Haven’t read that one. My feeling from Robert Ritchie’s Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates, as well as some other sources, is that Kidd was an instance of Sacco-Vanzetti syndrome: he was railroaded and treated monstrously unfairly by the system, but was nonetheless guilty as hell.
Stage, radio, and the silver screen . . .
As a World War II correspondent, his signature opening line was, “This . . . is London.”
Henry Fonda played a rare villainous role in this Sergio Leone spaghetti western.
After playing the King of Siam over a thousand times on Broadway, who went on to play the same role opposite Deborah Kerr in Hollywood’s The King and I?
What major Broadway stage actor had a brother who murdered a President?
Allowed to see American movies again after the end of the Nazi occupation, what name did French critics give to the dark, violent, and morally ambiguous films that U.S. directors had started making in the 1940s?
Both incorrect.
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5 time champ**, FDR is incorrect. And Slovik was the last U.S. soldier executed for desertion, not the last U.S. soldier ever executed.
Julius Henry is correct about Gerald Ford, who in 1980 discussed serving again as VP with GOP nominee Ronald Reagan, but with increased and specific responsibilities. The deal fell apart, though.
Jim Thorpe, after the King of Sweden proclaimed him the greatest athlete in the world when presenting him with his awards or medals at the Olympics. I’ve also heard, ‘You’re pretty swell yourself, King’ as well.
Babe Ruth when someone brought it to his attention that he was now paid more than the President.
Who received King George II’s charter to found the colony of Georgia?
What Georgian planter, who had grave misgivings about secession, nevertheless aceepted the office of Vice-President of the Confederacy?
Who urged the audience at the 1893 Atlanta Exposition to “cast down your anchor where you are” by hiring Southern blacks instead of immigrant labor?
In two controversial decisions, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that this Georgia Indian tribe had no standing to sue in the Supreme Court, but by the same token, the state of Georgia had no right to enforce its laws on the tribe’s land.