Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953 - 1961
263 - Statement by the President Requesting Reports to the FBI of Violations of the Atomic Energy Act.
December 15, 1953
ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1939, January 8, 1943, and July 24, 1950, Presidential Directives were issued requesting all enforcement officers, both Federal and state, to report promptly all information relating to espionage, sabotage, subversive activities and related matters to the nearest field representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is charged with investigating all violations of the Atomic Energy Act, including the illegal export or import of fissionable material, the illegal possession or transportation of fissionable material and the illegal production, transfer, or possession of any equipment or device utilizing fissionable material or atomic energy as a military weapon.."Fissionable material" means plutonium, uranium-235 or other material which the Atomic Energy Commission has determined to be capable of releasing substantial quantities of energy through nuclear chain reaction. I am requesting that all enforcement officers, both Federal and state, report all information relating to violations of the Atomic Energy Act to the nearest field representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I suggest that all patriotic organizations and individuals likewise report all such information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the same manner.
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New report: Doomed astronauts fought to save Columbia
Fliers' final moments on Columbia
Report details astronauts' efforts to save doomed shuttle and offers ways to avoid future losses of life
MARK CARREAU, Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle December 30, 2008
They were doomed already and did not know it.
Against all odds, the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia tried to gain control of their shattered and tumbling ship in the seconds before they lost consciousness and died.
A pilot punched buttons on a control panel and tried to restart systems as the vessel — its heat shield shattered — violently spun, pitched and rolled some 200,000 feet above Texas, a little north of the Dallas area.
The crew performed courageously, trying to problem-solve their way to safety. But the Feb. 1, 2003, accident was not survivable, NASA said Tuesday in a new report that reconstructed the crash second by second and suggested changes to protect future crews. Within moments the crew was unconscious.
The detailed analysis of the craft's breakup and free fall by NASA's Spacecraft Crew Survival Investigative Team offered a sobering reminder of the hazards of human spaceflight.
Rick Husband, William McCool, Mike Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon succumbed to violent trauma as the crew compartment snapped away from the shuttle's body, and the life-sustaining oxygen inside rushed out through small but growing breaches in the walls above and below them.
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Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts and Prints of Rushton M. Dorman, Esq ...
By Rushton M. Dorman
page 28
HALF MOON'S PICTOGRAPHIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY i S PICTOGRAPHIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY of HALF MOON an Uncpapa Sioux Chief who was KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF THE ROSEBUD JUNE 18 1876 and who with four other Chiefs was found lying in State on the Custer Battle field June 28 1876 Consisting of ji rude colored crayon sketches by the Chief Half Moon mounted on linen and which are preceded by a portrait other original sketches and explanatory manuscript in ink by WILLIAM H CRAFT pen artist Thick small 4to fresh red russia extra gilt inside gold tooling etc UNIQUE Original North American Indian Autobiography There is a note at the commencement of the picture MS to the effect that This history was taken from Half Moon's dead body by Sergeant John R Nelson of Lieut Rowe's Co Second Cavalry as certified to by Lieut Rowe and Major James S Brisbin Second Cavalry The descriptive MS further states It is the custom of the Sioux warrior as was the custom with the warriors of the Six Nations the Natchez the Illinois and other semi centaur savages to record by illustrations or pictures their several exploits in battle and the chase In the history
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Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts and Prints of Rushton M. Dorman, Esq., of Chicago, Illinois: The Whole to be Sold by Auction ... April 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th, 1886 ... Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers, New York
Rushton M. Dorman
D. Taylor, printer, 1886 - Codicology - 356 pages
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BILLINGS GAZETTE
Few remember fierce Rosebud battle
MARY PICKETT Of The Gazette Staff Jun 17, 2001
today in history June 18, 1876 : Custer and the men of the 7th had an uneventful day on the east bank of the Tongue. The Sioux and Cheyenne moved their camp on Reno Creek to the Little Bighorn south of present-day Garryowen, and celebrated their victory at the Rosebud. More warriors who had left their agencies joined them here, probably more than doubling their strength in the next several days.
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BILLINGS GAZETTE
Few remember fierce Rosebud battle
MARY PICKETT Of The Gazette Staff Jun 17, 2001
A fierce battle between the U.S. Army and Sioux and Cheyenne warriors 125 years ago on Montanas Rosebud Creek was as large a conflict as the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
But unlike the famous fight eight days later, the Battle of the Rosebud has been left in the historical dust.
The Little Bighorn gets 99 percent of the ink, says Neil Mangum, superintendent of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and author of a chronicle of the Rosebud fight.
Nobody remembers the Rosebud. Its a sad thing.
