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A Brief History On March 20, 2000, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was arrested for shooting 2 police officers, killing one of them. Digging Deeper Digging deeper we find Al-Amin the new name for the former Black Panther “Minister of Justice” known as H. Rap Brown.  The erstwhile Hubert Gerold Brown was wanted for gunning down 2 Georgia deputy sheriffs that were attempting to arrest him on warrants for receiving stolen property, a traffic offense, and impersonating a police officer. Al-Amin, or Brown, had led a difficult life, in trouble with the law through much of it. Jailed for a variety of…

A Brief History As has already been established on our site, we at History and Headlines are fascinated by unusual deaths.  Accordingly, earlier today, we featured an article on the death of gangster Frank Nitti.  Nevertheless, we suspect you hunger for even more inglorious criminal deaths… Digging Deeper 10. Saddam Hussein (2006) Known for waging unprovoked war and using poison gas against Iran and his own people, Saddam was hanged while being jeered by his prison guards and recorded on cell phone video.  He was apparently not even hanged properly as his neck was ripped open, and the indignity continued…

A Brief history On March 19, 1943, the successor to Al Capone’s crime empire was drunk and despondent over a pending Grand Jury appearance. Digging Deeper Frank Nitti, 57 years old, was running the Chicago crime scene having taken over when he and Al “Scarface” Capone went to jail for tax evasion.  Capone had gotten 11 years in prison, while Nitti, Capone’s second in command, had only been sentenced to a year and a half.  When Nitti was released in 1932, he took over as the crime lord of Chicago.  Or did he?  Some evidence exists that indicate Nitti was…

A Brief History On March 19, 1987, under fire for sex and financial irregularities the star of one of television’s most popular evangelist Christian shows resigned! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find Jim Bakker, star of The PTL Club in hot water for allegedly raping a show secretary, Jessica Hahn, and paying her $279,000 in hush money. If that was not cracked enough, questions quickly were raised about other aspects of misuse of charitable donations and fraudulent fund raising.  Bakker and his wife, famously over-made up Tammy Faye Bakker had been living like royalty, spending millions of dollars on an…

A Brief History On March 18, 1974, the so called Arab Oil Embargo came to an end, but any celebrations were certainly premature! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find two major factors involved in making this crisis as important as it was and still is. The first factor was that it had appeared US production of oil had peaked and the world believed that from about 1970 onward it would continue to decline more or less on a constant basis. The other issue at hand was and still is the Arab-Israeli conflict.  The US is pledged to guaranty the continuation…