#Winthrop Rockefeller

[politicaldilfs]

Arkansas Governor DILFs

Bill Clinton, Dale Bumpers, Asa Hutchinson, Junius Marion Futrell, Mike Beebe, Ben Laney, Winthrop Rockefeller, Joseph Taylor Robinson, Jim Guy Tucker, Carl E. Bailey, Sid McMath, Orval Faubus, Bob C. Riley, Augustus H. Garland, Homer Martin Adkins, David Pryor, Francis Cherry, and T.J. Terrell

Sorry not that into Mike Huckabee....

[kaijuno]

In light of Fall Out Boy’s GARBAGE cover of the song. Let’s learn about the original. Notice how they’re actually in chronological order instead of just random references 😒😒😒😒

1949

Harry Truman was inaugurated as U.S. president after being elected in 1948 to his own term; previously he was sworn in following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively.

Doris Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours and It’s a Great Feeling as well as popular songs like “It’s Magic”; divorces her second husband.

Red China: The Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People’s Republic of China.

Johnnie Ray signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records, although he would not become popular for another two years.

South Pacific, the prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7.

Walter Winchell is an aggressive radio and newspaper journalist credited with inventing the gossip column.

Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them.

1950

Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech.

Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate.

Studebaker, a popular car company, begins its financial downfall.

Television is becoming widespread throughout Europe and North America.

North Korea and South Korea declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25.

Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused respectfully. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggio (mentioned in the previous verse).

1951

The Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius, were convicted on March 29 for espionage.

H-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.

Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion welterweight boxer.

Panmunjom, the border village in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean War.

Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The King and I, musical, opens on Broadway on March 29.

The Catcher in the Rye, a controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published.

1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.

The vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.

England’s got a new queen: Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne upon the death of her father, George VI, and is crowned the next year.

Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world Heavyweight champion.

Liberace has a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment.

Santayana goodbye: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26.

1953

Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.

Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months following his death. Malenkov had presided over Stalin’s purges of party “enemies”, but would be spared a similar fate by Nikita Khrushchev mentioned later in verse.

Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib’s minister of the interior.

Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies on March 5, the same day as Stalin.

Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million settlement.

Roy Campanella, an African-American baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, receives the National League’s Most Valuable Player award for the second time.

Communist bloc is a group of communist nations dominated by the Soviet Union at this time. Probably a reference to the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.

1954

Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs, mentioned earlier.

Juan Perón spends his last full year as President of Argentina before a September 1955 coup.

Arturo Toscanini is at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on national radio.

Dacron is an early artificial fiber made from the same plastic as polyester.

Dien Bien Phu falls. A village in North Vietnam falls to Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap, leading to the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam as separate states.

“Rock Around the Clock” is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.

1955

Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.

James Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and dies in a car accident on September 30 at the age of 24.

Brooklyn’s got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time before their move to Los Angeles.

Davy Crockett is a Disney television miniseries about the legendary frontiersman of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived “coonskin cap” craze.

Peter Pan is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. Disney released an animated version the previous year.

Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career.

Disneyland opens on July 17, 1955 as Walt Disney’s first theme park.

1956

Brigitte Bardot appears in her first mainstream film And God Created Woman and establishes an international reputation as a French “sex kitten”.

Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently.

Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin’s “cult of personality” on February 25.

Princess Grace Kelly releases her last film, High Society, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Peyton Place, the best-selling novel by Grace Metalious, is published. Though mild compared to today’s prime time, it shocked the reserved values of the 1950s.

Trouble in the Suez: The Suez Crisis boils as Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal on October 29.

1957

Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor Orval Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st Airborne Division to counteract him.

Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his famous novel Doctor Zhivago.

Mickey Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.

Jack Kerouac publishes his first novel in seven years, On the Road.

Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, marking the start of the space race.

Chou En-Lai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, survives an assassination attempt on the charter airliner Kashmir Princess.

Bridge on the River Kwai is released as a film adaptation of the 1954 novel and receives seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

1958

Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.

Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the Algerian Crisis.

California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. They are the first major league teams west of Kansas City.

Charles Starkweather Homicide captures the attention of Americans, in which he kills eleven people between January 25 and 29 before being caught in a massive manhunt in Douglas, Wyoming.

Children of Thalidomide: Mothers taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital birth defects caused by the sleeping aid and antiemetic, which was also used at times to treat morning sickness.

1959

Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. Joel prefaces the lyric with a Holly signature vocal hiccup: “Uh-huh, uh-huh.”

Ben-Hur, a film based around the New Testament starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.

The Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin.

Hula hoops reach 100 million in sales as the latest toy fad.

Fidel Castro comes to power after a revolution in Cuba and visits the United States later that year on an unofficial twelve-day tour.

Edsel is a no-go: Production of this car marque ends after only three years due to poor sales.

1960

U-2: An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960.

Syngman Rhee was rescued by the CIA after being forced to resign as leader of South Korea for allegedly fixing an election and embezzling more than US $20 million.

Payola, illegal payments for radio broadcasting of songs, was publicized due to Dick Clark’s testimony before Congress and Alan Freed’s public disgrace.

John F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon in the November 8 general election.

Chubby Checker popularizes the dance The Twist with his cover of the song of the same name.

Psycho: An Alfred Hitchcock thriller, based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and adapted by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism. The screeching violins heard briefly in the background of the song are a trademark of the film’s soundtrack.

Belgians in the Congo: The Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) was declared independent of Belgium on June 30, with Joseph Kasavubu as President and Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister.

1961

Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression.

Adolf Eichmann, a “most wanted” Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and captured by Mossad agents. He is covertly taken to Israel where he is put on trial for crimes against humanityin Germany during World War II, convicted, and hanged.

Stranger in a Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.

