by Jim Heath | Nov 22, 2019 | History
On November 22, 1963, Doris Heath, a young mother with tears in her eyes, started a scrapbook to remember the events surrounding the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Nearly 60 years later, she opened the scrapbook and shared her memories of the tragic...
by Jim Heath | Nov 11, 2019 | History, Military
It has now been over 100 years since the Armistice that saw the end of World War I. A horrific war that cost 8.5 million people their lives in the war that was supposed to end all wars. It was in 1917 when my grandfather, Dillon C. Rhodenbaugh, found...
by Jim Heath | Sep 28, 2019 | Headlines, History
The FBI has released hundreds of pages of documents on Donald Trump’s controversial former lawyer Roy Cohn detailing allegations he engaged in bribery. As a young attorney, Cohn worked as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s grand inquisitor in the purging of America...
by Jim Heath | Aug 31, 2019 | Headlines, History
Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Diego prison. A statement from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the...
by Jim Heath | Jul 9, 2019 | Headlines, History
Ross Perot, the wiry Texas gadfly who made a fortune in computer services, amazed the nation with audacious paramilitary missions to Vietnam and Iran, and ran for president in 1992 and 1996 with populist talk of restoring Norman Rockwell’s America, died today at his...
by Jim Heath | Apr 23, 2019 | History, McCain
It’s springtime in Washington, D.C., and there are a growing number of coins being left on the grave of the late Sen. John McCain. The former Arizona senator and Republican presidential nominee was laid to rest last August at the United States Naval Academy...
