Reality is finally sinking in about assassinations, even at the New York Times. Of course they have worked so well here, who could blame them for thinking they’d have the same effect abroad? – John Judge “America… routinely firing missiles into countries it’s not at war with”? Mr Wright has clearly never heard of the…
This is an interesting excerpt from Financial Times online, an architecture critic looks at Dealey Plaza and what it conveys – dark days indeed. A photographer caught a contrasting alignment of architecture, displayed at the Hotel Lawrence where we meet annually, of the John Neely Bryan Cabin, the Gothic gargoyled roof of the Dallas Courts…
1964 Jackie Kennedy interviews to be published By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer Tue Apr 13, 2:54 pm ET NEW YORK – During the first half of 1964, just months after her husband was assassinated, Jacqueline Kennedy sat for seven interviews with historian and family friend Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. They met at her…
This approach could be used in regard to the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Act file releases on Dr. King Family Gets A Say on FBI Kennedy File Courtesy given to protect kin’s rights before release By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | April 12, 2010 WASHINGTON — Edward M. Kennedy’s family will be given a…
Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer Apr 10, 8:21 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed…
Is the CIA Assassination Order of a US Citizen Legal? Democracy Now! April 8, 2010 US officials have confirmed a Yemen-based Muslim cleric has become the first US citizen added to a CIA list of targets for capture or killing. Anwar al-Awlaki is a US-born cleric accused of having ties to the failed Christmas Day…
Using the Authorization of Use of Military Force passed in 2001, as well as ongoing Executive Orders renewing a declaration of a State of Emergency, the Executive Branches of both the Bush and Obama administrations have continued to escalate violations of Constitutional principles, domestic and international laws. Now targeted “enemies” will be assassinated based on…
Martin Luther King national memorial on pace for 2011 debut By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY Forty-two years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, a memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring his legacy is a year and a half from completion. Rica Orszag, spokesperson for The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial…
Tavis Smiley and others who knew King at the time explore the significance of his Riverside Church address against the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967 in this PBD special, just aired http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/reports/episode-two.html Here is the audio and text of the actual speech in full: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
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