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Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office.
This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to death coursed over the airwaves and across the Internet. None of the news outlets that had admiringly reported on Obama’s community-organizing efforts mentioned that the beating involved students from the very South Side neighborhoods where the president had once worked. Obama’s connection to the area was suddenly lost in the mists of time.
The DoodlerSketch snares suspects, but cases far from solved
A San Francisco beat cop thought he’d nabbed the Doodler on a lucky hunch no such luck. And then an explosive new lead emerged.
April 13, 2021 4:00 a.m.
Something about the guy was hinky, as cops like to say. He was walking on Castro Street and looked like he had something to hide. Held his arm stiff against his side over a bulge in his long pea coat.
Officer James Andre Boles was on foot patrol and zeroed in. It was Nov. 20, 1975, and everyone at police headquarters was talking about the Doodler. How he’d picked up five men over the previous year and a half at gay bars, drawing their likenesses before knifing them to death at hideaway sex hookup spots.
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The DoodlerKiller notches fifth victim then he gets sloppy
As the Doodler continues to terrorize gay men in San Francisco, the cops develop some important clues. And a victim lives to generate a suspect sketch
April 6, 2021 4:00 a.m.
The summer sun was sinking low when a hiker found the body. Decayed. The coroner determined the man had been lying there about 10 days. Stabbed and slashed to death.
San Francisco police detective Dan Cunningham and I retraced that hiker’s steps recently. We wanted to stand where he stood 45 years ago. At Lands End, where shrub-studded cliffs drop to the sea and the Golden Gate Bridge shimmers from the northeast. On a slope, across the road and down from the 16th hole of the Lincoln Golf Course.
AIDS first came to the world s attention with a June 5, 1981, report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among young gay men in Los Angeles. A second report on cases of PCP and Kaposi sarcoma in New York City and California followed a month later.
The disease that would come to be known as AIDS was first mentioned in the Bay Area Reporter in a July 2 Health Shorts column about Gay Men s Pneumonia potentially linked to poppers buried on page 34.
Dr. Robert Boland s gay health column in the August 13 issue was headlined New Bugs . No Alarm. Boland suggested Kaposi sarcoma (KS) and PCP might be linked to cytomegalovirus, a virus in the herpes family. No one knows what these new bugs have to do with gay life, he wrote. This is a truly hot issue and a number of eager researchers are involved. . Stay tuned for developments.
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