Dilapidated Mount Vernon, mid-nineteenth century, before rescue by Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association:
George Washington’s study includes fan chair similar to the one in which first President sat during summer heat: @MountVernon
@MountVernon Ten-dollar reward offered for return of the enslaved Oney Judge, who had escaped President George Washington’s household, Pennsylvania Gazette, 1796:
Mount Vernon entrance, last night:
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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone?
We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .
Someone has just stepped out of the flying saucer that landed near the White House after we heard that boom. He's shouting, "Take us to your leader -- Truman!"