The police were later claimed by observers to have made several critical mistakes in the investigation, such as not sealing off the crime scene and allowing friends and family in and out of the house once a kidnapping was…
In early July of 1947, most likely around July 4th or 5th, something crashed to the Earth in the high desert of eastern New Mexico (Carey & SChmitt, 2009). Mac Brazel, a ranch hand on the J.B. Foster ranch, went to check on his sheep one morning after a series of severe thunderstorms. He was concerned about the wellbeing of his cattle because he heard a very loud explosion the night before during the storm. Upon riding out to the pastures, Brazel discovered a huge amount of strange debris scattered across the fields. Not knowing what this strange debris was, Brazel gathered some of it and showed it to his friends…
On September 11th, 2001, it was a Tuesday morning in the state of New York. At 8:45, an American Airlines plane flew directly into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The crash left a giant burning hole in the building by the 80th floor of the 110 story building. Hundreds of people instantly died, while hundreds were still trapped on upper floors. 18 minutes later, a second plane hit near the 60th floor of the south tower. This crash caused debris to rain all over people and buildings nearby. People instantly knew America was under attack.…
Throughout the next few days, Shirley and her husband were interviewed by the Fire Marshal and ATF. They discovered that they weren’t being questioned about the bombing, yet to get information about her brother who had been doing his own investigation to find the source of the bombing. After long periods of questioning, Shirley and her husband decided that they were not gaining any ground in the investigations, so they left since they were not going to get any help from the authorities.…
It was said that 8 year old Godfrey Lesieur had witnessed the ground looking as if it was rolling into waves. Michael Braunm had seen the river rise up to several feet. Geysers had shot mud, water, sand and coal high into the air. The water was blown up so high that it caused the parts of the river to run backwards. The earthquake was so strong that it made the Earth’s atmosphere dark, it made it so dark that even the lamps that many of the residence had didn't help at all to see.…
First, she explains that the Little Rock crisis has become and “international symbol of violent resistance to federal authority,” pg.603 beginning of first paragraph. A constant feud of admitting black student into white schools was causing violence and political turmoil, thus threatening the economic development of Little Rock, pg.604 second paragraph. With councils such as the NAACP, and the WEC trying to fight for civil rights, the wealthy elite businessmen wanted to distance themselves from the public eye in fear of hurting their profits, pg. 606 last paragraph. Working class whites also saw the desegregation as endangering their status, pg.609 first paragraph. People began to say that the NAACP were a group of extremist, and the average black person was afraid to challenge their leadership, pg.613 last paragraph. Thomas wanted to implement at…
After the dust and debris settled, many who were at the scene became furious with what had just occurred. How could something this large happen on U.S. ground? There…
In October of 1973 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) inflicted an oil embargo on the Unites States of America. This was the outcome of our support to the Israeli nation during a time of need. This embargo damaged the U.S. economy so greatly that many were unsure if the country would escape such devastation.…
The Supreme Court decisions of Brown and Brown II called the attention of Americans to race-relations in America. The Little Rock Crisis was an aftermath of these federal decisions alongside with other events inside and outside of Arkansas in which sparked a change in the civil rights movement. During this event, there were multiple factors that had played a role in shaping the nation’s view on racial discrimination. Elizabeth Jacoway recorded these factors surrounding the event in her monograph Turn Away Thy Son. The main contenders of this time in history were civil rights activists and white segregationists who were putting their effort into the events that took place at Central High School surrounding the Little Rock Nine.…
When Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. Several witnesses said Mr. Brown punched Officer Wilson while Mr. Brown was partly inside the vehicle. Also in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Alton Sterling was shot to death by two police officers graphic cellphone video recorded by a witness and the store’s owner, appears to show Alton a thirty-seven years old being tackled and shot as two cops pin him to the ground before he is killed, authorities said. Today people keep asking what will be the end of violence in our country.…
There were two busses leaving Atlanta in the morning, one Greyhoud and one Trailways to make their way to Birmingham, AL. They left an hour apart to make sure that one of them was going to reach the city. As the Greyhound bus was on the way to Birmingham, the locals in Anniston, a city right on the highway, prepared themselves to greet them with a surprise. The bus arrived in Anniston and the locals were harrassing and threatening the Freedom Riders, destroying bus windows and waiting for the people on the bus to get off. Somehow a bus driver managed to leave the bus stop and continued the route on the highway. About five miles outside of Anniston the bus had a flat tire, right where another mob awaited the Freedom Riders. They harassed them, threatened them and threw a fire bomb into the bus. Just as the buses' gas tank was about to explode the mob retreated, giving the Freedom Riders and the other passengers on the bus the chance to get off it. Just as they got off the mob started attacking them, beating them tremendously. They got beaten up until a police officer fired his gun in the air and stopped the…
On Friday July 6th 1979, villager and holidaymakers had a miraculous escape when an out of control RAF fighter jet ploughed into the village just yards away from a loaded petrol tanker. The Plane Crash 1979The pilot, who was on a training flight, experienced control difficulties and had to eject into the sea leaving his Hawker Hunter jet to crash into the ocean. Instead it veered towards land, hurtling at 250mph, a major disaster seemed inevitable. But it was nothing short of a miracle when the jet ended up wedged in a 12' gap between Klymiarven Guest house and King Arthur's Terrace, damaging just three cars, a greenhouse and a swimming pool in it's wake. Guesthouse owners, Jim White and John and Muriel Jewell, said they were lucky to be alive, along with Ivan Irons, who was up a ladder painting the first house to be hit, Westmead in Atlantic Road. Garage owner Jack Cann, was preparing to receive1,500 gallons of petrol when the pieces of the jet landed only 10 yards away. If the jet had exploded the whole village would have gone up. If the jet had not been stopped by the houses it could have ploughed down the high street killing many holidaymakers. In this amazing incident no one was seriously injured and even the pilot survived after being picked up by a Port Isaac fishing boat, the Lady Jane. At the time the plane crashed I was on the phone speaking to Fred Whiting, who at that time owned the launderette in Tintagel. I remember we were speaking about a TV repair when he suddenly said "I've got to hang up the phone...a plane is coming straight at the house!". In fact it ended up a few yards away from his house as it veered across a field before hitting Klymiarven and King Arthur's Terrace. I quickly gathered up a few movie films, grabbed my camera and dashed down to the scene. I shot quite a lot of film at the time and later showed it at the Social Hall in Tintagel at a special thanksgiving night held by the Parish Council. It really was an incredible escape from…
At around 8:30 pm the crash happened at a neighborhood near the intersection of Overland and Five Mile roads. The pickup had destroyed a gas line in the process. As a result several of the homes on the street had to be evacuated. Intermountain gas was able to get in there and shut off the gas just after 8:30.…
South Dakota, 1946. A small isolated town, known for it's wheat crop, it's ten acres of wheat crops. One night, the sky was pitch black and everything was so quiet you could hear the electrical noise coming from the outside cables. Houses were lightened by one light in the living room and the streets were illuminated by one street light per block. When suddenly an object flashes in the sky, it made a loud screeching noise. Families walked outside to see what was happening, and out of nowhere people would start screaming and running. People were terrified screaming, "RUN RUN. We need to leave." Everyone running in different directions, eben into the crops scared for their lives.…
Post, north of Mount St. Helens, on the clear Sunday morning of May 18, 1980. Seconds later,…