Tag: American Civil War

• The Broderick-Terry duel of 1859, the last notable duel in California.

  

  The duel between US Senator David Broderick and David Terry, former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court is a rollicking tale of friendship-turned-feud; politics, pistols, slavery and slander. Their duel on 13 September 1859 would have made a terrific historical novel or movie and still might. Duels over political disagreements, personal enmity and often…

  CrimeScribe

  September 13, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• Famous (and not so famous) Last Words.

  

  A person’s last words are often revealing, telling us something about them and their outlook on the life. Coming, as they do, right before that person’s death, it often doesn’t really matter to that person what they say or how it’s interpreted afterwards. From the intentionally funny (gangster George Appel), to the philosophical (spy Mata…

  CrimeScribe

  October 24, 2014

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• On This Day in 1865: The Last Stand of John Wilkes Booth

  John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.   John Wilkes Booth was born into one of America’s most distinguished acting dynasties. He died one of America’s most notorious figures and its first Presidential assassin. On the evening of April 14, 1865, not long after the final surrender of Confederate forces that effectively ended the…

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  April 26, 2014

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