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Remembering the Kennedy Assassination Through the Zapruder Film [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 22) -- Using double 8 mm film, Dallas dress manufacturer Abraham Zapruder captured what remains the most dissected account of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The 47-year-old footage -- aptly dubbed the Zapruder Film -- was integral to the Warren Commission's investigation and has sparked endless debate over conspiracy theories surrounding the grassy knoll and the possibility of a second shooter, among other aspects of the assassination. The film is arguably the most famous home movie in American history. Surge Desk offers a selection of clips, including ...
JFK Assassination Anniversary: Eternal Flame Flickers but Still Burns
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe answer – even though I have not been asked the question in perhaps 15 years – is high school chemistry class. My uncomprehending teacher tried to continue with the planned experiment involving a Bunsen burner even after word spread that John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. Forty-seven years later, it all seems part of another world defined by black-and-white television, the black-and-white certainties of the Cold War and black-and-white racial relations. Even if he had served two full terms as president, JFK (born in 1917 and afflicted with Addison's disease) almost ...
Keith Olbermann Is Right: The Media Have Always Been Biased
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDuring Keith Olbermann's brief suspension from MSNBC for making political donations, former ABC anchor Ted Koppel penned a Washington Post op-ed about the situation -- and about "the death of real news." Responding on the liberal Daily Kos, Olbermann sarcastically described Koppel's take as "nostalgia for a time when TV news was objective and neutral and giants walked the earth and they didn't worry about profits and it was a point of pride that they lost money and everybody trusted them and it was never about ratings and hey you kids get off my lawn." It might surprise you to learn that I ...
Cape Cod Wind Farm Controversy Still Roiling Nantucket Sound
By Peter W. Fulham - Politics DailyEDGARTOWN, Massachusetts -- When Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced in April that the federal government had approved the Cape Wind proposal, a controversial plan to build a 24-square-mile wind farm in the waters off Cape Cod, a long and heated chapter in New England politics appeared to reach a resolution. But the final decision has done little to stop an ongoing debate among residents of Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard over the merits of the proposal -- and how much, if at all, Cape Wind would alter the economy and wildlife of the region. The decision ...
Notable Deaths of 2009
By Sean Loughlin - AOL NewsThis year saw the deaths of artists and athletes, politicians and pioneers, the seemingly ordinary and the obviously extraordinary. The deaths were sometimes expected, like the loss of the world's oldest woman. But often, they were so sudden and stunning, like the death of superstar Michael Jackson, they seemed to take our breath away. There's a common thread for the passings noted here: The lives and deaths of these individuals were felt far beyond their circle of family and friends, a testament to their influence and their simple ability to stand out in the crowd. In looking over the deaths ...
Poll: Jon Stewart is America's Most Trusted Newsman
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHow real is the "fake-news" these days? Real enough to land "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart atop the list of most-trusted newscaster in America "now that Walter Conkrite has passed on." Going up against the big three network anchors -- Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson -- Stewart handily beat his competition. In a Time magazine online poll of about 9,000 people, 44 percent said the comedian was the best source for trustworthy news, while 29 percent gave that honor to Williams, 19 percent named Gibson, and just 7 percent voted for Couric. ...
John Ziegler Cuffed, Stuffed for Covering Katie Couric Journalism Award
By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe - Politics DailyJohn Ziegler, the provocateur behind "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Sarah Palin was Targeted," tried to cover attendees of the Walter Cronkite Awards Dinner, but was met with forcible resistance. Campus police at USC set up a barricade for Ziegler that would have prevented him from having access to attendees. Their rationale was based on classifying Ziegler as a "protester."When he set up near the entrance to the event, the police took action. Here's the video:Full Video: Link: I'm no legal expert, so those police might have had some kind of legal fig leaf for what they did, ...
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