Michael Beschloss

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May 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

Ex-President Truman displays his taste in summer shoes at 1956 Democratic convention: #Getty

Summer street shoes from Harry Truman's collection, Independence, Missouri: #NPS

One of Harry Truman’s ties:

Harry Truman’s jacket, 1950:

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Michael Beschloss

May 5

Alan Shepard’s capsule is lifted out of Atlantic after his fifteen-minute suborbital flight. First American in space, today 1961:

In White House Rose Garden, three days after Alan Shepard’s flight of today 1961 as first American in space, JFK accidentally drops Shepard's medal, picks it up and then quips that the medal “has gone from the ground up—here”:

Launch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, today 1961. Compared to rocket that took Apollo astronauts into space to land on moon, Shepard’s looks almost like a toy.

Michael Beschloss

May 4

During protest against Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia, killings at Kent State in Ohio were today 1970:

Music video about Kent State: “Four Dead in Ohio,” by Neil Young (1970):

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?"

Michael Beschloss

Apr 28

End of road for Mussolini was today 1945:

Mussolini’s ending was not great product placement for Esso service stations.

Ten years later, the Esso station in Milan where Mussolini and his mistress had their photo op today 1945:

Michael Beschloss

Apr 25

"In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall [sic] law."

What connection would “Marshall [sic] law” in America have with Marshal Stalin?

“Marshall Field” to be declared over Chicago?

Michael Beschloss

Apr 21

Library in Hartford, Connecticut, house of Mark Twain, who died today 1910:

Boston Atheneum:

Library at Jefferson’s Monticello:

Michael Beschloss

Apr 11

Gruel and other delights were offered on this Third Class menu aboard the R.M.S. Titanic before it sank this week 1912:

For comparison, here is a Titanic Second Class breakfast menu, days before the end:

And now Titanic's First Class luncheon menu before disaster struck this week 1912. Anyone for Corned Ox Tongue?

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