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- 2331: Government Lies From Vietnam
- ... easily detected in America, the CIA places false stories in foreign newspapers. From there, the CIA hopes that American journalists will read the foreign articles and print their own versions of them in American papers. John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA agent to leave the agency and tell his story to the public. Stockwell worked thirteen years in all for the CIA; at the end he was on a subcommittee ... still censored, sometimes in extreme ways. This occurs most often when the book is about a controversial subject. Almost half of the pages in The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks have many missing lines. The CIA worked intensively in Vietnam for twenty-five years. As each year went by, their propaganda became stronger and stronger. Americans were fooled by this propaganda brought about ...
- 2332: Nixon vs. Kennedy Election 1960
- ... him to appear older than he really was and cost him votes from the TV. audience. Running for Vice President along with Nixon was Henery Cabot Lodge. Lodge was a politician fro Massachusetts who opposed John F. Kennedy in the 1952 Massachusetts senatorial election. John F. Kennedy, was a Democrat from the south. He came from a very wealthy family and in 1952 became a Massachusetts Senator. Kennedy was young, good looking and inexperienced compared to the Vice President. His ...
- 2333: The U.S. Entering World War II
- ... that Japan was going to attack, but he didn't take any drastic peace-keeping actions to prevent the attack, because he wanted a justifiable reason to enter the second World War. Work Cited Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. Snyder, Louis L., et al. Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II. New York: Reader's Digest Association, 1969. Parenthetic citation form: (Snyder et al. 33) Divine, Robert A. Roosevelt & World War II. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1969. Richardson & Steirman, Inc. The Secret History of World War II. New York: Richard & Steirman, Inc., 1986. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963
- 2334: Boston Massacre
- ... the spot, by two balls entering his back. - Mr. Samuel Maverick, a 17 year old, mortally wounded, he died the next morning. - Mr. Patrick Carr mortally wounded; he died the 14th instant. - Chris Monk and John Clark, youths about 17, dangerously wounded. Apprehended they would die. - Mr. Edward Payne, merchant, standing at his door, wounded. - Messrs. John Green, Robert Paterson, and David Parker; all dangerously wounded.2 There were depositions in this affair which mention that several guns were fired at the same time from the Custom House: -Benjamin Frizell, on the ...
- 2335: Gettysburg
- ... have easily erased R.E. Lee's only out-right defeat from the history books. Day 1, July 1, 1863 saw the start of the best three days of the AOP's life. Brigadier General John Buford, recognizing the fact that whoever held the high ground south of Gettysburg would control the killing fields, dismounted his cavalry for a showdown with Major General Henry Heth's infantry division. Deployed to the ... 500 Confederates for one crucial hour. Colonel Thomas Devin's and Colonel William Gamble's cavalry brigades fought ferociously under mounting pressure, and held on long enough for infantry reinforcements to arrive from Major General John Reynolds' I Corps. Reynolds became the ranking Union commander when he arrived on the field, and he never gave retreat a thought. Like Buford, he recognized the importance of holding the high ground south and ...
- 2336: History After 1820
- ... voters began moving to the Kansas territory just to vote for whether Kansas will join as a free or slave state. The extremist on both sides of the vote began murdering their opponents. The abolitionist John Brown led the Pottawatoime Massacre in May 1856 where several pro-slavery activist were slaughtered. William Quantrill and his raiders slaughtered several abolitionist, though Kansas still became a slave state. Dred Scott was a slave ... to rejoin the Union. The Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed with Lincoln's compassion and wanted to harshly punish the southern states. As a result, Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 by radical named John W. Booth at the at Ford's Theatre.
- 2337: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... position to pay off the debts. Their gold had flowed into the U.S. during and immediately after the war in great quantity; they couldn't send more gold without completely ruining their currencies. Historian John D. Hicks describes the Allied attitude towards U.S. loan repayment: "In their view the war was fought for a common objective, and the victory was as essential for the safety of the United States ... stocks on margin, one could buy stocks without the money to purchase them. Buying stocks on margin functioned much the same way as buying a car on credit. Using the example of RCA, a Mr. John Doe could buy 1 share of the company by putting up $10 of his own, and borrowing $75 from his broker. If he sold the stock at $420 a year later he would have turned ...
- 2338: The History of the Pony Express
- ... Pony Express? By: Laura Simonetti 1003 Pony Express, Comptons Interactive Encyclopedia. Softkey Multimedia Inc. 1996 The Southern Overland mail where Wells Fargo came to own a controlling interest was founded on Sept. 15, 1858 by John Butterfield. Butterfield was an American Express Company director. The Overland Mail stagecoaches went from St. Louis to San Fransico in 24 days through desert, mountains and bands of hostile Indians. There were little Pony Expresses ... the north and the west coast during the Civil War. The Pony Express helped keep California in the Union. The completion of the Transcontinental telegraph line ended the Pony Express in Oct of 1861. Hawgood, John. American Western Frontiers. Alfred A Knopf: New York. 1972 The Pony Express was born on April 3, 1860. It took only mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in under ten days, at the ...
- 2339: Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
- ... The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war against the Viet Minh. Later, the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy increased the US's political, economic, and military commitments steadily throughout the fifties and early sixties in the Indochina region. Prominent senators had already begun criticizing American involvement in Vietnam during the summer ... New York: Grove Press, 1985. Lewis, Lloyd B. The Tainted War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Meyerson, Joel D. Images of a Lengthy War. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, 1986. Schlight, John. Indochina War Symposium. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1986. Small, Melvin. Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. Spector, Ronald H. "Researching the Vietnam Experience" Historical Analysis Series. April1984: 30 ...
- 2340: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- ... strengths, or capabilities of the Union Army of the Potomac. Unbeknownst to him, Meade was marching straight for him with almost 82,000 men and, more importantly, a competent and mission-oriented calvary commander in John Buford. The battle began on July 1, when some of General Hills advance brigades entered the town of small town Gettysburg, Pennsylvania looking for shoes. Because of General Stuart s failure to complete his ... well as the incredible spirit of the Confederate troops.(Catton 344-345) One must not neglect to mention, however, the heroic stand of the Union troops, from the first day and the dismounted calvary of John Buford to the third day and the combined effort of the entire Army of the Potomac. Even if no other factors influenced the attack, due to the sheer number and firepower of the entrenched Union ...
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