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Illinois Supreme Court Rule 236
Rule 236. Admission of Business Records in Evidence
(a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of any entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event, shall be admissible as evidence of the act, transaction, occurrence, or event, if made in the regular course of any business, and if it was the regular course of the business to make such a memorandum or record at the time of such an act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter. All other circumstances of the making of the writing or record, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect its weight, but shall not affect its admissibility. The term "business," as used in this rule, includes business, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind.
Committee Comments
Paragraph (a)
Paragraph (a) of this rule is a revision without change in substance of subsection 1732(a) of title 28 of the United States Code, generally known as the Federal Business Records Act. This act reflects the modern approach to the admissibility of business records as evidence.
In Illinois, the trend has been similar. In People v. Small, 319 Ill. 437, 477, 150 N.E. 435 (1926), the Supreme Court held bank records admissible on the basis of a foundation laid by the officers in charge of the records, stating, "The business of this great commercial country is transacted on records kept in the usual course of business and vouched for by the supervising officer, and such evidence ought to be competent in a court of justice. Modern authority sustains this view."
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[first lines]
Screamers Crawl Narration: [voice over narration] For the last fifty years, the new economic block, the 'N.E.B.' Corporation, has controlled mining operations throughout the known solar systems.
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Screamers (1995)
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.
From 5/3/1945 ( the press conference with Werner von Braun after he surrenders to the United States Army ) To 1/26/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Screamers" & United States Title 18 Treason 2381 - the Hillary Clinton grand jury appearance as a premeditated criminal event ) is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my hyperspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 9265 days
From 5/2/1945 ( Werner von Braun surrenders to the United States Army ) To 1/26/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Screamers" & United States Title 18 Treason 2381 - the Hillary Clinton grand jury appearance as a premeditated criminal event )(Friday) is 18531 days
18531 = 1 + 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my hyperspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 9265 days
From 10/22/1937 ( Alan Ladd Jr ) To 1/26/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Screamers" & United States Title 18 Treason 2381 - the Hillary Clinton grand jury appearance as a premeditated criminal event ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 8/25/1948 ( the United States House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first ever televised congressional hearing ) To 1/26/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Screamers" & United States Title 18 Treason 2381 - the Hillary Clinton grand jury appearance as a premeditated criminal event ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush murders 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a United States military prisoner ) is 8660 days
From 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush murders 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a United States military prisoner ) To 1/26/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Screamers" & United States Title 18 Treason 2381 - the Hillary Clinton grand jury appearance as a premeditated criminal event ) is 2382 days
2382 = 1191 + 1191
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/5/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Beverly Hillbillies"::"Jed Clampett Enterprises" ) is 1191 days
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USA 26 January 1996
UK 28 June 1996
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First lady's testimony will press grand jury to weigh many issues
AARON EPSTEIN
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
THU 01/25/1996
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON - When Hillary Rodham Clinton walks into the federal grand jury room here Friday to answer questions under oath, she will become the first first lady to become a witness in a controversial - and the most secretive - part of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Clinton will sit at a table in a small, sparsely decorated room in the U.S. Courthouse, facing 23 people seated at elevated, lighted desks.
They are the grand jurors. They were selected from voter-registration and driver's license lists to hear witnesses and examine documents in the complex Whitewater investigation now headed by independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, a highly regarded lawyer and former judge with extensive Republican ties.
The jurors' legal duty, derived from ancient English law, is to determine whether the evidence is sufficient to accuse anyone of a major crime. A separate jury then decides at a trial whether the defendant is innocent or guilty.
Many scholars condemn the modern grand jury as especially vulnerable to the manipulation of increasingly powerful federal prosecutors.
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.
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Screamers
:32:09
That used to be the most profitable,
wonderful enterprise in the galaxy.
:32:16
It produced berynium. The answer
to the world"s energy question.
:32:20
A spoonful could take you from
Earth to Saturn in a day.
