Tag: Volume 268 | No. 5 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Dec 2

2020—Roger Stone says that to help steal the election, North Korean boats brought bogus ballots into the U.S. through harbors in Maine. 1986—Pres. Ronald Reagan says he can’t remember what he knew about Iran-Contra, or when he knew it. 1984—Union Carbide’s Bhopal, India plant kills 16,000. Union Carbide is forced to pay $14,000 in fines. 1980—Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review breaks the story of the “October Surprise.” 1980—U.S.-backed death squads murder four nuns in El Salvador. 1956—Granma lands 82 rebels in Cuba. Only 12 make it to the Sierra Maestra, but that was enough. 1954—The Senate votes to “condemn” Joe McCarthy. N.H. Senator Styles Bridges …

Fri, Dec 1

2017—One-time Trump National Security Advisor and ex-general Michael Flynn does the perp walk. 2007—Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, at Federal Cigar in Portsmouth, refuses to autograph a New Hampshire Gazette for counterman Dave McNicholas, but agrees to sign a photo of himself—which he takes with him when he leaves. 2003—Howard Dean, leading the pack in polling, tells Chris Matthews he’ll “break up the giant media enterprises;” giant media enterprises soon label Dean “unelectable.” 1969—The U.S. Selective Service effectively guts the anti-war movement by instituting a draft lottery. 1968—The Walker Commission reports that the Chicago PD rioted during the Democratic Convention. 1964—In J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI office, …

Thurs, Nov 30

2016—Trump spokesperson Scottie Nell Hughes—pro-gun despite her brother having been shot dead at eight by a 12-year-old—tells NPR’s Diane Rehm, “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, of facts.” [sic] 1999—A WTO meeting in Seattle is called off due to anarchists. 1974—Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) appears onstage at Boston’s Pilgrim Theater with stripper Fanne Foxe. 1972—Nixon spokesdrone Ron Zeigler says with a mere 27,000 Americans left risking their lives in Vietnam, the White House will no longer update the nation on withdrawals. 1965—Defense Secretary Robert Strange McNamara offers LBJ two Vietnam options: get out now, or go all-in, suffering 1,000 KIAs per month and perhaps losing …

Wed, Nov 29

2015—To protect the lives of fetuses, Robert L. Dear kills three adults and wounds nine more at Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic. 2011—Busted for trading meth to a male informant for sex, ex-Arapahoe County (Colo.) Sheriff Patrick Sullivan is put in a jail named after himself. 1976—After accidentally plugging his bass player twice with a .357, Jerry Lee Lewis charged with discharging a firearm within city limits. 1963—LBJ’s Warren Commission is established to deny the possibility that conspirators assassinated JFK. 1960—On learning that Patrice Lumumba had been arrested on a CIA tip, genial ol’ Ike orders that agency to step up its efforts to assassinate Castro. …

Tues, Nov 28

2008—At a Long Island Wal-Mart, shoppers literally bust doors and trample Jdimytai Damour, 34, to death. 2005—Ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) pleads guilty to selling votes and dodging taxes. 1992—To amuse his teen daughter, Gregg Austin Gingrich, 38, leaps onto a Grand Canyon guard wall and pretends to lose his footing. He then loses his footing and falls to his death. 1979—Bogus data from HQ sendsAir New Zealand Flight 901 into Antarctica’s Mount Erebus; 257 perish. HQ’s “orchestrated litany of lies” eventually fails, and HQ’s busted. 1945—“As I understand it from the doctors,” Gen. Leslie R. Groves tells a Senate committee, radiation poisoning “is a …

Mon, Nov 27

2002—Donald Rumsfeld signs off on “Category III” interrogation techniques—namely, torture. 2001—Gen. Tommy Franks, working on catching Osama bin Laden, is told by Donald Rumsfeld to drop that and revise plans to attack Iraq. 1997—In New York, a lampost fatally stabs Macy’s Barney the Dinosaur balloon. Meanwhile, the Cat in the Hat knocks over a lampost, which then falls on two women, putting one of them in a month-long coma. 1969—At the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku, 100 soldiers fast on Thanksgiving to protest the war. 1965—The first Acid Test happens. 1953—“I knew it,” says 65 year-old Eugene O’Neill. “Born in a goddamn hotel room, dying …