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Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...
July 10. (1980-07-10) –. July 11, 1980. (1980-07-11) Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story is a 1980 American television film about Clarence Carnes, the youngest ever inmate of Alcatraz Prison. It screened over two nights, from Monday, July 10 to Tuesday, July 11 on NBC. It was written and co-produced by Ernest Tidyman.
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [1]. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
If you’re unfamiliar with the disgraced power player’s story, the gist is this: For years, Finch told tall tales about how she survived a rare form of bone cancer, lost a kidney and even ...
My Shocking Story. My Shocking Story is a documentary television series originally broadcast on Discovery Channel UK. It was broadcast by The Learning Channel in the United States, Discovery Channel Australia and Seven Network in Australia and Discovery Channel Italy in Italy. The series documents unusual or shocking medical ailments and ...
e. In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the ...
Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. [1] Schechter's essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New ...
The 13 Most Terrifying Horror Stories by R.S. Hadji, is a list of horror (short) stories that was published in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine [1] in the July-August 1983 edition. The list [ 2 ]