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Year: 1970

Russells Point disorder

July 5, 1970 FG

Culture War Rages

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Posted in: US News Filed under: riot

Bob Hope Stumps for the Establishment

July 4, 1970 FG

Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a barely nonpartisan holiday event extolling the…

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Posted in: US News Filed under: heroic feats

Gay Rights Freak out Plumbers

June 28, 1970 FG

The first Gay Pride marches take place in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall…

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Posted in: US News Filed under: counter-culture

Manson Trial

June 15, 1970 FG

Charles Manson, the leader of a bizzare cult that wanted to start a race war which they believed would wipe…

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Posted in: US News Filed under: terrorism

Nixon Focuses on Domestic Intelligence Gathering

June 5, 1970 FG

President Nixon meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, CIA Director Richard Helms, and the heads of the NSA and…

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Posted in: operation Filed under: Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, National Security Agency, Richard Helms, Richard M. Nixon, Richard Reeves, Tom Charles Huston

Operation CHAOS: A Precursor to Operation 40

June 1, 1970 FG

The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms, by chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, and…

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Posted in: operation

Tom Huston Lobbies for Black Bag Operations

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July 15 1970: Huston Plan – In a 43-page memo, White House official Tom Huston persuaded the heads of the…

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Posted in: operation Filed under: Episode, Tom Charles Huston

Alexandria City disorders

May 29, 1970 FG

Culture War Rages

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Posted in: US News Filed under: riot

Hunt Writes DETAILED Report on Ellsberg’s Trip

May 28, 1970 FG

Hunt Proves that He’s Still Got It

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Posted in: plumbers Filed under: E. Howard Hunt

Jackson State killings

May 14, 1970 FG

Culture War Rages

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Violent Age

May 10, 1970 FG

Boston’s feared “Big Bad Bruins,” led by 24 yr-old Bobby Orr win NHL’s Stanley Cup. The image of Orr, the…

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Posted in: Life and Gossip Filed under: sports

Augusta Georgia Riot

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Culture War Rages

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Nixon Roots for Hard Hats

May 8, 1970 FG

Hundreds of students protesting the killing of 4 students at Kent State are attacked by 200 local construction workers carrying…

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Posted in: US News Filed under: counter-culture, terrorism

Hard Hat riot

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Culture War Rages

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Hunt Trails Ellsberg

May 5, 1970 FG

Hunt Trails Ellsberg

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Posted in: operation Filed under: Daniel Ellsberg

New Haven Green Disorders

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Culture War Rages

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Posted in: US News Filed under: riot

University of Maryland Riots

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Culture War Rages

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Student Strike of 1970

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Culture War Rages

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Reagan on Kent State: ‘If It Takes a Bloodbath, Then Let’s Get It Over With’

May 4, 1970 FG

Governor Ronald Reagan listens to a statement by an antiwar protester, 1970. [Source: Not in Kansas (.com)] Speaking in support of…

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Posted in: Timeline Filed under: cambodia, kent state, ronald reagan

Kent State Riots/Shootings

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Culture War Rages

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Ohio Governor: Kent State Protesters ‘Worse than’ Nazis and Klansmen, Promises to ‘Eradicate the Problem’

May 2, 1970 FG

James A. Rhodes.[Source: Ohio History Central (.org)] James A. Rhodes (R-OH), the governor of Ohio, says of student protesters at…

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Posted in: Timeline Filed under: cambodia, kent state, protests

Nixon Gets FBI to Wiretap 4 More Civilians

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Kissinger notes that New York Times reporter William Beecher has been asking some suspiciously well-informed questions about the operation. Beecher’s…

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Posted in: operation Filed under: Alexander M. Haig, Henry A. Kissinger, Richard M. Nixon

Hunt Taken Off The Books

May 1, 1970 FG

Hunt is Taken off the Books

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Posted in: plumbers Filed under: E. Howard Hunt

Nixon Tries to Corner Johnny Cash

April 17, 1970 FG

Nixon Tries to Corner Johnny Cash

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Posted in: Life and Gossip Filed under: celebrity