Bob Dylan is signed to Columbia Records after a New York Times review by critic Robert Shelton.

Berlin is separated into West Berlin and East Berlin, and from the rest of East Germany, when the Berlin Wall is erected on August 13 to prevent citizens escaping to the West.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion fails, an attempt by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.

1962

Lawrence of Arabia: The Academy Award-winning film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence starring Peter O’Toole premieres in America on December 16.

British Beatlemania: The Beatles, a British rock group, gain Ringo Starr as drummer and Brian Epstein as manager, and join the EMI’s Parlophone label. They soon become the world’s most famous rock band, with the word “Beatlemania” adopted by the press for their fans’ unprecedented enthusiasm. It also began the British Invasion in the United States.

Ole’ Miss: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi

John Glenn: Flew the first American manned orbital mission termed “Friendship 7” on February 20.

Liston beats Patterson: Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fight for the world heavyweight championship on September 25, ending in a first-round knockout. This match marked the first time Patterson had ever been knocked out and one of only eight losses in his 20-year professional career.

1963

Pope Paul VI: Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the papacy and takes the papal name of Paul VI.

Malcolm X makes his infamous statement “The chickens have come home to roost” about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him.

British politician sex: The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, has a relationship with a showgirl, and then lies when questioned about it before the House of Commons. When the truth came out, it led to his own resignation and undermined the credibility of the Prime Minister.

JFK blown away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas.

1965

Birth control: In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as “the pill”, first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.

Ho Chi Minh: A Vietnamese communist, who served as President of Vietnam from 1954–1969. March 2 Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply line from North Vietnam to the Vietcong rebels in the south. On March 8, the first U.S. combat troops, 3,500 marines, land in South Vietnam.

1968

Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected President in 1968.

1969

Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon.

Woodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement.

1974–75

Watergate: Political scandal that began when the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC was broken into. After the break-in, word began to spread that President Richard Nixon (a Republican) may have known about the break-in, and tried to cover it up. The scandal would ultimately result in the resignation of President Nixon, and to date, this remains the only time that anyone has ever resigned the United States Presidency.

Punk rock: The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era.

1976–77

(An item from 1977 comes before three items from 1976 to make the song scan.)

Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel in 1977 and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt’s president in 1978.

Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States in 1980, but he first attempted to run for the position in 1976.

Palestine: a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state and to end the Israeli occupation.

Terror on the airline: Numerous aircraft hijackings take place, specifically, the Palestinian hijack of Air France Flight 139 and the subsequent Operation Entebbe in Uganda.

1979

Ayatollah’s in Iran: During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the West-backed and secular Shah is overthrown as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gains power after years in exile and forces Islamic law.

Russians in Afghanistan: Following their move into Afghanistan, Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989.

1983

Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV’s highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.

Sally Ride: In 1983 she becomes the first American woman in space. Ride’s quip from space “Better than an E-ticket”, harkens back to the opening of Disneyland mentioned earlier, with the E-ticket purchase needed for the best rides.

Heavy metal suicide: In the 1980s Ozzy Osbourne and the bands Judas Priest and Metallica were brought to court by parents who accused the musicians of hiding subliminal pro-suicide messages in their music.

Foreign debts: Persistent U.S. trade deficits

Homeless vets: Veterans of the Vietnam War, including many disabled ex-military, are reported to be left homeless and impoverished.

AIDS: A collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.

Crack cocaine use surged in the mid-to-late 1980s.

1984

Bernie Goetz: On December 22, Goetz shot four young men who he said were threatening him on a New York City subway. Goetz was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.

1988

Hypodermics on the shore: Medical waste was found washed up on beaches in New Jersey after being illegally dumped at sea. Before this event, waste dumped in the oceans was an “out of sight, out of mind” affair. This has been cited as one of the crucial turning points in popular opinion on environmentalism.

1989

China’s under martial law: On May 20, China declares martial law, enabling them to use force of arms against protesting students to end the Tiananmen Square protests.

Rock-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music stars to reach the teenage and young adult demographic.

Short summaries of all 119 references mentioned in the song, you’re welcome.

[lboogie1906]

Ozell Sutton (December 13, 1925 – December 19, 2015) was among the first African Americans to serve in the Marine Corps.

He was born just outside the town of Gould, Lincoln County, Arkansas. His family moved to Little Rock and he graduated from Dunbar High School. He received his BA from Philander Smith College. He worked at the Arkansas Democrat newspaper. He served as one of the escorts for the Little Rock Nine. He became director of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations. He received an honorary doctorate from Philander Smith in recognition of his political activism in the civil rights movement.

He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the historic March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery marches, and was present at the Lorraine Motel the night King was assassinated.

He worked for Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller as the director of the Governor’s Council on Human Resources. He is a founding member of the executive board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He moved to Atlanta where he worked for the Department of Justice Community Relations Service.

He was the 26th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He was named one of the 100 most influential Black Americans by Ebony magazine.

He was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal from President Barack Obama for being among the first African Americans to serve in the Marine Corps. He was survived by his wife Joanna, 3 daughters, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

[the-new-mr-imagin8ion]

Try this on for size:

"And Bingo Was Her Name-O", but instead of Bingo, the dog's name is given as Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte-de-Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trapp Wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabbana von Zweiger II Montgomery de la Roche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Buren Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louise Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes Higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport Von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Lauder Hilton Dupont Kincaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks Van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Longbottom Nottingham Meisterburger Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis.

