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June 19, 2013

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  • Crime History: New York draft riots result in dozens dead

    By Scott McCabe | 06/12/13 04:10 PM

    On this day, June 13, in 1863, opponents of conscription began the New York draft riots, regarded as one of most violent civil disorder events in U.S. history. The rioters were largely poor, working-class Irish immigrants who were angry about being drafted to Þght in the Civil War while...

  • Crime History: MLK assassin escapes from prison

    By Scott McCabe | 06/09/13 06:40 PM

    On this day, June 10, in 1977, the assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from prison. Using a jail-yard fight as a diversion, James Earl Ray and six other convicts used a ladder made of broken pieces of pipe to scale the 14-foot wall of the Brushy Mountain State...

  • Crime History: Arrest leads to 'separate but equal'

    By Scott McCabe | 06/06/13 05:15 PM

    On this day, June 7, in 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a "whites-only" railroad car in New Orleans. Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, which, by Louisiana law, meant he was required to use facilities designated for "colored" patrons....

  • Crime History: RFK gunned down in Los Angeles hotel

    By Scott McCabe | 06/04/13 03:30 PM

    On this day, June 5, in 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died the next day. Kennedy was walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California primary. Sirhan shot at Kennedy three times from close range...

  • Crime History: Pollard pleads guilty to spying for Israel

    By Scott McCabe | 06/03/13 04:05 PM

    On this day, June 4, in 1986, Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret U.S. military intelligence to Israel. The Navy intelligence analyst's scheme was discovered when supervisors learned that he was removing enormous amounts of top secret material that was outside...

  • Crime History: Radical feminist shoots Andy Warhol at his studio

    By Scott McCabe | 05/31/13 03:15 PM

    On this day, June 3, in 1968, radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and nearly killed artist Andy Warhol in his New York City studio. Solanas, a graduate of the University of Maryland, wrote the SCUM Manifesto, a manuscript calling for the extermination of all men. She tried to get Warhol to...

  • Crime History: Dozens killed during Tulsa Race Riot

    By Scott McCabe | 05/30/13 03:00 PM

    On this day, May 31, in 1921, in Oklahoma, at least 39 people were killed in the Tulsa Race Riot. The violence began over an incident on Memorial Day, one day earlier. A 19-year-old black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland was accused of attempting to rape a 17-year-old white girl in an elevator...

  • Crime History: Andrew Jackson kills rival over insult of wife

    By Scott McCabe | 05/29/13 02:45 PM

    On this day, May 30, in 1806, Andrew Jackson, who later became the seventh president of United States, killed a rival in a pistol duel after the man insulted Jackson's wife. Charles Dickinson, like Jackson, was a prominent racehorse breeder and lawyer in Tennessee. During a gambling dispute,...

  • Crime History: Director not guilty in 'Twilight Zone' deaths

    By Scott McCabe | 05/28/13 03:55 PM

    On this day, May 29, in 1987, director John Landis and four crew members were found not guilty in the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two child actors killed on the "Twilight Zone" movie set. Morrow, 53, Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Dinh Lee, 7, died when a helicopter crashed from the sky after its...

  • Crime History: Clinton partners convicted of fraud in Whitewater land deal

    By Scott McCabe | 05/24/13 03:40 PM

    On this day, May 28, in 1996, President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud. The "Whitewater" scandal grew beyond the failed real estate deal in Arkansas and included other...


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