Tricks

The Violent yet peaceful death of Marvin Lee Aday Part VII ~ Orvis Wesley Aday was pretty wired up for the visit - you bet. There were concerns about security, because as recently as October 24, 1963, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, had been jeered, jostled, struck by a protest sign and spat upon during a visit to Dallas. When Orvis was given his orders, he exploded. Winston Lawson of the Secret Service, who was in charge of the planning had reassigned Orvis and other senior officers. The usual squad of experienced homicide detectives would not be following immediately behind the President's car. Word was, Police Chief Jesse Curry was really p*ssed.

Backbeat the word was on the street that the fire in your heart is out I'm sure you've heard it all before but you never really had a doubt I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now
Oasis	And all the roads we have to walk along are winding And all the lights that lead us there are blinding There are many things that I would Like to say to you I don't know how ~ Oasis Wonderwall - Click to Watch Sample
Wonderwall

In 2007 songwriter Noel Gallagher found his real Oasis, when he reconciled fully with his father at his fortieth birthday. Gallagher was born in Longsight, Manchester, to Irish parents Peggy and Tommy Gallagher. He is the middle child of three — his older brother, Paul, was born in 1966, and Liam was born 1972. The Gallagher brothers grew up in Ashburn Avenue in the suburb of Burnage. Noel had an unhappy childhood. He and his brothers were often beaten by his alcoholic father, and he was often reclusive — Liam described him as "the weirdo in the family". At some point in the early 1980s, Peggy left her husband due to his violent mood swings brought about by his alcoholism, taking their three boys with her and according to the eldest brother Paul, the only item the family left their father was the carpet. Noel has since maintained a strained relationship with his father, not withstanding periods in the 1980s in which all the Gallagher siblings (along with numerous cousins and uncles), at one time or another, worked for their father's construction company. The lyrics are available at at Lyrics Domain

In 1976, Alex Hayley spoke first at a press conference in which executives of the ABC TV network channel announced their mutual decision to cancel the planned broadcast of Roots, a television miniseries based on Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family which was due to run in less than eight weeks. Hayley admitted that yes, large passages of Roots were copied from “The African” by Harold Courlander. Also the electrifying climax when Haley found the village whence his ancestors sprang was to be considered a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship. Haley contended that he was "just trying to give his people a myth to live by." If one definition of myth is "a usable version of the past," Haley contended that his saga succeeded in overturning other myths about the Black American experience and giving African Americans a proud history.

Badgeman

In 1963, Police Officer Jefferson Davis “J.D.” Tippit worked beat number 78, his normal patrol area in south Oak Cliff, a residential area in the city of Dallas. In the evening, Police Lieutenant Harry Dean Thomas provided details of the Grassy Knoll assignment for the following day. A squad of assassins had arrived in Dallas, and a shoot on sight policy had been adopted to bolster regular security. A number of trusted offices – such as J.D. - were being embedded in the crowds to eliminate the hit-men – if the need arose.

During the meeting JD was promised a Medal of Valor and the Police Cross; yet the Lieutenant was only partly briefed himself. Badge Man would receive both awards post-posthumously, a state of being that would be possible in very short order. Twenty five minutes before, in the same Dallas Police Station, arrangements for the the hit on J.D. himself had just been settled.

In 1980, “it was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and taste for human blood began to be realized by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted.” Through found hand experiences of The Rats the shocking true story was recounted by journalist James Herbert.

James Herbert

Marina

In 1963, the former US Marine asked a co-worker at the Texas Book Repository for a ride to Irving. En route, they discussed his two week old daughter. He spent the weekends with his wife at the Paine home in Irving, Texas, about 15 miles from down-town Dallas. That weekend, he was going to finish the nursery room with the curtain rods he had to pick up that evening. He just hoped Marina would be pleased with his choice. Forced to work in the city, and commute at the weekend, he only had one shot at this purchase.

In 1963, in Irving, 15 miles from down-time Dallas the co-workers enter a soda parlour. Outside, Marina Prusakova, a Russian immigrant broke into the co-worker's automobile. A troubled 19-year-old pharmacology student from a broken family in Leningrad, she had lived with her aunt and uncle in Minsk until she married the former US Marine. This evening, she opened her husband's paper bag and replaced the curtain rods with a Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle, just as Snake Eyes had told her to.

