#December 1967

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Mother of Voices, Vol.1-Issue 2, Dec. 1-14, '67

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Harper's Bazaar December 1967

American actress Sharon Tate wears a tight white swimsuit with virtually no sides or back. By Cole of California, in Fortrel knit by Waumbec. Jewelry of Sant Angelo. Halston Hat from Bergdorf Goodman.

L'actrice américaine Sharon Tate porte un maillot blanc moulant, pratiquement sans côtés ni dos. Par Cole of California, en tricot Fortrel par Waumbec. Bijoux de Sant Angelo. Chapeau de Halston de Bergdorf Goodman.

Photo Otto Stupakoff

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Susan Bottomly at the **** Premiere. Dec 16 1967.

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Alberto Vargas - December 1967 Playboy Magazine Vargas Girl Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection - "This year I've decided to give something that will eliminate all the tiresome shopping."

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On the 35th anniversary of The École Polytechnique massacre never forget the 14 women who were killed for being women in science

The École Polytechnique massacre (French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique), also known as the Montreal massacre, was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured.

Perpetrator Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle and hunting knife, entered a mechanical engineering class at the École Polytechnique. He ordered the women to one side of the classroom, and instructed the men to leave. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism", he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. The shooter then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women, for just under 20 minutes. He killed eight more women before ending his own life. In total, 14 women were killed, and 14 others were injured.

The massacre is now widely regarded as an anti-feminist attack and representative of wider societal violence against women; the anniversary of the massacre is commemorated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. After the attack, Canadians debated various interpretations of the events, their significance, and the shooter's motives. Other interpretations emphasized the shooter's abuse as a child or suggested that the massacre was the isolated act of a madman, unrelated to larger social issues

The incident led to more stringent gun control laws in Canada, and increased action to end violence against women. It also resulted in changes in emergency services protocols to shootings, including immediate, active intervention by police. These changes were later credited with minimizing casualties during incidents in Montreal and elsewhere. The massacre remained the deadliest mass shooting in Canada until the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks over 30 years later.[4]

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Timeline

Sometime after 4 p.m. on December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine arrived at the building housing the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, armed with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife.[5] He had purchased the gun less than a month earlier on November 21 in a Checkmate Sports store in Montreal. He had told the clerk that he was going to use it to hunt small game.[6] He had been in and around the École Polytechnique building at least seven times in the weeks leading up to December 6.[5]

The perpetrator first sat in the office of the registrar on the second floor for a while, where he was seen rummaging through a plastic bag. He did not speak to anyone, even when a staff member asked if she could help him.[2] He then left the office and was seen in other parts of the building before entering a second-floor mechanical engineering class of about sixty students at about 5:10 p.m.[7] After approaching the student giving a presentation, he asked everyone to stop everything and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. No one moved at first, believing it to be a joke until he fired a shot into the ceiling.[8][9]

Lépine then separated the nine women from the approximately fifty men and ordered the men to leave.[10][9] He asked the women whether they knew why they were there; instead of replying, a student asked who he was. He answered that he was fighting feminism.[9][11] One of the students, Nathalie Provost, protested that they were women studying engineering, not feminists fighting against men or marching to prove that they were better. He responded by opening fire on the students from left to right, killing six—Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, and Annie St-Arneault—and wounding three others, including Provost.[9][11] Before leaving the room, he wrote the word "shit" twice on a student project.[10]

The gunman continued into the second-floor corridor and wounded three students before entering another room where he twice attempted to shoot a female student. When his weapon failed to fire, he entered the emergency staircase where he was seen reloading his gun. He returned to the room he had just left, but the students had locked the door; he failed to unlock it with three shots fired into the door. Moving along the corridor, he shot at others, wounding one, before moving towards the financial services office, where he shot and killed Maryse Laganière through the window of the door she had just locked.[12][11]

The perpetrator next went down to the first-floor cafeteria, in which about 100 people were gathered. He shot nursing student Barbara Maria Klucznick near the kitchens and wounded another student, and the crowd scattered. Entering an unlocked storage area at the end of the cafeteria, the gunman shot and killed Anne-Marie Edward and Geneviève Bergeron, who were hiding there. He told a male and female student to come out from under a table; they complied and were not shot.[13]: 30 [11]

