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Joe's Daily U.S. History Lesson -- June 24
Category: Education
Duration: 00:05:51
Publish Date: 2018-06-16 16:39:48
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JUNE 24 -- 1997 Roswell Incident case closed; 1862 Lincoln gets war advise from Winfield Scott; 1992 John Gotti begins prison sentence

JUNE 24 1997 – The Roswell Incident. …According to the New York Times, the Air Force released a 231-page report titled case closed: final report on the Roswell Crash. It suggested the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in Roswell, NM in July 1947 were actually life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies.

That’s it.

No bodies, no bulbous heads, no secret autopsies, no spaceships, no crash, no little green men, and most of all no government cover-up. The UFO phenomenon, which had originated in mid-June 1947 when a recreational pilot reported seeing an object flying like a saucer would, near Mt. Rainier in Washington St. In early July, several witnesses reported seeing flying discs and strange debris on the ground in Resell, NM.

The US government spent the next few decades investigating and debunking reports of UFO sightings. However cufos.org comes up with some glaring problems about the report, much too lengthy to get into here.

Basically some of the problems in the report include the Air Force using discredited witnesses, ignoring credible witnesses, ignoring their own experts, selective use of testimony, the fact that there were no balloons, with dummies that fell near the Roswell crash site, that dummy and balloon tests were well-known to the public, and the fact that it’s kind of hard to confuse a six-foot tall anthropomorphic dummy doesn’t look like little green men.

Interesting.

1862 – President Lincoln contacts Old Fuss & Feathers. …Union Army General Winfield Scott was the Army Chief from 1841-1861 and was in charge for protecting Honest Abe during Abe’s presidential inauguration. Word was brought to headquarters, according to Scott’s biographer Charles Winslow that an attempt would be made to blow up the platform on which Lincoln would take his oath of office and deliver his inaugural.

General Scott, according to historian Walter A. McDougall, described Scott during his service in the Mexican-American War as vain, ambitious, and a stickler for rank, rules, and spit and polish, hence his nickname Old Fuss and Feathers.

But that was a different time, and now Scott’s old age and heavy weight made it difficult for him to walk, let alone review troops in the field. Scott had resigned from the military, but Lincoln still needed his advice. Since Scott was too plethoric to go to the White House, Lincoln went to go see him on June 24, 1862.

George McClellan, who led the Army of the Potomac, was stuck in a stalemate with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia outside of Richmond. Scott suggested that Irwin McDowell’s cops be sent to aid McClellan on the James Peninsula, since defeating General Lee at Richmond would, in Scott’s words, “be a virtual end of the rebellion.”

Instead of taking that advise, Lincoln combined the forces of McDowell’s corps with the commands of John Fremont and Nathaniel Banks, who had recently been defeated by Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley. The result of this army would be an embarrassing defeat later in August at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

1992 The Teflon Don ...begins his life sentence. You have got to see the picture of John Gotti’s mugshot. He’s actually smiling.
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