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There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.

One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretch-ing as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting com-munists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist re-gime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the pro-fessor and asked a strange question.

He asked: “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?”

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food.”

“When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.”

“They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.”

“The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.”

“Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgot-

ten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Com-munism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supple-mental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsi-dies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a

time as the govern-ment forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.

One should al-ways remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can

never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful govern-ment “help” is a problem confronting the future of the American Republic, you might want to share this with your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably not share this.

But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!

Catching Pigs

A PARABLE ON SOCiALiSM

A thought to remember, Marx said,“Remove one freedom per generation

and soon you will have no freedom andno one will have noticed.”

“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.”

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By Merrill MatthewsObamacare has pushed us over the

entitlements tipping point. In 2011 some 49.2 percent of U.S. households received benefits from one or more government programs—about 151 mil-lion out of an estimated 306.8 million Americans—according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last October.

Currently, around 6 million to 7 mil-lion Americans who have signed up for Obamacare are receiving taxpayer-provided subsidies (though the admin-istration’s numbers cannot be trusted, it’s all we have to work with). There are another 3 million who have signed up for Medicaid.

That means some 10 million Ameri-cans—or a total of about 161 million—are now getting government subsidies (though the final number might be somewhat lower since some may have been receiving benefits already).

Thus, perhaps 52 percent of U.S. households—more than half—now re-ceive benefits from the government, thanks to President Obama. And Mr.

WE’VE CROSSED THE TiPPiNG POiNT

Most Americans now receive gov’t. benefits

Entitlement is just getting started. If Obamacare is not repealed millions more will join the swelling rolls of those dependent on government hand-outs.

Conservatives have long dreaded the day when the U.S. crossed the half-way mark because of all the implica-tions for individual and fiscal responsi-bility. As Benjamin Franklin reportedly said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” They learned that from the 2008 election and turned out in big numbers again in 2012.

It’s not that all of those Americans are “takers,” as former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested. Some 42 million are seniors receiving Social Security and Medi-care. They aren’t getting something for free; they faithfully paid into the system for decades with the expecta-tion that they would be getting it back at retirement. And they deserve every

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penny they get—or may not get if So-cial Security or Medicare has to cut benefits.

But attitudes can change once people are on the receiving end of benefits, even if they are owed those benefits. Seniors who support limited government and fiscal responsibility—in short, the exact opposite of Obama’s policies—become very protective of their benefits. And that makes change difficult.

The bigger issue is the public at large. Conservatives worked so hard to repeal Obamacare over the past few years because once the taxpayer-provided subsidies started to flow, mil-lions would embrace the entitlement and repeal would be very tough. Es-pecially when the media start running stories about people losing their cover-age because of heartless Republicans changing the law—although forcing millions to lose their coverage because of Obamacare didn’t stop liberals.

They knew if they were able to ride out the Obamacare rollout storm, the law would likely be here to stay. Frank-lin D. Roosevelt captured this mental-ity when he observed: “We put those payroll contributions there so as to give contributors a legal, moral and po-litical right to collect their pensions.… With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social se-curity program.”

And no politicians have; indeed, they have only grown the program over the years.

The country has crossed the entitle-ment tipping point. The only hope is to try to transition some of these pro-grams, primarily Social Security but also Medicare, into personal retire-ment accounts. They would, over time, be better funded, actually belong to the worker or retiree, and, perhaps most importantly, they would take mil-lions of Americans off the government benefits roll.

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Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the June 1968 assassination of U.S. presidential can-didate Robert F. Kennedy, failed to persuade a federal judge to set him free because he was innocent of the crime.

In a January decision, U.S. Dis-trict Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell in Los Angeles said Sirhan “failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence” that might excuse his having failed to seek his freedom sooner in federal court.

Sirhan had filed his petition for ha-beas corpus, which could have resulted in his freedom, in May 2000.

William Pepper, a lawyer for Sirhan, did not immediately respond on Tues-day to requests for comment.

Sirhan, now 70, was wrestled to the ground with a gun in his hand after Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after Kennedy won the Califor-nia Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy died the next day.

The defendant was sentenced to death in 1969, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison after Cali-fornia banned the death penalty.

