On November 20, 1969 a Cleveland newspaper, the Plain Dealer published an account of the massacre at My Lai by combat photographer Ronald L. Haeberle. The My Lai massacre occurred twenty months earlier on March 16, 1968 and was carried out by C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Light Infantry Brigade. Haeberle gave a detailed account from the time that he landed by helicopter in...
On Feb 26th, 1960, the New York Times announced the outcome of the case of a 56 year-old man named John G. Broady in New York City's General Sessions Court. Broady was a private investigator and attorney who pleaded guilty to “three charges of eleven-count of indictment charged with conspiracy and making false representations in order to obtain information from telephone companies”. Judge Mitchell...
During Prohibition, alcohol use was never outlawed entirely; only the manufacturing, selling, transporting, importing, or exporting alcohol was illegal. American citizens were not prosecuted for consuming alcohol, but they had to turn to the illegal liquor trade to have access to alcohol. This made criminals of millions of Americans. As the number of criminals increased at an alarming rate, a proportionate...
Benjamin Franklin Randolph was born a freeman in Kentucky in 1820. He graduated from Oberlin College and became an ordained minister. After college, he joined the U.S. Colored Troops and served as a chaplain. B.F. Randolph found himself in South Carolina after the war, where he became a prominent participant in local politics. In 1868, Randolph was elected to the Senate for the Orangeburg County...
One month before the end of WWII, the American soldiers discovered a salt mine full of gold and paintings that had been looted and abandoned by the Nazis. On April 12, 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, and General George Patton ventured down into the Merkers salt mine to inspect the treasures found that day. Snapped in a photograph owned by the National Archives, the three...
Black subordination was the motive that drove white Southerners to start the infamous Memphis Race Riot of 1866. May 1, 1866, whites of Memphis, Tennessee, set out to destroy black power and to “…achieve this goal in Memphis only by destroying the most potent symbols of black power in the cities- the soldiers themselves.” After three long and excruciating days of violent hazing and rioting,...
The model Henriette Darricarrere posed as an odalisque for artist Henri Matisse’s painting, “Oriental Woman Seated on Floor.” As the title suggested, she was seated elegantly on the floor wearing traditional Mediterranean apparel in the foreground while a chair covered in decorative floral-patterned textiles filled the space in the background. Acquired by prominent French Jewish art dealer,...