Both the Rosebud and Little Bighorn battles were the result of forces set in motion years before.
The discovery of gold in the western part of Montana, drawing settlers up the Bozeman Trail through Indian hunting grounds, enflamed the Sioux and their allies.
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 between the United States and several tribes closed the Bozeman Trail and its forts. In return, Sioux chiefs agreed to move to a reservation in what is now South Dakota. The treaty set aside the Powder, Tongue and Bighorn areas as unceded lands for Indian hunting and closed to white settlement.
While many Sioux did go to the reservations to live, younger Sioux leaders, including Crazy Horse, and some Northern Cheyenne preferred to roam and hunt the unceded region.
The Indians considered the Yellowstone River Valley part of their unceded area, and when Northern Pacific crews began surveys along the river, Indians attacked.
Things got worse when gold was discovered in the Black Hills, part of the Laramie Treaty reservation, and thousands of miners flocked to Indian lands.
More Indians left the reservation, and by the end of 1875, the U.S. government ordered Sioux and Cheyenne back on the reservation.
When they didnt go, Gen. Phil Sheridan crafted a three-pronged plan to round up the hostiles, as they came to be called.
An army under the command of Col. John Gibbon moved east along the Yellowstone from Fort Ellis near Bozeman, while Gen. Alfred Terry and the Dakota column, including Lt. Col. George Custers 7th Cavalry, advanced west from Fort Abraham Lincoln. Gen. George Crook and a third force would come up from the south.
Like Custer and many other leaders of the Indian wars, Crook was a West Point graduate and Civil War veteran. Taciturn to a fault, Crook also was known for his distinctive forked beard that he sometimes braided and taped.
Crook was to march north from Fort Fetterman along the old Bozeman Trail to look for Indians; he was to defeat them in battle or drive them into one of the other columns.
Crooks force eventually consisted of 15 companies of cavalry, five companies of infantry, civilian packers and miners and 260 Shoshone and Crow scouts, including the young Plenty Coups. Totaling more than 1,300 men, it was the largest expeditionary command on the Northern Plains in more than 10 years, according to Mangum.
After reaching Goose Creek near present-day Sheridan, Wyo., Crook left behind supply wagons for a quick-strike sortie north.
Early on the morning of June 17, Crooks army stopped along upper Rosebud Creek, about 20 miles north of the present Montana-Wyoming border. The rest spot was in a wide valley bounded by 500-foot bluffs to the south and lower ridges to the north beyond which stretched a treeless, sloping prairie.
Crook was playing cards when gunfire was heard in the distance about 8:30 a.m. The shots grew closer until a group of Crooks Indian scouts burst over the hills to the north, chased by Sioux and Cheyenne. Remaining scouts were organized into a defensive line against the charging warriors. They held the line and then pushed the Sioux back, the first in a series of charges and countercharges that characterized the battle, Mangum says.
The battle would rage six hours across nearly a 3-mile front with Sioux and Cheyenne making repeated dashes in to hit the army, then pulling back.
The attackers, who may have numbered 1,000 to 1,500, were from a village 30 miles away on Reno Creek near the mouth of the Little Bighorn. It was the same gathering of Indians that, after it had moved onto the Little Bighorn and grown even larger, would meet Custers 7th Cavalry on June 25.
Caught by surprise, Crook rode to the bluffs north of the camp to direct the widely scattered action. Within an hour, Crook was able to gain control of the high ground on both sides of the creek.
All sides, including Crooks Crow and Shoshone scouts, fought valiantly.
On the army side alone, an estimated 25,000 rounds of ammunition were fired, including 10,000 rounds by scouts.
Among the many acts of heroism that day was the dramatic rescue of the Cheyenne warrior Comes in Sight. Facing certain death from approaching troopers after his horse was shot out from under him, Comes in Sight was saved by his sister, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who zigzagged through enemy fire to pick him up on the back of her horse. Buffalo Calf Road Woman would fight at the Little Bighorn beside her husband.
Rosebud casualties on the Army side were 10 men killed, including one Indian scout, and 21 soldiers plus an unknown number of scouts wounded. Sioux and Cheyenne may have had similar numbers of killed and wounded, Mangum says.
After the battle, Crook wanted to go up the Rosebud to strike and hold the Indian village that he was convinced was close by. But his Crow scouts balked, fearing a trap. The general retreated to his base camp on Goose Creek.
Crook has often been made the scapegoat for Custers demise because, although he held the battlefield at the end of the day, he didnt defeat the Indians and he failed to pursue them and possibly drive them northward into other columns of the government force.