Sirhan was last denied parole in 2011, and is being housed in a state prison in San Diego. His next parole “suitability” hearing will be held by March 2, 2016, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

In seeking Sirhan’s freedom, de-

Kennedykillerdeniedfreedom

fense lawyers argued that he had not been physically in position to fire the fatal shot, and that a sec-ond shooter and gun may have been re-sponsible.

The judge, however, said Sirhan’s case was not strong enough.

“Though petitioner advances a num-ber of theories regarding the events of June 5, 1968, petitioner does not dispute that he fired eight rounds of gunfire in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel,” O’Connell wrote. “Petitioner does not show that it is more likely than not that no juror, act-ing reasonably, would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

In rejecting Sirhan’s bid for free-dom, O’Connell accepted an August 2013 recommendation by U.S. Magis-trate Judge Andrew Wistrich.

Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York when he died at age 42. His older brother John F. Kennedy, the for-mer U.S. president, was 46 when he was assassinated in November 1963.

The case is Sirhan v Galaza et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 00-05686.

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Lyndon B. Johnson36th President of the U.S.

Served from Nov. 22, 1963 to Jan. 20, 1969

World Events• Six-Day War — Arab

forces attack Israel begin-ning the Yom Kippur War when Arab forces were defeated and Israel took possession of additional territory

• Pirate radio stations in the U.K. were outlawed

• Earthquake in Cara-cas, Venezuela kills 240

• Foot and Mouth epidemic in Britain is the worst this century and the govern-ment issued additional guidelines to help stop the spread of the disease including stopping all horse racing

• Presidential hopeful U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over

• Interracial marriage is declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in the “Loving v. Virginia” case and

barred Virginia and by im-plication other states from making interracial marriage a crime

• The 25th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified which deals with succession to the Presidency

• Thurgood Marshall be-comes first black justice on the Supreme Court

• Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing induc-tion into Army

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Hubert Humphrey38th Vice President of the U.S.Served from Jan. 20, 1965 to Jan. 20, 1969

“The noblest search is the search for excellence.”

– Johnson

North Vietnam and spends 5-1/2 years in prison

• Soccer riot in Sivas, Turkey kills 41

• The tanker “Torrey Canyon” runs aground on rocks off Land’s End, U.S., causing an ecological di-saster

• Nuclear Space Weap-ons Treaty is ratified by world powers

U.S. News• Race riots break

out in a number of cit-ies including Cleveland, Newark and Detroit

John McCain

Loving v. Virginia

• President Johnson asks for 6% increase on taxes to support the Viet-nam War

• Tens of thousands Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.

Popular Culture• Evel Knievel jumps his motor-

cycle over 16 cars lined up in a row• Beatles release “Sgt. Pepper’s

Lonely Hearts Club Band”• Elvis Presley marries Priscilla• Carroll Shelby Mustang GT-

500 Fastback released

Movies• The Dirty Dozen• You Only Live Twice• Casino Royale• A Man for All Seasons• Thoroughly Modern Millie• To Sir, With Love• Guess Who’s Com-

ing to Dinner?

1967 Chevy Corvette


TV shows• Bonanza• The Red Skelton Hour• The Andy Griffith Show• The Lucy Show• The Jackie Gleason Show• Green Acres

• Daktari• Bewitched• Beverly Hillbillies• Gomer Pyle, USMC

Music• “To Sir With Love,” Lulu

• “The Letter,” Box Tops• “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobby

Gentry• “Windy,” Association

• “I’m A Believer,” Monkees• “Light My Fire,” Doors

• “Happy Together,” Turtles• “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,”

Frankie Valli

BORN THiS YEAR: Will Ferrell, actor. Above left: Julia Roberts, actress; Vin Diesel, actor;

Pam Anderson, actress; Kurt Cobain, musician

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HEALTH

By John Johnson

People who got a subsidy from ObamaCare to help pay for their health insurance are getting a not-so-pleasant surprise on their taxes: H&R Block reports that 52% of peo-ple who got subsidies have to pay back a chunk of that money to the government.

The aver-age payback is $530, equating to a 17% drop in returns, reports the Hill. The main reason for the pay-back? Filers’ 2014 income came in higher than expected, and thus the subsidies they received were too high.

