HANS REMEMBERS -NEWS HEADLINES FRIDAY JULY 18, 1969
Hans Remembers- News Headlines from July 18, 1969- a very eventful day- the big story will get a separate post. New York Jet quarterback who tearfully announced his retirement earlier […]
Category Archives: Speeches
PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S RICE UNIVERSITY SPEECH ‘ WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON”-SEPTEMBER 12, 1962
In JFK’s speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962 he proposed that the United States would send a man to the Moon before the decade was out and return […]
I READ THE NEWS TODAY-OH BOY!- JANUARY 20, 1969 RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON INAUGURATED AS 37TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
On this day Monday January 20, 1969- 50 years ago today- Richard Milhous Nixon was inaugurated at the U.S. Capitol as the 37th President of the United States. America- what […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY- SEPTEMBER 25, 1968– DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE HUBERT HUMPHREY PROPOSES PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
It was fifty years ago today- the Democratic nominee for President of the United States Hubert Humphrey proposed a series of three debates with Republican Richard Milhous Nixon and American […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY- JUNE 19, 1968 THE POOR PEOPLE’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. originally had the idea for a Poor People’s Campaign on Washington, D.C. which would be an effort to gain economic justice for the poor people […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY–SATURDAY JUNE 8, 1968– ROBERT KENNEDY’S FUNERAL
Fifty years ago today- June 8, 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral mass was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The 10 AM service was attended […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY… JUNE 5, 1968 ROBERT KENNEDY’S VICTORY SPEECH AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES/ IS SHOT AND MORTALLY WOUNDED
Around midnight PDT Senator Robert Kennedy had been declared the winner in the California primary in a hard fought battle with Senator Eugene McCarthy. He would enter the Embassy […]
