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Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92 Harrison Smith Just out of graduate school in 1953, Priscilla Johnson McMillan joined the Senate staff of John F. Kennedy, then a newly elected Democrat from Massachusetts. He was “mesmerizing,” she later said; while she worked only briefly on Capitol Hill, she visited him in the hospital when he underwent spinal surgeries, and posed as one of his sisters to get past a line of nurses and bring n...

Is the United States a force for democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum presents a comprehensive study of American covert and overt interference, by one means or another, in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year in which the author takes one particular country case and tells the story - and each case throws light on particular US tactics of intervention. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: Far and...

Franks died at the family farm in Hopewell Junction, New York, after a long battle with cancer, her family said.

Lucinda Franks, Pulitzer-winning journalist and author, dies at 74 Harrison Smith When Lucinda Franks started her journalism career in 1968, she was known simply as a “coffee girl,” charged with ensuring that the reporters in United Press International’s London newsroom — nearly all of them men — were adequately caffeinated. Impressing editors with stories she wrote on her own time, she was assigned to cover beauty contests and dog shows. But Ms. Franks had far gr...

Former UPI reporter, Pulitzer winner Lucinda Franks dies at 74 By (0) Lucinda Franks, a former UPI reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971, died Wednesday at the age of 74. File Photo courtesy of Lucinda Franks May 6 (UPI) -- Former United Press International journalist Lucinda Franks, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, has died in New York, her family announced Thursday. She was 74. Her family told The New York Times that the cause of h...

Findit, Inc. Provides First Quarter Recap and Projects First Quarter Profit Projected Earnings for the First Quarter Findit is projecting a profitable first quarter to 2021. The company is completing it financials and will be filing its first quarter financials on OTC Markets prior to the required filing period to remain current. The company continues to look at options to reduce costs where it makes sense, while also increasing revenue in areas that are profitable. Exiting the CBD B2B Space T...

‘F.T.A.’: When Jane Fonda Rocked the U.S. Army A newly exhumed documentary delves into the actress’s anti-Vietnam vaudeville tour of American military bases in 1972. Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda in the 1972 documentary “F.T.A.,” which stood for something ruder than Free the Army.Credit...Kino Lorber March 4, 2021 “F.T.A.,” an agitprop rockumentary that ran for a week in July 1972, reappears as an exhumed relic, recording the joyfully scurrilous anti-Vietnam War ...

Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1912 (Public Domain via WikimediaCommons) At a conference in 1937, Meitner shares the front row with (left to right) Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Otto Stern and Rudolf Ladenburg; Hilde Levi is the only other woman in the room. (Friedrich Hund via WikimediaCommons) Chemist Lise Meitner with students (Sue Jones Swisher, Rosalie Hoyt and Danna Pearson McDonough) on the steps of the chemistry building at Bryn Mawr College. Courtesy of Bryn Mawr College....