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The series is based on former National Geographic editor Candice Millard's 2011 book Destiny of the Republic, which traces Garfield's rise from poverty in northeast Ohio to the highest office in the land, eventually exploring the dramatic details surrounding his assassination.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Half a century ago, the Vietnam War came to an end with the fall of Saigon, the blockbuster movie Jaws was released, and U.S. President Gerald Ford escaped two assassination attempts.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
The Warren Commission, which investigated the JFK assassination, determined that Oswald acted alone.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
From there, Fogelman quickly gets into his beloved fractured timelines, taking us back several years to show how the two men met, and to see Xavier save Cal (who was still president, sort of, at the time of his death) from a previous assassination attempt.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Half a century ago, the Vietnam War came to an end with the fall of Saigon, the blockbuster movie Jaws was released, and U.S. President Gerald Ford escaped two assassination attempts.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
The Warren Commission, which investigated the JFK assassination, determined that Oswald acted alone.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
From there, Fogelman quickly gets into his beloved fractured timelines, taking us back several years to show how the two men met, and to see Xavier save Cal (who was still president, sort of, at the time of his death) from a previous assassination attempt.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
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What to Know Frazier's execution began at 6:10 p.m.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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Frazier's execution comes a little more than a year after Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the U.S. to be executed with the method in January 2024.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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One wonders: Would teaching the Tulsa massacre be allowed?—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
6 Feb. 2025
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The plan seeks to create a level 1 trauma hospital in the area and name it after Dr. A.C. Jackson, a Black surgeon killed during the massacre.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
4 Feb. 2025
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Any number of genre films now turn on unsuspecting characters receiving coveted invites from charismatic neo-barons to their remote compounds for luxury, decadence, and ornate slaughter or some variation thereof.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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Farmers there must submit an odor and pest control plan to the county and can build no more than four barns holding egg-laying hens or eight houses for raising chickens for slaughter.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
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But the images will fuel both the extremist right-wing in Israel, who believe the ceasefire is a capitulation, and those who favor dialogue, who will argue that if 15 months of unrelenting war failed to dislodge Hamas, further bloodshed is folly.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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Despite the shocking bloodshed, the Russian army in Ukraine has slowly grown in size to a new high of at least 600,000 troops, according to Zelensky.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The epic destruction that surrounds the Villa today adds an unnerving element to the exhibition’s art historical context.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Because mutually assured destruction has already occurred.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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That obscene quality, both in the baseness of the humor and the earnestness of the film’s central romance amidst all the (fake) blood and (shoddy) carnage, paid off: on Friday, Sundance awarded Atropia with its Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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In the wake of Monday’s carnage within artificial intelligence stocks, JPMorgan found a buying opportunity in Ciena .—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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