1955

Later that year in December of 1941, the United States suffered the most costly intelligence failure when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The failure was a result of analysis misconceptions, lack of integration of intelligence data, collection gaps, bureaucratic confusion, a historical and cultural misunderstanding of the mindset of the adversary, a great underestimation of Japanese capabilities and intentions, and Japanese denial and deception. Moreover, intelligence was being handled in a casual…

The leader I chose is Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was an African American man who erased the color line by allowing African Americans an opportunity to play sports no matter what was said. Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, GA. Robinson went to school at Washington Middle School, John Muir High school, Pasadena City college, and ending with University of California, Los Angeles. Robinson’s occupation was an American Major League Baseball Second Baseman. He originally started out with the…

Bruce Montgomery, or Edmund Crispin, pursued successful careers in both music and writing. Edmund Crispin’s date of birth is October second, 1921. The hometown of Mr. Crispin is Buckinghamshire, England. In his early years, he focused on education; as a result, he thought of himself as a literary and intellectual elitist. Because he did not enjoy sports, Mr. Crispin wrote and performed music. Composing, conducting, and operating the piano and organ became his musical hobbies. During his leisure,…

Lauren Boyd, On December 1, 1955, I was on the bus when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. I was actually sitting across the aisle from Rosa Parks when she refused the request from the bus driver to stand up. Of course I did not have the courage that Rosa Parks did. When the bus driver told me to get up, I did as he said. But looking back now I wish that I or someone else would not have moved, and would have sat with her as a way to peacefully protest civil rights for African…

disease killed over thirteen hundred Americans and a large percentage were children. In the year 1954, this virus infected about 18,000 children. After extensive research, President Dwight D. Eisenhower became aware of Dr. Jonas Salk who on April 12, 1955, had developed a vaccine against the frightening disease. President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a speech on the information recorded by James C. Hagerty, the White House Press Secretary. This speech was directed to the public in effort to bring…

Roni Horn There are many photographers out in the world today, but only one has stood out the most. Roni Horn was born on September 25th, 1955 in New York City and continues to live to this very day at 61 years old. Horn is a well- known and recognized for being an American visual artist and her work was strongly reflected the beginning or start of the Minimalism time. Her way of naming her work is very special and always have a significant meaning to them. She states in an interview that…

rammed and sunk by Japanese destroyer and Kennedy was injured but still was able to lead the survivors through the perilous waters to safety. When he came back from war he became a democratic congressman from Boston then went to the senate. Then in 1955 he wrote profiles in courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Then, in 1956 Kennedy almost got the democratic nomination…

passing of Emmet Till couple of months after the fact, the 43 years of age common right extremist Rosa Parks who filled in as a secretary for the neighborhood office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got captured for declining to surrender her seat on the isolated city transport to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This drove the isolation of open transportation to go under assault. The law required that when the white area of…

In early 1955, Uncle Nook completed his two years of military service in the Dutch Army, college degree in hand, he made plans to immigrate to the United States of America; the land of opportunity. He settled in Berkley, California where he found work as an engineer. In 1956, my mother received a phone call from the Marine Base to announce that my father had been in an accident and broke his leg. He was taken to a hospital in Rotterdam where he as admitted and would be staying for a few…

If you want to know about an interesting person you are in the right place.Walt Disney is one of the most interesting people to write about. Walt Disney started out small.Disney was born in Chicago,Illinois on December 5,1901.When disney got older he went to a night school for art. Walt Disney is a very interesting person to write about.If you would like to know about him you are in the right place.Some cool facts are,Oswald the lucky rabbit starred in 26 black and white silent shorts…