A Brief History On June 21, 1982, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in March of 1981. Hinckley used a firearm in his assassination attempt, a weapon a mentally ill person in the United States is not supposed to be able to purchase or possess. Hinckley fired a cheap, foreign import .22 LR revolver six times, striking President Reagan with a ricochet, gravely wounding the elderly president. Also seriously wounded was press secretary Jim Brady, as well as a police officer and a Secret Service agent. …
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A Brief History On May 14, 2021, we finally got to watch the latest Angelina Jolie action film, Those Who Wish Me Dead. The film looked really cool on the trailer, and Jolie has been in several action films we enjoyed immensely, so we were anxious and eager to see this flick. Digging Deeper Despite the cynical headline for this article, the movie was ok. Falling short of our high expectations, sure, but still entertaining and kept our interest throughout the 100 minute running time. Acting was generally good, cinematography and special effects were excellent, and the plot was generally…
A Brief History On April 26, 1865, Union Army troopers of the US Cavalry shot the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, dead on the spot in spite of orders to take the murderer alive. Booth is just one of many assassins that died without the benefit of being tried for their crime. Today we list several such assassins and welcome you to nominate others to this list. (See some of our other articles about assassinations.) Digging Deeper John Wilkes Booth, assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln (1865) Boothe was the most famous American actor of his day,…
A Brief History On April 23, 2021, we at History and Headlines say, “Enough!” Enough with politicians subtly and not so subtly encouraging citizens to violently demonstrate, including wink of the eye calls for “protests” that are “mostly peaceful” but in reality are rather violent. President Trump was impeached for exactly that sort of behavior, and it is time to hold ALL politicians to the same standard. Digging Deeper Specifically, today we can include Representative to Congress Maxine Waters (D-California) in the group of irresponsible politicians inciting violence, and we call upon her to resign from office. Her call for…
A Brief History On February 22, 2014, the Ukrainian Rada, their unicameral version of a legislative body, voted to impeach President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, removing him from office. In 2021, the American Congress is preparing to impeach President Donald Trump (as of January 11, 2021) in a history making second effort to oust the President. While previous Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton were both impeached, and in turn not convicted by the Senate and thus not removed from office, Trump was impeached in 2019, and like his predecessors on the hot seat, he was not convicted…