Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:45:22 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/26 FESTIVAL OF RANTING & VAPORING


Tomorrow's Bleed will probably not happen in text email fashion,
as computer & service for the Bleed are being transferred.

Today's Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/today.htm

Excerpts,

1541 -- Pizarro, decimator of the Inca empire, assassinated in Peru. Too

little, too late.

1861 -- Felix Feneon lives. Feneon, the art critic, anarchist
& friend of Seurat, Paul Signac, Theo van Rysselberghe,
Henri-Edmond Cross (Daily Bleed Page), Andre Gide, et al.

1893 -- Imprisoned Haymarket anarchists not already hanged by the state
of Illinois yesterday are pardoned
by Illinois governor, John Peter Altgeld.
The show trial & convictions were a travesty, but this effectively
ended his political career.

1918 -- Pacifist & socialist organizer Eugene Debs is arrested
for giving an anti-war speech.

1966 -- Lenny Bruce & the Mothers of Invention appear in concert
at Fillmore Auditorium.

1975 -- FBI-initiates shootout at Oglala, South Dakota.
Two FBI agents & Lakota activist Joe Stuntz killed.
Two American Indian Movement leaders are prosecuted for the
FBI deaths & found innocent by reason of
self-defense; a third, AIM activist Leonard Peltier, is later
framed when much of the same evidence is
disallowed in his trial.

1987 -- US: Acting President Reagan defender Alan Simpson denies
reports of increasing presidential out-of-itness.
"I even saw him do a cowboy doodle the other day," he says.
"He used to do that when he was in his prime."