unbeknownst to the pilots, a B-52 takes off from N.D. with six live nukes onboard. Arriving in La., it sits unguarded from noon to 10:00 p.m. 2004—To milk 9/11 for all it’s worth, the RNC convenes in New York City. Attendees mock John Kerry and wounded vets in general by wearing “Purple Heart” band-aids. 1979—Deftly wieldinga canoe paddle, President Carter fends off a deranged swamp rabbit. 1979—For the first time, astronomers observe a comet hitting the sun. 1967—Thurgood Marshall becomes the first Black Associate Justice. 1964—At the Democratic Convention, an …

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2013—Americans learn, thanks to Edward Snowden, that the annual “Black Budget” of the “Intelligence Community” is $52.6 billion a year. 2007—Due to careless accounting, an Air Force B-52 at Minot AFB in North Dakota is loaded with six live nukes, then left unguarded overnight. 1996—Dick Morris resigns; his habit of sucking hooker’s toes bugs boss Bill Clinton, who just got re-nominated. 1977—Skynet becomes self-aware. 1977—Memphis cops nab three people trying to steal Elvis’s corpse. 1970—A 23-member band of Native Americans scale Mount Rushmore and re-name it for Crazy Horse. 1968—A week-long rebellion erupts at the Long Binh Jail in Vietnam. 1957—Despite a 24 hr., 18 …

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As you mentioned here, this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Peekskill Riots, a pivotal event in our country’s civil rights history. In celebration of the life and legacy of Paul Robeson (famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world, awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) and to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Peekskill Riots, The Living Artist Society will present a program called “Here I Stand,” named after Paul Robeson’s seminal book of the same title.  The program will consist of two performances: …

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2005—Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and the levees break. 1969—Judith Love Cohen completes the Abort Guidance System—later used to bring Apollo 13 back to Earth—while in labor in the maternity ward, then gives birth to Jack Black. 1968—Police preserve disorder at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. 1963—At the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for freedom to ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire … . 1955—During a visit to family in Money, Miss., fourteen year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is murdered by whites for speaking to a white woman. 1951—Killed in Korea, John R. Rice is denied burial at a Sioux City cemetery …

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