History
THREE Vietnamese men were killed while trying to saw through a war-era shell to salvage metal and explosives.... "The poor men wanted to sell the metal for money. They could not escape the sudden blast...." more than 38,000 Vietnamese nationals have been killed and 100,000 injured by explosives left over from the Vietnam War
California corrections officials released a new photograph of imprisoned mass murderer Charles Manson on Thursday, showing the balding, gray-bearded killer at the age of 74. [Still has swastika tat, doesn't really have the manic eyes anymore, but still an a'hole.]
Newly released documents show, however, that Warren Commission member Congressman Gerald Ford pressed the panel to change its description of the wound and place it higher in Kennedy's body. Ford wanted the wording changed to: "A bullet had entered the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine." The panel's final version was: "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."
German police have launched a nationwide search of more than 200 homes and businesses of people suspected of belonging to the country's extreme right.... "The primary aim of the concerted action by crime fighting authorities is to seize and confiscate prohibited items like music in order to move effectively and extensively against the spread of right wing extremism...." [Prohibited items like music??]
stone carvers got George Washington's words wrong on the landmark Manhattan Supreme Courthouse
William Zantzinger, a Maryland socialite whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69.
Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He was 61.
The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany's Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. The daily printed three architect's drawings on yellowing paper from the batch of 28 pages of blueprints it obtained. One has an 11.66 metre by 11.20 metre room marked "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) that was part of a "delousing facility".