A lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan plans to tell a parole board today that his client doesn’t remember the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, possibly because he was “hypno-programmed” to…
President Lyndon Johnson’s plans to groom Thurgood Marshall for the U.S. Supreme Court are revealed in once-secret secret recordings and tape transcripts that have been released to CNN.
Corrected: Congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow, took the House of Delegates on a trip back to the…
Corrected: An unusual must-do has taken ABA Midyear Meeting attendees slightly off script, as they take in special viewings of The Conspirator, a soon-to-be-released film that tells…
A $5 million class-action lawsuit claims President Jimmy Carter deceived the public in a 2006 book by holding out as factually accurate his claims of historical events during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Capping an action-packed appellate week for the Illinois courts, Chicago election officials and a well-known city mayoral candidate, the state’s top court has just ruled—little more than 48 hours after…
Updated: A researcher who gained attention in 1998 by claiming to have found the perhaps last document executed by President Abraham Lincoln prior to his assassination in 1865 has now…
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