July 14 was the last day Police Officer Jake Wallin went to work. And it terrified the loved ones of police officers all across the country. Jake was killed in the line of duty as he struggled with others to bring order to the streets of Fargo. Jake and his fiancee, Winter, had just ...
M L Berg, Minot Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1973, congressional hearings were being held concerning the Watergate scandal that occurred on the orders of then President Richard Nixon. A break-in had occurred at the Democratic National Committee’s offices at the Watergate office ...
Seventy years ago today was the end of the Korean War. On July 27, 1953, The Minot Daily News reported the war’s end to its readers in an Associated Press story out of Seoul, South Korea. Following is a portion of that story “Shooting stopped along the Korean battlefront at 10 p.m. ...
It was in the early ‘60s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett. For several hours we cruised past some of Washington’s most famous ...
Baby, it’s hot outside. Right on cue, a New York Times headline links this surge in temperatures to “climate change.” Temperatures have climbed to well over 100 F in Las Vegas, Arizona, much of Texas, and New Mexico in recent weeks. In Phoenix, the heat wave is the worst since ...
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film -- literally. The eponymous physicist and “father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped ...