http://www.cooperativeresearch.org The Center for Grassroots Oversight aims to provide the public with a means to collaborate on investigations at the grassroots level. en-us http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=jfk_assassination_112263#jfk_assassination_112263 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=jfk_assassination_112263#jfk_assassination_112263 John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is assassinated during a political trip to Dallas, Texas. Kennedy is assassinated inside a motorcade, sitting alongside his wife Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, his wife Nellie Connally; driving the motorcade is Secret Service agent William Greer, who is sitting next to Roy Kellerman, assistant special agent-in-charge of the Secret Service White House detail. Before the first bullet hits him, Kennedy is waving to his right at a group of people standing near a sign reading "Stemmons Freeway". His right arm and hand are slightly over the side of the car. Approaching what is known as the "Triple Underpass", a railroad bridge converging three streets underneath, Mrs. Connally says to the president: "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you." Kennedy replies, "No, you certainly can't." According to the Warren Commission: "... as the President's open limousine proceeded at approximately 11 miles per hour along Elm Street toward the Triple Underpass, shots fired from a rifle mortally wounded President Kennedy and seriously injured Governor Connally. One bullet passed through the President's neck; a subsequent bullet, which was lethal, shattered the right side of his skull. Governor Connally sustained bullet wounds in his back, the right side of his chest, right wrist, and left thigh." thejournalistprospect 2013-02-25T18:02:05+01:00 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a011961jfkikecuba#a011961jfkikecuba http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a011961jfkikecuba#a011961jfkikecuba President Dwight D. Eisenhower and President-elect John F. Kennedy meet at the White House for a final briefing before Eisenhower leaves office. Eisenhower tells Kennedy that he must assume responsibility for the overthrow of Fidel Castro and his government in Cuba, and recommends the hastening of the proposed Cuban invasion. Eisenhower says, "[W]e cannot let the present government there go on." thejournalistprospect 2013-02-24T17:47:31+01:00 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a230pm091101NoCommercialFlights#a230pm091101NoCommercialFlights http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a230pm091101NoCommercialFlights#a230pm091101NoCommercialFlights The FAA announces that there will be no commercial air traffic in the United States for at least a day. According to CNN, the FAA says this operating status will remain until noon on September 12, "at the earliest." thejournalistprospect 2013-01-03T04:01:17+01:00 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=mumbai_2008_tmln_7#mumbai_2008_tmln_7 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=mumbai_2008_tmln_7#mumbai_2008_tmln_7 The Taj Majal Palace & Towers hotel in Mumbai is warned about the possibility of an attack, according to Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, which owns the hotel. The hotel takes the warning seriously and heightens security measures. Tata will state, "People couldn't park their cars in the portico where you had to go through a metal detector." Tata will also minimize the usefulness of the warning received, saying: "[I]f I look at what we had--which all of us complained about--it could not have stopped what took place. They didn't come through that entrance." A. Vaidyanathan, an economist and member of the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India who is a frequent guest at the hotel, stays there this month and will be there when the attacks begin on November 26 . Following the attacks, Vaidyanathan will tell the The Hindu newspaper: "The last time I went, last month, there was very tight security. You could not get into the [Taj] Palace. There is an entrance there, which is closed. At the entrance to the tower, they had two-level security. First, when you enter the open parking, where the cars are parked, you had a very heavy metal frame, your baggage was searched. ... At the entrance of the foyer, there was another metal detector and you were personally searched and so on." He will return in November and notice these security measures are no longer in place: "This time I noticed it had gone. We could go straight to the Palace," he will later recall. thejournalistprospect 2012-06-23T11:02:30+02:00 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a0498columbineplan#a0498columbineplan http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a0498columbineplan#a0498columbineplan Eric Harris, one of the teenage gunmen who will be involved in the Columbine High School massacre, writes in his diary about a plot to hijack a plane and crash it into New York City. Harris and Dylan Klebold are two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, who on April 20, 1999, will kill 12 of their peers and then themselves in the school's library. After the shooting, investigators will discover Harris's journals. An entry written about a year before the massacre reads in part: "If by some wierd as s--t luck my and V survive and escape we will move to some island somewhere or maybe mexico, new zelend or some exotic place where americans cant get us. if there isnt such a place, then we will hijack a hell of a lot of bombs and crash a plane into NYC with us inside iring away as we go down." CNN will first report on the diary entry April 26, 1999, a week after the shootings, but will not quote from it until the December 6, 2001 report. matt 2012-05-06T06:57:58+02:00