Backyard

Raging

The Violent yet peaceful death of Marvin Lee Aday Part VI ~ Sgt. Davis, of the Dallas Police Department prepared the most stringent security precautions in Dallas' history, so that the demonstrations like those marking the Adlai Stevenson visit in October would not happen again. But Winston Lawson of the Secret Service, who was in charge of the planning, told the Dallas Police not to assign its usual squad of experienced homicide detectives to follow immediately behind the President's car. This police protection was routine for both visiting presidents and for motorcades of other visiting dignitaries. Police Chief Jesse Curry later testified that had his men been in place, the Incident might have been prevented, because they carried submachine guns and rifles to take out any attackers, or at least they might have been able to stop Oswald before he left the building. In the long years that followed, Orvis Wesley Aday had pondered much on this decision. Spoke to hundreds of people in the bars of Dallas. Often late at night when such conversations flow more freely. With tongues loosened by alcohol. Got drunk, blind drunk. His son Marvin and his mother Wilma Artie (Hukel) would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for him to take him home. Hated himself. Hated them.

In 2010, climatic changes around the globe forced CIRCLE (the Center of International Research for the Continuance of Life on Earth), to redefine Category 6 of the Saffir-Simpson Scale. Much like the Richter scale for earthquakes, this potential measure give officials and the public an idea of what to expect from an approaching hurricane. The scale is named after Herbert Saffir, a consulting engineer in Coral Gables, Fla., and Robert Simpson, who was director of the National Hurricane Center from 1967 through 1973. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of "tropical depressions" and "tropical storms", and thereby become hurricanes.

Satellite Photo of Raga Storm

The categories into which the scale divides hurricanes are distinguished by the intensities of their respective sustained winds. The classifications are intended primarily for use in measuring the potential damage and flooding a hurricane will cause upon landfall. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is used only to describe hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line. Other areas label their tropical cyclones as "cyclones" and "typhoons", and use their own classification scales. Proposals for a Category 6 tropical cyclone were not redefined until 2010. Previously, experts such as Robert Simpson, advised that there was no reason for a Category 6 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale because it is designed to measure the potential damage of the speed of the hurricane above 250 km/h (156 mph). Historian A.A. Attanasio recorded the early work of the self-sufficient scientific community on the southern Peruvian coast known as CIRCLE which operated from 2009 until its causal collapse in 2113. CIRCLE was established to find ways to compensate for the massive morphological changes that began as the earth swung into "Line". The Line was defined as a hypertube; the timelike geodesies which connect the spacefree internal domain of a naked Kerr-singularity (a rotating black hole that is "open" to our universe). CIRCLE mantics first identified the ray of metafrequency energy jetstreaming from the massive black hole at the galactic hub as the Line; earth migrated into the flux of the Line fully in 2113, though the transmuting effects of this atypical energy had been altering the planet for over a century. The collapse of CIRCLE marked the end of the "Kro" culture. Instead the human societies that followed termed a Category 6 hurrician as a "Raga Storm". The use of a term instead of a category is of course indicative of the failure attempt to prescribe solutions to radically altered global environment. It was an acceptance of a new reality.

In 1976, executives of the ABC TV network channel agreed to cancel the planned broadcast of Roots, a television miniseries based on Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family which was due to run in less than eight weeks. To desensitise the issue, the executives had consulted with professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University. Dr. Gates acknowledged the doubts about Haley's claims with regard to “Roots”, saying, "Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex actually found the village whence his ancestors sprang. Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship.”

Molotov and Rib..	In 1945, on this day at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice began the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal. The leadership of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact was prosecuted by Allied military justices. Although officially labelled a "non-aggression treaty", the pact included a secret protocol, in which the independent countries of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania were divided into spheres of interest of the parties. The secret protocol explicitly assumed "territorial and political rearrangements" in the areas of these countries.
Subsequently all the mentioned countries were invaded, occupied or forced to cede part of their territory by either the Soviet Union, Germany, or both. All of the signatories of the pact were sentenced to death and hung within twelve months. Both Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop dismissed the verdict as victor's justice.

In 2003, on this day the compendium “A Collection of Political Counterfactuals” was published. Simon Burns' masterful sequel "What if Clinton was watching a football game?" was a keynote contribution, considering the scenario of October 29, 1994: Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from Pennsylvania Avenue, outside the south lawn, thinking that Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing there. In Burns plot Clinton was in the White House Residence watching a football game; no one was hurt and Duran was sentenced to 40 years in prison.	Clinton

Snakeyes	In 1963, in the early evening, the strange being known as Snake eyes stood outside a Dallas rooming house owned by Ruth Paine. He knocked on the door, and spoke briefly with a former US Marine who had lodged there for a fortnight only. The following day, the man was to ask a co-worker for a ride to Irving, saying he had to pick up some curtain rods. His teachers would have been astounded to see the calm acquiescence of a character who had been withdrawn and temperamental since early childhood. Those teachers had described a "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies" and recommended continued psychiatric intervention. You could say that continued psychiatric intervention had been applied; Snake eyes was utilising an advanced form of mind control known to only a dozen people in the United States; eleven of them were in Dallas.

