Mann Gulch Fire On August 5th, 1949 what was thought to be a routine day in the lives of 16 smokejumpers, will be remembered within the U.S. Forest service as well as firefighting history. The Mann Gulch fire occurred in Montana’s Helena National Forest, and prior to this incident, no smokejumper had ever died fighting a wildland fire. The fire, which was caused by lightning strike, was originally spotted at 12:25 pm. Due to the remote location and lack of roads; smokejumpers were dispatched to the incident. Forman Wagner (Wag) Dodge and his crew made their jump a few hours after the call.
Ghosts of Gettysburg Have the ghosts of Gettysburg talked to you? It is common to hear of paranormal activity when you visit the town of Gettysburg. A place with this kind of history is bound to be a paranormal hot spot. During the three day battle campaign, 51,000 men died suddenly and tragically at this town in Pennsylvania in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. These events are perfect for brewing up paranormal activity, and this is what makes Gettysburg one of the most haunted places in the world today.
He is convicted in 1999 of the four murders and of twenty-six counts of attempted murder. October 1998 Ecoterrorists set fire to a Vail, Colorado, resort, causing extensive damage. The perpetrators allege that the resort damaged wildlife habitats. 2000 Congress passes the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, recognizing a prisoner’s right to practice religion while incarcerated. September 11, 2001 Terrorists of Middle Eastern origin crash three hijacked airliners into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked airliner crashes in rural Pennsylvania on its way to a target.
When Forscyth's troops surrounded Black Coyote to disarm the man, Black Coyote's gun fired off and caused the troops to fire their weapons at other Indians, thus triggering the massacre. The massacre lasted for less than an hour, but the death toll was high, with 150 Lakota dead and 50 wounded. The siege of Wounded Knee occurred over 80 years later in the year 1973. Before the siege started, members of the Lakota tribe, whose ancestors were involved in the Wounded Knee massacre, and other tribes decided to meet in order to discuss issues such as high unemployment rates and the policies of the Federal Government concerning the tribes. This meeting formed the American Indian Movement, or AIM.
The Soledad Slayings By: Brett Plaskowitz Figure [ 1 ] Curleys wife dead on the floor in the barn I Brett Plaskowitz am one of the several editors of the Sycamore Sun Newspaper. Our most recent article “The Soledad slaughters” has caught the eye of many people in this small town. Although this is a small town there are quite a few ranches like the one these gruesome crimes were committed on. I have been editing this newspaper for 13 years and this is the most shocking article i have seen happen in this town. For those of you who don’t know what happened I will tell you: Tuesday of this week 2 bodies were discovered on a small ranch in our home town.
DBQ: What Cause The Civil War Hell breaks loose, and in the space of sound in the western woods along bloody lane 600,000 bodies lay dead. In the early morning of September 17, 1862 dawn is breaking a troops are squaring off against each other. Antietam is just one day in war that by 1865 over 600,000 yankee and rebel’s lives are taken away. The north and south both feared that one would over power another. Who is the person or event responsible for a war between regions of the same country?
from Mexico. In the Hermine storm reports, MSNBC and Fox News mention that the cattle-ranching region of Mexico where the storm is projected to hit, is one of the most dangerous in Mexico's turf war between two drug cartels. It is the same area 72 migrants were killed two weeks ago in what is believed to be Mexico's worst drug gang massacre to date. CNN mentioned nothing of the incident, sticking only to the news reports of the storm. CNN did mention that Hermine could dump 4 to 8 inches of rain over northeastern Mexico and south Texas and as much as 12 inches in isolated areas, with the potential for flooding and mudslides, especially in northeastern Mexico.
On the morning of December 29, 1890, soldiers from the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, the unit made world-famous only fifteen years earlier by its defeat under General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, opened fire on a band of Minneconjou and Hunkpapa Sioux who they had detained and were in the process of disarming. Over several hours, the men of the Seventh indiscriminately killed about 250 people, more than half of who were women, children and elderly, and crushed the spiritual movement known as the Ghost Dance. The Wounded Knee Massacre unquestionably stands as one of the darkest moments in the relationship between Native Americans and the United States government, yet most scholarship on the subject either limits its scope to the individuals directly involved in the affair and the tactics employed or presents the slaughter as a turning point in a longer history of U.S. aggression towards the native people of the Great Plains.
The Gun Control Debate America’s debate on issues of gun control reached a new fervor spurred on by the mass-shooting tragedies of the last few years including the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that left 32 dead and many wounded and reached a fever pitch after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012. The pledge by President Obama for the United States Congress to take action is the focus of his current speeches and remarks. Family members of those lost in recent shootings stood with and behind the president at the White House on March 28th as he told America “…the entire country pledged we would do something about it and that this time would be different. Shame on us if we've forgotten…” (Obama, B. Remarks, 2013).
The third chapter of the book focuses on coal mining and its dehumanizing effects that take place in Welch, West Virginia. "Disease in the coalfields is rampant... More than half a million acres, or eight hundred square miles, of the Appalachians have been destroyed... Along with an estimated one thousand miles of streams." Rudy Kelly is the main focus of this section; he was diagnosed with black lung cancer and he underwent multiple operations, although the doctors told him he was supposed to have died more than twenty years ago. He says, “I’m breathin’ because the profit margin is higher than the price of a man’s life.