Monthly Archives: August 2015

Jonathan Daniels, martyr

Fifty years ago today, August 20, 1965, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels, 26, was shot to death in Hayneville, Alabama, by part-time deputy sheriff Tom Coleman. Before his death he had been on the Selma march, and had worked earlier … Continue reading

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Nuclear madness, nuclear sanity

It was 70 years ago today that Japan surrendered to the Allies in WWII. Eight days earlier, the US dropped “Little Boy,” so named by its assemblers, on Hiroshima; and five days earlier, another slightly different bomb on Nagasaki. I have … Continue reading

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