By a strange coincidence Jefferson and his old rival John Adams both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—July 4, 1826. On the evening of July 3, Jefferson was in bed, his life ebbing rapidly. "This is the Fourth?" he whispered
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Shortly before he left the White House, Roosevelt, planning a big-game hunting trip to Africa, heard that a famous white hunter was visiting Washington. He invited the man to come along and give him some advice. After a two-hour tête-à-tête the hunter cam
Continue reading >>Financially, Ulysses S. Grant was not poor. He came from a working middle class family. It was the family dynamics that were less than inspiring.
Continue reading >>Marilyn Monroe’s August 5, 1962 death was listed as an "acute barbiturate poisoning" by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office and ruled as a "probable suicide.” Sgt. Jack Clemmons, the first Los Angeles Police Department officer at
Continue reading >>Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1960s was what it had always been, a city that kept blacks and whites apart with separate water fountains, hotels, schools, hospitals, etc., for each race.
Continue reading >>George Washington could not have chosen better. Martha was a twenty-seven year old widow whose late husband had a vast fortune in land and property, along with that rarest of all Colonial commodities: ready cash.
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