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"On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy prepared to fly from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot outside his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Before his plane landed in Indianapolis, Kennedy heard the news that King had died. Despite warnings from Indianapolis police that...
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[2010]
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Fighter Pilot: The World War II Career of Alex Vraciu, looks at the daring exploits of this Hoosier flier during his wartime service. A graduate of DePauw University, Vraciu learned to fly during his college years and joined the navy before America was thrust into the war following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Vraciu became skilled in the deadly game of destroying the enemy in the skies over the Pacific. For four months in 1944, Vraciu stood...
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"In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese...
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