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28Dec
2015

This Week in History – The Emancipation Proclamation Ended Slavery

West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers recalls events of significance that occurred this week in history. On December 29, 1890, U.S. troops killed several hundred Native Americans in the Wounded Knee ...

16Nov
2015

This Week in History – Lincoln Delivered the Gettysburg Address

West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers recalls events of significance that occurred this week in history. On November 18, 1978, more than 900 residents at the Jonestown Peoples Temple compound in Guyana ...

13Apr
2015

This Week in History: Franklin D. Roosevelt Died

West Palm Beach criminal defense lawyer Kelly V. Landers recalls significant events that occurred this week in history. On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President, died. “I have a terrific headache” were the ...

13Apr
2015

This Day in History: Remembering Lincoln’s Assassination

The following  entry from Judge Milton Hirsch’s Constitutional Calendar sheds light on the altruistic acts of Major Henry Reed Rathbone, a U.S. military officer and diplomat who was present at the assassination of ...

22Sep
2014

This Week in History: 9-21-14

West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers recalls significant events that have occurred this week in past years. On September 22, 1862, US President Abraham Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation, ...

14Apr
2014

This Week in History: Birth of Thomas Jefferson

        On April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President, was born. On April 14, 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington. On ...