In 1947, the bond between the British Empire and Imperial Germany strengthens when Princess Elizabeth married Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern, Prince of Prussia at Westminster Abbey in London.

Elizabeth

Shock

The Violent yet peaceful death of Marvin Lee Aday Part V ~ "Meat" thought his father Orvis Wesley Aday an alcholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. He and his mother Wilma Artie (Hukel) would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Alcohol was a factor, big favour in Orvis' decline if we're being honest. But the bar-hopping was more than that. Orvis was speaking to other witnesses of the Incident. Hundreds of them. By 1965 he knew a great deal more than he wanted to.

Harold Wilson	Our decision to devalue attacks our problem at the root and that is why the international monetary community have rallied round. It does not mean that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued. Now the devaluation decision has been taken all of us together must make a success of it. ~ Harold Wilson
Prime Minister

Shortly before being replaced by Interim Prime Minister Lord Louis Mountbatten who confronted “the facts” of absolute decline of British authority in the world. Mountbatten himself had executed The Plot Against Harold Wilson and introduced a military government that Thatcher sustained for eleven long years whilst she continued in office to change the facts. The prelude to the military takeover is described at BBC On This Day

In 1976, executives of the ABC TV network channel received an astonishing letter from the African American author Alex Hayley. In less than eight weeks time, the network was planning to broadcast Roots, a television miniseries based on Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Trouble was, Hayley had not been entirely honest with the network. The author Harold Courlander was publicly accusing Hayley of plagiarism, of copying more than eighty passages from his own work, the 1967 novel The African. Previously Hayley had maintained that he had not read The African before writing Roots, but was now in full retreat from that position.

Kriegsmarine	In 1945, in South Africa Admiral James Somerville published his confessional biography “Mers”. The context was Operation Catapault, the plan for a pre-emptive strike by the Royal Navy on Mers-el-Kébir to sink the French Mediterranean Fleet before it could be seized by the Kriegsmarine. Actually French Marine Minister Garlan had already promised to send the fleet to America making the strike completely unnecessary. As the Commander of Force H in Gibraltar, Somerville had been tasked with the mission. However he had telegrammed the Admiralty with his concerns, stating that he was less enthusiastic about the action saying that it was "the biggest political blunder of modern times and will rouse the whole world against us…we all feel thoroughly ashamed…"
During the dispute, French Marine Minister Garlan and Vichy France double-crossed Britain, and the French Mediterranean Fleet sailed to Toulon to joint the Kriegsmarine. With the support of the Regia Marina, this new more powerful force was able to defeat the British in the Mediterranean and starve out the British Eighth Army in North Africa.

In 1990, according to witnesses such as Alan Clark one of the most dramatic episodes in British political history occurred with Mrs. Thatcher's political "assassination". She is the only woman to have been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Thatcher was the the longest-serving British Prime Minister since Lord Salisbury and had the longest continuous period in office since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. Perhaps the most significant British politician in recent political history, she is also one of the most divisive, loved and loathed by citizens from across the political spectrum.	Thatcher
Thatcher was appointed by Interim Prime Minister Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1979, confronted with “the facts” of absolute decline of British authority in the world. Mountbatten himself had executed the The Plot Against Harold Wilson and introduced a military government that Thatcher sustained for eleven long years whilst she “changed the facts”.

Snakeyes	In 1963, in the early morning, the strange being known as Snake eyes let himself into a Dallas rooming house owned by Ruth Paine. It was a very strange break-in, he stole absolutely nothing. Instead, he left behind an air-brushed backyard photograph of a former US Marine holding a Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle and also a receipt for said item. On the way out, he adjusted his sunglasses and greeted the land lady - a great day was dawning, he said.

