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The New Orleans massacre was a continuation of a longer shooting war over slavery (beginning with Bleeding Kansas in 1859), of which the 1861–1865 hostilities were merely the largest part. [10] More than half of the whites were Confederate veterans and nearly half of the Black Americans were veterans of the Union army.
The camp was opened in 1942 as the New Orleans Army Air Base. The site was across the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal from the New Orleans Municipal Airport . In 1947 a formal ceremony was held at the New Orleans Port of Embarkation Personnel Center to rename the base after World War II Medal of Honor recipient Leroy Johnson . [ 1 ]
A handwritten list, Executed Death Cases Before 1951 Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, discovered at The Pentagon in December 2003. The list is only partially legible and must therefore be used with some caution. The linked public version of this list is quite truncated, thereby omitting a great deal of useful information about these ...
ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured in new images plotting his attack in New Orleans a little over an hour before killing 14 people when he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd ...
Flowers are placed Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, at a memorial site on Bourbon Street in New Orleans near where 14 people were killed early Wednesday in a terrorist attack.
A former Princeton football star. An aspiring nurse. A college freshman. A cherished son. A devoted mom. These are among the victims of the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that lef t ...
New Orleans: Louisiana: 1 [n 1] 5 6: 2025 New Orleans truck attack: A man who was inspired by the Islamic State and is also believed to have planted bombs around the area, drove a rented truck through Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, attempting to strike revelers during New Year's celebrations. The man killed fourteen people and injured ...
Mark James Robert Essex (August 12, 1949 [4] – January 7, 1973) was an American serial sniper and black nationalist known as the "New Orleans Sniper" who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve others, in two separate attacks in New Orleans on December 31, 1972, and January 7, 1973. Essex was killed ...