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- 1421: Charles Manson
- ... spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mothers negligence left Manson without a home and without much of a future. Manson turned to crime to support himself, and he soon became very good at it. When just a child, he became a criminal and spent his last years of childhood in a correctional facility. After his release from the ... claims that he wasnt responsible for the murders and acts as if the bloody slayings were of no importance. Manson was a criminal to the core. In his life he had committed almost every crime imaginable. His life of crime developed a warped mind that he used to sinister ends. His never having a loving family deadened him to having any morals or guilty feelings. He felt no remorse for the killings and acted ...
- 1422: Frank Sinatra
- ... in common. Martin had ties to the mafia, as did Sinatra, and was accused publicly of it, as Sinatra also was. Martin was accused of allegedly being criminally involved with Alfredo Skippy Felice, a Philadelphia crime leader. In spite of his profuse rejections that he was involved with Felice, he was found out to be the godfather of Felice s son Dino. Apparently, that made it obvious that Martin and the crime leader were good friends. Martin did not flaunt their friendship in any way, but was very generous to Felice s family. He loaned Felice s wife over $100,000 in the 1970 s, when Felice ... life his way ). Not only was Sinatra charged with being associated with Giancana, in 1971 he was found to be purportedly plotting to exhort about $100,000 from a former stockbroker. His supposed partners in crime to carry out this task were mobsters Dellacroce, Gambino, and Gallo. While Sinatra did admit to having friendly associations with them, as well as previously taken pictures with them, he denied all types of ...
- 1423: Fredrick Douglass 2
- ... punished slaves. A northerner with any sense of justice would be furious that it was not considered wrong to whip a slave till (they were) literally covered with blood (4) nor was it considered a crime to kill a slave. Masters and overseers justified severely whipping their slaves because it (was) the duty of a master to whip a slave, to remind him of his master s authority. (46) Slaves were ... of punishment to infuriate the northern white reader that a person was punished in advance of any wrongdoing, was whipped almost to the brink of death, and was murdered without it being treated as a crime by the courts or community. (14) Treatment of one person by another in these ways was not tolerated in the north. This fiendish barbarity (46) would appall the northern reader and would lead them to ... not knowing whom his father was, how slaves were treated as if they had less value than an animal, and the fact that slaves were brutally beaten and sometimes killed without it being considered a crime. Douglass also hoped to tarnish his northern white readers view of southern slave holders and their practices by illustrating how they had adulterous and interracial affairs with their salves whom they considered to be ...
- 1424: Eliot Ness
- ... in love with. Taking down corruption on any level. He carried on his war on the mob for an entire decade after Capone, staging daring raids on bootleggers, illegal gambling clubs and generally putting organized crime on the run. Ness exploits in Chicago were chronicled in his book The Untouchables, but if he had carried on against the mob, why wouldn t he publicize such exploits? He actually intended to do ... the most flamboyant and successful criminals in the United States. His power was arguably unmatched by any criminal to date. Capone s influence was so amazingly strong that Frank Loesch, the president of the Chicago Crime Commission literally had to ask Capone s help in securing an honest election in Cook County. Considering the level of corruption spread from mere patrolmen all the way up to the Illinois Governor, Loesch was ... arrangements to ensure Capone was lead to his last train ride by The Untouchables. That was the last Ness saw of Capone who was infected with syphilis and died in prison, the world s greatest crime boss died a near vegetable. In July 1934 Ness was promoted and continued his war on bootleggers, in less than a year he and his team made it too expensive to bootleg liquor in ...
- 1425: Clinton Vs. Nixon
- ... the President. Moreover, both men have been involved in humiliating situations. Although, of all the correlation s these Presidents share, they also have a few contrasting elements. President Clinton and Nixon committed different categories of crime. In fact, Clinton s nature of the crime was sexual rather than criminal self-indulgent; thus, Nixon self indulgent rather than sexual. The two Presidents also have different methods of upholding the US economy and fighting inflation. For instance, Nixon cut back and ... to fight inflation. Clinton on the other hand, proposed more moderate health-care and welfare-reform measures and advocated plans that would reduce taxes less and more gradually eliminate the federal debt. As well as crime and great strategies of cutting down the taxes and eliminating federal dept, both the Presidents made historic marks in history. For example, in February 1972 Nixon made a historic trip to Beijing (Peking)--where ...
