Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012)
The former Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon (1969 to 1973) and
later a noted Evangelical Christian leader and cultural commentator, died
Saturday at a Northern Virginia hospital after a brief illness.
Historical marker on the South lawn, Indiana State House at Indianapolis.
Lincoln’s body (above) departed Washington in a nine-car funeral train. The 1,700-
mile trip back to Illinois was essentially over the same tracks that carried the then
President- elect east in 1861. Cities along the route that hold funeral processions
included Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago.
The locomotive Nashville of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad pulled the Lincoln funeral train.
Photo of firefighter Chris Fields holding a dying infant won Charles
Porter the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.
The American Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775 as a war between the
Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen British colonies in North America, and
ended in September 3, 1783 following a global war between several European
great powers, such as conflicts in India and West Africa between Great Britain
and France. It resulted around the unconstitutionality of the Stamp Act of 1765,
imposed by the Parliament of Great Britain on the colonists. The colonists felt
it was taxation without representation and was illegal. They soon formed a
unifying Continental Congress.