The shooter then walked up an escalator to the third floor where he shot and wounded one female and two male students in the corridor. He entered another classroom and told the men to "get out", shooting and wounding Maryse Leclair, who was standing on the low platform at the front of the classroom, giving a presentation.[13]: 26–27  He fired on students in the front row and then killed Maud Haviernick and Michèle Richard who were trying to escape the room, while other students dived under their desks.[11][13]: 30–31  The killer moved towards some of the female students, wounding three of them and killing Annie Turcotte. He changed the magazine in his weapon and moved to the front of the class, shooting in all directions. At this point, the wounded Leclair asked for help; the gunman unsheathed his hunting knife and stabbed her three times, killing her. He took off his cap, wrapped his coat around his rifle, exclaimed, "Oh shit", and then killed himself with a shot to the head, 20 minutes after having begun his attack.[14][13]: 31–32  About 60 unfired cartridges remained in the boxes he carried with him.[14][13]: 26–27 

After briefing reporters outside, Montreal Police director of public relations Pierre Leclair entered the building and found his daughter Maryse's stabbed body.[15][16]

The Quebec and Montreal governments declared three days of mourning.[15] A joint funeral for nine of the women was held at Notre-Dame Basilica on December 11, 1989, and was attended by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Quebec premier Robert Bourassa, and Montreal mayor Jean Doré, along with thousands of other mourners.

The Victims

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student

Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student

Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student

Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student

Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department

Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student

Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student

Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student

Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student

Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

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Congrats, you have earned the honor of your own Shire emojis 🫘🫘.

It must be a great feeling to have Mordor fan blogs.

Moi? 🙊 Wow… thanks for spilling the beans, Anon. 😃

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Remember… this too shall pass.

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One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Taming of the Shrew / Costume for Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina Minola(?)

I'm tremendously curious about this gown. It appeared in an exhibit titled "Glamour: Famous Gowns of the Silver Screen" in Finland in 2020. FrockFlicks did a a fine writeup of the exhibit in which they dubbed this the "unicorn dress." But it doesn't appear in the actual film!

It looks like an alternate version of the wedding dress, possibly intended to make Katharina match more closely with Petruchio's outlandish multicolored costume--but that's just a guess. If it wasn't used, why was it constructed? And was it designed by Irene Sharaff, who did Elizabeth Taylor's other gowns for this film, or by Danilo Donati, who designed everyone else's costumes?

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27 December 1967

Paul McCartney goes on David Frost to explain that the reason people don't see a point to Magical Mystery Tour is that it doesn't have a point. On purpose.

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Sharon Tate by William Helburn

- Esquire Magazine, December 1967

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“SPACECRAFT TUMBLE--Apollo 4 spacecraft command module receives final tumbling test in world’s largest clean room at North American Aviation’s Space Division, Downey, Calif., as part of last-minute inspection procedure of structure before shipment to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Apollo 4 will be launched late this fall to gather additional spacecraft data on high heat rate entry of command module while simulating lunar reentry velocities of almost 25,000 miles per hour and 4,500 degree temperatures.”

Date: December 1966-January 1967

NAA publicity photo: 102067-A-117

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Doctor Who episodes that aired on the 2nd of December…

In 1967, The Ice Warriors Four

In 1978, The Androids of Tara Part Two

In 2018, It Takes You Away

In 2023, Wild Blue Yonder

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Susan Bottomly at the **** Premiere. Dec 16 1967.

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mclennon 70s/80s fix-it fic superiority

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Dean Martin, his son Dean Paul Martin, Frank Sinatra Jr, and Frank Sinatra Sr on The Dean Martin Show Christmas Special - December 21, 1967

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December 10, 1967 - Press photo caption: Beatle Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Jane Asher sat watching T.V. in a Glasgow hotel on Sunday (10-12-67)🌺

They are on their way to spend a week's holiday at Paul's farm near Campbelltown, Argyll. They are taking their Old English sheepdog Martha with them. But trouble with the fan belt and heater of Paul's car meant they had to break their journey from Liverpool. When they arrived unannounced at the hotel, receptionist 17-year-old Elspeth Burns - a Beatle fan - was so excited she could hardly speak. The manager, Tony Baraglia, 25, said, "The receptionist could only gasp 'Paul McCartney's out there. He's got a dog. Can he take him?' We don't normally take dogs but the hotel is quiet and we wouldn't have refused Paul anyway." Photo from an ebay auction listing sample scan. From the 16 Magazine archives, published in 1968🍀

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