On this day in 1961 President John Kennedy sent 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963 there were 16,000 US military advisers in […]
On this day in 1978 one of most bizarre and tragic stories I can remember from a strange and weird era the mass-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana that took the lives […]
On this day in 1973 when talking to a crowd of 400 Associated Press managing editors POTUS Richard Milhous “Tricky Dicky” Nixon in discussing the Watergate scandal said “I am not […]
Three hours of the great Shelby Foote being interviewed on C-Span in the early 2000’s. Outstanding stuff. link to the C-Span In Depth interview below. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/165823-1
Shelby Foote a noted novelist who became famous for his three volume “The Civil War” and for his appearances on the Ken Burns “Civil War” series was born on this […]
On this day in 1864 General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union left Atlanta in smoking ruins and started his march to the sea. Sherman is still hated in the […]
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