Carole Lombard

#Hollywood Jean Harlow

Apollo 11 flight plan

July 1, 1969

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John Glenn

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look.substack.com/p/eight-things… 1/ from our first story in last week's newsletter:

"Construction of the Issoudun Aerodrome in rural France began in July 1917, and although the air base was still under construction, the first American flight students and instructors arrived for flight training in November.

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look.substack.com/p/eight-things… 1/ an excerpt from our lead story in last week's newsletter, on the leaked #RoeVWade decision:

"The most discouraging aspect of the leaked Roe draft opinion is its intention to vest in state legislatures final authority on abortion rights,

on the eve of the world losing its mind again

#WWII D-Day in Times Square

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1932 Alvin Sharpe, North Carolina
1935

1/ In the Nov 24, 1967 issue of Life Magazine, Texas Governor John Connally wrote an article entitled "Why Kennedy Went To Texas."
The piece included bystander photos. 2/

The "Summer of Love," 1967. The Jefferson Airplane performs in Marin County, Cal.
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look.substack.com/subscribe 1967: Albert DeSalvo is convicted of rape. He claims to be the Boston Strangler responsible for killing 13 young women but some doubt him. DNA evidence gathered yrs later proves him correct. DeSalvo will be killed by a fellow inmate in '73.
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Lots of comparisons to Saigon this morning.
Here are some data points regarding the two-day evacuation there, on April 29-30, 1975, extracted from a CIA report. North Vietnamese began their main attack on Saigon on April 27, hitting Saigon for the first time since 1973.
South Vietnam's president's call for a cease-fire/peace talks were rejected. South Vietnamese military leadership left their commands. Many committed suicide.

Wilbur Wright's home in Dayton.
1900 Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop.

1897

This is Pogue's department store in downtown Cincinnati, in 1916.

The store was started in 1863 by the Pogue brothers and was a fixture of Cincinnati life for more than 100 years.

Vaudeville star Trixie Friganza once sold handkerchiefs there for $4.50/week.

next newsletter Vaudeville star Trixie Friganza's big hit song was "No Wedding Bells For Me."
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'don't put hot food in your refrigerator'
Office for Emergency Management
Feb 1942 a well-stocked refrigerator
1940s

making tortillas in San Antonio

March 1939 lunch at a Muskogee, Okla. restaurant. For fifteen cents, diners got some meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat.
July 1939

This is Adolph Zukor, one of the 3 founders of Paramount Pictures. Zukor established the major studio practice of requiring movie theatres to show large blocks of films, including bad ones, in order to obtain the right to show the good ones. This system was called blind booking. When senators got their feelings hurt over their portrayal in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, they passed legislation aimed at eliminating the blind booking arrangement in retaliation against Hollywood.

An excerpt from our newsletter:

"William Randolph Hearst gets his start.

No successful son likes to hear that their achievements were made possible by acts of their father. " The inflated ego that comes from massive wealth and power makes such a self-acknowledgment difficult for even the best of men.

#Navalny's team has published an extensive Facebook post on his behalf in which they explain the methods they are using to reorganize and continue their work following Russia's labeling them an extremist organization. The labeling caused them to shut down but they have regrouped They key point is they have moved their operation, including their financial operation for processing political donations, out of the Russian banking system and have created 'cyber-anonymity' for donors. They pledge confidentiality to all supporters, which is needed to avoid jail

Ford's Theatre, 1850s. This is the Brooks Brothers coat that Lincoln wore for his second inauguration on March 4, 1865.

Lincoln was wearing the coat on the night he was shot at Ford's Theatre.

Tailors at Brooks Brothers embossed the silk lining. Look closely. It says "One Nation; One Destiny."

southern California, as seen from Mt. Lowe, in the San Gabriel Mountains

1907 Redondo Beach
1907

[our families shoulda bought then

PHOTO CAPTION: Vernon Evans/family of Lemmon, SD, near Missoula, Montana. Leaving the grasshopper-ridden/drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon/Washington. Expects to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Makes about 200 miles a day in Model T Ford. Live in tent
7/36 Here is a closeup of Vernon.
I like his attitude.
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"We have reached the end of this old story.

The final chapter is always the same."look.substack.com/p/some-thought… 1. You had been told one thing, over and over, for many years; and your practiced recitation of that thing — part myth, part ideology — had propelled your career forward.

‘He was strong and tireless; a genius.’

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A Cold Warrior’s advice on dealing with #Russia look.substack.com/p/eight-things… 1. If you look at Banksy’s art with the same set of eyes that you would use on a Monet garden scene or an Edward Hopper painting, you won’t get it.