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Joseph Rudyard Kipling
(December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936)
Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer,
poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired
much of his work. Kipling’s works of fiction include The
Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including
"The Man Who Would Be King".
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BOHANNON
The Mickey Mouse Club was an ABC television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned in 2017 to social
media. It was created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt
Disney Productions.
Walt Disney (center) with the Mouseketeers in 1955.
The children’s tv series Captain Kangaroo aired weekday
mornings on the American television network CBS from
October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the
longest-running nationally broadcast children’s tv
program of its day. The show was conceived and the
title character was played by Bob Keeshan, who had
portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The
Howdy Doody show that aired on NBC.
Robert James Keeshan
(June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)
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BOHANNON
On this day in 1943,race-related rioting erupted in Detroit, MI. Federal troops were sent in two days later to end the violence that left more
than 30 dead.
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On this day in 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson (left), famous football player O.J.
Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman (right) are brutally stabbed
to death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what quickly
becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the century. With
overwhelming evidence against him, including a prior record of domestic
violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson (below) became the chief suspect.
Robert Shapiro (l.) and Johnny Cochran sit with Simpson (right)
during the murder trial.
O.J. Simpson was released from prison on October 1, 2018 after
nine years behind bars for a 2007 armed robbery in Las Vegas.
ROSS SIMPSON
On this day in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed
enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court by as many as 15 judges.The controversial plan failed.
The 1937 U.S. Supreme Court.
On this day in 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckwith (left) was convicted
in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers (right).
De La Beckwith was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. He
died while incarcerated seven years later at age 80. He had suffered from
heart disease, high blood pressure, and other ailments for some time.
The above Mississippi home where Medgar Evers was fatally shot
in the back as he was getting out of his car on June 12, 1963.
(February 25, 2013)
Medgar Evers was the first assassination of a
high-ranking public figure in the civil rights
movement.
