They left Indiana to move to California after Jones had a vision of a nuclear bomb. They left California and moved to Guyana, to a commune they created called Jonestown, famous for the murder/suicide of nine hundred and nine of its members as well as the deaths of five people, including Congressman Leo Ryan on its airstrip, in 1978. While it is true that the murders on the airstrip would have serious repercussions it was hardly the images Jones was portraying of the slaughter of infants and concentration camps. There is no video footage but there was a forty-five minute long audio of the murder/suicide in which Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die," that death is "just stepping over into another plane" and that it's "a friend." At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an
On May 29, 1917, a very sick baby boy was born to Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald. That sick little boy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 1961 (C-Span, 1999, p. 1). Less than three years later, on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy was traveling in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza on the day of his assassination. According to the Warren Commission, established to investigate the assassination, three shots were fired from a 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, one of which went astray and struck a curb, and two of which struck President Kennedy.
The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden To the relief of people all around the world, on May 2nd, 2011 shortly after 1am, Al Qaeda’s top leader Osama Bin Laden was killed. Many people know him as being the mastermind behind the September 11th, 2001 attacks that killed thousands of Americans. Bin Laden was slain Sunday in his luxury hideout in Pakistan after a firefight with U.S. Forces. Bin Laden was 54 years old when a gun battle broke out at a compound in the city of Abbottabad with Navy SEALs and CIA parliamentary forces.
On January 29, 1998, Rudolph used a radio-controlled nail bomb at the New Woman All Women Health Care Centre in Birmingham, Alabama. (Noe, 2012) Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested on May 31, 2003 without incident in his hometown of Murphy, NC. He had been on the run from law enforcement officials and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for almost five years. “Rudolph pled guilty to the bombings at Olympic Park, the gay bar and the two abortion clinics - one in Atlanta, GA, and the other in Birmingham, AL - as well as two murders resulting from these bombings. The incidents took place from
He became an alcoholic, lost his job, his family and in 1995, about seven years later, he committed suicide with a shotgun (Lunsford, 2002, Babinek, 1997). Robert Long shot himself some time after helping rescue nine trapped miners in the Quecreek Mine, PA. (Charney, 2003), There were six suicides after the Oklahoma City bombing. These included Terrance Yeaker, the first police officer to arrive on the scene, another police officer as well as a federal prosecutor who was involved in the McVeigh investigation (Hopkins, & Jones, 2004). The less dramatic incidence of incipient depression is more difficult to document. For example, police have an especially high suicide rate after
The Zodiac killer was active in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. He killed at least five people, and injured two. He committed the first two murders with a pistol, just inside the Benecia border. In his second shooting in Vallejo, he attempted to kill two people, but one survived despite gunshots to the head and neck. 40 minutes later the police received an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be their killer and admitting to the murders of the previous two victims.
Most known for his acts on September 11, 2001: most devastating blow to the United States, Al-Qaeda jihadists hijacked four commercial planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center (NYC), The Pentagon (DC) and a field in Pennsylvania, killed nearly 3,000 civilians In 2011, President Obama announced Bin Laden had been finally killed, “his demise should be welcomed by all those who believe in piece and dignity” *Bin Laden was willing to kill innocent Americans due to his devotion to Islam and Al-Qaeda Tiger Woods professional golf player: won the US masters in 1997 at age 21, the youngest man/African American to earn the title in 2009, Woods took a hiatus from golf to deal with his personal life drama, his personal life took a turn for the worse, so did his golf game Awards won: PGA Titles, 3 US Masters Voted PGA Tour Player of the Year 7 Times In 2009, suspicions arose when a fight between Tiger and his wife Elin grew violent, Tiger would not admit any troubles but did not attend any other tournaments in 2009 Reports of Woods and his many mistresses were rampant, Woods offered an apology to his fans and families Woods finally admitted infidelity, lost endorsement deals from several companies Gandhi Pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian Independence
By the November presidential election, however, Klan intimidation led to suppression of the Republican vote and only one person voted for Ulysses S. Grant. Klansmen killed more than 150 African Americans in a county in Florida, and hundreds more in other counties. Freedmen's Bureau records provided a detailed recounting of Klansmen's beatings and murders of freedmen and their white allies terrorist organization" In 1999, the city council of Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution declaring the Klan to be a terrorist organization A similar effort was made in 2004 when a professor at the University of Louisville Today, a large majority of sources consider the Klan to be a "subversive or began a campaign to have the Klan declared a terrorist organization so it could be banned from campus. In April 1997, FBI agents arrested four members of the True Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas for conspiracy to commit robbery and to blow up a natural gas processing plant. In the year that followed the bureau spent $17,000,000 establishing 4,000 schools, 100 hospital and providing homes and food for former
Born |Michael King, Jr. January 15, 1929(1929-01-15) Atlanta, Georgia, United States | | |Parents |Martin Luther King, Sr. | | |Alberta Williams King | On April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated by a sniper as he stood on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, TN. Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with the civil rights movement. King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to 1956 until his murder in April 1968. To many Martin Luther King epitomised what the civil rights campaign was all about and he brought massive international cover to the movement. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr born January 15, 1929-1968 in Atlanta, Georgia led the civil rights movement in the United States. He was murdered by a single bullet as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, just outside his room. His death led to race riots across America that cost dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of properties and caused damages worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Martin local church was very much a part of his life as both his father and grandfather had been Baptist preachers. They themselves were involved in the civil rights movement.