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...Bullets tore holes in the water around me and I made for the nearest steel obstacle ..." said Robert Capa, the only photographer to go ashore with the first troops. "Fifty yards ahead of me, one of our half-burnt amphibious
...stint in City Hall in 1969, recalled in a recent interview that as late as the '60s Blacks were able to walk through predominantly Irish Catholic South Boston unharassed. "Blacks used to regularly fish of Kelly's landing in South Boston as late as 1968," White says. "What tore the fabric apart was busing, the force and the harshness of its implementation...
...last month in San Francisco, the Sparts gained national attention and support when one member of the Spartacus League, Ritchie Bradley, climbed the flag pole and tore a Confederate Flag down from above the San Francisco Civic Center, and threw it to the ground, where a crowd of 100 burned it. Bradley was wearing the uniform of the Union Army and climbed a pole that was more than 40 feet high, while demonstrators reportedly chanted. "The flag of slavery flies no more Time to finish the Civil...
...from the airport, Ethel and other members of the family stopped to say prayers at the graves of John and Robert Kennedy. Then, on a beautiful, sun-drenched afternoon, with the cars parked bumper to bumper along Chain Bridge Road, family and friends gathered. Babies squealed. Dogs tore around among the guests, bounding onto the furniture. Two Roman Catholic priests circulated among the people. Ethel bore up stoically. She spent much of her time with David's coffin in one room of the house. David's brothers were close to tears, but perhaps they remembered their grandfather...
Hovering 1,000 ft. in the air, the first helicopter took gunfire. "It was like gravel raining on a pan," said Johnston. The pilot tried to maneuver away from the barrage, but could not. One bullet destroyed the helicopter radio. Another tore through the floor and exited through the roof, narrowly missing Chiles and clipping one of the rotor blades. Since the gunfire made an immediate landing impossible, the pilot carefully veered the crippled helicopter back to an army base. The second helicopter had also come under fire...