“It’s costing taxpayers a large percentage of their refund—a re-fund many of them count on to pay household expenses,” say H&R Block VP Mark Ciaramitaro. The fig-ures are based on only the first six weeks of the filing season and could change. On the upside, about 38% of ObamaCare filers found out they were getting an average credit of $366 because their subsidies were too low, reports Forbes. So far, the average penalty for those without health insurance is $172, and Forbes thinks many filers who learn of the penalty will take advantage of a new special enrollment period (from March 15 to April 30) put into place for just that reason.

By Rob Quinn

The FBI is offering a record-break-ing $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a Russian hack-er accused of infecting up to a million computers with software that stole passwords and sucked at least $100 million out of bank accounts. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, whose on-line aliases include “lucky12345″ and “slavic,” is accused of running what the FBI calls a “tightly knit gang of cybercriminals” that created a botnet called “GameOver Zeus,” Ars Technica reports. The FBI’s wanted poster lists more than a dozen charges against him,

By Matt Cantor

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald last year took over a de-partment facing no small amount of scandal—and now he’s stirred up con-troversy of his own. It started when he was being taped by CBS while speak-ing with a homeless veteran in Los An-geles, the Huffington Postreports. The man said he’d been in special forces, to which the former Procter & Gamble CEO, who’s a military veteran himself, said, “Special forces? What years? I was in special forces!” But he wasn’t: He spent most of his service in the 82nd

VA chief lied, said hewas Special Forces

Airborne Division. “I have no excuse,” McDonald tells the Huffington Post. “I was not in special forces.”

In a statement to the Military Times, McDonald notes that the comment was “inaccurate, and I apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement. I have great respect for those who have served our nation in special forces.” He explained the situation to the Huffing-ton Post: “I reacted spontaneously and I reacted wrongly” to the man saying he had been in special forces. He says he had “no intent in any way to describe my record any different than it is.” The White House says it takes McDonald

“at his word.” But just last week, the Military Times notes, McDonald said on Meet the Press that 60 VA employ-ees had recently been let go over the hospital scandal; he then walked back the claim, saying just eight had been fired.

U.S. offersrecord bountyfor a hacker

including racketeering, identity theft, fraud, and money laun-dering. The previous biggest reward for a cybercriminal was the $1 million offered for Ro-manian eBay scammerNicolae Popescu, reports Vocativ.

Bogachev and his gang were also behind the “Cryp-tolocker” ransomware that held files on a user’s computer hostage until they paid up, authorities say. “Although we were able to significantly disrupt the GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker criminal enterprise, we have not yet brought Bogachev himself to justice,” a Justice Department spokeswoman says.

Bogachev is believed to still be in Russia, and even with the reward, it may be hard to arrest him because there is no extradition treaty with the U.S., reports the BBC. (An-other hacker says he was busted after using his cat’s name as his password.)

Half of Obamacare enrollees taking hit on returns

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By Jenn GidmanAs if online dating weren’t fraught

with enoughpitfalls, an IBM study pub-lished yesterday found that 26 of 41 popular Android dating apps, or 63%, had “medium to severe” security vul-nerabilities that could leave users open to hacks, Reuters reports. And almost half of the companies reviewed for the report had workers who tapped into such apps—and then used the same phone at work, opening up their em-ployers to cyberissues as well. “Your contacts list … your stored images. [Hackers] can actually also potentially access features on the device—so your camera, your microphone, even your GPS location,” says the security intel-ligence director of IBM Security, per CBS New York.

How likely (and incredibly creepy) is that? The report reveals 73% of top dating apps can tell your past and pres-ent GPS locations, while 34% can get into your camera. Which means, on a not-so-romantic front, that hackers can possibly stalk your daily activity, scroll

Your dating app could bring down the entire office

REPORT WARNS USiNG SAME PHONE FOR WORK, PLAY COULD EXPOSE COMPANY TO HACKERS

through images, and even take over your dating profile, IBM’s Security In-telligence notes. And if the electronic intruders can hijack your camera and mic, they can potentially spy on busi-ness meetings and access sensitive company data on your phone. IBM says it doesn’t want to discourage people from using the apps, but it preaches some common-sense tips: Don’t give out too much personal info on dating sites, don’t ignore the security updates and patches your phone occasionally asks you to make, and mix up your pass-words for all online accounts and email addresses. (Maybe this informational STD app will keep hackers away.)

