FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008
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In 2008 the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) celebrated its 100th anniversary as a crime fighting and national security agency dedicated to protecting America and the international community from world dangers. During this period there really has not been the investigative equivalent of a dull moment for the FBI. Each point in the Bureau’s history has had its own cast of colorful characters, its own investigative challenges and controversies, its own milestones and major cases.
In this publication you will see an organization that has come a long way, starting as a tentative experiment, maturing and evolving at every step, learning from success and stumbles alike, gaining experience from the latest threat du jour, from gangsters and mobsters, from spies to several killers, from Internet predators to international terrorists.
Over the century the FBI has constantly added to its investigative and intelligence tools and talents, launching a Disaster Squad one decade, a “Most Wanted” list the next; a computer forensics team one decade, a terrorist fly team the next - each innovation building on the last like so many foundation stones.
Over time, the FBI became expert at mapping crime scenes and surveying targets; at poring over financial ledgers and diving into the depths in search of clues; at staging complex undercover operations and breaking cryptic codes; at peering into human cells to help determine guilt or innocence and using intelligence to get its arms around a threat and then disable it. As a result, the FBI has developed a suite of capabilities that is unmatched in any other single national security agency in the world.
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Source: United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Link to <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi100book.pdf/view">Timeline </a><br /><br />Link to the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/">FBI Historical Trailer</a>
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Fire History Timeline 1804-2004 National Park Service
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Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park as the world’s first national park in 1872, the desire to suppress, control, and manage fire has been an integral part of the management of federal park areas. Managers, first the U.S. Army and, after 1916, the National Park Service, have tried to put fire out, to use it as a tool while trying to prevent harm to property and people, and ultimately to strike some balance between the presence of fire and its enforced absence. These goals and ideals shifted over time, as culture and science suggested better alternatives.
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National Park Service <br /><br />Source: Night Monitoring. Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/careers-in-wildland-fire.htm">See more photographs from NPS</a>
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Also, source: Hal K. Rothman. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. See also: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/wildfire-history-timeline.htm">Timeline</a>
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Herbert Hoover Timeline 1874-1964
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Hoover, Herbert C. 1874-1964, mining engineer, humanitarian, U.S. secretary of commerce, and 31st president of the United States, was the son of Jesse Hoover, a blacksmith, and Hulda Minthorn Hoover, a seamstress and recorded minister in the Society of Friends (Quakers). Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, where he enjoyed fishing in the local creek and working in his father’s blacksmith shop. Hoover lived in Iowa only for the first decade of his life. Orphaned at the age of nine, he began an odyssey that would make him a multi-millionaire, international humanitarian, secretary of commerce, and 31st president of the United States. He left Iowa in November 1885, bound for Oregon and the home of his maternal uncle, Henry Minthorn. Hoover lived with the Minthorns for six years; at the age of 14 he left school to work as a clerk in his uncle's real estate business. Three years later, Hoover decided to pursue a career as mining engineer, Hoover sought to resume his studies and applied to a new school, Leland Stanford Junior University, set to open in 1891.
It was at Stanford that he made life long friends, found a mentor in Professor John Caspar Branner; and met his future wife, Lou Henry. He was active in extracurricular activities, serving as student body treasurer and as manager of both the baseball and football teams. In 1928, when President Coolidge chose not to run for another term, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination despite never having held an elective office. In the November election, he defeated Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic governor of New York, in a landslide.
As president, Hoover had hoped to govern in the progressive tradition of Theodore Roosevelt. And true to his dream, he devoted the first eight months of his presidency to a variety of social, economic, and environmental reforms. Following the stock market “crash” of October 1929, the president became increasingly preoccupied with the collapse of the American economy. He established new agencies such as the Federal Farm Board, the Federal Drought Relief Committee, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The president would not, however, provide direct federal relief to the unemployed. As an alternative, he promoted indirect relief through public works projects and loans to the states. His programs proved inadequate, however, as the number of unemployed workers increased from seven million in 1931 to eleven million in 1933. The president’s political reputation as the “master of emergencies” plummeted in the face of rising unemployment. He nonetheless mounted a vigorous campaign for reelection in 1932 and traveled the country by train defending his policies at every stop. But it came as no surprise to Hoover that he lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the general election. Hoover departed Washington with a heavy heart on March 4, 1933.
Elmer Wesley Greene
Source: <a href="http://www.hoover.archives.gov/">Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum</a>
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Elmer Wesley Greene
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Link to <a href="https://hoover.archives.gov/timeline#event-/timeline/item/herbert-hoover-was-born">Herbert Hoover Timeline 1874-1964 </a><br /><br />Link to <a href="https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/president-herbert-hoover">Herbert Hoover Biological Sketch </a>
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History of the National Weather Service 1849-2013
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<a href="http://www.weather.gov/timeline">The timeline linked here documents the advancement of the National Weather Service between 1849 - 2013</a>
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Box kite - early 1900 method of assessing weather conditions
Weather kites were used to bring recording instruments to high levels. Temperature, pressure, humidity and winds were observed from kites. A meteogram is attached to measure the weather conditions.
