Back In The Day: RFK In Indiana, May 1968

The Washington Post has assembled a sampling of the several TV ads that were made in some haste for the 7 May Indiana primary after Robert Kennedy announced his presidential candidacy on 16 March 1968. The Indiana ad campaign was entrusted to Charles Guggenheim, the...

Jimmy, Bill — and Herbert

Long after nightfall on January 20, 1969, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson arrived at their 330-acre Texas ranch. LBJ had been an ex-President for just a few hours. Throughout the day well-wishers had gathered – first at Andrews Air Force Base, then at Bergstrom Air Force...
America at War

America at War

[youtube https://youtu.be/e7k0P5ZiNkM] May 2008: A discussion of America’s progress in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq featuring Ken Pollack, Paul Pillar, John Nagl, and Joe Klein.

Dr. Hofmann’s Last Trip

I’m sure that the many TNN readers who were only just recovering from their bicycle day celebrations on the 19th were shocked to learn of the death, on Tuesday, of Albert Hofmann. Dr. Hofmann succumbed to a heart attack at his home in his native Switzerland at the age...