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Jed Clampett Enterprises (1969)
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USA 5 February 1969
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The Beverly Hillbillies (TV series 1962–1971)
Jed Clampett Enterprises (#7.19)
Buddy Ebsen ... Jed Clampett
Release Date: 5 February 1969 (USA)
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Screamers
:32:09
That used to be the most profitable,
wonderful enterprise in the galaxy.
:32:16
It produced berynium. The answer
to the world"s energy question.
:32:20
A spoonful could take you from
Earth to Saturn in a day.
:32:25
Then those mines started
puking up tons of radiation.
:32:29
We thought we"d discovered gold . . .
but we discovered shit.
:32:34
And you smoke this shit just to
neutralize the shit in your lungs.
:32:41
:32:44
- How do you know it"s working?
- If you don"t die.
:32:49
:32:55
- God! What happened here?
- Blasts.
:32:58
:32:59
- NEB bombers.
- They nuked the civilians?
:33:02
The civilians got in the way.
The bombs were aimed at us.
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United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, with continuing service to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (Registration N1819U) operating the route crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, which led to the loss of all flight controls. 111 people died in the accident
The crew guided the crippled jet to Sioux Gateway Airport and lined it up for landing on one of the runways. However, without flight controls, they were unable to slow down for landing, and were forced to attempt landing at much too high a speed and rate of descent. On touchdown, the aircraft broke apart, caught fire, and rolled over. The largest section came to rest in a cornfield next to the runway.
On final descent, the aircraft was going 240 knots and sinking at 1,850 feet per minute, while a safe landing would require 140 knots and 300 feet per minute. Fitch needed a seat for landing; Dvorak offered up his own, as it could be moved to a position behind the throttles. Dvorak sat in the cockpit's jumpseat for landing. Unfortunately, right before touchdown, the aircraft began a downward phugoid and veered right. The flight crew had no time to react. The tip of the right wing hit the runway first, spilling fuel, which ignited immediately. The tail section broke off from the force of the impact, and the rest of the aircraft bounced several times, shedding the landing gear and engine nacelles and breaking the fuselage into several main pieces. On the final impact the right wing was sheared off and the main part of the aircraft skidded sideways, rolled over on to its back, and slid to a stop upside-down in a corn field to the right of Runway 22. Witnesses reported that the aircraft cartwheeled, but the investigation did not confirm this. News reports that the aircraft cartwheeled were due to misinterpretation of the video of the crash that showed the flaming right wing tumbling end-over-end and the intact left wing, still attached to the fuselage, rolling up and over as the fuselage flipped over.
Of the 296 people on board, 111 died in the crash. Most were killed by injuries sustained in the multiple impacts, but 35 people in the middle fuselage section directly above the fuel tanks died from smoke inhalation in the post-crash fire. Of those, 24 had no traumatic blunt-force injuries. The majority of the 185 survivors were seated behind first class and ahead of the wings. Many passengers were able to walk out through the ruptures to the structure, and in many cases got lost in the high field of corn adjacent to the runway until rescue workers arrived on the scene and escorted them to safety.
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Screamers
:19:23
- They"re not civilians.
- No, a troop transport. All ours.
:19:27
- How bad is it?
- No survivors.
:19:30
- Then what the hell is that?
- Get me out of here, man!
:19:35
We"re going to cut you out of here.
Just hang on.
:19:39
:19:40
""Sirius 6B Transportation.""
We"ve got no transportation service!
:19:47
- What the hell is that?
- You"ve got to look at this.
:19:52
:19:55
- Look at this.
- And this. It"s a bomb factory.
:19:59
Holy shit!
:20:02
A nuclear reactor!
:20:05
- When did we last see one of these?
- What"s happening here?
