406 dead, 512 wounded. That is what two battalions of the 105th Infantry Regiment lost in a single morning on Saipan. 900 casualties out of roughly 1100 men. Three medals of honor, all awarded postumously because the men who earned them fought until they had nothing left to fight with. Private Thomas Baker, two wounded…
He was born in one empire, built his career in a second, and died serving a third. And none of them were Germany. Arthur Fleps is one of the strangest figures of the entire Second World War. A man who spent his whole life fighting for countries that weren’t really his, in wars that kept…
November 25th, 1963. Eliza Palas, Paris. President Charles de Gaulle had just returned from John F. Kennedy’s funeral in Washington. His information minister, Alan Perfeit, asked the question everyone wanted answered. What do you think happened to Kennedy? De Gaul’s response was immediate, cold, certain. What happened to him is what nearly happened to me….
thought at first it was a motorcycle backfire from one of the many motorcycles alongside of us in the motorcade. Bob Pure Point jumped out of his seat and said, “That’s gunfire.” >> Something has happened in the motorcade route. Something, I repeat, has happened in the motorcade route. The further release of declassified assassination…
At 10:15 a.m. on the morning of June 16th, 1963, US Ambassador Walworth Barber sat in his office in Tel Aviv holding a letter that could end America’s alliance with Israel. The letter was from President John F. Kennedy addressed to Israeli Prime Minister David Bengurion. It wasn’t diplomatic. It wasn’t friendly. It was an…
January 17th, 1961. 8:30 p.m. The Oval Office. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, Supreme Allied Commander who’d won World War II, leader of the free world for 8 years, sat before television cameras for the last time. In 3 days, John F. Kennedy would take the oath of office. The oldest president in a…
November 2nd, 1963. During the filming of Viva Las Vegas, Anne Margaret casually mentioned she’d been ice skating since childhood. Elvis never won to back down from a challenge bet he could learn. She agreed to teach him, but only if he accepted one condition. What happened that afternoon became one of their most treasured…
At 3:15 a.m. on Christmas morning 1961, Ysefa Johnson was found dead in her bed in her Fredericksburg, Texas home. She was 49 years old. The official cause of death, cerebral hemorrhage, brain bleeding, natural causes. But there was a problem, several problems. First, under Texas law, any sudden or suspicious death requires an autopsy….
At 2:38 p.m. Central Standard Time on November 22nd, 1963, in the cramped conference room of Air Force One at Lovefield in Dallas, Texas, Lynden Baines Johnson raised his right hand. His left hand rested on a Catholic missile mistaken for a Bible found in President Kennedy’s bedroom. 27 people crowded into the 12×5 ft…
On March 12th, 1998, a retired fingerprint expert named A. Nathan Darby sat in his Austin home, examining two sets of prints through a magnifying glass. One was a copy of an unknown fingerprint lifted from a cardboard box on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22nd, 1963, the day…
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