by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 4, 2024 | Gaza, Hitler, Israel, Kennedy, Khrushchev, martin luther king, Netanyahu
This history blog of mine usually focuses on Nez Perce, Native American, and American history and history telling. I like to find the missing pieces of our history—my current obsession is the under-told story of the beaver’s place in the US economy and Euro-American...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 1, 2023 | Gandhi, Israel, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, King assassination, martin luther king
My recent scrape with death—for those who hadn’t heard, I rolled my car in the Wallowa River canyon on Sunday on the way back from a fine Portland Thanksgiving—and the crazy recess in the war in Israel/Gaza have me thinking about fortune and history, about being in a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2020 | 60s, assassinations, Civil Rights, Cold War, COVID-19, Kennedy, riots, Vietnam
In junior high in the 1950s we read secreted copies of Battle Cry on the bus—there were four-letter words—and watched movies of war heroics. I remember real war hero Audie Murphy in “To Hell and Back,” actors William Holden and Alec Guinness in “The Bridge on the...
