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  • The Day Squeaky Fromme Pointed a Gun at President Ford

    Ford, who was less than two feet away, later recalled the surreal moment: “As I stopped, I saw a hand come She later claimed she'd deliberately ejected the top cartridge before leaving home that morning and had that morning, and investigators did find a stray cartridge on her bathroom floor, evidence that lends some It wasn't a romance, whatever some later retellings claim. Recalling the moment years later, he described seeing a hand come through the crowd with a gun in it

  • The Turpin Family Case: Inside the House of Horrors and the Second One That Followed

    Inside the house behind her were her 12 brothers and sisters, aged two to 29, and some of them were chained A later owner of one of the family's Texas homes told ABC News he'd found faeces smeared on the walls Punishment started with rope, and one child was hogtied. Bodycam footage of Jordan Turpin approaching police and footage inside the Turpin home. Home-schooling families hated it.

  • The Tulsa Race Massacre: When Black Wall Street Burned in 1921

    Some were openly calling for a lynching. Some residents fled into nearby fields or the surrounding countryside. Others sought shelter in churches, schools, or the basements of friends’ homes. Detainees were held behind barbed wire, some for days. Some survivors left Tulsa altogether.

  • Lord of the Flies: The Classic That Almost Never Was

    The brat who grew into the veteran William Golding didn't come to his dark view of children as an outside He came home in 1945, went back to the same Salisbury classroom, and started handwriting a very different Jack, the head of the ship's choir, wants to hunt, and the small taste of power that comes with killing Ballantyne's Victorian boys' adventure in which a group of proper young Britons, shipwrecked far from home sticks and leaves, and settled disputes with a rule: walk to opposite ends of the island, cool off, then come

  • H.P. Lovecraft's Racism: The Dark Side of the Man Who Invented Cthulhu

    Not long afterwards, she came across some of the things Lovecraft had written about Black people. As his life went downhill, his letters home got uglier. Sonia comes out of this story far better than her husband. The monsters come from outside, or from somewhere hidden in your ancestry, and they're coming to drag The reaction was furious in some quarters. S.T.

  • Carmine Galante: The Life and Brutal Death of a Notorious Mob Boss

    Coming from a man who'd made a career of looking dangerous people in the eye, that's a meaningful data He was released in January 1974, technically still on parole until 1981, and came home with no intention retirement by the Commission, the shadowy governing body of the American Mafia, and the family he came home

  • The Unsolved Mystery of the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

    At around 1:30 a.m., one counsellor went out to investigate moaning sounds coming from the woods but and raised less than a mile from Camp Scott, Hart was found a year after the murders hiding at the home “Unless something new comes up... I am convinced of Hart’s guilt,” said Sheriff Mike Reed.

  • The Mexican Repatriation: Immigration Raids and Deportations in 1930s America

    Some had lived in the United States for decades. Some had never set foot in Mexico. They show trains filled with people leaving cities they had called home. Immigration Raids in Los Angeles and the Role of William C. That quietness has led some historians to describe the process as a bureaucratic form of displacement In 2005, the state of California formally apologised for its role in the repatriation campaign.

  • How You Could Buy Perfume In 1925 -L’Orange Variée" by Les Parfums de Marcy

    The perfume comes in a container with eight individual glass sections, resembling orange segments nestled for $3198 in 2019, but had an estimated $200-400 The scents included were: Chypre, Amber, Heliotrope, Rose

  • The Chilling Case of Tamara Samsonova: Russia’s Granny Ripper

    This was the home of Tamara Samsonova, a retired hotel worker with a warm smile, fluent in several languages Their home was in a newly built panelled housing block on Dimitrov Street, where they would live for Returning home, Tamara crushed dozens of pills and stirred them into an Olivier salad, a traditional Some of the body parts were wrapped in a shower curtain. Within those pages were confessions to at least ten murders, possibly more, some dating back decades

  • Peter Manuel: Scotland’s “Beast of Birkenshaw”

    September 1956, Manuel committed one of his most infamous crimes when he broke into the Watt family home Margaret Brown, murdered by Peter Manuel at her home in High Burnside along with her sister Marion Watt Despite mounting circumstantial evidence—including eyewitness accounts suggesting he had driven home when he murdered Peter Smart, his wife Doris, and their 10-year-old son Michael in their Uddingston home

  • The Mars Bluff Accident: How a Nuclear Bomb Was Dropped on a Family in a Quiet South Carolina Town

    At the epicentre of this explosion was the home of Walter Gregg, a local resident. One moment, everything was normal, and the next, our home was gone, replaced by a smoking crater." The damage to the Gregg home.

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