A chilling murder. Pinkerton guards. Wild rumors. A post-conviction confession. State Supreme Court appeals. One story that unfolded in Warren in 1911 and 1912 has all of that. I was researching something else (honestly forget what that was) and was surprised by the headlines, the ...
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan.” The Warren Times Mirror ran the entirety of that speech in the Dec. 8 edition, which, outside of the ...
The Allies winning the war in Europe answered many questions about the future of the continent. The idea of Hitler’s thousand year reich was in tatters. But there were just as many unanswered questions that remained on the table. Amid the human destruction, economic devastation and a ...
Perhaps no single word captures the horror of the Holocaust more than “Auschwitz.” About 1.3 million people were deported to the complex actually made up of several different camps between 1940 and 1945. Approximately 1.1 million were murdered. Nearly one million of that total were ...
As Allied armies —American, British and Canadian from the west and Soviet from the east —pushed German forces out of the conquered territories, the extent of Nazi atrocities started to become much more widely known. No longer did reporters and correspondents have to speculate about what ...
Through the rest of World War II, tidbits and fragmented reports emerged from behind the Nazi curtain about what was happening to ‘undesirables’ under German rule. Persecution of those elements of society, as we’ve seen, was widely reported in generalities and, at times, in detail up ...
