Daily News (New York) dated Tuesday January 17th
1978
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Following the Watergate Scandal and his
resignation, Richard Nixon left Washington in disgrace in August 1974 and faced
the possibility of criminal charges, but in September of that year his
successor Gerald Ford issued a Presidential pardon. Hubert Humphrey’s funeral
was Nixon’s first time back in Washington.
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Despite being 11 degrees of latitude further
south than London, New York has a far greater variation in weather – from
stifling heat waves in summer to snow bound winters. The Guardian newspaper in
the UK used be ridiculed for it’s frequent typographical errors, but I don’t
think I have seen so many typos in one article as in the above.
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Hubert Humphrey was the US Vice-President under Lyndon B.
Johnson from 1965 to 1969, and ran for President in 1968 but lost to Richard
Nixon.
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The Anglo-French supersonic passenger airliner Concorde went
into service in 1976 on the London to Bahrain route. Landing in the USA was
banned except for Washington Airport until February 1977, but New York refused
to allow Concorde into JFK until November 1977.
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Presumably the accusations against Michael Kan of stealing
from the Brooklyn Museum came to nought because in 1996 Kan was still at the
Detroit Institute of Art, which he had moved to 2 years before this case, and
was chairing the Selection Committee for an Exhibition at the Guggenheim
Museum.
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Ex-New York Police Officer Thomas Ryan was
convicted of criminally negligent homicide for the beating death of Israel
Rodriguez in July 1975. Despite attempts by several jurors to change their verdict,
Ryan was sentenced to 4 years at this hearing in January 1978.
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The politically right wing, anti-communist, pro
Iraqi War, anti-Gay, Christian, anti- Barack Obama singer Pat Boone had 12 top
ten hits between 1955 and 1962 in the UK.
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In December 1969 Joseph Yablonski, his wife and their
daughter were murdered by gunmen hired by William Anthony ‘Tony’ Doyle whom
Joseph had challenged for the leadership of the United Mine Workers of America
union. In 1973 Doyle was convicted of arranging the murders and sentenced to 3
life terms but in 1977 his conviction was overturned and a new trial was set.
In
February 1978 he was again found guilty and died in prison in 1985 at the age
of 80.
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Of the black Astronauts named all 3 went into Space, Guion
Bluford being the first in 1983. Ronald McNair had one mission in the Space
Shuttle in 1984 but was killed in the Challenger disaster in 1986.
All
the women astronauts mentioned had Space flights. Sally Ride was the first US
woman in Space and Kathryn Sullivan was the first woman to partake in a Space
Walk. Judith Resnik also died in the Challenger disaster.
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The Pat Buchanan referred to in this letter was the American
conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician,
and broadcaster of whom Richard Nixon said that he was neither a racist nor an
anti-Semite nor a bigot or "hater," but a "decent, patriotic
American." He was also accused of Holocaust denial and having affiliations
with White supremacists.
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Created by Jeff MacNelly in 1977, the cartoon strip ‘Shoe’ is
about a group of newspapermen who happen to be birds. The editor P. Martin
"Shoe" Shoemaker is a cigar-chomping martin. A recurring character is
the aptly named Senator Batson D. Belfry. MacNelly died in 2000 but the strip
has been continued by his wife Susie and others.
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