Brandon Barker Current Event A long-time friend of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber testified in court today that he gave Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the gun later used in the shooting death of an MIT police officer. Stephen Silva, 21, told the court that he would consider Tsarnaev "one of my best friends." Silva is currently in prison after he was the subject of an undercover federal drug investigation last year and signed a plea deal with the government. While wearing a beige prison jumpsuit, Silva testified that two months before the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line, he gave Tsarnaev a 9-millimeter handgun that had an "obliterated" serial number. The gun was later used in the fatal shooting of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, according
Only one month after the hearings began, the majority of Americans, 97% had heard of Watergate. Of those, 67 percent believed that President Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up.Political investigations began in February 1973 when the Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee were sensational, including the evidence of John Dean, Nixon’s former White House Counsel. The Committee also uncovered the existence of the secret White House tape recordings, sparking a major political and legal battle between the Congress and the President.On February 6, 1974, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 803 by 410-4 to authorise the Judiciary Committee to consider impeachment proceedings against Nixon.However, by the beginning of 1973, the Watergate scandal was unfolding and the next eighteen months were dominated by damaging revelations and a legal fight between the Executive arm of government versus the Congress and the Supreme Court.Nixon was facing impeachment by the House of Representatives when he resigned in August 1974, the first President ever to do
David Berkowitz - The Son of Sam: David Berkowitz, better known as Son of Sam, is an infamous 1970s New York City serial killer who killed six people and wounded several others. His crimes became legendary because of the bizarre content in the letters that he wrote to the police and the media and his reasons for committing the attacks. With the police feeling the pressure to catch the killer, "Operation Omega" was formed, which was comprised of over 200 detectives; all working on finding the Son of Sam before he killed again. Berkowitz's Childhood: David Berkowitz, born June 1, 1953, was the adopted son of Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. The family lived in a middle-class home in the Bronx.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America is a 2003 non-fiction book written by Erik Larson. Set in 1893 Larson weaves the story of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the Chicago 1893 World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer. Being a bit of a crime buff I chose to read this book because it covered a topic I was not entirely familiar with, H. H. Holmes, and I wished to learn more about him. The book begins in 1912 aboard the RMS Olympic, on April 12th – the day her sister ship, the RMS Titanic, has struck an iceberg and is sinking. Daniel Burnham, aged and ailing from gout, commissions the ship’s steward to send a ship-to-ship telegraph to him to Francis Millet aboard the Titanic.
This evidence can be supported by the fatal wounds suffered by Kennedy, as well as the non-fatal wounds suffered by Governor Connally. However, there have been a number of witnesses who have testified that they heard multiple shots, 3 to 4, fired that fateful day. Five days after the assassination, on November 27, 1963, the recently sworn-in President, Lyndon B. Johnson, establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Ten months later, on September 24, 1964, the Warren Commission produces an 888-page report with their findings on the JFK assassination and presents it to LBJ. Three days after the report is received by LBJ, it is made public.
After the horrific death of John F. Kennedy, his deputy, Lyndon B. Johnson, was appointed president of the United States of America. He immediately set up a commission to ‘as certain’ evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late president John F. Kennedy. The seven man commission was headed by Chief Justice, Earl Warren and included Gerald Ford, Allen W Dulles, John J. McCloy, Richard B. Russell, John S. Cooper and Thomas H. Boggs. The 500+ page warren report was soon produced, claiming
It was an American Political scandal and a conflict in the 1970’s and also led to the resignation of president Nixon. When president Nixon was running for re-election, there was burglary in the office of Watergate. They learned that the burglars were part of a plan Nixon had, and that the white house held proof. When the held the proof finally rise, congress pressured Nixon to tell them everything. But the proof was then destroyed, eliminating any links from the burglars to the president.
All the President’s Men The movie “All the President’s Men” is the perfect example of journalism at its finest. The two main characters, Woodward and Bernstein, dig deep into one of the biggest scandals in history to bring truth and justice to the people of America. Journalists face the issues of ethics and moral and it is their job to uncover secrets that lie within our everyday lives. Dictionary.com explains journalism as “the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business”, but I see it as so much more. As a journalist, it is your job to not settle for anything but the truth.
The truth about the JFK assassination On Friday, November 22nd in 1963 at 12:30 P.M., the 35th president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated while he rode in an open limousine though the streets of Dallas. The official answers complied by the Warren Commission have never satisfied the majority of the world's population. According to an ABC News television poll, between 68% and 83% of the American public doubts the official government explanation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Some haunting questions still remain. Was JFK really killed by a lone gunman firing from a book depository?
The Watergate Scandal The Watergate scandal was a political scandal of the Democratic Party in the 1970s. The scandal all started from a burglary by five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, the Watergate, in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. All five men were caught and arrested that same night. The FBI connected payments to all of the men from a slush fund of the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President, which made the investigation very popular and interesting. The story of the Watergate burglary caught the attention of two reporters of the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who started a little investigation of their own that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon on August 9,