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Jan 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
CBS News Special Report on sudden fatal fire on Cape Kennedy launchpad that had just killed three Apollo 1 crewmen, fifty-five years ago tonight—program anchored by Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite:
LBJ’s letter to parents of Apollo 1’s Roger Chaffee, killed in Cape Kennedy launchpad fire fifty-five years ago tonight:
Apollo 1 catastrophe of fifty-five years ago tonight, reported next day by New York Times:
Apollo 1 astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee during training: #Getty

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Jan 27
LBJ deliberately created a Supreme Court vacancy so he could appoint Thurgood Marshall as first Black Justice, 1967.
Did so by asking Ramsey Clark to be his AG and telling Ramsey that his father, Tom, would have to thus quit SCOTUS in order to avoid conflicts of interest:
LBJ no doubt also enjoyed manipulating Ramsey Clark to reveal an aspect of his character by forcing his own father, Tom, to resign from SCOTUS, a job Tom loved, in order for Ramsey to achieve his ambition of becoming Attorney General.
Once Ramsey Clark became LBJ’s Attorney General in 1967, the President grew disenchanted with Clark and largely stopped speaking to him. He thenceforth communicated with Ramsey through Clark’s embarrassed deputy, Warren Christopher, so I was told by the latter.
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Jan 13
Had Robert Kennedy been able to survive in 1968, he could have changed the trajectory of the United States up to this day.
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Jan 13
"The Republican National Committee is preparing to change its rules to require presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination to sign a pledge to not participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates,” reports @maggieNYT.
@maggieNYT Here’s the last major-party Presidential nominee who refused to debate fall opponent:
@maggieNYT Will Republican candidates for Congress also be required not to debate their opponents?
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Jan 11
LBJ while talking to Walter Cronkite for what turned out to be his last TV interview (about civil rights), tomorrow 1973, ten days before his death at age 64:
FDR at home in Warm Springs, Georgia, April 1945, the day before he died at age 63:
Ad for posthumous broadcast of LBJ’s last TV interview, conducted tomorrow 1973:
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Jan 8
“Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of a city or company. But they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country’s security….We can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense.” JFK in Dallas speech he did not live to deliver 11/22/63
Place setting that waited for President Kennedy at Trade Mart luncheon, Dallas, 11/22/63:
JFK’s prosthetic chair at Trade Mart luncheon, awaiting motorcade’s arrival, Dallas, November 22, 1963:
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Jan 7
Sledding down steps of what is now Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to White House, 1921: #LOC
No one should try this at home!
In snow, Franklin Roosevelt at age 22 with dog Tip: #FDRL
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