Significant events in my lifetime

Some of the good, the bad, and the ugly in my lifetime
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Tonkin Gulf Incident - '64

Vietnam War & CIA involvement

40 Pins
Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel’s USS Liberty Attack Secret
November 2, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine

Cold War, CIA, History, Protests, and McCarthyism

164 Pins
Civil Rights March, Washington, 1963.
Civil Rights Act - '64
Brown vs Board of Education

Civil Rights - Race, Women, LBGT, Drugs, & Immigration

46 Pins
Art.com Framed Wall Poster Print Inspirational Quote By Mahatma Ghandi - Blue
"With guns, you can kill terrorists. With education, you can kill terrorism."- Malala Yousafzai
**** Very comprehensive. But wait, there's more! NAZISM: You have two cows. The State takes both and shoots you. SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons. A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and market it worldwide. (Cont. below)

Justice, Equality, Human Rights & Resistance

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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy  ( Boris Yaro / Los Angeles Times )  June 5, 1968, Los Angeles    Busboy Juan Romero, 17, comforts Robert F. Kennedy moments after Kennedy is shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel kitchen.    Thirty-five years later, Romero would tell Times’ columnist Steve Lopez: “He was looking up at the ceiling, and I thought he’d banged his head. I asked, ‘Are you OK? Can you get up?'”

Political Events and Headlines

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Russian Afgan War
On Day 6, the Six Day War was over. Top spoil: the Old City of Jerusalem, site of Judaism's sacred Wailing Wall won from Jordan. Gravest unintended consequence: From the shattered Arab lands would emerge the militant Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO.
Black September,  Munich Olympics 1972    The age of terror is born

Middle East Crisis, Gulf Wars, and Terrorism

14 Pins
8. 2002 - I-40 Bridge Disaster.

Newsworthy Events

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The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia's vote. Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that. truth-out.org/......
Meet The Five Cowardly Senate Democrats Who Killed the Assault Weapons Ban
This pretty sums it up.

Gun Rights and Tragic Events

7 Pins
New Plague Identified as AIDS - 1981
So it turns out, Kentucky actually DOES want Obamacare! ( Contrary to the BS handed out by Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.)
1976 news headlines | ... newspaper headline flu shot scare new york post october 13 1976 1976

Medicine and Health Care

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On April 8, 1959 the first astronauts were introduce.  These seven original American astronauts were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton
Apollo 13
On Oct 4, 1957, the USSR launched into orbit Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite. The second, set for Nov 3, carried a passenger: a laika (not its name, but rather the Russian word for various husky breeds). The 13-pound dog survived its ascent into space aboard Sputnik II; the trip, alas, was one way.

NASA & Space Race

22 Pins

Celebrities, Entertainment, and Tragedy

44 Pins
Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel’s USS Liberty Attack Secret Signals Intelligence, Us Submarines, Uss America, Liberty Falls, Steel Companies, Chief Petty Officer, Naval Force, United States Navy, Navy Ships
Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel's USS Liberty Attack Secret
Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel’s USS Liberty Attack Secret
November 2, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine Life Magazine, People Magazine, Cuban Missile Crisis, Original Life, Guantanamo, Us Navy Ships, Life Cover, Time Life, Tv Guide
Scenes From Guantanamo in the Lead-Up to a Crisis
November 2, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine
8. 2002 - I-40 Bridge Disaster. Oklahoma City Zoo, Boise City, Interstate 40, National Weather, Boston Public Library, Episcopal Church, Local Attractions, Blue Flames, History Facts
11 Moments Everyone Born In Oklahoma Will Always Remember
8. 2002 - I-40 Bridge Disaster.
Tonkin Gulf Incident - '64 Uss Maddox, Gulf Of Tonkin Incident, Agent Orange, How Many Kids, Criminology, Insurgent, Republican Party, Vietnam War, Southeast Asia
Gulf of Tonkin Redux?
Tonkin Gulf Incident - '64
Newspaper Front Pages, Vintage Newspaper, Before The Fall, Newspaper Headlines, South Vietnam, Vietnam Veterans, Interesting History, March 7
From The Archives: First U.S. troops sent to Vietnam
Carrier Deployments During the Vietnam Conflict Reading Room, Conflicted, Deployment, Carriers, Vietnam, Lifetime, Events
Carrier Deployments During the Vietnam Conflict
Kennedy Family, John F Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Us History, American History, History Nerd, Irish American
Would John F. Kennedy have pulled US out of Vietnam?