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  • The Luby's Massacre: George Hennard and the Day a Truck Came Through the Window in Killeen

    George Hennard Home wasn't a happy place. He wasn't entirely indiscriminate, which in some ways makes it worse. Tommy Vaughn was a 28-year-old car mechanic, 6ft 6in and around 349 pounds, who'd come in with eight 63; Sylvia King, 30; Zona Lynn, 45; Connie Peterson, 43; Ruth Pujol, 36; Su-Zann Rashott, 36; John Romero Venice Henehan had come all the way from Metz, Missouri.

  • 'Ku Klux Kiddies': The KKK's Youth Movement

    As the families approached the clergyman, a group of 50 men in white robes stepped forward, their faces Women’s Key Role in Expanding the Klan Much of this family-oriented strategy was driven by the Klan’s They also played a critical role in introducing children to the Klan, organising events that blurred Girls had their own organisation, the Tri-K-Klub, which focused on traditional gender roles and Klan-approved Weddings featured robed participants, funerals included flower arrangements spelling out “KKK,” and even

  • Richard ‘Two Gun’ Hart: The Capone Who Lived the Law While His Brother Broke It

    “He avoided the life of the hoodlums and went across the bay to Staten Island where the homes and shops By the time Vincenzo left home as a teenager, he was already experimenting with identity. He rode his horse Buckskin Betty through town even though he owned a car. Some colleagues admired him. Others, particularly his superiors, viewed him as reckless. He died at home on 01st October, 1952. He was buried overlooking the town he had served.

  • How A Hoover Advert Led To Brian Johnson Becoming AC/DC's New Singer

    But Holder turned them down—he was of the belief that Slade still had some gas in the tank. At the time, Brian was at home in Newcastle, far removed from the glitzy world of rock stardom. Little did he know, destiny was about to come knocking—in the form of a mysterious German-accented phone We are wanting you to come to London and to sing with the band to audition.’ I said, ‘Which band?’ Brian continued: “I said ‘well, I’m not coming down to London.

  • The Bergen-Belsen Trials: Holding the Perpetrators of Atrocities Accountable

    primarily centred on the crimes committed at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a place that had come Bergen-Belsen, was responsible for overseeing the mass murder of prisoners, particularly through his role an SS officer at Bergen-Belsen, was directly involved in the execution of prisoners and played a key role SS in the final days of the war meant that the prosecution often had to rely on eyewitness accounts, some The Role of Albert Pierrepoint: Britain’s Chief Executioner Once the trial concluded, sentences were

  • Vivian MacKerrell: The Flatmate Who Inspired Withnail, and Whose Real Life Was Even Stranger

    Beyond that, his acting work amounted to small parts: a role as "Fourth Tramp" in a BBC play, a bit part in a film about a doll that comes to life, and a supporting role in the 1974 British horror film Ghost Robinson had played Benvolio in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet as a teenager, and based Monty's theatrical One entry reads simply: "Lennie came over & I drank some lighter fuel - got frantic & burst into tears

  • Van Morrison in Cambridge: The Forgotten Summer of Astral Weeks

    Sheldon, just 17 years old and already recognised locally as a guitar prodigy, was at his parents’ home Thus began John Sheldon’s brief but memorable role as Van Morrison’s guitarist, at a crucial yet often way, When I got back it was like a dream come true. I saw you coming from Cambridgeport with my poetry and jazz, Knew you had the blues, saw you coming from “The gigs and opportunities in Boston weren’t coming easy,” he said.

  • Lord Lucan: The Murder of Sandra Rivett and the Earl Who Vanished

    He came home in 1945, went to Eton, did his national service with the Coldstream Guards and then took By January 1973 Lucan had moved out of the family home to a flat nearby. Some friends later said he'd talked, in drink, about killing her. Who Was Sandra Rivett? She went down to the basement kitchen and didn't come back. She died at her home on 26 September 2017, aged 80.

  • Woody Guthrie and Fred Trump: A Tale of Tenancy and a Real Estate Empire's Racist Foundations

    He had form at home too. He'd written two songs about the lynching of Laura and L.D. Nelson, a mother and son murdered by a mob in his home state. Within a year he was calling his new home “Bitch Havens” in his notebooks. The refrain tells Old Man Trump, several times over, that Beach Haven isn't his home. He recorded it with Ani DiFranco and Tom Morello at DiFranco's home studio in New Orleans.

  • Camille du Gast: The Belle Epoque Daredevil Her Own Daughter Tried to Have Killed

    government shut it down mid-race, refused to abandon a sinking boat until her whole crew was safe, and rode In 1910, her daughter Diane, in the middle of a bitter dispute over money, arranged for attackers to come after her at her own home. Du Gast was driving a 30-horsepower De Dietrich and running well inside the top ten, by some accounts after du Gast at her home on rue Léroux in Paris.

  • The Lockerbie Bombing: The Night Pan Am Flight 103 Fell on a Scottish Town

    The Warnings Nobody Acted On The bombing didn't come completely out of the blue. There have long been claims that some of the passengers survived the explosion itself and were still Eleven people in Sherwood Crescent were killed, some of them never found. Fhimah was found not guilty and flew home to Libya. Some of the most determined doubters were victims' relatives.

  • Leslie Kong: The Ice Cream Vendor That Helped Revolutionise Jamaican Music

    : Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, and Desmond Dekker Beverley’s Records quickly became a launching pad for some and Jimmy Cliff’s “Wonderful World, Beautiful People” found international acclaim, cementing Kong’s role Unlike some of his contemporaries, Kong was known for paying his musicians and singers fair wages, which His sudden death was a devastating blow to the Jamaican music industry, coming at a time when reggae Beverley’s Records was responsible for some of the most enduring ska, rocksteady, and reggae songs of

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