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On January 30, 1925, while trying to discover a new entrance to the system of underground caves that is a popular Kentucky tourist attraction, Collins became trapped in a narrow crawlway fifty-five feet below the surface. Efforts to save him became a worldwide media sensation, the first such of the 20th century. After four days where he could be fed, a cave-in closed the entrance passageway to everything except voice contact. Collins died of exposure and starvation after about fourteen days underground, three days before a rescue shaft could reach his location.
Reporter William Burke “Skeets” Miller from the Louisville Courier-Journal participated in and reported on the rescue effort from the scene, talking with and interviewing Collins in the cave, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize. His reports were picked up by newspapers around the country, and the rescue was followed with regular news bulletins on the relatively new medium of radio. Shortly after the media arrived, the publicity drew crowds of tourists to the site, at one point numbering in the tens of thousands. Vendors set up to sell food and souvenirs, contributing to a circus-like atmosphere. The Sand Cave rescue quickly grew into the third biggest media event between World War I and World War II. The biggest media events of that time both involved Charles Lindbergh – the trans-Atlantic flight and his son’s kidnapping – and Lindbergh actually had a minor role in the Sand Cave rescue, too, having been hired to fly photographic negatives from the scene for a newspaper.
Stevens and Berdovsky took the podium and said they were taking questions only about haircuts in the 1970s.
When a reporter accused them of not taking the situation seriously, Stevens responded, “We’re taking it very seriously.” Asked another question about the case, Stevens reiterated they were answering questions only about hair and accused the reporter of not taking him and Berdovsky seriously.
Reporters did not relent and as they continued, Berdovsky disregarded their queries, saying, “That’s not a hair question. I’m sorry.”
-CNN
The best part about this is that the real offenders were the people that continued treating the devices like bombs all day instead of figuring it out after the first one. I don’t see how people who leave unattended vans in parking lots are less scary and suspicious than guys who put up lights. This is one of those situations that seems to escalate and escalate just because no one wants to look like an idiot.
Oh, and this video is great.
Supreme Court Blocks Bush, Gitmo War Trials.
SCOTUSblog says: “The Court appears to have held that Common Article 3 of Geneva aplies to the conflict against Al Qaeda.”
I have no further comments; I just like hearing good news. Although it’s unnerving that this sort of thing passes for good news:
Hey, everybody! Against the opinion of our President, Congress, military, and intelligence agencies, the Supreme Court declared that humans might actually have rights, and that our government might actually have to obey the law!
I just realized that the triple-bangs awaking me three times daily between the hours of 8 and 10 am are twenty-one-gun salutes from soldier funerals. This is what I get for living across the street from Arlington Natl. Cemetary.
How depressing.
In other news: It took me six months to figure this out.
The tax cut reconciliation bill (H.R. 4297) provides households with income of $1 million or more an average tax break of $42,000. In gross contrast, the more than three-quarters of the nation’s households with annual income of $75,000 or less will receive an average tax cut of $30 for one year - not even enough to pay for a single tank of gas. And average families will end up footing the bill for millionaire tax breaks through cuts in vital services and added national debt.
-ABC news (shamelessly copied from Kos)
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In other things of importance: Ze Frank now has a little show. It is amazing. It should be on the television, but then, I couldn’t watch it whenever I want.
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God bless you, Mel, you crazy Holocaust-denying manboy!
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