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Aug 2, 2005
The son of a black man who reportedly accompanied the white men who abducted and killed Emmett Till in 1955 is asking officials to grant his father immunity in the reopened case. Johnny Thomas said Thursday that his father, Henry Lee Loggins, maintains that he had nothing to do with the infamous lynching. But he thinks that if he is granted immunity, Loggins might tell more than he has so far."He's saying that he wasn't (with them). I'm crediting that to, if he was with them, I can imagine the f
Source: BBC News
Jul 7, 2005
In 1937, 4,000 Basque children were brought to Britain to escape the horrors of the Spanish Civil War.
Even before they arrived there was controversy about the operation, as many people believed such an act would contravene the UK's stance of non-intervention in the war.
However, after the destruction of Guernica by German bombers, there were increasing fears for the safety of the civilian population in nearby Bilbao.The children were cared
Source: NYT
Jun 14, 2005
The problem is that scholars say the great charter settled a fight between a king and his lords. Democracy? Pashaw.
Source: AP
May 29, 2005
Henry Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops, even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths.
President Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."
Kissinger's remarks surfaced in a collection of papers
Source: NYT
Jan 25, 2005
Widely considered a military hawk, President Richard M. Nixon fretted privately over the notion of any no-holds-barred nuclear war, newly released documents from his time at the White House reveal.
The recently declassified papers, from the first days of the Nixon presidency in 1969 until the end of 1974, show that Nixon wanted an alternative to the option of full-scale nuclear war - a plan for a gentler war, one that could ultimately vanquish the Soviet Union while avoiding the wor
Source: Guardian
Jan 6, 2005
Described as “the killer with pen”, Yao Wenyuan was the group's propagandist and Xinhua, the official news agency, today reported that he had died of diabetes, at the age of 74, on December 23. He was the last survivor of the quartet, and deserves more than a footnote in the history books.
A former propaganda official and Shanghai journalist, Yao wrote the article in 1966 that signalled the start of the Cultural Revolution. During the revolution, hundreds of thousands of people died
Source: BBC News
Jan 4, 2005
A new documentary exploring the death of John F Kennedy claims his assassin was directed and paid by Cuba.
Rendezvous with Death, based on new evidence from Cuban, Russian and US sources, took three years to research.
One source, ex-Cuban agent Oscar Marino, said Havana had exploited Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested but shot dead before he could be tried. Conspiracy theories on the killing have variously accused Cuba, Russia and the
Source: Washington Times
Jan 3, 2005
Leaders of a Hawaiian group have vowed not to divulge the location of a cache of native artifacts obtained from a museum and then buried, despite the jailing of their director.
"We have a greater responsibility to our beliefs than we do to the federal government," said William Aila, who is among four members of the group found in contempt of court last week by Chief U.S. District Judge David Ezra. One of the four, executive director Edward H
Source: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Jan 2, 2005
A magazine that published an anti-Jewish "dual loyalty" slur has now backtracked, as a result of protests by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a glossy pro-Arab monthly magazine, had published an article in its November 2005 issue alleging that Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. was disloyal to America and helped prolong World War One in order to show his "loyalty to Zionism."
Source: Times (UK)
Jan 2, 2005
An Italian judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed.
The case against Father Enrico Righi has been brought in the town of Viterbo, north of Rome, by Luigi Cascioli, a retired agronomist who once studied for the priesthood but later became a militant atheist. Signor Cascioli, author of a book called The Fable of Christ, began legal proceedings against Father Righi three years ago after the priest denounced Signor
Source: Washington Times
Jan 2, 2005
JERUSALEM -- Israeli archaeologists, screening tons of rubble scooped out of this ancient city's sacred Temple Mount, have discovered hundreds of artifacts and coins, as well as jewelry, some with biblical links dating back more than three millennia. Most of the stones and earth originally were taken to an organic garbage dump in nearby Bethany, the New Testament town known in Arabic as Al-Azariya, and could not be retrieved. But a substantial portion was diverted t
Source: BBC News
Jan 2, 2005
Tens of thousands of pounds worth of art and antiquarian books have been lost in a New Year house fire.
The blaze at the Edinburgh home of former Scotsman editor Magnus Linklater destroyed works by artists including Samuel Peploe and William MacTaggart.
The fire, in a drawing room, was thought to have started in Christmas tree lights as Mr Linklater and his wife Veronica hosted a party.
Source: BBC News
Jan 2, 2005
Austria is celebrating the 250th birthday of one of its most famous sons - the composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Salzburg, the city of his birth, is hoping to cash in with a mixture of kitsch and high culture and its Mozart industry is going into overdrive this month. An enterprising local dairy has developed a new Mozart yogurt and a Mozart dessert drink - flavoured with chocolate, hazelnut and marzipan.
The yogurt is one of hundreds
Source: Baltimore Sun
Oct 14, 2003
...Every administration since Woodrow Wilson's has lambasted leakers. And every president since Wilson has made discreet but routine use of the practice themselves -- personally, or through their minions, giving the press information on the sly when circumstances merited some truth, or untruth, become known.But the sometimes noble, sometimes ignoble, history of leaks goes back much further.George Washington grew infuriated with Alexander Hamilton for leaking information to the British during the Jay Treaty negotiations in the summer and fall of 1794. James Madison was exasperated when his secretary of state leaked documents to his enemies in the Federalist Party.During James K. Polk's administration, in 1848, John Nugent, a journalist for the New York Herald, published, based on a leak, the secret treaty ending the war with Mexico. When he refused to disclose his sources to Senate investigators, he was arrested and held for a month in a Capitol committee room, continuing to write his column at double his normal salary and going home at night with the sergeant at arms, who fed and housed him.
Source: Courier-Journal (Kentucky, Indiana)
Dec 1, 2000
The Frazier International History Museum will be the new home of the Bloedner Monument, the nation’s oldest surviving Civil War memorial.
Left behind after the 1861 Battle of Rowlett’s Station near Munfordville, Ky., the monument was recently rescued and restored following decades of exposure that nearly destroyed it at Cave Hill Cemetery, where it has rested since 1867.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Cemetery Administration selected the Frazie
Source: Facing South
Oct 8, 2000
There are three state legislators, all Republicans, now up for reelection across the region who have continued to promote Lost Cause lies through legislation and other official efforts. They are Rep. Tommy Benton of Georgia, Rep. Larry Pittman of North Carolina, and Sen. Joey Hensley of Tennessee.
Source: Brennan Center
Aug 27, 2000
A report from the Brennan Center for Justice documents the long history of racism in law enforcement and the lack of attention to recent FBI warnings that white supremacists groups are infiltrating law enforcement agencies.
Source: Report of Lawrence Walsh
Aug 4, 1993
HNN: Defense Secretary-designate Robert M. Gates was implicated in the Iran-contra scandal of 1986.
He was not indicted by special counsel Lawrence Walsh. But Walsh in his report devoted a chapter to Gates and concluded:
Independent Counsel found insufficient evidence to warrant charging Robert Gates with a crime for his role in the Iran/contra affair. Like those of many other Iran/contra figures, the statements of Gates often seemed scripted and less than candid. Never
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/11/
Although there are dozens of dedicated landmarks to African American history today, the activism of the DeForrest brothers to push the National Park Service toward inclusion has been forgotten.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/30/3021
Faculty in the College of Education contend that University of Florida administrators are holding up the establishment of a concentration for doctoral students in the study of race and ethnicity in education, due to political pressure.
