Tag: Volume 270 | No. 5 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Nov 29

2015—To protect the lives of fetuses, Robert L. Dear kills three adults and wounds nine more at Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic. 1976—For accidentally plugging his bass player, Jerry Lee Lewis is fined for discharging a gun 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. 1947—The UN calls for cramming 70% of Palestine’s population—Arabs—onto 44% of the land, so 30%—the Israelis—can occupy 56% of it. 1944—U-1230 drops off two Nazi spies at …

Fri, 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. 1985—An internal Shell memo privately confirms everything its PR flaks are denying: CO2 from fossil fuels has been warming the globe for 100 years; seas are rising, and it’s getting worse. 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 very …

Thurs, 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. 1953—“I knew it,” says 65 year-old Eugene O’Neill. “Born in a goddamn hotel room, dying in a hotel room.” 1952—Winnie …

Wed, Nov 26

2000—Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris—also, coincidentally, state co-chair of the Bush campaign—declares Dubya the winner. 1973—Rose Mary Woods takes the fall for the 18½ minute gap. 1970—After whites celebrate the 350th of the Pilgrims’ landing by rescinding Frank “Wamsutta” James’ invitation to speak, Wampanoags host the first annual National Day of Mourning at Plymouth, Mass. 1933—Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. Holmes are lynched in San Jose, Calif. Jackie Coogan—later TV’s “Uncle Fester”—helps ready a rope. A judge, Timothy Fitzpatrick, says the mob “did a damned good job.” Gov. “Sonny Jim” Rolph promises a pardon, but no one’s even charged. 1932—In his newspaper column, …

Tues, Nov 25

1997—In Plymouth, Mass., police serve Native American demonstrators a generous helping of pepper-spray. 1986—As Ed “Meese is a Pig” Meese confesses that profits from illegal arms sales to Iran went to Nicaraguan contras, a reluctant Ronald Reagan fires U.S.M.C. Lt. Col. Oliver North. 1974—Britain outlaws the IRA after two bombs kill 21 and injure over 100 in Birmingham, England. 1968—Lifelong muckraker and media critic Upton Sinclair dies at 90. 1955—The ICC bans racial segregation in interstate bus transportation; the ban is ignored, though, until Freedom Riders force the issue in 1961. 1950—Great Appalachian Storm winds hit 110 mph in Concord, N.H. 1947—For refusing to rat …

Mon, Nov 24

2006—“The only way we can win,” says George W.[MD] Bush, “is to leave [Iraq] before the job is done.” 1979—The U.S. admits troops in ’Nam were hit by Agent Orange. 1976—Steven B. Williams rams a White House gate with his pickup truck at 25 mph. It does not budge. 1971—Toting $200,000 in ransom cash, “D.B. Cooper” parachutes from a hijacked 727 over Washington State, into oblivion and America’s heart. 1965—The New York Times runs a full-page ad signed by 500 WW II and Korean War vets protesting escalation of the Vietnam War. 1963—To spare Jackie Kennedy’s feelings, strip joint proprietor Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey …