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  • The MOVE Bombing of 1985: The Day Philadelphia Dropped a Bomb on Itself

    Cobbs Creek was a stable, largely Black, working and middle class area. Residents who returned soon discovered the new houses were poorly built. “They were bombed, and burned alive,” Mike Africa Jr. said when the news broke. article=1054&context=jmurj https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/human-remains-1985-move-bombing-penn-museum /4028590/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/move-bombing-black-children-bones-philadelphia-princeton-pennsylvania

  • The Life and Crimes of Eugenia Falleni: A Complex Legacy

    As a young adult, they left Italy for New Zealand, eventually arriving in Australia. detectives, they reportedly said they believed it was “better to give up life as a woman, because [women] worked with the law began with their relationship with Annie Birkett, a widowed mother whom they met while working

  • The Tragedies in Roy Orbison’s Life: A Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience

    News of the fire reached Roy while he was still in England. The moment he heard, his world stopped. his sons, Orbison quietly went into the studio to record an album built directly around his grief, working The use of "In Dreams" in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet introduced him to a new generation, and

  • Issei Sagawa: The Cannibal Who Walked Free

    On 11 June 1981, Sagawa invited Renée to his apartment, ostensibly to work on a poetry assignment. Perhaps strangest of all, he became a working restaurant critic for the Japanese magazine Spa, reviewing Kobe Cannibal': Media's Fascination Lingers On in the West After Death" — https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news Man Who Walked Free After Killing, Eating Dutch Student Dies at 73" — https://english.alarabiya.net/News

  • Klaus Barbie: From Gestapo Chief in Lyon to Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

    It was a business arrangement between two of the most violent men on the planet, and it worked. In between, he had worked for the CIA, trained Bolivia's secret police in interrogation techniques, helped Transfer to Occupied France, 1942 By late 1942, German occupation policy in France was entering a new At the end of the war, he returned to Germany, removed his SS blood group tattoo and assumed a new identity In the 1980s, Wilson shared recordings of these conversations with ABC News, sparking a Department of

  • Goldie Williams: The Defiant Face of Vagrancy, Race, and Respectability in 1890s America

    The new photographic method was seen as scientific. Omaha’s history, showing how racial violence could erupt even in northern cities that claimed to offer new her photograph stands as a record of that world: a reminder of how law, science, and prejudice often worked

  • That Time Charlie Chaplin’s Body Was Stolen and Held for Ransom

    The news sent a ripple of shock through the Swiss village and quickly spread worldwide. sting led to the arrest of two men: Roman Wardas, aged 24, a Polish refugee struggling to find steady work A Misguided Plot Born of Desperation Wardas admitted in court that he was inspired by a news report he Sources: www.history.com/news/charlie-chaplin-body-stolen www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-bizarre-grave-robbing-of-charlie-chaplin -49742619/ www.theguardian.com/world/1978/mar/29/charliechaplin www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe

  • A Family's Descent into Tragedy: The Ethel Yeldem Story

    In April 1918, her first husband, Otto, had died suddenly at work. Later that day, Ethel did something unusual—she bought each of her children new clothes, a luxury they That evening, Mildred returned from work and heard crying upstairs.

  • Phil Hartman And The Night He Was Killed By His Wife

    When he was hired to replace Hartman on NewsRadio after Phil's death and found himself working alongside revolver, one of two guns she'd bought years earlier because she felt unsafe at home when Phil was away working voice Zapp Brannigan on Futurama, a role written specifically for him, and was planning to star in a new ABC News: The man behind the laughter: SNL, Simpsons star Phil Hartman's life off-screen 3.

  • The Unsung Genius of James Jamerson: Motown’s Quiet Thunder

    not know his name off the top of your head, but chances are you’ve danced, swayed, or sobbed to his work He’s algorithmically generating a new pattern every phrase…[He] belongs with Bach, Debussy and Mozart A visual of James Jamerson's bass work Ashford & Simpson, Peaks & Valleys Modern musicians have not forgotten

  • The Fall And Execution Of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu

    While some of the city's churches were fortunately preserved by relocating them on rails to new sites immediately afterwards, were broadcast on Romanian state television within hours, and picked up by news execution being filmed and released to the public on this scale, a decision made deliberately by the new BBC News: Executing a Dictator, Open Wounds of Romania's Christmas Revolution. https://www.bbc.com/news Al Jazeera: On This Day, 30 Years Since Nicolae Ceausescu Was Executed. https://www.aljazeera.com/news

  • Charles Whitman: The Full Story of the UT Austin Tower Shooting

    Martinez and McCoy worked their way around to Whitman's position on the observation deck. KTBC news director Neal Spelce grabbed a station wagon nicknamed “Red Rover” and broadcast live from Back in the KTBC studio, news director Paul Bolton was reading the growing list of casualties aloud as Almost seven years later, Mark Essex, the so-called New Orleans sniper, carried out a strikingly similar

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