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Jim Garrison

Garrison was the monomaniacal New Orleans DA mythologized by Oliver Stone in his film JFK. Like much of the rest of that film, Kevin Costner’s characterization bears little resemblance to the actual truth. Garrison refused to let facts get in the way of his prosecution of a New Orleans businessman in a very convoluted attempt [...]

Fawn Hall

She was Lt. Colonel Oliver North‘s secretary in the mid 80′s and embroiled in the infamous Iran/Contra scandal. She smuggled secret documents out of North’s office, shredded others, and was later granted immunity for her testimony.

Jenilee Harrison

A former Miss Young America and L.A. Rams cheerleader, Jenilee Harrison played Cindy Snow on the Three’s Company sitcom in 1980.

Joyce DeWitt

Everyone remembers Joyce DeWitt, also known as Janet on the 1970′s television hit show Three’s Company.

Billy Carter

Younger brother of former US president Jimmy Carter. A source of embarrassment during the Carter administration, losing a run for mayor of Plains, Georgia in ’76, launching the ill-fated Billy Beer brand in ’77 and culminating in Billygate, after a visit to Libya in ’78 unravalled into an influence-peddling scandal, complete with Senate Hearings and [...]

Amy Carter

Was the 9-year old daughter of then-president of the the United States Jimmy Carterin 1977. She lived under a media microscope, having a slumber party on the South Lawn of the Whitehouse and creating an international incident by reading at the dinner table in the presence of foreign dignataries (the “reading at the table” incident).

Rosa Parks

Some say the civil rights movement in the US started on December 1, 1955, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was arrested and fined for her troubles. (The WEHT.net webmeister wonders out loud…Who was the guy she refused to give up her seat [...]

Michael Fay

He was the American teenager who was arrested for vandalism in Singapore in 1994 and sentenced to be caned 12 times. Then-president Bill Clinton asked for leniency or clemency and Fay’s sentence was reduced, however he still received 4 strokes.

Wang Wei Lin

The man who inspired the world by standing in front of a column of approaching tanks in Tiananmen Square during the massacre there in 1989.

Manual Noriega

Panamanian general-turned-president. Good pal of Papa Bush when he ran the CIA, in fact they were such good friends the CIA paid Noriega $USD 100 thousand per year to be a “CIA Asset” in Panama. They were still good pals even after the DEA figured out he was a drug dealer in 1975. He made [...]