Appendix 2 The Building of Britannica Online
The Building of Britannica Online By Robert McHenry Former Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopaedia Britannica Introduction Had someone back about 1985 phrased his question, wittingly or not, “Has the Britannica been digitized yet?” the answer would have been “Yes, and in fact [...]
Appendix 1 Excerpts from Encyclopaedia Britannica Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States
QUESTIONS PRESENTED In the 1980s, Petitioner Encyclopaedia Britannica (“Britannica”) developed a pioneering multimedia search system that, for the first time, was able to search through vast amounts of multimedia information and display this information in a user-friendly manner. When [...]
Acknowledgments
This book could not have been written without the help and support of family, friends, and colleagues at The Cliff Dwellers club in Chicago. My wife Cathy without complaint stoically put up with my being glued to a keyboard [...]
Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland
In June 1968, while I was in basic training, Gen. William Westmoreland had been kicked upstairs by President Johnson. He was promoted out of his job as commander of our troops in Vietnam and into the job of heading [...]
1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
Testimony of William J. Bowe before U.S. Sen Sam Ervin, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee After I left the Army, Sen. Sam Ervin continued to work on making sure the military stayed out of the business of collecting intelligence on [...]
Getting Short—The 1971 Stop the Government Protests
My three-year enlistment was coming up in the spring of 1971, with my last day of active duty being May 12. In Army parlance, I was “getting short.” Given the times in Washington, I was also going out with [...]
The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
In January 1970, Christopher Pyle, a former captain in Army intelligence, wrote an article in the Washington Monthly magazine criticizing the Army for going beyond proper bounds in collecting information on civilians. Pyle’s article prompted inquiries to Secretary of [...]
Yale, The Black Panthers, and the Army
Also in May 1970, at the same time as Kent State was becoming a symbol of the country’s extreme division over the Vietnam War, a different kind of seminal event of both racial and student unrest was about to [...]
Kent State University and the Aftermath
My single worst intelligence assessment was in underestimating the future extensive campus demonstrations against the war that came in the wake of the events that unfolded in May 1970 at Kent State University in Ohio. The violence attendant to [...]
