40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) ( See the posts in chronological order ) A few days after the election, as the reality ...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) November 5. The election was upon us, a scary ti...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) On Oct 2, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas w...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) This month, Yale junior Garry Trudeau began to draw a comics series about the football t...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) The Whole World is Watching The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago on Augu...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remained in Walter Reed Army hospital, after being...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On August 5, the Republican National Convention opened its sessions at the Miami Beach...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Somehow July slipped by me, so, a bit late, here's what we were doing that month in...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Since Dr. Martin Luther King's murder in April, investigators had been following a t...

Going back to 1971

From Howard Owens: Spare me the fancy redesigns and give me some text to read . Among the gems: Spare me the big graphics and four-column ph...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On May 14, The SCLC's Poor People's Campaign began its Washington marches for e...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On April 11 Defense Secretary Clark Clifford announced Gen. Westmoreland's request f...

Iraq: Bay of Pigs?

In the Miami Herald, a collaboration between long-time Herald Caribbean correspondent Don Bohning (author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Cove...

American tribes, another election story (myth?) great books, and Gmail tips

Lots of interesting postings on Hullaballoo recently, including this one on how John McCain's 'Biography' tour seems to be an a...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Saturday was supposed to be the big day of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, bu...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Monday, April 1, started out as a normal work week. It may have been my first day in the...