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Bonar Menninger’s Mortal Error
May 27, 2014 – 8:39 AM | 4 Comments
Bonar Menninger’s <em>Mortal Error</em>

Like a Magic Eye puzzle, once you see Howard Donahue’s explanation of JFK’s death, you can’t unsee it.

11 Things I Learned From Manchester’s The Death of a President
August 31, 2012 – 3:59 PM | 10 Comments
11 Things I Learned From Manchester’s <em>The Death of a President</em>

The President is supposed to stand still during “Hail to the Chief,” and/or salute the flag. (27)
“At Brooks Kennedy had tried to rest briefly in the Lincoln while the First Lady made her farewells. Harassed …

16/31: In the Shadow of the Moon, or “A Teeny Oral History of Communally Experiencing the Space Program, Courtesy of My Parents”
December 17, 2011 – 12:14 PM | 11 Comments
16/31: <I>In the Shadow of the Moon</I>, or “A Teeny Oral History of Communally Experiencing the Space Program, Courtesy of My Parents”

I never get tired of the stories of the Apollo missions. Apollo 13, of course, is one of those poppy-fields movies that I can never not watch, and I think I put In the Shadow …