I estimate it would take about six days to sing through, nine if you stopped to eat and sleep

[shctupmeg]

Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabana Von Zweiger II Montgomery de LaRoche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Launder Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Boothbishop Longbottom Nottingham Meisterberg Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis

Did not recognize this as a family guy reference at first lol

[stuartbramhall]

The Rockefellers Created 990 “Climate Change” Institutions, Foundations, And Activist Groups

The five Rockefeller brothers. Left to right: David, Winthrop, John D Rockefeller III, Nelson and Laurance Posted By: Elizabeth Nickson via Substack   Canadian Journalist Elizabeth Nikson digs deeply into Jacob Nordangard’s epic book, Rockefeller: Controlling the Game.  Every scurrilous, freedom-sapping organization in America has been founded or funded by Rockefeller money. In 1973, with the…

[batmanschmatman]

tbh this is something I find really interesting about the hbowar fandom, the perception that Nix is extremely unusual for joining the Airborne as an ultra-rich guy, and sometimes for joining up at all. It's a very post-Vietnam mindset rearing its head because our world is just so fundamentally different, it's hard to imagine nepo babies getting excited to join up when the attitude towards military service is so wildly different than it was in the 40's.

Definitely not saying some wealthy folks didn't use their privilege to sit the war out or get jobs that were less dangerous, but it was social suicide for young, able bodied men to just fully sit the war out. and some wealthy guys absolutely did go out for the risky jobs. One of the reasons JFK ended up as a PT boat skipper was they were specifically recruiting guys with experience sailing yachts - not exactly a poor man's hobby, even in the 40's lol. There was some carry over in ability sailing a yacht and a PT boat, so the Navy figured it was better to get guys who knew how to do that well already to captain the boats. His older brother was a bomber pilot for the AAF - also not a safe job in the slightest - and was killed in a training accident.

All five Rockefeller brothers served in the war, with Winthrop enlisting as a private in the Army before the US entered the war, just like Nix. His younger brother David was an intelligence officer in North Africa and France, again similar to Nix. Wealthy folks were handy to have around in the war because they were often multilingual, making them useful for roles in intelligence, which was the case for David and Nix.

Web wasn't as super ultra wealthy as Nix, but his family still was in the same circles. Same for Sledge over in the PTO - his fam was very comfortably wealthy, but he and some of his buddies in the V-12 program chose to drop out to go for regular infantry because they were worried the war was going to end before they could get over there if they stuck with the program and graduated as officers. Dike's family also ran in similar social circles to the Nixons, and while in the show (and book) we're led to believe he's a cowardly asshole riding on wealth and connections to become the CO of Easy, in reality he actually had a Bronze Star from prior action and seemingly was a bad leader of Easy because of combat fatigue/personality not suiting a more broad combat leadership role vs. malicious incompetence.

Again, not trying to say every Vanderbilt-adjacent rich guy was eager to be in the first wave on Omaha Beach, but it's not really accurate either to make Nix into a super unusual case when there were plenty of rich guys in the service during the war at various levels and in various roles.

okay, but the one part of Band of Brothers I have beef with (even though it's a really fun line), is where Lewis Nixon says something akin to "I've seen the states- I grew up there- that's why I came to Europe- I just wish they had told me there was a war on"

Now, I don't think as a community we appreciated just HOW rich Lewis Nixon's family was.

Besides the fact that he grew up partially with the "old money" families of Europe and vacationed there mostly every summer with family (including the two months in the summer to Germany in 1934 when he was fifteen).

Nixon lived in New York City and Montecito, California (because his family was rich AF and his parents were already on the way to divorce); he traveled the world extensively, visiting Germany, France, and England. This is besides the fact I know for a fact they also had a residence in Palm Beach, Florida, aside from Nixon Nitration Works in New Jersey.

So in my head not to be a wet blanket I just like to imagine Nixon constantly downplaying how obnoxiously rich he is even to Dick Winters, but then doing things canonically and historically like BUYING HIM AN ENGRAVED KNIFE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT NORMAL NON-RICH PEOPLE DO NIX

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Baby #2,

We kicked off a two-day Comm Team leaders planning retreat this afternoon at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain. It's good to get away from the hustle and bustle of my daily grind, even if we're just creating more hustle and bustle down the road.

Dad.

Morrilton, Arkansas. 3.1.2021 - 6.10pm.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

Who would you put in an American statue garden? Assume no limit for how many

all the best presidents (i won't name them all but just to list a few: washington, adams, j. q. adams, jefferson, madison, monroe, fdr, teddy roosevelt, lincoln, etc), franklin, alexander hamilton, friedrich list, henry clay, henry carey, samuel adams, ethan allen, thomas young, john jay, james wilson, gouverneur morris, christopher columbus (tbh i'm tempted to include figures like leif erikson and prince madoc because even though they were never americans, like columbus, there is a mythopoetic/cultural value), lafayette, john winthrop, cotton mather, nathanael greene, friedrich wilhem von steuben, nathan hale, johnny appleseed, emperor norton, robert e. lee, william tecumseh sherman, daniel boone, lewis and clark, sacagawea, davy crockett, emerson, thoreau, walt whitman, longfellow, hilda doolittle, emily dickinson, nikola tesla, einstein, eli whitney, abigail adams, edgar allen poe, john brown, herman melville, butch cassidy, wyatt earp, doc holliday, wild bill hickok, sundance kid, john henry, andrew carnegie, nathaniel hawthorne, washington irving, horace mann, john dewey, wernher von braun, j. robert oppenheimer, john marshall, wiliam penn, junipero sera, john d. rockefeller, clara barton, fanny wright, thomas edison, alexandar graham bell, ezra pound, kerouac, william faulkner, steinbeck, hemingway, dolley madison, john muir, annie oakley, lovecraft, eleanor roosevelt, john browning, samuel colt, elvis presley, claude shannon, henry miller, kanye west, stanley kubrick, john von neumann, thorstein veblen, edward bellamy, henry ford, cornelius vanderbilt, betsy ross, black hawk, sitting bull, tecumseh, hart crane, h. l. mencken, tennessee williams, charles sanders peirce, william james, quine, hilary putnam, richard rorty, charles hartshorne, walt disney, mark twain, etc.

