Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, “Our American Cousin,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford’s Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone’s fiancée, Clara Harris. After the …
Naval Aviator Vice Adm. James Stockdale, MARCH 2, 2020 | BY KATIE LANGE, DOD NEWS James Stockdale Nearly 600 U.S. prisoners of war returned from Vietnam during Operation Homecoming in early 1973. Many had endured the longest wartime captivity of any group of U.S. POWs in the nation’s history. One of those repatriated was Navy Vice Adm. …
Sarkis Tatigian, who began his Navy career at the age of 19 during the Second World War, passed away earlier this week, leaving behind a nearly 78-year legacy of service to the Department of Defense. At the time of his death, Tatigian, the longest serving civil servant in the history of the DoD, was serving …
North Korea Launches More Ballistic Missiles by William Gallo, VOA 21 March North Korea has test-fired what appear to be two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea’s military said Saturday. The weapons were fired from North Pyongan province and traveled about 410 kilometers, at an altitude of about 50 kilometers, before splashing into the sea off …
