Phil Donahue, truly a huge public personality, television show host and interviewer, cultural force, and a beloved, very good person, died yesterday at his New York City home. If you are too young to appreciate fully what Phil was and did, search the Internet and start watching. Also read the obituaries that are now appearing. … Continue reading Phil Donahue (1935-2024)

On next Monday afternoon, Jamestown, New York, located south of Buffalo, will be in the path of the total solar eclipse. This has happened before. On Saturday, January 24, 1925, Jamestown also was in the path of a solar eclipse. At that time, Robert H. Jackson was thirty-two years old and nine years a lawyer. … Continue reading Eclipsed and Visible Stars (1925)

Tonight marks the start of Yom Hashoah, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day. It remembers the approximately 6,000,000 Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and it remembers Jewish resistance in that time. The date of Yom Hashoah is the 27th day of the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. In Hebrew calendar year … Continue reading Nuremberg’s Holocaust Proof

When United States Attorney General Robert H. Jackson was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in July 1941, he brought a young U.S. Department of Justice lawyer, John Francis Costelloe, with him to be his law clerk. John Costelloe—who was “Johnny” to Justice Jackson and to no one else—was an excellent law clerk. He worked … Continue reading John Costelloe’s Photographs of the Stone Court Justices