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1948
August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
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The 1948 Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers hearing before HUAC
August 25, 1948
On this date, former State Department official Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, a former communist spy and magazine editor, faced each other in a public hearing before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). The Cannon Caucus Room, located in the Cannon House Office Building, became center stage for the media spectacle involving the House’s most infamous committee. Chambers had accused Hiss of being an undercover agent for the Kremlin. Hiss vehemently denied the charges. Referring to the disputed statements between the two men, Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey began the proceedings, informing both witnesses that, “certainly one of you will be tried for perjury.” After more than six hours of testimony, the day of questioning ended inconclusively. In an open letter dated August 24, 1948, Hiss claimed that the committee needed to end its “verdict-first-and-testimony later tactics.” After the hearings, many Republicans asserted that the investigation demonstrated that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were soft on communism; Democrats claimed it was a “smear” campaign. Committee investigators subsequently turned up additional evidence against Hiss, and a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of perjury. In 1950, a trial jury convicted Hiss and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Hiss maintained his innocence. But in the 1990s, Soviet archives conclusively revealed that Hiss had been a spy on the Kremlin’s payroll.
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Hendricksson: What are we doing? What in God's name are we doing Chuck?
Chuck Elbarak: We don't know if it’s true about Green, I mean we just saw...
Hendricksson: We saw bullshit is what we saw. You know as well as I do they can send us anything they want. Hell, they can make a goddamn hologram out of a dog and pony show.
Chuck Elbarak: That kid doesn't know policy, he’s a grunt...
Hendricksson: Get your head outta the lilacs man.
Chuck Elbarak: What do you expect me to believe here? That we're being dumped just like that? That twenty years of death and a stand against the horror up here has turned into a fucking galactic gold rush? Why do they keep sending us provisions? What do you think, that they're waiting for us to grow old and die up here so they can... carry on running the universe?
Hendricksson: Yes.
Chuck Elbarak: Well fuck you, I don't buy it!
Hendricksson: Well wake up man! We are betrayed here brother. We are beached! We're stuck, you heard that kid! Greens been shit-canned and this whole goddamn place is a lie! I mean, they just can't cut us off up here, because too many families on earth would raise hell about it and they sure as hell ain't gonna take us back there! If we sound off about this, nobody's gonna fight their fucking war for them. So they're just gonna let us roll on and on and on up here... until we're dead and we ain't ever getting off here Chuck. I'll tell you something else, Marshall Richard Cooper and his NEB command knows it goddamn well too, and that’s why he sent us a goddamn map! And your single, solitary NEB grunt came over here and got his ass shot to stop this thing! They know its pointless now!
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The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War By Dennis Piszkiewicz
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Result 1 of 2 in this book for Wernher von Braun "3 may 1945"
2 MAY 1945
After the betrayals by Goering and Himmler, in one of his last acts before he took his own life, Adolf Hitler named Admiral Karl Doenitz as his political successor. The new chief of state was faced with the thankless and hopeless task of putting Germany out of it misery.
As the final bits of the Third Reich were swept away by the Allies, Albert Speer, who had recommended Doenitz to Hitler, looked to the future. Hitler was gone, and the rest of the Nazi leadership would soon follow. Speer, however, had no intention of being one of those to go. He thought about his future in postwar Germany, and he planned to begin writing his memoirs without delay. It never occurred to him that the victors would hold him accountable for his crimes as a leader of the Third Reich.
Each survivor of the Third Reich had his own way of dealing with matters of honor and survival. Wernher von Braun and General Walter Dornberger decided on the path of surrender.
Their options seemed limited. They could wait for the French troops who were reportedly approaching the area to take them into custody. They could wait for some zealous and trigger-happy SS men to make their options and choices irrelevant, or they could contact the Americans. Magnus von Braun, Wernher's younger brother, was chosen to make the first contact because he spoke English better than anybody else in the group.
The younger von Braun left Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch by bicycle in the morning on his way through the Adolf Hitler Pass toward Austria, where they believed American troops were in control. He had gone no more than four kilometers when he reached the Austrian border town of Schattwald and was taken into custody by a group of American soldiers. Between his broken English and the rudimentary German spoken by one of the Americans, he got across his story. He was one of 150 German rocket personnel who were lodged a short distance away behind the German line. His brother Wernher, who had led the group that had invented the V-2 rocket, and the others wanted to surrender.
