Below is a commentary by CBS “Face The Nation” host Bob Schieffer on the 65th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color line. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57579497/capturing-jackie-robinsons-greatness/
On this day in 1947 Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field becoming the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball since the 1880’s. […]
“The Grapes Of Wrath” by John Steinbeck was released on this day in 1939. Below is Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost Of Tom Joad” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4gra-OuONI
On this day in 1939 John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes Of Wrath” was first published by the Viking Press. “The Grapes Of Wrath” won the National Book Award and the […]
On this day in 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln would be shot on the evening of April 14th, […]
On this day in 1943 the Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s birth. The Jefferson Memorial was designed by architect John Russell Pope […]
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