All posts tagged "assassination"
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17.4K2ConnecticutThe West Indies Send Sugar, Slaves and Red Sox Stars to New England
For four centuries, the West Indies have made an outsized impact on New England. In 2018, West Indian stars and a West...
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31.5K2Politics and MilitaryThe MTL Insanity File of Robert Todd Lincoln Discovered
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most, but not all. He saved a collection of...
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5.9K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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31.5K1MassachusettsEmma Goldman Opens An Anarchist Ice Cream Shop in Worcester, Mass.
Emma Goldman could have made a fortune from her ice cream parlor in Worcester, Mass. It was 1892, and she was a...
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5.8KConnecticutConnecticut’s Gideon Welles Learns President Lincoln Has Been Shot
Gideon Welles of Glastonbury, Conn. would rise in the political ranks to become Secretary of the Navy under presidents Abraham Lincoln and...
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4.3K2Arts and LeisureJohn Wilkes Booth Buys Property in Boston’s Back Bay
John Wilkes Booth sympathized with the South during the Civil War, but he planned to move to Boston, a Northern city full...
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3.7K1MassachusettsSix Quick Facts About the Valentine in History
The Valentine has pleased and perturbed people since Charles, Duke of Orleans, sent one to his wife from the Tower of London...
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5.6K6Massachusetts8 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. in New England
Martin Luther King spent plenty of time in New England, and not just giving speeches about civil rights. He worked in Connecticut...
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5.5K1Politics and MilitaryCanada’s Confederate Plot Against St. Albans, Vermont
Sitting on the Canadian border didn’t insulate St. Albans, Vt., from Confederate attack during the American Civil War. Canadians viewed New England...
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16.3K2MassachusettsBoston Corbett – The Mad Hatter who Killed John Wilkes Booth
Thomas Corbett was born in London in 1832, but he gained his fame as Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes...
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