Today-The Battle of Athens Tennessee, 1946

Today in history: The Battle of Athens, TN (1946)
American Heritage ^ | March 1985 | Lones Seiber

(Good article-You need to copy it and hand it out,
and teach it to others!)


In 1946 GI's returning from the war took up arms against corrupt Tennessee Democrats committing vote fraud.


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Even PROGRESSIVE Elanor Roosevelt (wife of FDR)

said: "The people will get what they WANT." paraphrase

You have to WANT it, and STAND UP.

"As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it. The national press continued to show interest in what had happened (the best, if incomplete, account of it at the time was a Harper’s article by Theodore White)."

Theodore White wrote several "The Making of the President"

books about several presidential elections.

Just a note about "history" !

"A week after the death of JFK, Jacqueline Kennedy summoned White to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port to rescue her husband's legacy.

She proposed that White prepare an article for Life magazine drawing a parallel between her husband and his administration to King Arthur and the mythical Camelot.

At the time, a play of that name was being performed on Broadway and Jackie focused on the ending lyrics of an Alan Jay Lerner song, "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."

White, who had known the Kennedys from his time as a classmate of the late President's brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., was happy to oblige. He heeded some of Jackie's suggestions while writing a 1,000-word essay that he dictated later that evening to his editors at Life.

When they complained that the Camelot theme was overdone, Jackie objected to changes.

By this telling, Kennedy's time in office was transformed into a modern-day Camelot that represented, "a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers, and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back."

White later described his comparison of JFK to Camelot as the result of kindness to a distraught widow of a just-assassinated leader,

and wrote that his essay was a "misreading of history. The magic Camelot of John F. Kennedy never existed."[6]

( ; )but dummiedemoncraptsstilldrinktheKoolaid.


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