The My Lai Massacre - Short History Documentary
.youtube.com/watch?v=BolOJcZTWgw
[What makes this crime even more horrific was the way it was covered up by the military leadership. Without the efforts of those who failed stop to the massacre and those who fought to bring it to the public's attention, it is likely the massacre would have been far worse or remained hidden.]
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Morris Udall's "official obituary" describes his suffering from "Parkinson's disease."
Parkinson's? No!
His sister-in-law, Lee Udall (whose son, Thomas was New Mexico's Senator and now USA Ambassador to New Zealand), told me that someone from across the Potomac in Arlington at the Pentagon 'slipped him a mickey,' causing Morris to collapse in front of his congressional office, hit his cranium, suffer a sub-dural hematoma, and require nursing home care the rest of his life until he died!
[International readers not familiar with USA vernacular must wonder~~~~~what does that mean? "SLIPPED HIM A MICKEY?"
[This expression dates back to the 1890s when there was a bartender in Chicago who used to doctor a drink thereby incapacitating the drinker making him unable to defend himself or remember anything when he was robbed. His name was Mickey Finn. The expression first appeared in print in 1915.]
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From the British newspaper, the Independent, here is more of the ugly truth:
"Twice in the 1970s Udall campaigned to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, and again to be majority leader, the number two leadership position, but in each case without success. He was however a genuinely serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, even though he later wrote a book about his experience called Too Funny to Be President (1988).
"He was in fact a very funny man, with a dry western sense of humour and a nice ability to make jokes against himself. He was much in demand in Washington as an after-dinner speaker. When already seriously ill with Parkinson's disease he compared that horrible condition to a woman called Paula Parkinson who was starring in a contemporary sex-and-lobbying scandal: 'They both keep you up at night,' he quipped, 'and they both give you the shakes.'
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