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The "Big Four" graft prosecutors (left to right): Francis J. Heney, William J. Burns, Fremont Older, and Rudolph Spreckels. The San Francisco graft trials were a series of attempts from 1905 to 1908 to prosecute public officials in the city of San Francisco, California, for graft and other political corruption.
Francis Joseph Heney (March 17, 1859 – October 31, 1937) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Heney is known for killing an opposing plaintiff in self-defense and for being shot in the head by a prospective juror during the San Francisco graft trials.
Political boss Abe Ruef (left) on his way to San Quentin State Prison after he was convicted in the San Francisco Graft Trial of 1907–1908. In October 1906, Ruef ordered that District Attorney William Langdon be suspended, had himself named in Langdon's place, and as his first order, dismissed Langdon's deputy, Francis J. Heney. [7]
The San Antonio Contraceptive Study was a clinical research study published in 1971 about the side effects of oral contraceptives. Women coming to a clinic in San Antonio, Texas to prevent pregnancies were not told they were participating in a research study or receiving placebos. Ten of the women became pregnant while on placebos. [183] [184 ...
The California Reich is a 1975 documentary film on a group of neo-Nazis in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tracy, California, USA.They were members of the National Socialist White People's Party, another name for the American Nazi Party that was started by George Lincoln Rockwell.
The longtime E Street Band member was diagnosed with the blood cancer in 2018, and has since faced difficulties performing, she reveals in the new documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the ...
American Experience, originally titled The American Experience, is an American television program and a PBS documentary series created by Peter McGhee. The series airs documentaries about significant historical events or figures in United States history. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV, a television station and PBS affiliate located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH-TV creates non ...
Those six fateful words — “You skiied into my effing back” — are set to be immortalized on the small screen thanks to a new documentary about Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski crash lawsuit.