August 1969 – Concord, California: Hal Donaldson’s father, a young Assembly of God preacher, was killed in a head on collision by a drunken driver on the way home from church. His mother was also in the car and was seriously injured, leaving 12-year-old Hal, his...
February 20, 1962 – Cape Canaveral, Florida: Imagine being strapped into a small capsule atop a 75-foot Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Well aware that in the past, several previous launches had exploded on take-off, you trust that rocket engineers have the...
2009, The New York Times – 400 Most Influential New Yorkers List: Pete Hamill, the distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, made “The 400 Most Influential New Yorkers in the Past 400 Years” list. When an...
October 1811 – Boston, Massachusetts: After applying to the American Board for Foreign Missions to become a missionary in India, Adoniram Judson discovered that single men were not accepted into the program. The twenty-three-year-old Brown University valedictorian and...
Walter grew up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri, in the early 1900’s. By age eight, he was selling his artwork to other children to earn spending money. His father thought his drawings were silly, but his mother thought he was Michelangelo. Walter dropped out of high...
Prisoners No. 66729 and 66730, sisters Betsie and Corrie, huddled under the small, dim light in the back of Barracks No. 28 so they could read their worn, smudged Bible, which they had miraculously smuggled into the prison. After standing for an hour at 4:30 AM that...