Veteran journalist | Freelance @washingtonpost | Writing book about memory loss after brain surgery | MFA Narrative Nonfiction | Journalism lecturer
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LBJ breaks ground for JFK's national memorial-- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts--December 1964, a year after the assassination (RFK in rear):
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When Ken Burns asked every living president to recite the Gettysburg Address in 2013, Pres. Carter shared this story about Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Camp David Accords. (2023) @UNUMKenBurns
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60 years ago this week, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me.
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“I was among the lucky few who survive a ‘widowmaker’ when it happens anywhere other than inside a hospital,” Mark Shavin writes. “Quickly getting to the ER probably saved me.” wapo.st/3sNzfq5
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LBJ's notes for his first meeting with President Kennedy's Cabinet, sixty years ago yesterday:
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Breaking news: One person was killed and at least three were injured in a shooting at an Atlanta hospital facility on Wednesday afternoon. The suspect remains at large.
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“It shouldn’t even be like that, where you have to prove to people that you’re not a threat. It’s exhausting. You get burnt out. Being in a community where you don’t feel welcomed is exhausting.”
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President Zelensky and Ukraine mark the anniversary of the massacre at Babin Yar, where 33,771 Jews were murdered by Nazi invaders and their Ukrainian allies and dumped into a ravine in Kyiv, a key moment in Nazi Germany’s push to exterminate Europe’s Jews nitter.gq/cynparker_/status/1575…
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The Queen’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, sit in the forecourt of Windsor Castle to greet Her Majesty.
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To embarrass Northern liberals and humiliate Black people, southern White Citizens Councils started their so-called "Reverse Freedom Rides," giving Black people one-way tickets to northern cities with false promises of jobs, housing, and better lives.
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ALT Reverse Freedom Ride: Negro Family On Way Here A Negro couple and their eight children were placed on a Trenton-bound bus in Shreveport, La., this morning by the White Citizens' Council of Louisiana. The family of Alan Gilmore - the first "reverse Freedom Riders" to this city - were scheduled to arrive at the Perry Street bus terminal here at 4:20 a.m. on Sunday. The children range in age from eight months to 10 years. Charles Barnett, president of the White Citizens' Council, said the Gilmore family would 'look up Nicholas Katzenbach in Trenton.' He apparently referred to Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, deputy U.S. Attorny General. Katzenbach was in charge of the marshalls on the University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith enrolled there last fall....
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Queen Elizabeth II's menu and seating chart -- dinner for JFK and Jackie at Buckingham Palace, June 1961:
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The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
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How Americans feel about the Jan. 6 hearings so far: Some feel hopeful, others angry. Many aren’t watching at all. wapo.st/3b6yKxS
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Across the nation, Americans tuned into the Jan. 6 congressional hearing last night. Here’s what they had to say about it. W/ @JackDouglasNBC5 @AndreaEger @mauraewing @markshavin
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Over these 100 days, the Axios newsroom and How It Happened team have worked tirelessly to explain how this conflict began, how it escalated, how it changed geopolitics, and how it has impacted ordinary people in both Russia and Ukraine.
Today marks 100 days since the war in Ukraine escalated on February 24. It's a sobering milestone. As @DavidLawler10 writes: "It looks likely that a war that has lasted 100 days could drag on for hundreds more." axios.com/2022/06/03/100-day…
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Instead of delivering a joyous victory speech, Rep. McBath found herself reliving the pain of losing her teenage son a decade ago. Supporters, some of whom also lost children to gun violence, believe she can still break the political logjam, w/ @markshavin washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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For the past 4 weeks, @NaomiMaeShavin and I have been speaking to a Ukrainian soldier from Crimea named Andrii. He left college in 2014 to fight, and is now on the front lines in Donbas. We tell his story in a podcast and rare Axios long(ish) read.
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