Tag: Volume 270 | No. 18 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, May 30

2024—A certain former U.S. President is found guilty of 34 felonies. 2019—The state Senate overrides Gov. Sununu’s veto: New Hampshire’s out of the killing business—except for that one Black guy on death row. 2007—Florida man Dale Rippy, a ’Nam vet, is attacked by a rabid bobcat. He strangles it with his bare hands. 1962—Missionary Archie E. Mitchell, sole survivor of a Bly, Ore. picnic devastated by a Japanese fire balloon, is captured, along with two others, by the Viet Cong. He’s never seen again. 1961—Plotters using CIA-supplied weapons assassinate Rafael Trujillo. They fail to neutralize his secret police, though, and will pay with their lives. …

Fri, May 29

2020—A U.S. President, scared by a protest against a Minneapolis cop’s murder of George Floyd, hides for an hour in the White House bunker. 2017—A U.S. President asks an aide, at a Memorial Day observance, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” 2015—The Washington Post prints ex-Gov. John H. Sununu’s confession that in 1988 he bartered state assets—low-numbered license plates—to buy support for G.H.[H.]W. Bush. 2008—Senator (and candidate) John McCain [R-Ariz.] says “Mosul is quiet” on a day when 30 die there. 2002—FBI head Robert Mueller says 9/11 might have been preventable. 2001—The Bush twins, charged with underage boozing, plead nolo. 1992—In …

Thurs, May 28

2024—A former U.S. President wishes a “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Human Scum… .” 1986—The DOE calls off its search for a site to dump high-level nuclear waste from power plants; southwestern N.H. had been a candidate. 1972—Third time’s a charm: Nixon’s “Plumbers” finally break into DNC HQ in the Watergate Office Building. 1962—The stock market plummets 5.7 percent, the worst drop since 1929. 1946—Workers in Rochester, N.Y. stage a general strike in support of municipal workers fired for unionizing. One day later they’ve won. 1946—The Pentagon begins working on a long-range bomber to be powered by a nuclear reactor; 15 years and …

Wed, May 27

1994—Charles Rodman Campbell does his best to dodge it, but Washington State’s hangman finally manages to get a noose around his neck. 1980—Peace returns to Gwangju, South Korea the old fashioned way: troops kill thousands of civilians. 1972—Nixon’s “Plumbers” fail for a second time to break into Democratic National HQ at the Watergate. 1962—Centralia, Pa. officials set a fire to clear an underground landfill. The fire spreads to a coal seam; the town is later abandoned. The fire is expected to burn another 250 years. 1959—NBC’s Today Show reports straight-faced on the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals’ satirical campaign to clothe quadrupeds. 1944—NBC censors …

Tues, May 26

2004—The NY Times admits that its pre-war Iraq coverage was “not as rigorous as it should have been.” 1972—Nixon’s “Plumbers” fail to break into Democrats’ Watergate HQ. 1970—The FBI’s L.A. office writes a memo: give intel on Black Panthers to rivals; with luck they’ll be killed. 1970—The destroyer USS Richard B. Anderson’s departure for Vietnamis delayed due to sabotage by the crew. 1947—An FBI memo duly notes that It’s a Wonderful Life is communistic. 1937—Ford’s thugs beat hell out of Walter Reuther and three union colleagues in the “Battle of the Overpass.” 1924—Congress sets immigration quotas: Nordic? Cool. Eastern European? Maybe…. “Oriental”? Nope. 1916—Louis Thomas …

Mon, May 25

2020—A white cop in Minneapolis murders George Perry Floyd, Jr. 2007—As U. Mass. hands an honorary degree to Andrew Card, George W.[MD] Bush’s ex-Chief of Staff, students and faculty howl and boo. 1988—Evicted from his crypt, Peter Lawford’s ashes are scattered at sea; the National Enquirer covers the cost of the boat—none of his children will. 1986—“Hands Across America” ends hunger and homelessness. Well done! 1981—Kennebunkport native Dan Goodwin, 25, scales Chicago’s Sears Tower while dressed as Spiderman. 1979—Sitting in “Old Sparky,” waiting for the juice, John Spenkelink says, “Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.” 1953—At the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. …