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RFK Plus 40
J.A. Bartlett June 5, 2008 7It was 40 years ago this morning that many of us learned Robert F. Kennedy had been shot after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California. Even those not old enough to remember it
Read More »One Day in Your Life: May 21, 1985
J.A. Bartlett May 21, 2008 2(Author’s note: Jason’s Chart Attack! from last week is the inspiration for this post. While we were listening to all that stuff, all this stuff was happening.) May 21, 1985, was a Tuesday. By
Read More »One Day in Your Life: April 16, 1981
J.A. Bartlett April 16, 2008 4April 16, 1981, was a Thursday. The nation’s front pages detail the story of Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke, who admitted yesterday that her Pulitzer Prize-winning series featuring an eight-year-old heroin addict was fiction. President
Read More »One Day in Your Life: March 19, 1976
J.A. Bartlett March 19, 2008 6March 19, 1976, is a Friday. Newspaper readers learn that Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho entered the presidential race yesterday, even though the race is well underway already. Also yesterday, Paul McCartney’s father,
Read More »One Day in Your Life: February 20, 1980
J.A. Bartlett February 20, 2008 4February 20, 1980, is a Wednesday. At 12:01AM Eastern time, a deadline passes for the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan, which they had invaded the previous December. They do not. Thus, the United States
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