[rolloroberson]

Johnny Cash Singing At Cummins Prison in Arkansas

Johnny Cash, at microphone, puts on a show, circa April 10, 1969, for about 800 inmates at the Cummins Prison Farm and guests. He adapted his famous Folsom Prison Blues for the crowd, that included Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, and sang "I'm locked in Cummins Prison." Cash was made an honorary "life-termer."

Images provided by Al Clayton and Bettmann for Getty Images.

[saerdeves]

my child Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap Wykeham Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Disney Dolce Gabana Von Walmart II Montgomery de Volkswagen Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Dubble Bubble Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes Zuckerberg Winthrop Winfrey Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel 6 Fairchild Pritzker Davenport von Apple Monty Python Ellsworth Aston Martin Burns Quimby Scorpio Ziff Spongebob Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlboro Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chatsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Longbottom Bottomtooth Nottingham Bürgermeister Meisterburger Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis is no longer with us 🙁‼️

[claudiosuenaga]

De como Michael, filho caçula do ex-presidente dos Estados Unidos Nelson Rockefeller, foi devorado vivo por canibais

Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga

John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), o homem mais rico da história, fundador em 1870 da Standard Oil Company, o primeiro grande truste, foi o primeiro norte-americano a juntar mais de US$ 1 bilhão. Em 1937 sua fortuna com petróleo, bancos e indústrias chegou a US$ 1,4 bilhão, o que atualmente corresponde a cerca de US$ 664 bilhões. John D. teve cinco filhos: David, Nelson, Winthrop, Laurance e John D. III.

John Davison Rockefeller

A família Rockefeller (Michael está de pé, na extrema direita, e seu pai Nelson está sentado logo à frente). Keystone / Arquivo Hulton / Getty Imagens.

O sobrenome Rockefeller virou sinônimo de riqueza e opulência, de magnitude e poder, de dinastia perpétua e de cabala secreta, a invocar reverência e medo em todo o mundo. Ou melhor, em todo o mundo civilizado. Em novembro de 1961, o jovem etnógrafo Michael Clark Rockefeller, filho mais novo de Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979), então governador de Nova York (1959-1973) e futuro vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos (1974-1977), decidiu se aventurar em um dos poucos lugares onde sua fama e fortuna não significavam nada: Asmat, na costa sudoeste da Nova Guiné Holandesa, que agora faz parte da província indonésia de Papua.

Mapa da região de Asmat, na Nova Guiné Ocidental. Autor: Guilbert Gates.

Michael, colecionador de arte primitiva, foi ao encontro de um dos povos mais atrasados do planeta, os Asmat, que como descreveu o The Washington Post, eram “os últimos puros caçadores-coletores na Terra, sem culturas de cultivo de alimentos além do sagu que eles misturam com pedaços de qualquer peixe ou carne que possam matar.”

Formado com louvor na Universidade de Harvard, em 1960 Michael serviu por seis meses como soldado no Exército dos Estados Unidos, e no ano seguinte juntou-se à expedição do Museu Peabody de Arqueologia e Etnologia de Harvard para estudar a tribo Dani, povo das terras altas centrais do oeste da Nova Guiné Holandesa.

As viagens de Michael Rockefeller para a Nova Guiné acabaram por levá-lo além do alcance de sua afortunada família. Foto da Associated Press.

Como membro da expedição Harvard-Peabody, o antropólogo e documentarista norte-americano Robert Grosvenor Gardner (1925-2014) filmou os Dani do Vale do Rio Baliem e com base nesse material lançou em 1963 o documentário Dead Birds. “Pássaros mortos” são termos que os Dani usam para as armas e ornamentos retirados do inimigo durante a batalha. Esses troféus são exibidos durante a dança da vitória de dois dias depois que um inimigo é morto.

Robert Grosvenor Gardner

Michael e um amigo deixaram brevemente a expedição Harvard-Peabody para estudar a tribo Asmat, e depois de se juntarem novamente à expedição, Michael retornou à tribo Asmat para estudá-la melhor e recolher material etnográfico.

Em 17 de novembro de 1961, Michael Rockefeller e o antropólogo holandês René Sylvester Wassing (1927-2011), estavam em uma canoa de 12 metros a cerca de 3 milhas náuticas (6 quilômetros) da costa quando seu barco de pontão duplo foi inundado e virado. Seus dois guias locais nadaram para pedir ajuda, mas demoraram a chegar. Depois de dois dias à deriva, Rockefeller disse a Wassing: “Acho que consigo”. Ele então nadou para a costa. O barco estava a cerca de 12 milhas náuticas (22 km) da costa quando ele tentou nadar em segurança, no que supôs que ele teria morrido por exposição, exaustão ou afogamento.

Michael Rockefeller operando um barco a motor de popa. Foto da Associated Press.

René Sylvester Wassing

Wassing foi resgatado no dia seguinte, mas Rockefeller nunca mais foi visto, apesar de um intenso e demorado esforço de busca. Na época, o desaparecimento de Rockefeller foi uma grande notícia mundial.

A versão oficial de sua morte foi a de que seu barco havia virado em um rio em Nova Guiné, no que se afogou ou foi atacado por um tubarão ou crocodilo de água salgada.  Mas seu corpo nunca foi encontrado. No entanto, como a caça às cabeças e o canibalismo ainda estavam presentes em algumas áreas de Asmat em 1961, também houve especulações de que Rockefeller pudesse ter sido morto e comido por tribos da aldeia Asmat de Otsjanep.

Michael sendo "preparado para o banquete" pelo povo Asmat. Divulgação / Graveyard Shift.

