Richard Shockley

Editor/publisher of the historical reenactment @LSM_87. Check out my newest Twitter projects: @AlbumsOf1973 and @AlbumsOf1972

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@RedsSuffering @Super70sSports First Hawaiian in the big leagues.

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[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

A Parting Guest, by James Whitcomb Riley, who died in Indianapolis on this day in 1916.

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

"One of Muriel’s favourite phrases was: ‘and I went on my way rejoicing.’ And so this gives it a sort of jeu d’esprit, a lightness of touch – but you can tell that beneath this was a really serious thinker, who’s thinking about all manner of stuff."
https://t.co/kZ7yJP0JZf

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Baseball player Hank Aaron, who has since 1974 held the record for most career home runs in Major League Baseball (beating Babe Ruth), hits the 755th and final home run of his career, playing for the Milwaukee Brewers in a game against the California Angels.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

There are two main seasons in the Midwest

1. Winter 2. Construction

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Margaret Hamilton, born in Paoli, Indiana, graduate of Hancock High and Earlham College, and the woman who (amongst other things) wrote the code to get Apollo 11 to the moon:

#Apollo11
https://t.co/lvHcNoyvaM

[Nicky Hopkins 🎹 @TheNickyHopkins]

Hear the previously unreleased 1965 David Bowie song, "I Want Your Love" UNCUT "...with contributions from Jimmy Page and Nicky Hopkins." https://t.co/VfXZ8xB8yw

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This sums it up.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

The Midwest has two personalities

Winter hell Summer hell

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

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Oh how I loved the Burger Chef in my hometown of Gainesville, Georgia.

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

Burger Chef Indianapolis flagship store. Note mezzanine inside

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@Noirchick1 Jeremy Irons in the Broadway version of The Real Thing.

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@SalvadorDafti Thanks for introducing me to this. 💯

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Today in 1986, Bob Horner cranked four home runs at the Launching Pad vs. the Montreal Expos. l was watching it all go down on an eight-thousand pound 19” Zenith parked on green shag carpet.

[Today in Yacht Rock @in_yacht]

Steely Dan’s original lineup performed together for the last time on this day in 1974, in a concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Fagen and Becker didn’t play live together again until October 22, 1991 at the Lone Star Roadhouse in New York City.

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

Statue of Gordon Lightfoot in his hometown of Orillia, Ontario

[Csaba Tóth 🇸🇴 @tothcsabatibor]

Hungarian grand master Judit Polgár beating the hell out of PM Peter Magyar in a game of chess, closely watched by inventor Ernő Rubik at the US Embassy's Independence Day reception in Budapest.

Photo by the Embassy.

[American Revolution 250 @RevWar250]

2 JULY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: The United States declare independence from Great Britain: the Second Continental Congress conducts its formal vote on the resolution. Thanks to the late arrival of Caesar Rodney, the vote is 12-0, with one colony (New York) abstaining.

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I encourage everyone to listen to the Hit Parade podcast’s episode on Donna Summer:

https://t.co/Z3Y24jsei5

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“I Feel Love” by Donna Summer was released as a single 49 years ago today.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

July 1926.

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@SalvadorDafti Terrific thread. Well done!