History Intrigue for April

By Rick Morris

Welcome to our eighth version of this new feature in The FDH Lounge, entitled History Intrigue.  We’re going to be flagging interesting-looking tidbits of a historical level.  While part of this is just going to come from general web surfing, many links each time are courtesy of Real Clear History, who does a great job aggregating for this topic just like all the others in the Real Clear brand.

We always work to be class acts in our own aggregation, so we’ll always give a mention of the site involved in the link.

^ From Newsweek, LBJ, RFK and MLK: the worst week of 1968.

^ From Macleans, the shocking supposed real cause of FDR’s passing.

^ From Crime Library, John Gotti: The last mob icon.

^ From Slate, the unanswered questions of Watergate.

^ From US News, President Truman’s side of the story about why he fired General MacArthur.

^ From History of War, why the US Army stopped short of Berlin at the end of World War II.

^ From Real Clear History, the little-remembered disappointing Vegas debut of Elvis.

^ From Financial Times, Margaret Thatcher, ruler of Britannia.

^ From The History Channel, history’s most famous epitaphs.

^ From Sports Illustrated, the history of the original Yankee Stadium.