Milt Machlin (1924-2004), editor da revista de aventura Argosy, decidiu estudar o caso pessoalmente e viajou à Nova Guiné em 1969 em busca de respostas para o enigma, baseando-se em um depoimento que afirmava que o jovem etnógrafo estava sendo mantido contra a sua vontade pela tribo Asmat. Foi durante seu tempo na Argosy que Machlin cunhou os consagrados termos “Triângulo das Bermudas”, para designar a área misteriosa no Oceano Atlântico em que barcos e aviões desaparecem, e “Abominável Homem das Neves”, para o Pé Grande ou Yeti.

Machlin apurou e filmou tudo o que era relacionado com o destino trágico de Rockefeller, e após sua viagem, publicou o livro The Search for Michael Rockefeller (Nova York, GP Putnam’s Sons, 1972),no qual ele concluiu que Michael chegou vivo à costa apenas para ser morto por caçadores de cabeças. Machlin descartou que Rockefeller estivesse vivendo como um cativo ou uma figura parecida com Kurtz na selva, mas constatou que a tribo praticava o canibalismo e recolheu evidências de que o próprio etnólogo tivesse vítima desse hábito. Ou seja, a pesquisa de campo em tribos primitivas tem um efeito colateral: o contato com seus hábitos menos civilizados.

Quatro anos após a morte de Machlin, o diretor, produtor, roteirista e ator Fraser Clarke Heston (1955-), filho dos atores Charlton Heston e Lydia Clarke, descobriu quinze rolos de filme de 16 milímetros da viagem de 1969, incluindo entrevistas de Machlin com missionários holandeses que viajaram de tribo em tribo e ouviram histórias que corroboravam a versão da morte do jovem nas mãos do povo aborígene em um ritual canibal macabro. Heston utilizou a filmagem para criar o documentário The Search for Michael Rockefeller (2010), mesmo título do livro de Machlin.

Vários líderes da vila de Otsjanep onde Rockefeller provavelmente teria ido se tivesse chegado à costa, foram mortos por uma patrulha holandesa em 1958, fornecendo assim alguma justificativa para a vingança da tribo contra alguém da “tribo branca”. E apenas dois anos antes, a guerra entre as tribos na região de Asmat resultou no ritual de caça às cabeças e canibalização de 51 adolescentes. Nem o canibalismo nem a caça a cabeças em Asmat eram indiscriminados, mas faziam parte de um ciclo de vingança olho por olho, de modo que é possível que Rockefeller tenha se tornado vítima inadvertida de tal ciclo.

Michael Rockefeller remando em uma canoa Asmat em 1961. Crédito: Associated Press.

O jovem jornalista australiano Paul Toohey foi até Nova Guiné Ocidental e conversou com dezenas de pessoas associadas ao caso, incluindo o detetive particular australiano Frank Monte, que foi contratado em 1979 pela mãe de Michael para tentar resolver o mistério de seu desaparecimento. Em seu livro Rocky Goes West (Australia, Duffy & Snellgrove, 1997), Toohey afirma que o investigador particular trocou um motor de barco pelos crânios dos três homens, todos europeus, que uma tribo alegou serem os únicos homens brancos que eles já mataram. O investigador voltou a Nova York e entregou esses crânios à família, convencido de que um deles era o crânio de Rockefeller. Se esse evento realmente ocorreu, a família nunca comentou nada a respeito.

O artista, ativista e antropólogo norte-americano Tobias Schneebaum (1922-2005), não só conviveu na juventude por vários anos com os Asmat, como também com os Harakmbut, na região de Madre de Dios, perto da fronteira brasileira na Amazônia peruana. No documentário Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000), dirigido pelos cineastas David Shapiro e Laurie Gwen Shapiro, que se basearam em seu breve livro de memórias publicado em 1969, Schneebaum, já idoso, revisita essas duas tribos canibais. Ele e os cineastas conseguiram localizar alguns dos membros da tribo Asmat de Otsjanep que ele conheceu durante esses períodos, e que descreveram terem encontrado Rockefeller na margem do rio e o comido.

O jornalista e escritor norte-americano Carl Hoffmann viajou pelo Afeganistão, Sudão, Congo, Nova Guiné, Groenlândia, Mongólia, Rússia, China, Indonésia e mais de 75 outros países. Ex-editor contribuinte das revistas National Geographic Traveler, Wired, Outside, Smithsonian, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure e muitas outras, escreveu vários livros narrativos de não-ficção sobre suas próprias viagens e de outros viajantes e exploradores contemporâneos.

Carl Hoffmann em 2014

Hoffmann começou a pesquisar o desaparecimento de Michael Rockefeller em 2012 e dois anos depois lançou o livro Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art (New York, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014), em que confirma que Michael Rockefeller morreu devorado por quinze canibais como vingança por um massacre de indígenas quatro anos antes pelas mãos de “homens brancos”. Em suas incursões às aldeias da área, Hoffmann ouviu histórias semelhantes àquelas coletadas na década de 1960 sobre homens de Otsjanep discutindo e decidindo matar Michael depois que ele nadou até a praia, em vingança pelo referido incidente de 1958 no qual homens da aldeia foram mortos em um confronto com oficiais coloniais holandeses. Logo após o assassinato, as aldeias foram varridas por uma epidemia de cólera e os aldeões acreditaram que aquilo era um castigo por terem matado Rockefeller. Quando Hoffman deixou uma das aldeias pela última vez, ele testemunhou um homem representando uma cena em que alguém foi morto e parou para gravá-la.

Muitos dos artefatos Asmat coletados por Rockefeller fazem parte da coleção Michael C. Rockefeller Wing no Metropolitan Museum of Art em Nova York. O Museu Peabody publicou o catálogo de uma exposição de fotos tiradas por Rockefeller durante a expedição à Nova Guiné.

