I would like to say a couple words about the revolution and the history of intelligence. This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature. Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. Even at the college level, we do not delve into the importance of intelligence during the american revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of the british over the americans, the british at almost every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been battle colonies didas the colon not. The americans had a small Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, that we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not actually support independence. Less than half of continental americans support independence. Thousands fought for the british. And many of
Here is a little damp and cold, we just drove back en route to from williamstown, massachusetts. So our first snow of the year in, of all places, the top peaks en route to in the berkshires, in the town of wait for it, florida and florida, mass situations. I always thought that was some kind of a joke. But anyway, it gets the first snow. This year and just a little harbinger of things to come and not enough to make the roads impassable, which will happen later on in the year. But anyway, i want to first thank a couple of folks who are here to thank our friends from cspan, who are going to be recording this for future use on television. Thank Rachel Hobson from the library, who was here making sure everything is set up properly and and most importantly, thank chris meyer, who is the sponsor of this series, a member of our board and a longtime member of the wellesley historical society. And also, just so you know, there will be refreshments. Youre after the talk by tom paine, although ma
First degree. Madam floor person, by which thiefy or cheer theories that was the mother and fiance gasping and crying when they heard the verdict on the killing of odin lloyd. Hernandez himself showed little emotion. He later mouthed to his loved ones be strong as the jury forewoman continued to read guilty on his other counts. The conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. We have new information at noon on the sand a. M. Ism vandalism at a gaithersburg temple. They have arrested a suspect. He is facing a couple of counts of damaging or defacing religious property. Graffiti on the shaare torah synagogue including swastikas and more. The beer pong rapist Joey Poindexter is convicted of assaulting five men. Some didnt know they were assaulted till Police Showed them videos they found on his computer. Prosecutors said he met them at pingpong tournaments and violated them at his home. He faces up to 200 years in prison. One person is in cr
How was the plane able to get so close to the capitol. This entire area is supposed to be a no fly zone. We dont have an answer to. That Capitol Police are not planning on holding a press conference today. They will probably put out more information but we dont know many details on how the plane was able to get so close to the capitol. Im Allison Barber wusa 9. A lot of people will be asking about that. Garrett hake has been investigating this. We have doug hughes, he told his local newspaper that he first came up with this idea two and a half years ago after his sons suicide. About a year ago he started to get more serious and he got a visit from the u. S. Secret service asking him how serious he really was. There was no apparent follow up. Then late last week, or two weeks ago he sat down with the Tampa Bay Times to layout all of his planes in case he didnt make it back. Hughes laid out his entire plan to the times in a video posted to the website. He took pains to explain his protes
Gorgeous but theres a greater likelihood were dealing with strong to severe storms later today. So youre looking at Severe Weather as we those this orange. Theres a greater likelihood those areas are indealing with Severe Weather. That includes just about everybody. Potential for strong winds that could lead to isolated wind damage and hail. The threat in the d. C. Metro area starts around 5 00. It starts at 4 00 for areas to the west. Keeping the close eye for the potential of strong winds that could lead to damage across the area. Heavy rain and small hail. The time period will be this afternoon and evening. There are flood warnings in effect for some rivers. To find out thaw head to my facebook and twitter pages. Barbara . Amelia thank you. Its happened again. Another person has hopped a white house fence and is in custody. Lets get to news 4s Megan Mcgrath with details about who this person is. Megan, good morning. Reporter well, with barbara, we just got new information in the las