On March 15, 1947, at 11:45 PM, the weather was probably between 50 and 60 degrees on a typically starry night. Walter E. Overell, 62 and his wife Beulah, 57 were aboard their 47 foot Yacht, the Mary E, which was moored in the harbor, when an explosion aboard shattered the still of the night while many of the residents were either in bed asleep or about to go to bed and sent the yacht to the bottom of the shallow harbor. The Explosion was heard by Newport Beach police officers Lawrence Goddard and George W. Calihan who were on patrol in the area. They saw the boat sinking and called the fire...
On March 15, 1947, at 11:45 PM, the weather was probably between 50 and 60 degrees on a typically starry night. Walter E. Overell, 62 and his wife Beu...
This book is a history of the United States in the last 3 quarters of the century and of its people as experienced by a typical member of the lower class; those who defended the country and evolved into the strongest and largest middle class in modern history. I was born in 1929. The USA was reborn in 1929, cleansed of its economic sins by the Great Crash and the New Deal. I believe the life span of our nation as we know it today, is concurrent with my life and my generation. I was born in poverty created by this rebirth and lived in poverty until the end of the war when a brand new middle...
This book is a history of the United States in the last 3 quarters of the century and of its people as experienced by a typical member of the lower cl...
