A Brief History On November 5, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his third term as US President, and would win yet another presidential election in 1944, ending up serving a record 12+ years as US President. Some other nations have had much longer serving heads of state or government of various titles, and here we list a few that exceeded our own FDR in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Digging Deeper Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, 1952-2022 Hirohito of Japan, 1926-1989 Fidel Castro of Cuba, 1959-2008 Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa, 1962-2007 Josef Stalin of the USSR,…
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A Brief History On November 5, 2020, we screened an advance showing of the new motion picture starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, Let Him Go, a film set to open the next day. (Release was delayed from August 2020 to November 6, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic.) Set in the late 1950’s in the remote areas of Montana and North Dakota, the movie takes us to dark places of life altering events and decisions. Neither eye candy nor uplifting, the film is drama with a hint of horror. If you have read our previous movie reviews, you will…
A Brief History On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7:30PM, for some lucky individuals looking for some needed relief and entertainment after the election, KimMossPR will be hosting a virtual screening of Focus Feature’s Let Him Go starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Digging Deeper To reserve a spot for the online screening you must click on the link at http://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/H&HGO0520 which takes you right to the redeem pass page. Then you log in or sign up (which takes a minute if you do not have a Focus Feature’s TicktBox account) to get the virtual pass. The night of the screening you…
A Brief History On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley of New Braunfels, Texas went on a shooting rampage at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding another 20 victims in what was the worst mass shooting in the history of the State of Texas. In fact, the incident was the 5th worst mass shooting in United States history. And yet, it could have been worse! A citizen legally armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle intervened and chased off the gunman, stopping the massacre and saving numerous lives. Once again, a “good guy with…
A Brief History On November 5, 2017, US citizen and former NRA shooting instructor, Stephen Willeford, stopped a mass murderer in his tracks when Willeford employed his own AR-15 style rifle to stop a gunman that had just shot and killed 26 people. Gun advocates and 2nd Amendment supporters are often heard saying, “The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” (Or words similar in effect.) Anti-gun people often scoff at that assertion, but in the case of the tragic Sutherland Springs Church Shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas (30…
