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Riots & Rockets

  • ABOUT
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTERS
    • CHAPTER 1 – Riots & Rockets
      • Army Days Map (1968-1971)
      • Family in the Military
      • The Vietnam War Heats Up
      • The Decision to Enlist
      • Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training
      • CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
      • The Vance Report
      • Directorate of Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
      • Bernardine Dohrn-The SDS Revolutionaries Then and Now
      • The Army Operations Center (AOC)
      • The Blue U and CIA Training
      • The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
      • Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
      • NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
      • Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare
      • Kwajalein Atoll—The Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site
      • Kent State University and the Aftermath
      • Yale, The Black Panthers, and the Army
      • The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
      • Getting Short—The 1971 “Stop the Government” Protests
      • 1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
      • Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland
    • CHAPTER 2 – Becoming a General Counsel
      • Recruitment by J. Roderick MacArthur
      • Rod MacArthur and The MacArthur Foundation
      • Hiring Lawyers
      • Copyright and Trademark Mastery
      • Hammacher Schlemmer
      • Bradford Then and Now
    • CHAPTER 3 – Jane Byrne Burned – Chicago Politics in the 1970s
      • Jane Byrne vs. The Chicago Tribune
      • The Machine Weakens after Daley’s Death
      • Mayor Byrne’s 90-Day Report Card
      • Mayor Jane Byrne’s Secret Transition Report
      • Rob Warden
      • “Innuendo, Lies, Smears, Character Assassinations and Male  Chauvinist”
      • Rally ‘Round the First Amendment
      • Will She or Won’t She?
      • The Aftermath—Harold Washington Defeats Jane Byrne
    • CHAPTER 4 – Before the Deluge—United Press International
      • Transitioning to United Press International
      • UPI—Second Banana to the Associated Press
      • Moving to Nashville as UPI Assistant General Counsel
      • UPI Begins Its Descent into Bankruptcy
      • Ruhe and Geissler Lose Sway as UPI Implodes
      • The Los Angeles Blow Up
      • UPI’s Bankruptcy Unfolds with a Shock
    • CHAPTER 5 – Inventing the Future—Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • A Milestone in Evolution of the Human/Machine Interface
      • The Proper Study of Mankind
      • The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition
      • The Encyclopedist’s Art
      • William Benton, EB Owner and Publisher
      • Robert Hutchins, University of Chicago President
      • Mortimer Adler, Philosopher
      • Charles Van Doren, EB Editorial Vice President
      • Reinventing the Encyclopedia in Electronic Form
      • Solving the PC Data Storage Problem
      • Patricia Wier, EB, Marvin Minsky, MIT, and Alan Kay
      • Peter Norton Takes Britannica into the Software Business
      • Harold Kester, SmarTrieve, and Compton’s Encyclopedia
      • Dr. Stanley Frank, Vice President, Development
      • Compton’s Patent R.I.P.—An Afterthought
      • A Look Back from Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Acknowledgments
    • Appendix 1 Britannica’s U.S. Supreme Court Brief on the Compton’s Patent
    • Appendix 2 Building Britannica Online
  • PDF VERSION
  • English

Chapter 1

Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)

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Chapter 1: Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)

CHAPTER 1:  Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)

Subchapters

  1. Riots & Rockets Army Days Map (1968-1971)
  2. Family in the Military
  3. The Vietnam War Heats Up
  4. The Decision to Enlist
  5. Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training
  6. CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
  7. The Vance Report
  8. Directorate of Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
  9. Bernardine Dohrn-The SDS Revolutionaries Then and Now
  10. The Army Operations Center (AOC)
  11. The Blue U and CIA Training
  12. The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
  13. Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
  14. NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
  15. Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare
  16. Kwajalein Atoll—The Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site
  17. Kent State University and the Aftermath
  18. Yale, The Black Panthers, and the Army
  19. The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
  20. Getting Short—The 1971 Stop the Government Protests
  21. 1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
  22. Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland

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