On May 9, 2001, Steven M. Greer took the lectern at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of the truth about unidentified flying objects. Greer, an emergency-room physician in Virginia and an outspoken ufologist, believed that.
by Ken Ellingwood
Ken Ellingwood, a former Los Angeles Times correspondent now living in Abu Dhabi, is the author of First to Fall,
a forthcoming book about Elijah Lovejoy.
Wood engraving of November 7, 1837 mob attack in Alton, IL. Antislavery publisher Elijah Lovejoy was killed and his press, hidden in this warehouse, was destroyed, with the pieces thrown into the Mississippi River.
It was gratifying that Rep. Jamie Raskin would invoke an obscure 19th century newspaper editor while laying out the impeachment case charging President Trump with incitement in the brutal January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The editor was Elijah Lovejoy, whose slaying at the hands of a proslavery mob in 1837 encapsulated a chilling wave of political violence that Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois lawmaker, condemned as “mob law.”
FRAMINGHAM It s down to two.
On Friday, the School Committee released its finalists for what will be the new name for the Woodrow Wilson Elementary School: Harmony Grove Elementary School and Ruby Bridges Elementary School.
Harmony Grove was an area on the shores of Farm Pond where anti-slavery and suffragist rallies were held. Its natural amphitheater hosted rallies and speeches from famous social justice activists to promote women s rights and the anti-slavery movement, according to a presentation for next week s School Committee meeting.
From 1846 to 1865, it served as a gathering place for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, which held a large anti-slavery rally there every Fourth of July. Then, on July 4, 1874, there was a suffrage convention there with speakers questioning the Declaration of Independence, as women had to pay taxes even though they could not vote.
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Tony McManus
Had you been a juror in the trial for the 1908 murder of Dover police officer Walter S. Sterling, you might have wondered why John Dame had been up and about at 4:15 in the morning walking around his house with a loaded revolver.
The evidence indicated that he might not have had the weapon when the argument with his father-in-law started, but went back to his bedroom to get it and returned to the confrontation. You might wonder why, if he felt threatened, he didn t simply move more than a broom s length away and go to call the police.