The Americans thought his story fantastic; but, nonetheless, they took Magnus von Braun to the command post of the United States Army's 44th Division Counter-Intelligence Corps, which was in Reutte, 26 kilometers to the east. At Reutte, Magnus repeated his story to First Lieutenant Charles L. Stewart. He said that the group of rocket men wanted to join the Americans because they felt the Americans would support their continued rocket development work. He added that his group wanted to surrender immediately because they felt their lives were in danger from the zealous remnants of the SS who did not want them to fall into the hands of the enemy.
Lieutenant Stewart was willing to listen to more and to accept the surrender of the German rocket scientists - if, in fact, the young German was telling the truth. He gave Magnus a pass that would allow him and the key people of the German rocket group to safely cross into Austria and the area controlled by the American army.
Magnus had returned to Hans Ingeborg by 2:00 P.M., and the group of rocket men who would surrender to the Americans began to assemble. The German Army's rocket team had eroded catastrophically in just four months. The 4,325 who had worked at Peenemunde had been pared down to about 3,000 who had been relocated to the Mittelwerk. The group had been whittled down again to 400 key people who had taken the Vengeance Express to Oberammergau, then eroded to the loyal few who had stayed with Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger at Haus Ingeborg. Of the 150 who were there, the large majority were from Dornberger's military staff and were not rocket scientists as Magnus may have implied to Lieutenant Stewart. Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun selected the final seven members of the team who would immediately turn themselves over to the Americans.
At 4:10 P.M. a somber procession of three field-grey BMWs left under an equally gray sky. Magnus von Braun, Walter Dornberger, and Bernhard Tessman were in the lead car. Werner von Braun and Dieter Huzel were in the middle car. Hans Lindenberg, chief propulsion engineer of the team, and Herbert Axster, Dornberger's chief of staff, brought up the rear. All seven men, including General Dornberger and Lieutenant Colonel Axater, had dressed in civilian clothes. A light sleet had begun to fall, accentuating the somber mood as they drove into their uncertain future.
When they finally arrived in Reutte it was dark. Lieutenant Stewart and his staff briefly questioned the Germans, assigned them rooms in the mansion they were occupying, then fed them dinner. The long day had ended for both the rocket scientists and their American hosts.
There was something about the dynamics of the group of Germans which Lieutenant Stewart noticed but did not understand. The lead was taken by the 33-year-old, blonde engineer who unashamedly claimed responsibility for having designed the V-2 rocket, the weapon that had brought terror, destruction, and death to England and the Low Countries in the final months of the war. He was outgoing, full of information, and strangely jovial. Major General Walter Dornberger, the ranking member of the group, was reserved to the point of being subordinate. What Stewart did not understand or appreciate was that von Braun was a civilian with knowledge and skills to sell to his hosts. Dornberger was, for the second time in his life, a defeated warrior with an indefinite stay in a prisoner-of-war camp as the only certainty in his future. He had no reason to be in a good mood; the war had ended for him - not with a bang, but with a humiliating whimper.
3 MAY 1945
The storm had passed, and the morning was clear but cold when the seven defectors rose. Their American hosts led them to a temporary building which was being used as a mess hall. There they were treated with unexpected deference to a regulation G.I. breakfast of eggs, toast, cereal, and coffee. When they had finished, they were taken outside for an even greater surprise: a press conference.
The photograph taken at the time shows seven men in overcoats standing on the muddy ground. They were unsmiling, uncertain, possibly apprehensive about their futures, and uncomfortable about being put on display. The two men placed prominently at the center of the picture were Walter Dornberger, his features partially hidden in the shadow of his hat brim, and Wernher von Braun. Von Braun's left arm was encased in plaster and jutted out horizontally from under his coat; it bent at the elbow placing his hand over the center of his chest in a mysterious salute.
The center of attention at their introduction to the press was not the senior member of the group, Walter Dornberger. He was, after all, just another defeated German general; and there were more than enough of them already. One of the reporters, a sergeant writing for an army newspaper, found his story in the 33-year-old man with his arm encased in plaster. Von Braun, who had spent his entire professional career in the obscurity of military secrecy, apparently loved the new-found attention.