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SUDOKUThe rules to play Sudoku are quite simple. Fill in the blanks

so that each row, each column, and each of the nine 3x3 grids contain one instance of each of the numbers 1 through 9.

Just for

LaughsFamily tradition

A man wants to cook a fancy meal for his wife, so he makes his mother’s recipe for beef roast. Before putting the roast into the oven, he cuts off the end. His wife asks him why he did that.

“I dunno,” he says. “My mom always did that. I think it has to do with the meat cooking more evenly.”

“But that’s a very expensive cut of meat,” says the wife, “and you just threw away a good piece of it!”

So they call the mother. The son asks, “Mom, when you make beef roast, why do you always cut off the end?”

“I’m not sure,” she says. “My mother always did that. I think it was a super-stition she had from the old country.”

So they call the grandmother. “Grandma, when you made beef roast, why did you always cut off the end?”

“This probably isn’t a problem for you,” she replies, “but my pan was very small.”

Fairy tale beginning“Daddy,” a little girl asked her fa-

ther, “do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once upon a time’? “

“No, sweetheart,” he answered. “Some begin with ‘If I am elected.’”

Zen of vend“Make me one with every-

thing.” says the Buddhist to the tofu hot dog vendor.

Then, after getting his tofu hot dog, the Buddhist hands the vendor a twenty dollar bill.

The vendor takes the money and begins helping the next customer.

The Buddhist looks puzzled and asks the vendor, “Where is my change?”

The vendor replies, “Change comes from within.”

Serious negotiatorThe maid asked for a raise, and the

wife was upset.She asked, “Now, Helen, why do you

think you deserve a pay increase?”Helen: “There are three reasons.

The first is that I iron better than you.”Wife: “Who said that?”Helen: “Your husband.”Wife: “Oh.”Helen: “The second reason is that I

am a better cook than you.”Wife: “Who said that?”Helen: “Your husband.”Wife: “Oh.”Helen: “The third reason is that I am

better at sex than you.”Wife: “Did my husband say that as

well?”Helen: “No, the gardener did.”Wife: “So, how much do you want?”

Financial transparencyA man is getting into the shower

just as his wife is finishing up her show-er when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.

After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,…

“Who was that?” “It was Bob the next door neighbor,” she replies. “Great!” the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

Know your jobA priest offered a lift to a Nun. She

got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said,”Father, remember Psalm 129?” The priest removed his hand. But,changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, “Father, remember

Psalm 129?” The priest apologized “Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.” Ar-riving at the convent, the nun went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, “Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.”

Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Word playA fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax

is a fine for doing well.

Reverse psychologyJust some advice for newly married

men. You have been drinking with friends, it’s 2 am and you want to enter your house quietly so as not to waken your beloved.

As you near home you cut the car lights, turn off the engine and coast up to your house. Close the car door very quietly. Close the front door very qui-etly and tiptoe up to the bedroom. Just as you are about to get in bed, she turns over and yells “where the hell have you been till 2 am?”

Yours has been a misguided ap-proach. You should instead leave the car lights on bright, gun the engine, and squeal to a halt in front of the house. Slam the door to the car. Slam the door to the house, and stomp up the stairs singing “I’m in the mood for love.” I guarantee she will pretend to be asleep.


including experienced stickup men “Hand-some” Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley and John Hamilton—to get the drop on their guards and escape. The timing couldn’t have been better. Dillinger had been arrested at a girlfriend’s house only a few days before, and was languishing in jail in Lima, Ohio. On Oc-tober 12, the newly liberated Pierpont and two other men waltzed in the front

door and busted him out, gunning down the county sheriff in the process.

4. He robbed police stations. While most criminals stayed as far away from lawmen as possible, Dillinger was will-ing to march right into their headquar-ters with gun in hand. Shortly after be-ing sprung from jail in October 1933, Dillinger and his band carried out a pair of audacious heists on the police stations at Auburn and Peru, Indiana. As bewildered deputies looked on, the gangsters emptied their gun cabinets of Thompson submachine guns, shot-guns, rifles, tear gas guns, bullet proof vests and more than a dozen pistols. The crooks immediately put the arsenal to use committing a wave of bank heists that left two police officers dead.

