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IMPEACHMENT TRIAL COMES TO AND END
On February 12, 1999, the five-week impeachment trial of Bill
Clinton came to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the
president on both articles of impeachment: perjury and
obstruction of justice.
TALLEST PRESIDENT (6’4) BORN ON THIS DAY
Future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809.
Lincoln, one of America’s most admired presidents, grew up a
member of a poor family in Kentucky and Indiana. He attended
school for only one year, but thereafter read on his own in a
continual effort to improve his mind. As an adult, he lived in
Illinois and performed a variety of jobs including stints as a
postmaster, surveyor and shopkeeper, before entering politics.
He served in the Illinois legislature from 1834 to 1842 and in
Congress from 1847-1849, and then became an attorney.
PAY FOR PLAY MUSIC SCANDAL HEATS UP
The Payola scandal reaches a new level of public prominence
and legal gravity on this day 1960, when President Eisenhower
called it an issue of public morality and the FCC proposed a
new law making involvement in Payola a criminal act.
What exactly was Payola? During the hearings conducted by Congressman Oren Harris (D-Arkansas) and his powerful
Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight—fresh off its inquiry
into quiz-show rigging—the term was sometimes used as a
blanket reference to a range of corrupt practices in the radio
and recording industries.
But within the music business, Payola referred specifically to
a practice that was nearly as old as the industry itself: making
popular hits by paying for radio play.
Dwight David Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)
Albert James "Alan" Freed
(December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965)
In 1960, payola was made illegal. In December 1962, after
being charged on multiple counts of commercial bribery,
Freed pled guilty to two counts of commercial bribery,
fined three hundred dollars and was given a suspended
sentence.
BOB’S RED MILL FOUNDER HAS DIED AT 94
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A Northwest visionary has passed
away. Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, passed away at
home on Saturday.
A celebration of life will be held at the Bob’s Red Mill store in
Milwaukie at a future date. Details are pending, but it will be
open to the public.
At this time, more than 700 employee owners own the
company.
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