Volume 270 | No. 20

2006—Fox News, citing Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), reports that WMD have been found in Iraq. 2005—Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is found guilty of manslaughter in the case of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. 2004—SpaceShipOne reaches an altitude of 100 kilometers; Mike Melvill becomes the first civilian astronaut. 1989—The U.S. Supreme Court rules that it’s legal to burn the U.S. flag. 1964—Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are murdered in Mississippi by the KKK. 1942—A Japanese sub shells Fort Stevens, Ore., damaging a phone cable. 1935—The top cop busts a cap at a Eureka, Calif. sawmill; chaos ensues, but a jammed machine gun keeps the death …

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2022—Fox’s Larry Kudlow, referring to Joe Biden, asks ex-Veep Mike Pence if he’s “ever seen a president who refuses to accept blame, and…commits so many falsehoods?” Pence replies, “Never in my lifetime.” 2005—Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney explains to Larry King that the insurgency in Iraq is “in the last throes.” 1953—Lt. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike” O’Daniel arrives in Saigon to confer with French General Henri Navarre on how to bring peace to Vietnam. 1947—Standing up for labor, President Harry S Truman vetoes the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act. 1943—A three-day race riot begins in Detroit; 34 die, 25 of them Black, 17 of whom are killed …

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2006—Publisher and Bush appointee Phillip Merrill is discovered shot and weighted down in Chesapeake Bay where the CIA’s Bill Colby and John Paisley ended up; all suicides, though. 1969—Tobar, Nev.—named for a sign pointing to a saloon—is dealt a death blow by an exploding railroad car full of bombs en route to Vietnam. 1968—“The Green Berets” is released. The New Yorker calls it “unspeakable…stupid…rotten…false in every detail.” 1965—Thousands of funlovers at The Weirs throw rocks at cops and burn overturned cars. The N.H. National Guard peppers them with birdshot as Laconia’s Riot Squad arrests 150. 1954—Warned by Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) that his son’s homosexuality …

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2023—Stockton Rush, an alumnus of Philips Exeter, and four clients die when Titan is crushed near the Titanic. 2009—Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta steps over a man with a leg broken in a brawl to exit the Fish & Game Social Club before EMTs arrive. 1989—RIP I.F. Stone, legendary journalist who said, “Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” 1984—Talk show host Alan Berg is machine-gunned to death in his Denver driveway by white supremacists. 1971—Assistant Attorney General William Rehnquist seeks an injunction to keep the Washington Post from publishing “The Pentagon Papers.” 1965—Operation Arc Light begins: 27 B-52s fly …

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2017—Brass on the USS Fitzgerald get their nimble destroyer rammed by a container ship; 7 enlisted sailors die, three are injured, repairs bill: $367M. 1971—“I want it implemented on a thievery basis,” President Nixon tells aides. “Goddamn it, get in [to the Brookings Institution] and get those files [that might reveal my treasonous interference with the Paris Peace talks]. Blow the safe and get it.” Also today: Nixon declares that drugs are “Public Enemy No. 1.” By “drugs,” he means leftists, hippies, and Blacks. 1967—Defense Secretary Robert Strange McNamara commissions a secret history of the Vietnam War. 1933—Syphilitic former sheriff and WWI hero Verne Miller, …

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2020—The Wall Street Journal publishes Mike Pence’s op-ed, “There Isn’t a Coronavirus Second Wave.” 2015—At Trump Tower, 240 actors each earn $50 for watching a cancelled TV character ride a gilded escalator. 2000—The Energy Department discovers two missing Top Secret computer hard drives in a location which had previously been searched twice. 1992—Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is indicted for lying to Congress, but is soon pardoned. 1966—Stokely Carmichael, continuing the March Against Fear as James Meredith recuperates from an assassination attempt, introduces “Black Power” to our national lexicon. 1944—South Carolina kills George J. Stinney Jr. He’s Black, 14, and weighs 90 lbs. His three-hour …

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