THE HUMBLE ASTRONAUT- ALAN BEAN
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean died in late May at age 86. Here is an excellent article on Bean from The Space Review- which Quinn Maddux sent me last night […]
Category Archives: American History
HARRISON ‘JACK’ SCHMITT- THE LAST ASTRONAUT TO WALK ON THE MOON- 83 TODAY
Harrison “Jack” Schmitt turns 83 today. There were 12 astronauts who walked on the moon during the Apollo missions- and Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17 was the final astronaut to […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY- JULY 2, 1968 — ALLEGED ASSASSIN OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR- JAMES EARL RAY TO BE EXTRADITED BACK TO THE UNITED STATES
It was fifty years ago today- July 2, 1968- James Earl Ray the alleged assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr- was ordered by Frank Milton the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY… JUNE 26, 1968–PRESIDENT JOHNSON NOMINATED ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ABE FORTAS TO REPLACE EARL WARREN AS U.S. SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE / HOMER THORNBERRY TO REPLACE FORTAS AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
It was fifty years ago today- President Lyndon Johnson announced that Associate Justice of the Supreme Court- Abe Fortas- an long time fixer for LBJ back in Texas- would be […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY.. JUNE 24, 1968 THE POOR PEOPLE’S MARCHERS EVICTED FROM NATIONAL MALL
June 24, 1968- fifty years ago today at 11 AM Washington D.C. police enforced the U.S. Department of the Interior order to evict the 300 members of the Poor People’s […]
GEORGE NIXON’S GRAVE [GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF PRESIDENT RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON ] AT GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY
Private George Nixon served in the American Civil War as in Company B, 73rd Ohio Voluneer Infantry. He was morally wounded on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg […]
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