Daily Archives: July 28, 2011

FDR likely infected by polio virus at boy scout camp


(click here to watch the full program, with July 28, 1921 @ 53:22)

(Thursday, July 28, 1921) — 1920 Democratic vice presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt visited a large Boy Scout encampment at Bear Mountain, New York, today, where it is believed he was infected by the polio virus.

Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched


Watergate. Part 2 of 30

(Wednesday, July 28, 1971) — E. Howard Hunt, one of the Nixon White House “plumbers” — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks,” proposed to Nixon Special Counsel Charles Colson that the “plumbers” burglarize the office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to steal his files on Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers, to discredit him. Continue reading Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched