April 17, 2015
First off, we’d like to welcome Alex Hecht to War on the Rocks, who will be taking over the Molotov Cocktail blog, our vertical that features all things booze related. You can read about Alex’s background here.
Here’s what we’re reading and what you should be reading.
The time the AP used “brain was oozing out” to report a presidential assassination. “There was a rush towards the President’s box, when cries were heard — ‘Stand back and give him air!’ ‘Has anyone stimulants?’ On a hasty examination it was found that the President had been shot through the head above and back of the temporal bone, and that some of his brain was oozing out.” — On the 150-year anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, which took placed on April, 14, 1865,the Associated Press ran its original report of the attack, written by AP correspondent Lawrence Gobright.
What do Lagavulin 16 and ISIS have in common? The latest War on the Rocks podcast features J.M. Berger, William McCants, Denise Natali, Douglas Ollivant, and Ryan Evans with a Lagavulin 16 neat in hand debating the Islamic State’s war in Iraq and Syria and whether it’s possible to destroy ISIS or ultimately just degrade it in the next two years.
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