Michael C. Rockefeller Wing no Metropolitan Museum

Estaria Michael Rockefeller imbuído da missão de coletar bonecos de vodu para invocação de demônios?

O cineasta, diretor, produtor e conspiracionista britânico Christopher Everard, fundador do Enigma Channel, foi muito além dos pesquisadores citados e especulou em seu documentário Spiritworld, lançado em 2020, que Michael Rockefeller acabou involuntariamente devorado por canibais por conta de seus próprios pecados e de sua família, já que estaria entre os Asmat encarregada por ela de coletar artefatos e bonecos vodu que seriam usados para invocar demônios, os mesmos que os mantinham na posição de homens mais ricos e poderosos do planeta.

Os Rockefeller, assim como grande parte da elite satânica, segundo Everard, seriam seguidores de uma antiga tradição judaica-babilônica, na qual as riquezas são obtidas mediante o sacrifício de um de seus filhos. Everard revela em Spiritworld, que Nelson Rockefeller possuía a maior coleção de bonecos de vodu do mundo, e que seu filho foi comido vivo justamente enquanto tentava adquirir mais desses bonecos entre os Asmat. Seria isso apenas uma coincidência macabra, como também que o empresário escocês Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), que como os Rockefeller foi o homem mais rico e poderoso de seu tempo, igualmente possuísse uma vasta coleção de bonecos vodu?

Andrew Carnegie, por Theodore Marceau

Everard lembra ainda que essa cabala pratica não só sacrifícios rituais de sangue, como o próprio canibalismo ritualizado, tais como aqueles registrados em cultos na Índia, Egito, França, Dinamarca, América Central e do Sul e em muitas outras nações desde o início da história até hoje.

Canibalismo em Arquivo X

“Our Town” foi um dos mais estranhos e obscuros episódios (o 24º do segundo ano) do seriado The X Files (Arquivo X, 1993-2002), criado por Chris Carter e produzido e exibido pela Fox Television. Tão estranho e obscuro que foi um dos dois episódios censurados (o outro havia sido “The Miracle Man”, o 17º do primeiro ano) pela Rede Record (de propriedade do bispo evangélico Edir Macedo, fundador e líder da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus) no Brasil, que a exibia nas noites de domingo.

Roteirizado por Frank Spotnitz e dirigido por Rob Bowman, “Our Town” (que estreou em 12 de maio de 1995) abordava justamente o canibalismo, algo que não se enquadrava muito bem na infinidade de fenômenos sobrenaturais e inexplicáveis que caracterizava e costumava permear a série.  

Os agentes especiais do FBI Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) e Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) são enviados a Dudley, Arkansas, para investigar o caso do inspetor de saúde George Kearns, que havia sido assassinado na floresta por um sujeito empunhando um machado usando uma máscara tribal.

A dupla descobre que ele estava prestes a recomendar que uma fábrica de frango local, a Chaco Chicken, fosse fechada por violações de saúde. Enquanto faziam um tour pela fábrica, o gerente Jess Harold lhes diz que Kearns intentava prejudicar a Chaco Chicken. Depois de ouvir isso, uma alucinada operária da fábrica chamada Paula, agarra e segura Harold com uma faca. Mulder e Scully tentam argumentar com Paula até que ela é baleada e morta por Arens, o xerife local. O médico da fábrica, dr. Vance Randolph, mais tarde alude que Paula estava sofrendo de dores de cabeça constantes.

Os agentes vão ver Walter Chaco, avô de Paula e proprietário da fábrica, que permite que eles realizem uma autópsia, e nisso constatam que, embora ela tivesse 47 anos, não parecia ter mais de 20 e poucos. Eles também descobrem que Paula sofria da doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, uma doença neurodegenerativa rara e fatal na qual parasitas do tipo príon se encontram nos tecidos dos indivíduos infectados. O roteirista Spotnitz estava muito bem informado a respeito, pois o povo de Fore, na Nova Guiné, quase foi levado à extinção por uma doença que eles chamavam de Kuru, e que não era senão a doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, já que praticavam o canibalismo e se contaminavam ao comerem a carne uns dos outros. Aliás, para conceber o episódio, Spotnitz inspirou-se em parte na descoberta arqueológica de ossos humanos fervidos em Chaco Canyon, Novo México, tanto que deu o nome de “Chaco” à fábrica.

Quando os agentes notam o escoamento de sangue em um riacho próximo, Mulder ordena que o relutante xerife Arens a drague. Nisso encontram os ossos de nove pessoas, incluindo Kearns. Ao inspecionar os restos mortais, os agentes percebem que os crânios estão faltando e que os ossos parecem ter sido fervidos.

Ao consultarem os registros do FBI, Mulder e Scully descobrem que 87 pessoas desapareceram em um raio de 300 quilômetros de Dudley no último meio século. Mulder suspeita que os moradores da cidade estejam praticando canibalismo para prolongar a vida, dada a aparência jovem de Paula. Mulder também percebe que Kearns originalmente tinha a doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, e que os outros moradores pegaram a doença depois de consumirem seu corpo. Os agentes tentam pesquisar os registros de nascimento da cidade para confirmar a idade de Paula, mas descobrem que eles foram destruídos. Na mansão de Chaco, Chaco e Harold se encontram com Doris, que em lágrimas acusa Chaco de ter ajudado a matar seu marido; Chaco a instrui a obstruir a investigação do FBI.

Doris liga para Mulder, acreditando que Chaco quer matá-la; depois que ela desliga, ela é atacada pela figura mascarada. Scully vai ajudar Doris enquanto Mulder procura Chaco em sua mansão. Lá, ele encontra as cabeças encolhidas de Kearns e outras vítimas em um armário. Mulder telefona para Scully e a ouve sendo nocauteada por Chaco. Ela é levada para um campo isolado, onde Harold acende uma fogueira e inicia um ritual para canibalizar Doris. Chaco os repreende por matar um deles, mas Harold o recrimina por permitir que a epidemia de Creutzfeldt-Jakob tivesse se espalhado, e nisso Chaco é executado pela figura mascarada. A própria Scully está prestes a ser morta quando Mulder chega e atira na figura misteriosa. Por trás da máscara, estava o xerife Arens.

Na narração, Scully explica que a fábrica de Chaco foi fechada pelo Departamento de Agricultura, e que 27 moradores de Dudley morreram da doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Ela revela que Chaco, que tinha 93 anos quando de sua morte, havia passado um tempo com a tribo canibal “Jale” depois que seu avião de transporte acabou abatido sobre a Nova Guiné durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ela também diz que seus restos mortais nunca foram encontrados. A cena final sugere que os restos mortais de Chaco estão sendo dados às galinhas em sua fábrica...

Um pouco da história do canibalismo e de suas práticas rituais

O termo “canibalismo” se originou da corruptela da palavra “caribe” em “caniba” na língua taíno, da etnia Arawak. Para os Caribs, significava “ousado”, mas para os Arawak, inimigo”, e para os europeus, “comedores de carne humana”. Cristóvão Colombo reportou que os Caribs ou Caraíbas antilhanos, nativos que Cristóvão Colombo encontrou na ilha de Hispaniola em sua primeira viagem, praticavam antropofagia, e que atacavam os Arawaks para obter saques e capturar as crianças que depois castravam.

Caribs retratados como canibais.

Vestígios arqueológicos na Mesoamérica e na América do Sul indicam a prática de canibalismo. Uma das sociedades que mais desenvolveu essa prática foi a dos Guarani, que a praticavam para fins religiosos, por acreditar que era uma forma de adquirir certas capacidades e aptidões da vítima. Na América do Norte, análise de restos descobertos em sítios arqueológicos habitados entre 1150 e 1200 d.C. pelos Anasazi, confirmou a existência de canibalismo nesta cidade. Restos de hemoglobina humana foram encontrados nos vasos cerâmicos da cultura Anasazi, sugerindo que foram cozidos com sangue humano.

Ruínas do povo Anasazi.

De acordo com as narrativas dos conquistadores, a prática do canibalismo era comum entre os povos nativos aliados e adversários de Hernán Cortés em atos religiosos e após escaramuças, para as quais o sal era usado até mesmo nas batalhas para salgar os inimigos mortos, de modo que sua carne duraria mais e eles poderiam voltar com ela para suas aldeias e distribuí-la entre seus parentes. Entre a aristocracia asteca, o canibalismo era comumente praticado em rituais religiosos.

Em 14 de fevereiro de 1779 , o comandante da expedição naval inglesa James Cook e alguns de seus homens foram mortos e consumidos na baía de Kealakekua, no Havaí (embora ainda haja controvérsia sobre a certeza desse fato) pela população local, após uma tentativa malograda de sequestrar seu rei, em retaliação pelos roubos dos nativos.

Em 1809, os 66 passageiros e tripulantes do navio The Boyd foram mortos e comidos por Maoris na Península de Whangaroa da Ilha do Norte como parte de um utu (“vingança”) pela chicotada dada a um Maori que se recusou a trabalhar no navio durante a viagem da Austrália. O incidente continua sendo o maior massacre da história da Nova Zelândia.

O canibalismo ritual como oferenda aos deuses ou como forma de obter a força e a coragem do guerreiro inimigo sempre foi o mais praticado. O princípio simples que sustentava a antropofagia Guarani era que a pessoa acumula energia ao longo de sua existência, e que essa energia podia ser usada por outra pessoa para expandir a consciência. O objetivo vital dos Guarani era transcender os limites da existência cotidiana, acessando o que eles chamavam de “Terra Sem Mal”, um estado vital onde uma pessoa escapava do mal e até da morte (como supressão do nível físico da existência). Nesse contexto, consumir a personalidade de uma pessoa e seu corpo fisicamente, proporcionaria ao canibal um aumento de energia impossível de se obter por outros meios. Assim, os Guarani não comiam qualquer um, mas apenas os melhores.

Uma gravura representando o canibalismo no Brasil. Imagens Getty.

A elite oculta sempre foi obcecada pelas práticas mais abomináveis, e o canibalismo sempre fez parte dessas práticas que visam absorver a força divina guardada dentro do corpos para com isso não só manterem, mas potencializarem ainda mais suas riquezas e seus poderes. E foi pela vontade de poder desmesurada e infinita de sua família, que Michael se sacrificou – ou foi sacrificado e comido – por ela.

Uma das últimas fotos de Michael Rockefeller cercado pelos Asmat. Foto de Jan Broekhuijse.

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Judge George Howard, Jr. (May 13, 1924 - April 21, 2007) was the first Black justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court and the first Black federal judge in Arkansas. As a lawyer, he litigated cases that resulted in the desegregation of Arkansas public schools.

He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He joined the Navy in WWII (1943-46). He entered the undergraduate and pre-law programs at Lincoln University of Missouri. He elected instead to apply for and attend the Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he was one of the “Pioneering Six” Black students who desegregated the institution. He was elected president of his dormitory in his last year of law school, the first Black student to hold a student office at the University of Arkansas.

He received simultaneous BA and JD from the University of Arkansas. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing in his hometown of Pine Bluff where he and his wife Vivian had four children. He served as President of the Pine Bluff Chapter of the NAACP and President of the Arkansas State Conference of Branches for the NAACP. His civil rights litigation included acting as counsel for the NAACP in cases related to the integration of Central High in Little Rock and a lawsuit to desegregate the Dollarway school district.

