The Saturday Night Massacre and Watergate

For the second straight day, 1973 was a critical year in US history. October 20 marks the anniversary of the event in the Watergate Crisis known as the Saturday Night Massacre. The Saturday Night Massacre involved president Richard Nixon ordering Attorney General Elliot Richardson and then Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald […]

The Martin Luther King Holiday

For those of us who remember personally or have read and studied about Dr. King’s life and legacy, it is an amazing story of American courage and perseverance. It is fitting, perhaps, that the story of why we have a Martin Luther King holiday dedicated to his memory is also a story worth telling. Congress […]