Tag: January 1946

Styles Bridges, Government Secrecy, Washington D.C. 1946
Washington, D.C., January 18, 1946 – A heated debate is brewing in the nation’s capital as Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire takes aim at the government’s handling of peace enforcement bases. Bridges, a vocal critic of the administration, has declared the government’s position ‘unsatisfactory’ and predicted that the entire issue will be a ‘Pearl…

Frank McKay, Murder, Jackson MI, 1946
On a chilly January morning in 1946, Jackson, Michigan’s courtroom was abuzz with anticipation as the trial of Frank D. McKay began. McKay, a prospective defendant, sat nervously alongside his codefendants, awaiting the verdict of Judge John Simpson. The air was thick with tension as the judge questioned potential jurors about their political affiliations, their…
