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Day: August 16, 2012

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Kennedy and Shermarke in 1962

Official Somali State Visit to the Kennedy White House (1962)

On November 27th, 1962, 361 days before Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, the Prime Minister of the Somali Republic, Dr. Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, had an official state visit to the White House. We were able to dig up this obscure film

Parade of 'Reds' Here Ends in Arrest of 29 - November 11th, 1928 (Washington Post)

Parade of Communists Arrested at State, War and Navy Building

Everyone is aware of the communist scare stirred up by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. Due to the media circus around that, sensationalizing it for the masses, it is still what we think of when we talk of anti-communism. We

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