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It's corn on the cob season! Cat on the Cob: 1951




The USS Neshaminy, a US Civil War steam frigate, was launched on Oct 5, 1865. In May 1869, it was changed to the USS Arizona, but on August 10, 1869, it was renamed the USS Nevada.


USS Neshaminy was a large 3,850-ton screw frigate with a length of 335 feet that was under construction at the Philadelphia Navy Yard when she was surveyed by Navy officials who found her construction work to be shoddy, piss poor craftmanship. Construction was halted by the Navy, which eventually sold her for scrap. In June 1874, she was sold to John Roach for $25,000 (equivalent to $694,779 in 2024), in partial payment for rebuilding monitor USS Puritan (1864).

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1921) by United States Naval War Records Office.



Captured by Hiromichi Matsuda just 15 minutes after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, this image—taken from Koyagi-jima Island is one of the earliest known ground-level photographs documenting the immediate aftermath.




BIKINI "PIN UP"
"The high flying "Dave's Dream" has laid its egg of destiny over the coral of far Bikini. And so "Gilda" with its blow-up girl has been strewn to interstellar space."
Motion Picture Herald, Jul 6, 1946 / August 10, 1946: Australia Asks State to Cede Censor Power




August 10, 1974: “The world in the past 24 hours has seemed to mark time as the US presidential succession worked itself out.”


- The President's Daily Brief for August 10, 1974, the first full day of Gerald Ford’s presidency.


August 10, 1975: A long-anticipated episode of 60 Minutes featuring an interview between Morley Safer and First Lady Betty Ford airs on television. Ford is surprisingly candid in the conversation, saying that she “wouldn’t be surprised” if her daughter was having premarital sex and that “she smokes marijuana, but all young people should experience that.”


It is believed that Betty was intoxicated during the interview. Filming took place in the White House solarium on July 21, 1975.




60 Minutes - The First Lady transcript


August 10, 1975: Australian journalist David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon for a payment of $600,000 plus a 20-percent share of any profits. It was reported that Nixon is effectively broke, and he has only a few hundred dollars in his bank account - he needs this money. His lifestyle is maintained by wealthy friends and former donors. First installment:




August 10, 1984: the John Milius film RED DAWN opened in theaters and was a Timothy McVeigh favorite. "I love the bomb. It's sort of a religious totem to me. Like the plague in the Middle Ages, it's the hand of God coming out indiscriminantly to snatch you." - RED DAWN auteur John Milius, American Film magazine interview, May 1982.


Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018) by Kathleen Belew.



August 10, 1992: TIME magazine published Ted Gup's Cold War Continuity of Government (COG) extravaganza. The cover story contains the irresistible tidbit re: the Arthur Godfrey doomsday message. TIME 'Doomsday' cover story and the reporter's appearance with former Mount Weather chief J. Leo Bourassa on LARRY KING LIVE.

"The Doomsday Blueprints" documents Mount Weather AKA "Special facilities Division", headed by retired Air Force Col. Joseph Leo Bourassa [1917-2000], and President Eisenhower learned that the U-2 cat was out of the bag while at Mt Weather during the annual Operation Alert 1960 (Civil defense relocation drill).

It was J. Leo Bourassa that told TIME in 1992 he was the one who broke the news to Ike. However, there are also reports that it was CIA director Allen Dulles.



The TIME magazine COG issue prompted many FOIA requests. The Eisenhower Library archivist David Haight assessed the chances of declassification as "not...good." He was right. Refiled in 2017 and still zero response to this day. The Arthur Godfrey voice recording for the "Doomsday tape" made some time in late 50s has never been found or it's locked in vault for all eternity. Godfrey was a member of "The Eisenhower Ten" (E-10) aka Continuity of government (COG), meaning he was part of the "Deep State."