Posted on 09/14/2017 7:17:21 AM PDT by fugazi
1901: Eight days after being shot by the assassin Leon Czolgoszan, President William McKinley dies of his wounds, and Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States. Before being named vice president, Roosevelt served as McKinleys Assistant Secretary to the Navy until USS Maine explodes in Havana, inspiring Roosevelt to form the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment the Rough Riders. Following McKinleys assassination, Congress tasks the U.S. Secret Service with protecting the president.
1939: At the controls of his Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 prototype, Igor Sikorsky makes a 10-second tethered flight the first successful flight of a single main rotor, single tail rotor helicopter.
1942: The 7th Marine Regiment departs Espiritu Santo to join the battle at Guadalcanal. Among the men are Sgts. John Basilone and Mitchell Paige who both earn the Medal of Honor at Guadalcanal and Marine legend Lt. Col. Lewis Chesty Puller.
1943: After a devastating German counterattack, over 2,000 paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment jump into action at the beachhead at Salerno, Italy. Together with Naval gun battery support, every available bomber is summoned to Salerno and the German attack is devastated. Gen. Mark Clarks invasion, once in danger of being driven into the sea, is back on the offensive.
1944: Underwater Demolition Teams have
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I recall reading in U.S. History class that both McKinley and Garfield would have likely survived with modern day medical care, but Lincoln and Kennedy would have still died from their severe head wounds.
Leon Czolgoszan didn’t live to see Halloween. Justice was swift in those days. He was tried, convicted, and executed in about six weeks.
Reagan came awful close to dying when he was shot. Before Obama, I’m wanting to say that presidents only had 10 years of Secret Service protection after leaving office. Obama changed that to lifetime.
If I was as disrespectful of the nation and Constitution as he was, and continued to undermine things after leaving office, I would probably want lifetime protection, too.
In 1943-46, I saw Sikorsky`s helicopters flying in CT.
I called them “big bugs”.
My father was the chief electrical inspector for Chance Vought.
#3 Meanwhile John Hinckley Jr. who shot and wounded Ronald Reagan and others is free. Sirhan Sirhan is still in prison because he shot a democrat.
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