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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
 November
17:
1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 from a very close Jets-Raiders
NFL football game with "Heidi". Two touchdowns were scored
during this missing time. Sports fans everywhere applaud and understand
the network's decision. (More
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1973 - On releasing the Watergate tapes, Richard Nixon
reassurred the people with "People have got to know whether or
not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook".
November 18:
1964 - J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as
the "most notorious liar". (More
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November 19:
1998 - On this day in 1998, temporary workers at Microsoft
filed a lawsuit claiming they were unfairly denied health benefits and
stock options.
November 20:
1888 - Willard LeGrand Bundy patented
the first time clock, probably the ultimate tool of The Man.
November 21:
 A
gap of 18-1/2 minutes is revealed in one of the Watergate tapes, a conversation
between Nixon and Haldeman. The erasure is blamed on an accident by
Nixon's private secretary Rose Mary Woods, but scientific analysis determines
the erasures to be deliberate.
November 22:
1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million
gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused the ship to leak.
November 23:
2000 - In Florida the Supreme Court rejected an
emergency plea by Al Gore to force Miami-Dade County to resume manual
counts.
November 24:
1871 - National Rifle Association organized (NYC). And
we've gotten better and better and shooting each other ever since!
1947 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood
10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they
were communists.
November 25:
1933 - The Journal of the American Medical Association,
"after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes
were used by physicians in practice," publishes its first advertisement
for cigarettes (Chesterfield), a practice that continued for 20 years.
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 1987
- Fawn Hall, Oliver North's bimbo assistant, removes documents from
sealed National Security Council offices inside the White House by hiding
them inside her skirt.
November 26:
1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a
federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key
Watergate tape. Accident? Eh, sure. (See November 21)
November 27:
1868 - Without bothering to identify the village or do
any reconnaissance, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads
an early morning attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living with Chief
Black Kettle.
Convicted of desertion and mistreatment of soldiers earlier that year
in a military court, the government had suspended Custer from rank and
command for one year. Ten months into his punishment, in September 1868,
General Philip Sheridan reinstated Custer to lead a campaign against
Cheyenne Indians who had been making raids in Kansas and Oklahoma that
summer.
Outnumbered and caught unaware, scores of Cheyenne were killed in the
first 15 minutes of the "battle," though a small number of
the warriors managed to escape to the trees and return fire. Within
a few hours, the village was destroyed - the soldiers had killed 103
Cheyenne, including the peaceful Black Kettle and many women and children.
Hailed as the first substantial American victory in the Indian wars,
the Battle of the Washita helped to restore Custer's reputation and
succeeded in persuading many Cheyenne to move to the reservation. However,
Custer's habit of boldly charging Indian encampments of unknown strength
would eventually lead him to his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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November 28:
1953 - U.S. Army scientist Frank Olson jumps from the
10th floor of a New York City hotel room, plunging to his death. Five
days previously, a CIA experiment wherein Olson was slipped LSD went
awry, giving the fragile scientist a very bad trip. That trip proved
detrimental to Olson's mental health. (More
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November 29:
1864 - Colonel John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers
massacre a peaceful village of Cheyenne camped near Sand Creek in Colorado
Territory, setting off a long series of bloody retaliatory attacks by
Indians.
Determined to have his glorious battle, Chivington refused to recognize
that Black Kettle's settlement was peaceful. At daybreak, Chivington
and his 700 volunteers, many of them drunk, attacked the sleeping village
at Sand Creek. Most of the Cheyenne men were away hunting, so the women,
children, and elders were largely defenseless. In the frenzied slaughter
that followed, Chivington and his men killed more than 100 women and
children and 28 men. Black Kettle escaped the attack. The soldiers scalped
and mutilated the corpses, hacking off body parts that included male
and female genitals, and then returned to Denver where they displayed
the scalps to approving crowds during intermission at a downtown theatre.
(More
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November 30:
1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements
attacked.
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