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National SecurityJune 19, 2015
June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed
“Abroad this execution will be thrown in our faces for a long time to come.”
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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Nation HistoryJune 18, 2015
June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies
“He combined the meat-and-potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question-phrasing skill of a Socrates...and the political philosophy of an anarchist.”
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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Books and IdeasJune 16, 2015
June 16, 1938: Joyce Carol Oates Is Born
"Oates believes strongly in the authority of the individual’s experience of reality."
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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CultureJune 15, 2015
June 15, 1904: The General Slocum, a Passenger Steamship, Sinks in the East River, Killing Over One Thousand
"The tragedy strain[s] the compassion of the mere reader to the point of numbness."
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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June 12, 2015
June 12, 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson—O.J.’s Ex-Wife—and Ronald Goldman Are Murdered in Los Angeles
"The public airing of the Simpson trial is being used to divert political attention from some very great divisions rending this nation."
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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June 11, 2015
June 11, 1967: The Six-Day War Ends in Israeli Victory, and Occupation
"Israelis have no desire to repeat the errors of Western Europe’s 19th-century imperial expansionism."
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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June 10, 2015
June 10, 2007: The Series Finale of ‘The Sopranos’ Airs on HBO
"The murderous mobster is the predatory lust and aggression in all of us," Ellen Willis wrote in The Nation in 2001.
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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June 9, 2015
June 9, 1954: The Army-McCarthy Hearings Climax With a Lawyer’s Pointed Question
"These hearings can in no sense be interpreted as weakening the hold of McCarthyism, or anti-democracy, in the United States."
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
