Camille Bohannon
Dolly Rebecca Parton is a singer, songwriter, actress, and
philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career
in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter
for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello,
I’m Dolly. Dolly is 79 years young today.
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The final flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia took
place from January 16, 2003 to February 1, 2003.
The mission ended in disaster when the shuttle
broke apart during reentry, killing all seven crew
members.
The space shuttle Columbia lifting off on its final flight.
On January 10, 1967, during his State of the Union speech,
President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress for more
money to support the Vietnam War.
Lyndon’s War, a war he actually inherited from President
John F. Kennedy, had achieved nothing by 1967. The North
Vietnamese use of guerrilla warfare tactics resulted in
approximately 14,000 American troops killed in action by
early 1967.
Hundreds of U.S. planes had been shot down, leaving Air
Force personnel in enemy POW camps. Although the enemy
also suffered heavy casualties, they did not show any signs
of giving up.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)
"The opening of the fight at Wounded Knee", engraved illustration by Frederic Remington. Appeared in
Harper’s Weekly, 1891.
On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s
long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Lakota Indians at
Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a
battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre.
A depiction of the Ghost Dance.
US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the
site of the Wounded Knee Memorial.
HONOLULU (AP) — Warren ‘Red’ Upton, the oldest living
survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and
the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He
was 105.
Kathleen Farley, of the California state chair of the Sons
and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors said Upton died
Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after
suffering a bout of pneumonia.
The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when
Japanese planes began bombing the Hawaii naval base
in the early hours of Dec. 7, 1941, the attack propelled
the U.S. into World War II.
