Tag: April 1950
Washington D.C. Military Display, Corruption Cover-Up, D.C. 1950
On a chilly Saturday, April 15, 1950, Washington D.C. witnessed a spectacle that would leave its residents in awe. The 100th anniversary of the nation’s capital was marked with a grand celebration, replete with colorful pageantry and a display of military might. As tens of thousands of spectators gathered on the windswept Capitol plaza, the…
Len Broughton Smithey, Murder, Chapel Hill NC, 1950
A desperate manhunt in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, came to a tragic end on April 8, 1950, when the body of 30-year-old Len Broughton Smithey, a war veteran, was discovered slumped against a pine tree with a single bullet wound in the head. The grim discovery ended a statewide search for Smithey, accused of murdering…
