Which Untimely Presidential Transition Affected the County the Most?

by Mike Purdy | Mar 16, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Assassinations, Calvin Coolidge, Chester Arthur, Deaths, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, John Tyler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Richard Nixon, Terms of Office, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, Zachary Taylor

Lincoln by a landslide: The weary nation breathed a sigh of relief as the hostilities of the long and wrenching War Between the States closed that frightful chapter of history. But before the wounds began to heal, the bloodshed that had taken a generation of young...

What Was Jimmy Carter’s Response to Kennedy’s Assassination?

by Mike Purdy | Feb 23, 2015 | Assassinations, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy

In a November 20, 2014 interview at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, former President Jimmy Carter was asked by Ronan Farrow the following question: “How does President Kennedy’s legacy echo in your mind today?”  Carter gave a very...

Presidential Books I Read in 2014

by Mike Purdy | Jan 27, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson

The following is the list of nine books about the Presidents that I read in 2014: Thomas Jefferson – From Boy to Man, by Jayne D’Alessandro-Cox, 342 pages.  This book is more a personal account of Jefferson’s early years than it is a description of...

50 Years in Perspective

by Mike Purdy | Nov 22, 2013 | Assassinations, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson

November 22, 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the fourth president to die from a bullet.  For those of us old enough to remember November 22, 1963, that day and the events of that day don’t really seem that...

The Plot to Kill Lincoln Before His Inauguration

by Mike Purdy | Feb 10, 2013 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Inaugurations

On February 11, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln spoke to a thousand citizens gathered in Springfield, Illinois to wish him well before he departed that day for Washington, D.C. to assume the presidency.  Lincoln’s remarks in Springfield:  At...

Both Lincoln and Kennedy Had Premonitions of Their Assassinations

by Mike Purdy | Jan 28, 2013 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Deaths, John F. Kennedy

Both Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy had premonitions prior to their deaths of dying by an assassin’s bullet.Lincoln:  According to an account published by Lincoln’s former law partner, Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln apparently told the following...