67 Years Ago Today
Anne Frank receives a diary
On this day, Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, receives a diary for her 13th birthday. A month later, she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in rooms behind her father's office. For two years, the Franks and four other families hid, fed and cared for by Gentile friends. The families were discovered by the Gestapo, which had been tipped off, in 1944. The Franks were taken to Auschwitz, where Anne's mother died. Friends in Amsterdam searched the rooms and found Anne's diary hidden away.
46 Years Ago Today
Medgar Evers assassinated
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
Most people today have probably never heard of Medgar Evers. I am somewhat embarrassed to say that what makes this moment stand out to me is a movie I watched about 19 years ago: The Ghosts of Mississippi. The movie made an impression on me. Partly because I liked it and thought it was important, partly because my girlfriend at the time found it too disturbing to watch, and partly because my room mate said he would return the VHS rental, never did, and ended up having to pay over $100 in fines to Blockbuster . . . .
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