All posts tagged "assassination"
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6.0K2Arts and LeisureDancer’s Image, the NH Horse that Won and Lost the Kentucky Derby
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
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72.1K10MassachusettsThe Night Ethel Kennedy Met Jackie Bouvier
Ethel Kennedy loved to be the center of attention, but she couldn’t compete with her sister-in-law, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Ethel was outdoorsy...
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6.4KMassachusettsAbner Kneeland, The Free-Speech Martyr Convicted of Blasphemy in 1838
Abner Kneeland was a powerful and energetic Universalist minister whose religious doubts and political beliefs sent him to a Massachusetts prison in...
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18.7K32MassachusettsJohn Quincy Adams Takes the Oath of Office – Wearing Pants
John Quincy Adams was inaugurated March 4, 1825 as America’s sixth president. He was principled, intelligent and eloquent, though his principles occasionally...
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10.3K7Arts and LeisureThe Other Boston Tea Party, The Hippest Club in Town
Boston and Cambridge were centers of the Sixties counterculture, and from 1967-70 the other Boston Tea Party was the epicenter of the center....
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4.1K2VermontGeorge Seldes, The Last Great Muckraker, Never Tired of Protesting Even at 104
When George Seldes died in 1995 at the age of 104, a delegation of investigative journalists journeyed to his home in Hartland...
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20.9K14MassachusettsThe Heat Wave of 1896 Launches Teddy Roosevelt to the White House
When the heat wave of 1896 finally ended on Aug. 13, 1896, it left behind a record of suffering and death ‘long...
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13.6K8MassachusettsAlexander Graham Bell Takes Up Medicine
The brilliant inventor Alexander Graham Bell found his greatest success with the telephone, but perhaps his highest profile effort at inventing came...
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3.3K11MassachusettsJohn Quincy Adams, Slavery’s Enemy Til the End
John Quincy Adams collapsed on the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb. 23, 1848 and died two days later. After...
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7.6K4Arts and LeisureThe Night James Brown Saved Boston
James Brown, the hardest working man in show biz, worked extra hard on April 5, 1968 to keep Boston calm in the...
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