Source: National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, US Department of Commerce
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Source: NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
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Circa 1900 - Box Kite
1992 - Satellite Image
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<a href="https://www.weather.gov/">National Weather Service</a>
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History of the United States Secret Service
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The above is linked to the documented history of the United States Secret Service from its creation in 1865, in Washington D.C., to 2008.
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Source: The United States Secret Service <a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/">www.secretservice.gov</a>
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See also: <a href="https://www.secretservice.gov/about/history/">Timeline of the United States Secret Service</a>
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NASA’s First A- Aeronautics History 1958-2008
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That the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is more than a space agency may come as a surprise to some. Aeronautics, the first A of the NASA acronym, has always been a part of NASA, but against the headline exploits of rocket launches, Moon landings, Space Shuttle missions, and Mars rovers, aeronautics is easily lost in the shadows of NASA’s marquee space programs. The list of accomplishments for NASA’s first A is long, and this book goes a modest way toward sketching these developments.
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NASA <br /><br />Source: Robert G. Ferguson National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Link to <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASAsFirstA-508-ebook.pdf">NASA Timeline </a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA">Wikipedia</a>
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National Science Foundation Celebrating 50 Years 1950-2000
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The U.S. national Science Foundation promotes the progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare and to secure the national defense among other other purposes.
The "Nifty50" are NSF-funded inventions, innovations and discoveries that have become commonplace in our lives.
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National Science Foundation<br /><br />Source: <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2000/nsb00215/nsb00215.pdf">The National Science Foundation Link to NSF Timeline</a>
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Link to <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nifty50/index.jsp">NSF Nifty50</a>
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Senator Edward Moore Kennedy - Timeline of Public Service
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<strong>"His energetic adherence to perseverance, his plain dogged determination, his ability to rise from the ashes…always with grace, and usually with a liberal dose of humor, were his trademarks…life itself inspired him."</strong> – Robert C. Byrd <br /><br />In a career spanning almost 47 years and ten presidencies, Edward Kennedy fought for almost every piece of important legislation that advanced civil rights, health care, immigration, education, and the economic well-being of Americans. His lasting commitment to freedom and democracy helped shape foreign policy and fuel his determination to achieve equality and justice for all.
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy - Nine Congressional Terms of Service 1962 - 2009 <br /><br />Source: Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate <br /><br />See: <a href="https://www.emkinstitute.org/timeline">Timeline of Public Service</a>
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See also: <a href="https://youtu.be/j8Y5fPb9m1w">Serve America Act 2002</a>
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Senator Robert J. Dole Born 1923- Served 45 Years in Public Office
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Robert Dole served for 45 years in public office including service in the Kansas state legislature, both houses of the U.S. Congress, as leader of his party’s national committee, floor leader in the U.S. Senate, and the Republican Party’s nominations for vice president and president of the United States. He left his imprint on a mass of legislation and campaigned for countless other candidates. As a committee chairman and party leader, he mastered the art of forging consensus and compromise. He also seasons the seriousness of politics and government with a ready supply of good humor, candor, and a common sense approach, earning him respect from both sides of the aisle. Overall he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 8 years and the Senate for more than 27 years
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U.S. Senate Leadership Portrait Collection <br /><br />Source: <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_32_00045.htm">United States Senate</a><br /><br />Source: Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas
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See also: <a href="http://doleinstitute.org/about-bob-dole/timeline-of-life/">Robert J. Dole Timeline</a>
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Senator Robert. C. Byrd (1917-2010) Longest Serving Member of the United States Congress
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Senator Robert Byrd was U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. Sen. Byrd served over 51 years of continuous service with an extraordinary lifetime attendance record of nearly 99 percent. Sen. Byrd has held more elected Senate leadership posts than any other member. These include secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference, Democratic whip, majority leader, minority leader, president pro tempore, and chairman of the Committee on Appropriations.
Michael Shane Neal
Robert C. Byrd <br /><br />U.S. Senate Leadership Portrait Collection Source: United States Senate <br /><br />Source: Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies See also: <a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm">1964 Civil Rights Filibuster</a> <br /><br />See also: <a href="https://www.byrdcenter.org/byrd-biography.html">Biography</a>
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Michael Shane Neal
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Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJcbzfsmW5w&feature=youtu.be">The Senator plays fiddle with the Harvest Band for then President Jimmy Carter, 1980 </a>
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