All posts tagged "Cold War"
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13.2K1Business and LaborThe Rise and Fall of the Fore River Shipyard
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
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21.7K2ConnecticutRichard Bissell – The Connecticut Yankee Behind the Bay of Pigs
In 1959 the CIA named Richard Bissell its deputy director for plans. The agency had made an unusual selection. Bissell replaced Frank...
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10.7K11Crime and ScandalLona Cohen – The Russian Spy Who Kept Her Cool Even in the Desert
The year was 1945 and 32-year-old Lona Cohen from Adams, Mass., was in the New Mexico desert. Americans had perfected the nuclear...
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7.8K11ConnecticutAl Marder, The Oldest Living Communist Victim of the Red Scare
Al Marder in 2021 attended a ceremony celebrating the return of the Amistad replica to New Haven Harbor. At 99 years old,...
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20.7K2MassachusettsThe Tragedy of Texas Tower No. 4
In the dark, early morning hours of Jan. 15, 1961, the little Navy vessel AKL-17 plowed through monster waves toward Texas Tower...
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16.0K10MassachusettsNo, JFK Did Not Say ‘I Am a Jelly Doughnut’
Critics of President John F. Kennedy, popularly known as JFK, claimed his eloquent 1963 speech before 400,000 people in West Berlin included...
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