Instead, the action boosted the morale of the Sioux and Cheyenne, which gave them a psychological edge the next week.
But Crook cant be held responsible for Custers defeat, according to Mangum.
Crook had only enough supplies to last through June 18; he would have had to turn around the next day anyway. And Crook couldnt have informed Terry of the battle soon enough to help Custer.
Mangum finds some justification for criticisms of Crook tarrying in Goose Creek after returning from the Rosebud, although his camp was far less easily supplied than Terrys on the Yellowstone.
Mangum does praise Crook for taking charge of the battle as a field commander and overseeing the entire operation, unlike Custer who fought the Battle of the Little Bighorn as if he were a line officer instead of regimental commander.
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On the Border with Crook
By John Gregory Bourke
BACK TO THE WAGON TRAINS 317
laid in a row covered with stones mud and earth packed down and a great fire kindled on top and allowed to burn all night When we broke camp the next morning the entire command marched over the graves so as to obliterate every trace and prevent prowling savages from exhuming the corpses and scalping them A rough shelter of boughs and branches had been erected for the wounded and our medical officers Hartsuff Patzki and Stevens labored all night assisted by Lieutenant Schwatka who had taken a course of lectures at Bellevue Hospital New York The Shoshones crept out during the night and cut to pieces the two Sioux bodies within reach this was in revenge for their own dead and because the enemy had cut one of our men to pieces during the fight in which they made free use of their lances and of a kind of tomahawk with a handle eight feet long which they used on horseback June 18 1876 we were turned out of our blankets at three o clock in the morning and sat down to eat on the ground a breakfast of hard tack coffee and fried bacon The sky was an immaculate blue and the ground was covered with a hard frost which made every one shiver The animals had rested and the wounded were reported by Surgeon Hartsuff to be doing as well as could be expected Travois were constructed of cottonwood and willow branches held together by ropes and rawhide and to care for each of these six men were detailed As we were moving off our scouts discerned three or four Sioux riding down to the battle field upon reaching which they dismounted sat down and bowed their heads we could not tell through glasses what they were doing but the Shoshones and Crows said that they were weeping for their dead They were not fired upon or molested in any way We pushed up the Rosebud keeping mainly on its western bank and doing our best to select a good trail along which the wounded might be dragged with least jolting Crook wished to keep well to the south so as to get farther into the Big Horn range and avoid much of the deep water of the streams flowing into Tongue River which might prove too swift and dangerous for the wounded men in the travois In avoiding Scylla we ran upon Charybdis we escaped much of the deep water although not all of it but encountered much trouble from the countless ravines and gullies which cut the flanks of the range in every direction
318 ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK
The column halted for an hour at the conical hill crested with pine which marks the divide between the Rosebud and the Greasy Grass a tributary of the Little Big Horn the spot where our Crow guides claimed that their tribe had whipped and almost exterminated a band of the Blackfeet Sioux Our horses were allowed to graze until the rear guard had caught up with the wounded men under its care The Crows had a scalp dance holding aloft on poles and lances the lank black locks of the Sioux and Cheyennes killed in the fight of the day before and one killed that very morning It seems that as the Crows were riding along the trail off to the right of the command they heard some one calling Mini Mini which is the Dakota term for water it was a Cheyenne whose eyes had been shot out in the beginning of the battle and who had crawled to a place of concealment in the rocks and now hearing the Crows talk as they rode along addressed them in Sioux thinking them to be the latter The Crows cut him limb from limb and ripped off his scalp The rear guard reported having had a hard time getting along with the wounded on account of the great number of gullies already mentioned great assistance had been rendered in this severe duty by Sergeant Warfield Troop F Third Cavalry an old Arizona veteran as well as by Tom Moore and his band of packers So far as scenery was concerned the most critical would have been pleased with that section of our national domain the elysium of the hunter the home of the bear the elk deer antelope mountain sheep and buffalo the carcasses of the last named lined the trail and the skulls and bones whitened the hill sides The march of the day was a little over twenty two miles and ended upon one of the tributaries of the Tongue where we bivouacked and passed the night in some discomfort on account of the excessive cold which drove us from our scanty covering shortly after midnight The Crows left during the night promising to resume the campaign with others of their tribe and to meet us somewhere on the Tongue or Goose Creek June 19 found us back at our wagon train which Major
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On the Border with Crook
Front Cover
John Gregory Bourke
C. Scribner's sons, 1891 - Generals - 491 pages
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
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USA 18 May 1979
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William J. Haynes II
Born: 30-Mar-1958
Executive summary: DOD General Counsel, 2001-08
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:52 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 20 September 2016
