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1
R.F.K. Jr.’s Old Environmental Pals Tell Him to Get Lost
‘A VOTE TO DESTROY’
“His actions are a betrayal to our environment,” the candidate’s former mentor said of him.
2
United Airlines ‘Disturbed’ by Video of Coach in Cockpit
‘FUN IN THE COCKPIT’
A video posted to Instagram showed the team’s coach sitting in the cockpit.

4
Iranian Official Says Israeli Drones Are ‘More Like Toys’
NBD
“What happened last night was not a strike,” he said.
5
John Cleese Cancels His Own Cancel Culture Show
‘AD ABSURDUM’
The “Monty Python” star has stalled the show for three years.

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John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009

OBITS

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:00PM EDT / Published Mar. 26, 2009 6:37AM EDT

John Hope Franklin, one of the preeminent black scholars of history, died yesterday at the age of 94. In a front-page obit, the Washington Post wrote that Franklin's "voluminous writings" made him an "inestimable historian." Of course, Franklin saw "racial horrors up close and thus was able to give his academic work a stinging ballast." He died of heart failure in a North Carolina hospital.

Read it at The Washington Post