#robert franklin

[busterkeatonsociety]

#TalkieTuesday Buster Keaton in an interview with Robert Franklin in 1958 on his foreign language remakes.

[idontkniwanythgin]

Reading anything about Arctic explorers you're just sitting there like

[taintedarabesque]

me core

[javertisgay]

so weird reading about polar explorers who returned from their expeditions and had a long life and successful career afterwards… don’t you know you were supposed to die tragically?

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Wise words, this is exactly what historical research should be! Wholeheartedly agree.

[dondalsy]

i just made this and it already looks fried

[buildoblivion]

thinking about some guys in the Arctic (+ one guy in the Antarctic)

[sconfittoleone]

all of us

[birbwell]

all the season 1 columbo villains (excluding the pilot episodes!)

kind of want to make a series out of this hrmmm

[dundykelevesconte]

the beginning of the terror needs to have a disclaimer that reads something like ⚠️ WARNING‼️ GATEWAY DRUG INTO POLAR EXPLORATION ⚠️

[neverscreens]

— MADAME WEBB, 1080P

Part One, 395 Screencaps.

Part Two, 395 Screencaps.

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Like or reblog if it was useful, every interaction shows us that we should keep making screencaps for y'all ♡

[theyonagoda]

Franklin Expedition Geneology research, or: Do you want to know if YOUR blorbo was cannibalized?

In order to do Y-chromosome based or mtDNA-based DNA testing you need a continous line of male or female descendents (or relatives) and that's, like, really hard to figure out even with merticulous record-keeping by churches. I'm focusing on those who are are theorized to be one of the existing, discovered bodies, especially those that have been collected and whose DNA was already extracted. This means:

-Le Vesconte Point body, theorized to be Edward Couch or Robert Orme Sargent due to facial reconstruction.

-"Peglar Papers" body, which got lost (???) after british soldiers who found it in the 70s gave it to a museum; thankfully a new excavation found a singular foot bone. Theorized to be William Gibson or Thomas Armitage

"Holding Out Hope" Tier (no body):

-Two Grave Bay body, reburied and haven't been re-discovered yet. Thought to that of a Marine. I was doing Tozer's lineage b/c him having a ton of siblings made it easier, but someone beat me to it and is thinking about contacting the university of Waterloo to see if we can get another Fitzjames breakthrough. With Tozer off the list I'm moving on to Healey and Hedges, since both have a good starting point w/ marriages.

-The Starvation Cove Cutlery Carving Crew, whose silverware (originally the officers' until they carved their initials on them) made it pretty far. This includes William Wentzell, Cornelius Hickey, possibly Richard Wall, and several sets of initials that could've belonged to multiple crew members (i.e "WG".) I'm hoping that at least some of the bone fragments get recovered from there.

"Just In Case" Tier:

-Tenatively ientified body of Goodsir, who I'm like 90% sure is actually him this time but I that tiny chance that it isn't nags at me

-"Irving" grave, 70% sure.

I'm more interested in researching the crew than the officers tbh, largely as the latter was already taken by many enthusiasts (I know someone's doing Des Voeux rn.) This is a hugely collaborative effort and I have a lot of people to thank for this, including the Franklin Expedition facebook, the descendents of FE's personnel, and various hobby geneologists who have done their work before me! If anyone right now has ANY information of Thomas Armitage's genetic history, his descendents (he had at least five kids, which helps) or anything of the sort, please tell me!

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[anachronous-cetacea]

OK so I was reading Philip Freneau's poem collection for leisure，and guess what did I find——

He wrote mourning poetries for John Laurens，Benjamin Franklin，Theodosia Burr Alston and Robert Fulton.

[deadpresidents]

Was Trump's assassination attempt the first time people other than the president were also killed or hurt?

No, it definitely was not the first time. There have been a number of additional victims during Presidential assassinations or assassination attempts throughout American history.

Here are the incidents where someone other than the President was wounded in an assassination attempt on Presidents or Presidential candidates:

•April 14, 1865, Washington, D.C. At the same time that John Wilkes Booth was shooting Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Booth's fellow conspirator, Lewis Powell, attacked Secretary of State William H. Seward at Seward's home in Washington. Seward had been injured earlier that month in a carriage accident and was bedridden from his injuries, and Powell viciously stabbed the Secretary of State after forcing his way into Seward's home by pretending to deliver medicine. Powell also attacked two of Seward's sons, a male nurse from the Army who was helping to care for Seward, and a messenger from the State Department. Another Booth conspirator, George Azterodt, was supposed to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at the same time that Lincoln and Seward were being attacked in an attempt to decapitate the senior leadership of the Union government, but Azterodt lost his nerve and got drunk instead. A total of five people were wounded at the Seward home as part of the Booth conspiracy, but Lincoln was the only person who was killed.

•February 15, 1933, Miami, Florida Just 17 days before his first inauguration, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was the target of an assassination attempt in Miami's Bayfront Park. Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at Roosevelt as FDR was speaking from an open car. Roosevelt was not injured, but all five bullets hit people in the crowd, including Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak who was in the car with FDR. Roosevelt may have been saved by a woman in the crowd who hit Zangara's arm with her purse as she noticed he was aiming his gun at the President-elect and caused him to shoot wildly. Mayor Cermak was gravely wounded and immediately rushed to a Miami hospital where he died about two weeks later.

•November 1, 1950, Blair House, Washington, D.C. From 1949-1952, the White House was being extensively renovated with the interior being almost completely gutted and reconstructed. President Harry S. Truman and his family moved into Blair House, a Presidential guest house across the street from the White House that is normally used for visiting VIPs, for 3 1/2 years. On November 1, 1950 two Puerto Rican nationalists, Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo, tried to shoot their way into Blair House and attempt to kill President Truman, who was upstairs (reportedly napping) at the time. A wild shootout ensued on Pennsylvania Avenue, leaving White House Police Officer Leslie Coffelt and Torresola dead, and Collazo and two other White House Police Officers wounded.

•November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas Texas Governor John Connally was severely wounded after being shot while riding in the open limousine with President John F. Kennedy when JFK was assassinated.

•June 5, 1968, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California When he finished delivering a victory speech after winning California's Democratic Presidential primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York was shot several times while walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. While RFK was mortally wounded and would die a little over a day later, five other people were also wounded in the shooting.

•May 15, 1972, Laurel, Maryland Segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by Arthur Bremer at a campaign rally when he was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Three bystanders were also wounded in the shooting, but survived.

•September 22, 1975, San Francisco, California A taxi driver in San Francisco was wounded when Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford as he left the St. Francis Hotel. Moore's first shot missed the President by several inches and the second shot, which hit the taxi driver, was altered when a Vietnam veteran in the crowd named Oliver Sipple grabbed her arm as she was firing. Just 17 days earlier and 90 miles away, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of the Charles Manson family, had tried to shoot President Ford as he walked through Capitol Park in Sacramento but nobody was injured.

•March 30, 1981, Washington, D.C. President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by as he left the Washington Hilton after giving a speech. Three other people were wounded in the shooting, including White House Press Secretary James Brady who was shot in the head and partially paralyzed, Washington D.C. Police Office Thomas Delahanty, and Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy. Video of the assassination attempt shows that when the shots were fired, McCarthy turned and made himself a bigger target in order to shield the President with his own body. President Reagan was struck by a bullet that ricocheted off of the Presidential limousine.