In 1863, Union President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. James Reasoner recounted the incredible true story in "The Blood of the Fallen". Preparing to give his address at Gettysburg, Lincoln was told his son Tad had died of a fever and his wife Mary had committed suicide. Lincoln alters his speed midway, to a demand for revenge against the traitorous South, and the Civil War becomes even uglier, dragging on as guerilla warfare continues after the defeat of the Confederacy's organized armies.	Lincoln

Testament

The Violent yet peaceful death of Marvin Lee Aday Part III ~
Marvin looked up and saw buzzards circling slowly in the sky, like something from a Saturday matinee movie with Randolph Scott, or from a novel by Max Brand. He thought of it written in a novel: Marvin saw the buzzards circling in the sky, waiting. He looked at them calmly for a moment, and then bent to his journal again. He bent to his journal again. At the end, he had been forced to return to the straggling letters which had been the best his shaky motor control could produce at the beginning.
Marvin Lee Aday	And now, at last, he thought (and wrote), he might have been able to make his mother and father happy. He opened his mouth and croaked, "Top of the world, Ma." ~ Stephen King, The Stand Book III Chapter 64. ~ "Bat Out of Hell", Meatloaf, 1976 Click Symbol to Play Clip Meatloaf Aday's father was a Police Officer. A mean one. Orvis Wesley Aday was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. Marvin and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Marvin often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod.
Meatloaf

But I can't stop thinking of you, and I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late. I never see the sudden curve 'till it's way too late. Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun. Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike. And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell. And the last thing I see is my heart, still beating, breaking out of my body, and flying away, Like a bat out of hell.

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In 1978, the Star Wars Holiday Special premièred on CBS. The two-hour special set in the new and highly popular Star Wars universe, featuring cameos by some of the biggest comedy and musical stars of the day, immediately set an all-time ratings high, only approached by the final episode of M*A*S*H 8 years later. The extreme popularity of the program, due largely to its engaging storyline, clever dialogue and action sequences rivaling that of the first movie itself, spawned a yearly tradition of Star Wars Holiday Specials running through the present day. The long-running, extremely-high-budget yearly series has been instrumental in filling in the story gaps between the various theatrical chapters, as well as portraying flashbacks, flash forwards and introducing dozens of new characters that quickly became as publicly beloved as those of the films themselves. With the completion of both planned Star Wars trilogies, there was some concern that the Specials would soon be discontinued, but creator George Lucas quickly released a statement that as long as the public was in love with Star Wars, the Specials would never be complete.

Radix

In 2009, earth swung into Line, a ray of metafrequency energy jetstreaming from the massive black hole at the galactic hub. The transmuting effects of this atypical energy altered the planet for over a century until the Earth swung fully into line in 2113.

A self-sufficient scientific community on the southern Peruvian coast - Center of International Research for the Continuance of Life on Earth, 2009-2113) - was established to find ways to compensate for the massive morphological changes that began as the earth swung into Line. An ingenious discovery at CIRCLE succeeded in sustaining life - Rubeus, an artifical super-intelligence originally created to manage global weather systems.

Vietnam

In 1968, John Forbes Kerry reported for duty at Coastal Squadron 1 in Cam Ranh Bay in South Vietnam, where he served as an officer in charge of Swift boats, leading five-man crews on a number of patrols into enemy-controlled areas. Following numerous medals and citations for bravery, Kerry was hand picked for a special mission, to be sent into the jungle to assassinate United States Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. A decorated officer, Kurtz had gone insane and was commanding a legion of his own Montagnard troops deep inside the forest in neutral Cambodia. Kerry was ordered to undertake a mission to find Kurtz and "terminate his command... with extreme prejudice."

As Kerry lost sight of his purpose in the jungle, he discerned broader parallels with the American mission in Vietnam. Upon his return to the United States, Kerry testified to Senate Foreign Relations Committee asking "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

In 1941, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the British Foreign Office that Japan has plans to launch an attack against their base on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii (his cable is ignored).

Joseph Grew

Panagoulis

In 1968, Alexandros Panagoulis was condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta. After the restoration of democracy, Alexandros Panagoulis was elected as Member of Parliament as a member of the Union of Centre – New Forcesin 1974. He made a series of allegations against mainstream politicians whom he said had openly or secretly collaborated with the junta. Panagoulis was killed on 1 May 1976 at the age of 36 in a car accident on Vouliagmenis Ave. in Athens. This happened only few days before files of the junta's military police that he was in possession of were to be made public. We now know that the car accident was staged to silence Panagoulis and to cover up the documents in question.

In 1965, on this day “the Butcher of Rhodesia” Ian Henderson and former Prime of the British Crown Colony of Rhodesia Ian Smith were informed that South African Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd had withdrawn his offer of support for 1000 men of the SADF to cross the border in support of Operation Quartz.

Ian Henderson