PHVietnam War
June 8, 1972
Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer-winning photo of a napalm attack on a South Vietnamese village. It showed nine-year-old Kim Phúc running ***** after being badly burned and tearing her clothes off during a South Vietnamese Air Force napalm attack near Trang Bang. Trang Bang had been occupied by North Vietnamese forces. After taking the photograph, Ut took Kim Phúc and other injured children to a hospital in Saigon, where she stayed 14-months and had 17 surgical procedures including skin transplantations. This photo helped turn public opinion against the war.
War on Drugs
June 8, 1998
An ad is taken out in the New York Times titled "We believe the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug abuse itself." Its signers included Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, George Shultz; Lyndon B. Johnson's attorney general, Nicholas Katzenbach; former New York police commissioner, Patrick Murphy; San Francisco D.A., Terrence Hallinan; and TV anchor Walter Cronkite.
Rap Music Killer
June 8, 1993
19-year-old Ronald Ray Howard is convicted of the 1992 murder of a state trooper. He claimed the anti-police rap music he was listening to made him do it. The trooper had pulled him over for a broken headlight. The car he was driving was stolen and drug tests showed he had cocaine and cannabis in his system. He was later executed for the crime.
Israel Attacks U.S. Navy Ship
June 8, 1967
The U.S. Navy research ship, USS Liberty, is attacked without warning by Israeli jets while sailing in international waters. Thirty-four were killed and 171 were injured. Israel apologized for the attack, claiming that they mistook it for an Egyptian ship. This incident occurred during Israel's Six-Day War between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
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