E. Howard Hunt was a major figure in the Watergate scandal that destroyed the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Hunt, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer as well as a prolific fiction writer, co...
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He served as a Navy and CIA officer, and helped orchestrate a coup in Guatamala and the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, but E. Howard Hunt is best known as something he always said he wasn't: a Water...
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Jan 16 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 23 in history: 1907 - The first American Indian senator, Charles Curtis of
Kansas, began his term of office. 1...
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E. Howard Hunt may hold a controversial niche in American history, but mourners at his funeral Monday expressed only admiration for the man who helped organize the Watergate break-in."He was a grea...
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Jan. 1_A.I. Bezzerides, 98, a Turkey-born novelist-screenwriter best known for film noir classics such as "Kiss Me Deadly" and "On Dangerous Ground," in Los Angeles.Jan. 2_Teddy Kollek, 95, the for...
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist.When she died July 11 at...
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