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Volume 1, Issue 100 08-24-1995

Spectacular events that occurred August of 1995

Randy Weaver SHOT & KILLED with Family.
In August of 1992 Americans tensely watched as events began to unfold on a remote ridge in Northern Idaho, involving a white separatist family and the FBI. Eleven days after it had begun, a 14-year-old boy, a 42year-old mother, a federal marshal, and one yellow Labrador retriever had all been shot dead. ment task force to investigate what had happened. National debates on the case were said to have fueled anti-government sentiments, which eventually played a role in the Waco, Oklahoma City, and the Freemen conflict. Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the government building in Oklahoma City is said to be at least partially motivated by revenge for what hapThe incident ultimately led to one of the most intensive and controversial investigations in recent history. The FBI faced widespread resentment and Prior to the incident, the Weaver family had moved to the remote mountaintop to escape what they viewed as a sinful world. Randy Weaver lived with his Randy Weaver being interviewed. pened at Ruby Ridge. wife and four children in a cabin he himself built on Ruby Ridge, just 40 miles south of the Canadian border. The cabin had no electricity or running water. According to friends, the Weavers simply wanted to be left alone as they awaited Armageddon. While many may have viewed their intent as unusual, it appeared to be quite harmless to most who knew them.

Inside this issue: Desert Storm 8/4 1995

Attorney General Janet Reno established a Justice Depart-

50th anniversary of 8/6 atomic bomb over 1995 Hiroshima Randy Weaver & Families Demise 8/22 1995

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Operation Desert Storm, popularly known as the first Gulf War, was the successful U.S.-Allied response to Iraq's attempt to overwhelm neighboring Kuwait. Kuwait's liberation in 1991 brought to the battlefield a new era of military technology. Nearly all battles were aerial and ground combat within Iraq, Kuwait, and outlying areas of Saudi Arabia. Iraq inflicted little damage on the American coalition; however, they fired missiles on Israeli citizens

After 5 days Shan- 8/19 non Faulkner quits 1995

Missiles used in Desert Storm

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After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel ing journey ended. After her brief, emotional announcement that she was withdrawing from the school, came the appalling, telling sight of cadets cheering, hugging one another, riding mattresses across the floors and jogging through the streets in formation chanting "We are . . . all male." It was Faulkner's dream to attend the historic South Carolina military college, an institution that has produced a large share of her home state's political and professional elite. The Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) remain this country's only state-funded, all-male military colleges. Just weeks before making history, Faulkner delivered an inspiring address at the National NOW Conference in Columbus, Ohio, where she was presented with a Woman Of Courage Award. Faulkner also joined in a march and rally with more

The long, lone battle to become the first female in the Corps of Cadets at The Citadel took its toll on Shannon Faulkner, but her quest is being taken up by Nancy Mellette, a 17-year-old senior at Oak Ridge Military Academy in North Carolina. On Aug. 12, Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to walk through the gates of The Citadel to join the Corps of Cadets. Six days later her groundbreak-

95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

It began with the anticipation of a showdown between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and ended with a guy credited (blamed?) for the phenomenon of Dufnering holding the Wanamaker Trophy. The recently completed 95th PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in suburban Rochester lacked drama down the stretch, with pars held in high regard, particularly over the last two days, but both it and the recently completed major season both produced many memorable moments. Having not covered the British Open, here are five takeaways from the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA:

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Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54 Marcus Wayne Chenault Jr., who killed the mother of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a Sunday service in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1974, died on Saturday at a hospital in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale. He was 44. Mr. Chenault was serving a life sentence at the state prison in Jackson, Ga., when he suffered a stroke on Aug. 3. He never regained consciousness, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Within weeks of the slaying of Mrs. King and a 69-year-old church deacon, Edward Boykin, on June 30, 1974, Mr. Chenault was tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair. He said he had acted out of hatred for Christianity and because his god had told him to. His lawyers said he was insane. The sentence was upheld on appeal but he was resentenced to life in prison two months ago, partly because of the King family's strong opposition to the death penalty.
Mr. Chenault, the son of a middle-class black family in Dayton, Ohio, had just been welcomed to the church for a morning service when he rose from his seat in the front pew, drew two pistols and started firing.