- 1426: Charles Manson
- ... spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mother's negligence left Manson without a home and without much of a future. Manson turned to crime to support himself, and he soon became very good at it. When just a child, he became a criminal and spent his last years of childhood in a correctional facility. After his release from the ... claims that he wasn't responsible for the murders and acts as if the bloody slayings were of no importance. Manson was a criminal to the core. In his life he had committed almost every crime imaginable. His life of crime developed a warped mind that he used to sinister ends. His never having a loving family deadened him to having any morals or guilty feelings. He felt no remorse for the killings and acted ...
- 1427: Al Capone : The Myth, The Legend
- ... anyone with enough money to buy it. It was a rowdy, wild, and heavy-drinking place, so it came very cheap. Al Capone came to the city of Chicago in 1920. The province of organized crime had become the flesh trade. It was starting to be the main way of organized crime. Big Jim Colosimo was the head man of this city. Together, they earned $50,000 a month. Colosimo owned a top club in Chicago. It was called Colosimo's Cafe. He was a pimp, but ... Capone began to run Chicago. While he was running it, the mayor was William Thompson, who got along very well with the Syndicate. There has been a succession of Democratic mayors in Chicago, but organized crime leaders had always been running Chicago. There was a political group called the "West Side Bloc," who were put together in the days of Al Capone. This political group is still together to this ...
- 1428: Charles Manson
- ... LAPD was approached by two Los Angeles Sheriffs shortly after the Tate-LaBlianca murders. The told the LAPD of the murder of Gary Hinman on July 31. Also, there was a connection between the three crime scenes. On Hinman's living room "POLITICAL PIGGY" was scribed in the wall. Those words were similar to the words written at both the Tate and LaBlianca crime scenes. Also, Hinman had been stabbed to death as the victims at the Tate and LaBlianca homes. The LAPD detectives refused to examine any connections between the three crime scenes. If the LAPD had listened to the LA Sheriff's detectives, they would have heard that the Sheriff's Office has arrested Bobby Beausoleil for the Hinman murder who living with a bunch ...
- 1429: Stephen Hawking
- ... with letters on it such that when he looks at a letter you can see which one he is looking at. Conversing letter by letter takes too much time so he moved on to a computer program that allowed him to pick words from a series of menus. This is accompanied by a voice synthesizer, attached to his chair. He can speak up to fifteen words a minute and can save ... them on a disk if he wants. The only bug in the program, he feels, is that it gives him an American accent. His youngest son was asked what he thought of his fathers computer voice and he replied that it was the only voice he had ever known his father to have. He did not think of it as a computer voice but rather the voice of his father. In 1986, Hawking met with the Pope again. He was admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Science. A Brief History In Time was meant to explain ...
- 1430: Polygamy
- ... solemnized in his branch. All legal contracts of marriage made before a person is baptized into this Church should be held sacred and fulfilled. Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again ... of the Supreme Court decision in which he appealed for a rehearing of the Reynolds case. Comparing Reynolds' polygamous relations, including acceptance of family responsibility, with the prevalence of unpunished sex debauchery, he concluded: Our crime has been: We married women instead of seducing them; we reared children instead of destroying them; we desired to exclude from the land prostitution, bastardy and infanticide. If George Reynolds is to be punished, let ... the earth that in this land of liberty, the most blessed and glorious upon which the sun shines, the law is swiftly invoked to punish religion, but justice goes limping and blindfolded in pursuit of crime. (Larson, p. 79.) 1880 Jan 26, A Revelation given to Wilford Woodruff in the Wilderness of San Francisco Mountain in Arizona. "Thus saith the Lord unto my servant Wilford Woodruff. ... My Purpose shall be ...
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