From a footnote in David Cross’s book “I Drink for a Reason”
- shay’s rebellion
- the triangle shirtwaist factory fire
- the trail of tears
- the executions of sacco and vanzetti
- the lynching of leo frank
- the mormon slaughter at mountain meadows
- the civil war (who needs a link for this?)
- the mccarthy hearings
- the death of emmett till
- the vietnam war
- the assassination of MLK
- the assassination of the two Kennedys (John) (Robert)
- watergate
- iran contragate
- the bombing of MOVE
- the union carbide disaster
- Love Canal
- the tragic and disheartening discovery of . . . [Paris Hilton’s sextape] [the first one] (not linking this)