5. Dillinger was a nationwide celebri-ty. Dillinger’s famous robberies and get-aways saw his face splashed across news-papers and newsreels as much as some Hollywood stars. An Indianapolis lottery on when he would be captured proved so popular it had to be shut down, and his father was offered a small fortune to do public speaking engagements. When Dillinger and his gang were arrested in Tucson, Arizona, scores of people filed through the city jailhouse just for the opportunity to lay eyes on the dashing

Born in Indianapolis, John Dillinger, the Tommy gun-wielding gangster, robbed at least a dozen banks and led police and federal agents on a yearlong chase across the Midwest before being gunned down outside a Chicago movie theater in July 1934. Below, learn 10 surprising facts about the short and infamous life of the man the authorities branded “Public Enemy No. 1.”

1. Dillinger served in the Navy. Dill-inger began his criminal career at the tender age of 20, when he boosted a car near Mooresville, Indiana and went on a joyride through Indianapolis. Confront-ed and nearly gunned down by police, he decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy to escape arrest. Dillinger later spent a few months shoveling coal aboard the battleship Utah, but the future gangster didn’t take well to military discipline. He was repeatedly censured for insub-ordination and going AWOL, and spent several days in solitary confinement be-fore finally deserting for good in Decem-ber 1923.

10 thingsyou may not know about

criminal. Businesses even used him as an unsanctioned celebrity endorsement. Upon learning that the car-loving out-law drove their automobile, one Hudson dealership hung a banner reading, “Dill-inger Chooses the 1934 Hudson For His Personal Use.” When the robber later switched to a Ford, the company printed brochures saying, “Will they catch John Dillinger? Not until they get him out of a Ford V8!”

7. Dillinger underwent facial recon-structive surgery to hide his identity. By late-May1934, Dillinger’s reputation—and his easily recognizable mug—was beginning to catch up to him. He’d been shot in the leg during a shootout with agents from the FBI (then known as the Division of Investigation) in late March, and had only narrowly escaped an am-bush by G-Men at a resort in Wisconsin a month later. Desperate to change his appearance, he paid $5,000 to enlist the services of Wilhelm Loeser and Harold Bernard Cassidy, a pair of underworld plastic surgeons. After anaesthetizing Dillinger with ether, the doctors gave the gangster a rudimentary facelift, re-moved several moles and scars, filled in his famous cleft chin and used chemi-cals to burn off his fingerprints. The procedure proved excruciating, and Dillinger was decidedly unsatisfied with the results. Upon looking in the mirror, he supposedly exclaimed, “Hell, I don’t look any different than I did!”

9. The federal government spent more money trying to catch him than he stole. Dillinger and his gang robbed at least a dozen banks and netted a total loot of around $500,000 (roughly $7 mil-lion in modern day currency), but his take paled in comparison to the amount of money the FBI spent trying to catch him. According to the Associated Press, the nascent government agency racked up a tab of some $2 million on the man-hunt.

2. He spent most of his adult life in prison. In September 1924, a 21-year-old Dillinger was sent to prison after being nabbed in a botched robbery on an elderly grocer. The young hood spent the next eight and a half years doing time with some of the Mid-west’s most hardened convicts and get-ting a comprehensive education in the tricks of the criminal trade. Only days after winning parole in May 1933, a thoroughly unrehabilitated Dillinger hooked up with an Indianapolis gang and committed a series of grocery store and restaurant stickups. He graduated to bank robbery a few weeks later, kick-ing off the yearlong crime spree that would make him the nation’s most want-ed gangster.

3. Dillinger helped bust his fellow gang members of out of jail. Dillinger committed a string of high profile heists during the summer of 1933, but he was desperate to reunite with some of his old prison buddies to form an ace bank robbing gang. That September, he began plotting to break his would-be accom-plices out of the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Dillinger conspired to have three .38 pistols hidden in a crate of thread bound for the jail’s shirt making factory, allowing 10 convicts—

Did You Know?Shortly after John Dillinger’s death in

July 1934, several molded plaster casts

were taken of his lifeless face. FBI

Director J. Edgar Hoover proudly dis-

played one of these death masks out-

side his office for the rest of his career.

By EvanAndrews

military press zone 2, march 1, 2015

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