Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

R.I.P. Condor. 2025 has been a rough year for legends. R.I.P. Redford and Hackman, and oddly ironic, assassinations too.


Robert Redford, Dies at 89 (Variety)



Robert Redford: A Movie Star and American Maverick (LIFE magazine)



NY Times Bio on Robert Redford


A true American Maverick, he was our golden boy. Others will probably remember him best for other numerous great films, but I’ll always remember his iconic performance in The Natural (1984) — the greatest baseball movie of all time.



The Candidate (1972): The Car Scene (clip still relevant)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STAA6M_bvyU

While on Parkinson in 1980 (British chat show, presented by Sir Michael Parkinson), Redford talked about a long running practical joke between him and Paul Newman...




Sept 16, 1958: USS Grayback (SSG-574) became the first and only submarine to launch a SSM-N-9 Regulus II supersonic cruise missile. The Regulus missile II program was cancelled 3 months later due to cost as well as the development of the superior UGM-27 Polaris ballistic nuclear missile.




Sept 16, 1961: U.S. Underground Test Called 'Junior Size'
Nearby Las Vegas Doesn't Even Hear It; Kennedy Reports There Was No Fallout.
"The test shot yesterday was the 104th nuclear explosion at the Nevada proving grounds."

Operation Nougat: test shot Antler, W45 warhead, 2.6 kt. (Just a little firecracker) It was later discovered there was minor fallout. Nothing to worry about for Vegans.




Season 5, Episode 1 of the CBS TV Show "Have Gun Will Travel" (1957–1963) aired on Sept 16, 1961 and was set at a mining camp, about 2 1/2 hours ride from the doctorless town of Goldfield, NV (but absolutely not filmed there). The adventures of a gentlemanly gunfighter-for-hire, starring Richard Boone, Mary Fickett, George Kennedy.




Sept 16, 1969: An underground nuclear test named "Jorum" was detonated at the Nevada Test Site, 45 miles SSW from Rachel. The explosion triggered 115 small aftershocks in 3 hours. Image of the drill used to create the emplacement hole from Peter Merlin's book "Nevada Test Site." The United States Mandrel nuclear test series was a group of 52 nuclear tests conducted in 1969–1970.




Safe & secure. Home sweet home.
NASK Nuclear Attack Survival Kit as seen at Y-12 National Security Complex - New Hope Visitors Center.




Sept 16, 2001:

We need to go back to work tomorrow and we will. But we need to be alert to the fact that these evil-doers still exist. We haven't seen this kind of barbarism in a long period of time. No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people - and show no remorse. This is a new kind of—a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.  And the American people must be patient. I'm going to be patient.
— President George W. Bush, September 16, 2001

The White House

C-SPAN Clip: Bush - War on Terror = Crusade


There’s no place like home... so weird.


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