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Recent Ray Hanania columns you might have missed on President Carter, Tom Cotton, Keith Pekau, Camelot, and JFK assassination

Posted on February 1, 2025February 1, 2025 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Recent Ray Hanania columns you might have missed on President Carter, Tom Cotton, Keith Pekau, Camelot, and JFK assassination
Recent Ray Hanania columns you might have missed on President Carter, Tom Cotton, Keith Pekau, Camelot, and JFK assassination

Recent Ray Hanania columns you might have missed on President Carter, Tom Cotton, Keith Pekau, Camelot, and JFK assassination Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau continues to throw trash and lies at the residents of his Suburban Chicagoland community in an eNewsletter that is filled with political exaggerations and distortions attacking anyone who challenges his failed…

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WHY ENGLAND SLEPT releases “House of Pizza”

Posted on April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 By Ray Hanania No Comments on WHY ENGLAND SLEPT releases “House of Pizza”
WHY ENGLAND SLEPT releases “House of Pizza”

WHY ENGLAND SLEPT releases “House of Pizza” “House of Pizza,” an eclectic 12-song mix of post-rock, new age, jazz and prog, has been independently released by WHY ENGLAND SLEPT, a musical recording project led by Salem, MA singer-songwriter (and UIC alumnus/former Chicagoan) Don Hammontree. Hammontree, the guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter for the local band…

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Watching the solar eclipse during a different era as a child

Posted on April 3, 2024April 4, 2024 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Watching the solar eclipse during a different era as a child
Watching the solar eclipse during a different era as a child

Watching the solar eclipse during a different era as a child The first time I saw a Solar Eclipse was at O’Hare Airport in July 1963, in an era of science fiction, nuclear bombs and outer space aliens. I’m not sure the excitement is the same as today as then. By Ray Hanania Free/General/Tuesday April…

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Why is the government refusing to release all JFK investigation documents?

Posted on July 17, 2023July 17, 2023 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Why is the government refusing to release all JFK investigation documents?
Why is the government refusing to release all JFK investigation documents?

Why is the government refusing to release all JFK investigation documents? By Ray Hanania For my generation, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 was one of the most traumatic moments for my generation. It wasn’t just because of the shock of seeing the leader of the most powerful country in…

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“Conspiradentalism” and the murder of John F. Kennedy

Posted on November 26, 2020July 13, 2021 By Ray Hanania No Comments on “Conspiradentalism” and the murder of John F. Kennedy
“Conspiradentalism” and the murder of John F. Kennedy

“Conspiradentalism” and the murder of John F. Kennedy The murder of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 put a dark cloud over every Thanksgiving celebration since, especially given the failure of the government to convincingly resolve the mystery of who was behind the assassination and the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Many political…

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Podcast: The Politics of Massacres, race in America and are we great?

Posted on August 6, 2019November 29, 2019 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Podcast: The Politics of Massacres, race in America and are we great?
Podcast: The Politics of Massacres, race in America and are we great?

Podcast: The Politics of Massacres, race in America and are we great? Veteran columnist, author and former Chicago City Hall reporter Ray Hanania talks about three big issues in this episode of the “Ray Hanania on Politics” podcast. The first is the politics of Massacres. Why is there a difference in how the mainstream news…

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It was more than just “Walking on the Moon”

Posted on August 6, 2019July 13, 2021 By Ray Hanania No Comments on It was more than just “Walking on the Moon”
It was more than just “Walking on the Moon”

It was more than just “Walking on the Moon” There have been many big moments in history that I remember with clarity as if they just happened. Yet the biggest was Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Why have we stopped that quest? By Ray Hanania I remember many things vividly from history during my…

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Year of JFK Truth, and because lies continue

Posted on November 22, 2018November 29, 2019 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Year of JFK Truth, and because lies continue
Year of JFK Truth, and because lies continue

Year of JFK Truth, and because lies continue Originally published in the Southwest News-Herald Newspaper on March 22, 2013. Remembering as the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination approached the 50th year mark. All of the theories and conspiracies pushed down by the government, the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia and pro-government Historians who…

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