June 9
1623
English negotiate treaty with Potomac River tribes; after a toast symbolizing eternal friendship, Chiskiack chief & 200 followers drop dead from poisoned wine. (1623)
1954
Counsel for the U.S. Army Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) during hearings into alleged communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps. McCarthy attacked a member of Welch’s law firm, Frederick G. Fisher, as a communist for his prior membership in the National Lawyers Guild.
Army counsel Joseph N. Welch (left) confronts Sen Joseph McCarthy (right)
Said Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” The entire hearings and this encounter were broadcast live on television, a first, and was the beginning of the end for McCarthy’s power to spread fear.
1963
Arinell Ponder of SCLC & 5 students arrested & beaten for using white Trailways bus bathrooms, Winona, Miss. (1963)
1984
150,000 marched in London, England, for nuclear disarmament, protesting the presence of U.S. Cruise missiles on British soil.
1993
Police banned a vigil by Women in Black in Belgrade, Serbia.
Women in Black demonstrations combine art & politics
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 