#118 – Red Scare Part 4
The Red Scare continues. In 1939, Martin Dies Jr claimed that the Justice Department was investigating 2,850 known communists in government and that FDR had ordered a purge of all those named. But it was all a disinformation campaign launched by Hoover. The President...
#117 – Red Scare Part 3
As Red Fever grew in the United States in the 1930s, Herbert Hoover asked J. Edgar Hoover to help him blame the Bonus March of 1932 on the Communists. In August 1936, FDR invited JEH to the White House to discuss “subversive activities”. Hoover told him the biggest...
#116 – Red Scare Part 2
In April 1919, US authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S. political and economic establishment. One of those was Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer. He decided it was the work of Russian Communists, so he ordered the...
#115 – Red Scare Part 1
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. HUAC is best remembered for...
Vitellius started his march towards Galba / Otho about 8 weeks after he sent Valens and Caecina. Along the way, he got news that he was the new Emperor. But it wasn't all smooth sailing - governors were murdered, barbarians were revolting, traitors were justifying, messiahs were preaching, and wife-stealers were returning. ![]()
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Vitellius #2 - OMEN in the ROMAN - Life Of The Caesars
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The Praetorians push for a fast campaign because they didn't want to spend any more time away from the comforts of Rome than necessary. Unfortunately, in letting them drive the strategy, Otho sealed h...Popular Posts
