2020 was a horrific year in many ways.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to over 400,000 deaths in the U.S., over 22 million people lost their jobs, and the U.S. economy lost billions of dollars.
Meanwhile, a new administration was sworn in on Jan. 20, faced with three major crises.
The new president must deal with 1) the raging pandemic, 2) the economic problems due to so many Americans being out of work, and 3) the newest crisis that became painfully apparent on Jan. 6 â the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
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Although some reports describe those involved in the insurrection as “Trump nationalists,” the participants were expanded to include off-duty police officers and far-right militants including white supremacists, members of QAnon and the Proud Boys.
Cincinnati Magazine
January 8, 2021
On May 25, 1878, John Scott Harrison died at his farmhouse in North Bend, Ohio. He’s the only person to have been both the son and the father of U.S. presidents. As his family prepared to bury the distinguished farmer and politician, they were sidetracked by a despicable crime. A Harrison family friend, August Devins, died of tuberculosis in what should have been the prime of his youth. Loved ones suffered a second blow when they discovered that Devins’s body had been stolen. The Harrisons vowed to recover his remains.
Illustration by Donna Grethen
Medical schools of the day required cadavers to train future doctors, and still do. Under Ohio law, colleges received the unclaimed bodies of people who died in public institutions, but legal acquisition didn’t satiate the need. More than 1,000 students attended Cincinnati medical schools annually; the Ohio Medical College alone could require 300 cadavers a semester. Grave robbers, known euphem