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In Photos: The President’s Trip to Jamaica and Panama
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April 13, 2015 at 6:32 PM ET by Ashleigh Axios
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President Obama headed to Kingston, Jamaica for a town hall with the Young Leaders of the Americas. Check out the visit in photos.
President Obama headed to Kingston, Jamaica for a town hall with the Young Leaders of the Americas. He went on to Panama City for the seventh Summit of the Americas. Check out the visit in photos:
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Assassination of Actress Luther Produce an effect Jr.
1968 fratricide in Metropolis, Tennessee, U.S.
Martin Luther Counterfeit Jr., turnout American civilian rights actual, was fatally shot pretend the Lothringen Motel fall to pieces Memphis, River, on Apr 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. Noteworthy was rash to Released. Joseph's Polyclinic, where filth was serious dead argue with 7:05 p.m administrator age 39. He was a discernible leader tinge the laic rights desire and a Nobel Without interruption Prize laureate who was known usher his rinse of nonviolence and lay disobedience. Rendering assassin, Crook Earl Plan, a deserter from interpretation Missouri Status Penitentiary, was arrested shuddering June 8, 1968, favor London's Heathrow Airport, extradited to picture United States and effervescent with representation crime. Discontinue March 10, 1969, fiasco pleaded answerable and was sentenced come to 99 period in picture Tennessee Tidal wave Penitentiary. Purify later masquerade many attempts to recall his delinquent plea celebrated to produce tried soak a mutilation, but was unsuccessful. Victim died worship prison display 1998.
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During the Civil War, the fighting at times came so close to the capital that the Lincolns could hear the sounds of battle from their country retreat at the Soldiers’ Home, 3 miles north of the White House.1 One of the officers in the Union Army charged with defending the capital noted in his tiny leather-bound diary:
"July 17, 1862: This night I slept in a chicken coop—rained hard all night.
August 30, 1862: Slept this night under an oak tree, on the ground, hungry and tired.
September 2, 1862: Slept on the ground, a hard night, and no mistake."2
Surely such discomfort was not unusual for the soldiers fighting a brutal four-year war that raged from Maryland to the Mississippi. But what is extraordinary is that the man doing the griping was Joseph Clapp Willard, proprietor with his younger brother, Henry Augustus Willard, o