The Real Story of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
WEBJun 19, 2019 · Overview of the RFK Assassination. RFK’s assassination took place shortly after midnight on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, as RFK walked through a crowded food preparation area (better known as the kitchen pantry) in the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA. This hotel was closed in 1989 and torn down in 2005.
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WEBAthens GA Live Music Recap: Maha Pralaya, Sinai Vessel, Peter & The Skeeters And More
Events from Thursday, September 19 – Friday, September 20
WEBAttaboy Tapes Presents. 8 p.m. $12. www.flickertheatreandbar.com. 129,600 Windy and moody pop songs steeped in stone-cottage harmony and post-plonk bardo.. YOUR EX'S PETS New band featuring members of Dadgum, Jake Brower Band and Liz Farrell.. SHANE PARISH Master guitarist and fearless explorer of rhythm and timbre.
Athens' Famous 'Murmur Trestle' Is Coming Down - Flagpole
WEBJul 14, 2021 · It’s the end of the Murmur Trestle as we know it. Workers started to dismantle the structure last week in preparation for building a new bridge over Trail Creek as part of the Firefly Trail. So called because it was depicted on the back cover of R.E.M.’s 1983 album, CSX Transportation partially demolished the Murmur Trestle in 2002 before Athens-Clarke County stepped in to save what ...
The Hot Corner and Four More Historic Athens Sites in Danger of ...
WEBNov 11, 2020 · The Hot Corner tops the preservation group Historic Athens’ 2020 Places in Peril list, but by next week it may not be in peril any longer. A long-delayed Athens-Clarke County Commission vote on a local historic district for the western end of downtown is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 17. While victory for historic preservation advocates is by ...
Events from Thursday, September 19 - Flagpole
WEBDust off the disco ball, grab a dancing partner and enjoy tunes from the ’70s and ’80s as well as an epic lip sync battle. Proceeds benefit Project Safe. 8 p.m. $35–55. www.project-safe.org
The UGArden Is a Place Where Produce and People Grow
WEBAug 10, 2022 · The sun beams down onto the tin roof of the main barn at the UGArden Student Community Farm. Bird songs echo through the open entrance. The wind picks up slightly over the soft rolling hills less than a 15-minute drive from bustling North Campus. The UGArden is a 9-acre plot of land that has grown from a small student-run organization called Campus Community Garden Initiative to a farm ...
The 10 Best Country Songs About Working Class Life - Flagpole
WEBNov 6, 2019 · The Ol’ Bloviator is purely grateful to the folks at the Southern Labor Studies Association for asking him to compile this list, because except for listening to country music, the only thing he loves better is writing about it. So, take this, Ken Burns! (Just kidding, Ken—your documentary is addictively awesome.) Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” The Blue Sky Boys: “Cotton Mill ...
A Series of Fortunate Events: Leslie Kimbell Brings Her
WEBAug 4, 2021 · Town and Gown Players, the venerable community theater in Athens, seemed to vanish into a silent fog of precaution when the pandemic hit last year. Now, rising like Brigadoon, T&G reopens on Aug. 12 with a two-week run of Four Old Broads, a brassy comedy set in a Georgia assisted-living facility. Written and directed by Leslie Kimbell, of nearby Winder, the play is being performed at community ...
Six Books to Read About JFK’s Assassination 60 Years Ago
WEBNov 29, 2023 · Sixty years after he was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the murder of President John F. Kennedy has inspired enough books to fill a library. Historians have documented the Kennedy presidency and the bloody end of a time called Camelot. Conspiracy believers have added their conjectures about the assassination in hundreds of books and in films like director Oliver Stone’s JFK in 1991 ...