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30Aug
2016

This Week in History – Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech

In his speech MLK Jr. spoke about how even after 100 years of the Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln’s declaration giving the remaining slaves their freedom) passed, we still didn’t have equality in America. West Palm ...

15Aug
2016

This Week in History – Women’s Right to Vote

Photo (above): Women’s suffragists parade in New York City in 1917, carrying placards with signatures of more than a million women. (Source: The New York Times) West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers ...

08Aug
2016

This Week in History – “Son of Sam” Arrested in 1977

Featured photo, above: New York Daily News, August 10, 1977, the day before David Richard Berkowitz is caught and arrested. Berkowitz, known also as the Son of Sam, is an American serial killer convicted of a series of ...

01Aug
2016

This Week in History – MTV Began Broacasting

West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers recalls events of significance that occurred this week in history: On August 1, 1876, former lawman “Wild Bill” Hickock was fatally shot in the back while ...