He was appointed by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller to the Arkansas State Claims Commission, where he served as Chairman and its first African American member. Governor David Pryor appointed him to fill a vacancy on the Arkansas Supreme Court, where he became the first African American justice.

Governor Bill Clinton appointed him to the newly-created Arkansas Court of Appeals. President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the federal bench as a district court judge holding a commission in both the Eastern District and the Western District of Arkansas. He presided over the bank fraud trials arising out of the Whitewater real estate scandal.

The Pine Bluff Federal Building and Courthouse has been renamed the George Howard, Jr. Federal Building and Courthouse. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Dine-Out Meals of March 2021, Ranked

I ranked the following based on taste alone. I made no consideration for ambiance or the general dining experience or whatever. I included meals I got to go. I included food trucks, catered meals, and fast food.

Lots of work travel this month, but hit some regular places. A Disney World vacation brought some new ones.

Should you be interested in the pictures or reading the few words I had to say about each meal, click on the home page and scroll down or see the archives.

Yia-Yia’s Kota w/Green Beans & Yigandes. Platia Greek Kouzina. Frisco, Texas. 3.10.2021.

Crispy Bleu Chips (shared), Scotch Deviled Egg (shared), Pork & Polenta. Brood & Barley. North Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.3.2021.

Chopped Salmon Salad, Cup of Pesto Chicken Soup. Cheers. Maumelle, Arkansas. 3.16.2021.

Jimmy’s Salad w/Salmon. Nardello’s Pizza Tavern. Mount Pleasant, Texas. 3.10.2021.

Grilled & Chopped Caesar Salad w/Steak, Cup of Carrot Soup, Almond Basque Cake. Solt. College Station, Texas. 3.6.2021.

Ranchero Special. Senor Tequila. Maumelle, Arkansas. 3.31.2021.

Edamame (shared), Super Dragon Roll. Blue Fish. Frisco, Texas. 3.9.2021.

B3 Char-glazed Pork Vermicelli Bowl, Egg Rolls (to go). Pho Thanh My. Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.5.2021.

Lunch Buffet. Southern Eatery. Holly Springs, Mississippi. 3.20.2021.

Grilled Flounder Fillets w/Three Shrimp, Salad, Veggies, Rice. KT’s Seafood Grill. Rusk, Texas. 3.6.2021.

Sushi Rolls (Ghost, Akami Unagi, Zen), Appetizer Special (?) (Shared all.) Kabooki Sushi (Sand Lake). Orlando, Florida. 3.24.2021.

Ribeye w/Mushrooms, Adult Mac’n’Cheese, Key Lime Pie. Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill. Addison, Texas. 3.9.2021.

All-American Basic Burger w/Sweet Potato Fries. North Bar. North Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.18.2021.

Pepper Jelly Rib Platter, Tandoori Meatball Sub (shared all). Low Ivy Food Truck. Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.12.2021.

Pimiento Cheese, Chips & Salsa (shared apps), Chorizo-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin Medallions, Bundt Cake. Jack Allen’s Kitchen. Round Rock, Texas. 3.6.2021.

Herb-Encrusted Chicken w/Potatoes, Veggies, Broccoli & Cheese Soup, Fruit Sorbet. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. Morrilton, Arkansas. 3.2.2021.

Oysters, Fish Special w/Corn Fritters, Twice Baked Potato Casserole. Bluegill Restaurant. Mobile, Alabama. 3.26.2021.

Pasta Orleans w/Chicken, side Big Easy Salad. Cheers. Maumelle, Arkansas. 3.11.2021.

Ribs Bowl. Harambe Market (Animal Kingdom). Orlando, Florida. 3.25.2021.

Beef Filet w/Asparagus and Rice, Salad, French Onion Soup, Coffee Ice Cream. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. Morrilton, Arkansas. 3.1.2021.

Kerbey Kickstart. Kerbey Lane Café. Georgetown, Texas. 3.8.2021.

Chicken Fajitas, Mushroom Soup (?), Salad, Cake Parfait (?). Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. Morrilton, Arkansas. 3.1.2021.

Medite Salad w/Salmon. The Pantry (West). Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.29.2021.

Poulet au Pistou. Les Halles Boulangerie Patisserie (Epcot). Orlando, Florida. 3.23.2021.

Boca Salsarito. Salsarita’s. Auburn, Alabama. 3.20.2021.

Yardbird w/Broccoli. Greenhouse. Georgetown, Texas. 3.8.2021.

Chicken Ramen. The Hybrid Kitchen. Maumelle, Arkansas. 3.30.2021.

Applewood Smoked Bacon Mushroom Swiss Burger w/Steamed Veggies. The Biscuit Company. Vicksburg, Mississippi. 3.27.2021.

Ty Cobb Salad. MAD Greens. Round Rock, Texas. 3.8.2021.

Spicy Chicken Sandwich Combo. Chick-fil-A.Gainesville, Florida. 3.26.2021.

Egg White Grill. Chick-fil-A.Round Rock, Texas. 3.9.2021.

Mess Breakfast. Mess Waffles. College Station, Texas. 3.7.2021.

Breakfast Buffet. Residence Inn by Marriott. Mobile, Alabama. 3.27.2021.

Signature Spicy Sandwich w/Fries. Zaxby’s. Adel, Georgia. 3.21.2021.

Meat Lover’s Pizza. Pinocchio Village Haus (Disney World). Orlando, Florida. 3.22.2021.

Impossible Breakfast Sandwich. Starbucks. Frisco, Texas. 3.10.2021.

Oatmeal, Fruit. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. Morrilton, Arkansas. 3.2.2021.

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