Moon Mission Miracle

April 11, 1970 FG

The Apollo 13, the third mission intended to land on the Moon was launched on April 11, 1970, but the…

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Posted in: US News Filed under: heroic feat

Beatles Die

April 10, 1970 FG

Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his first…

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Posted in: Life and Gossip Filed under: celebrity

Nixon OKs Hughes’ AirWest Buy

April 3, 1970 FG

Howard Hughes is finally able to buy AirWest thanks to intervention by the Nixon Administration – overruling the Civil Aeronautics…

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Posted in: Hughes Filed under: Howard Hughes

The AEC exploded another Nuke in Nevada.

March 30, 1970 FG

Hughes ordered Meier to take the anti-nuclear crusade to foreign countries. Hughes told the CIA to vacate his hangars and…

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Posted in: Hughes Filed under: Howard Hughes

Burtons on TV

March 24, 1970 FG

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are interviewed on 60 Minutes. CBS pays $2 million for the interview where they discuss…

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Posted in: Life and Gossip Filed under: celebrity

Weathermen NYC Bomb, Ft. Dix Plan

March 6, 1970 FG

On March 6, 1970, during preparations for the bombing of a Non-Commissioned Officers’ (NCO) dance at the Fort Dix U.S. Army base…

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Posted in: operation Filed under: terrorism, weathermen

Weathermen NYC Bomb Accident

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A mysterious explosion collapsed an entire town house in Greenwich Village. Cops searching through the rubble pulled out three dead…

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Posted in: US News Filed under: terrorism

Nixon Lines up Midterms

March 2, 1970 FG

Nixon wants a permanent election tricks operation going in addition to the pollsters. Nixon wants LTE stuff

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Posted in: US News Filed under: ratfucking, Richard M. Nixon

Nixon Pays Back Dominican Republic Bribe With Policy

March 1, 1970 FG

As agreed upon during Donald Nixon’s fundraising trip to the DR in October 1969, Nixon upped the Dominican sugar quota…

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Posted in: Hughes Filed under: Howard Hughes

Hughes Bribes AG Mitchell

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Danner, Hughes’ bagman (via Maheu) goes to the Justice Department to meet with Attorney General John Mitchell. The moment he…

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Posted in: Hughes Filed under: Howard Hughes

Weathermen Bomb Park Precinct Police Station

February 16, 1970 FG

Weathermen Attack Police

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Posted in: US News Filed under: weathermen

Meier and Family Are Burgled On Vacation

January 27, 1970 FG

While Meier was at the Fontainebleau in Miami with his wife and their room was broken into. Meier’s files were…

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Posted in: Hughes Filed under: Howard Hughes

Drugs in Music

January 26, 1970 FG

Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.

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Posted in: Life and Gossip Filed under: celebrity

Huston Needs Guidance, Colson Picks Hunt

January 15, 1970 FG

Nixon had a favorite young dirty trickster, former Young Americans for Freedom president Tom Charles Huston. He signed memos “Cato…

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Posted in: operation Filed under: Charles Colson, E. Howard Hunt, Tom Charles Huston

Lawrence Disorders

January 14, 1970 FG

Culture War Rages

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Posted in: US News Filed under: riot

Madness in Music

January 4, 1970 FG

The Who drummer Keith Moon fatally runs over his chauffer with his Bentley trying to escape a mob outside a…

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Posted in: Life and Gossip Filed under: celebrity

ITT Pays White House and CIA for Chile Coup

January 1, 1970 FG

Chilean Money Wants a Coup

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Posted in: International News Filed under: ITT

Secret Nixon Campaign Slush Fund Benefits Bush Senate Campaign

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President Richard Nixon writes an action memo to senior aide H. R. Haldeman saying, “One of our most important projects…

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Posted in: Timeline Filed under: George Herbert Walker Bush, H.R. Haldeman, Maurice Stans, Republican National Committee, Richard M. Nixon, Townhouse Operation, Wall Street Journal

New Bedford Riots New Bedford

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Culture War Rages

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Posted in: US News Filed under: riot

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