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Whiz!Bam!Pow!
Do you remember going into a grocery store with your mom, annoyed at having to be there, save for the one saving grace? A spinner rack filled with comics. As mom would load up on things that you hated to eat, you spun that rack, the comforting metallic squeak demanding you look at all of ...
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Gather ‘Round the Mic
For more than 10 hours on a sultry Cleveland night, in a bar roughly the size of a small two-bedroom apartment and on a “stage” cordoned off by tables and placemarked with an Oriental rug, musicians from all over the world played and sang their hearts out. The day before was an all-day, all night ...
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The Fourteen Minute Gap
November 23, 1963. 10:01AM. Less than 24 hours earlier, President John F. Kennedy was murdered in the streets of Dallas. As a nation reels with shock and confusion, President Lyndon Johnson receives a telephone call from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, updating him on the progress of the investigation. The recording of that conversation would ...
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Withheld In Full: Morley V. CIA
A decade-long investigative journey led to a still-pending lawsuit by former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley against the CIA. At the center of this lawsuit was the CIA’s stonewalling of Morley’s investigation of George Joannides, a charismatic career CIA officer, who in 1963 was the case officer for the DRE, a Cuban exile group who ...
