Dan Gable endured a rough upbringing, personal tragedy and athletic defeat at the highest level. But he never stopped, becoming the greatest American wrestler to ever compete.

Sources

A Wrestling Life by Dan Gable with Scott Schulte

The Champion Dan Gable from The US Olympic Museum website

Dan Gable Dominated as Wrestler and Coach by Douglass Looney, ESPN website

The Losses of Dan Gable by Wright Thompson, ESPN website

In 1970 the Rochester crime family boss Frank Valenti ordered a series of false flag bombings, hoping to draw the federal authorities’ attention away from his criminal organization and onto anti-war activists.

Sources

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires by Selwyn Raab

American Mafia: The History of its Rise to Power by Thomas Repetto

The New York City Historical Society exhibit on the Italian-American Mafia

Poundmaker was a Chief of the Plains Cree, a peacekeeping warrior who fought and defeated the Canadian government at the Battle of Cut Horse Creek. He shouldered the impossible task of preventing bloodshed, of calming the young warriors of the tribes and negotiating with an expansionist government that despised him. His story is one of the great tragedies of Canadian history.

Visit the website at https://www.shakingamerica.com/

Sources

Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian/White Relations in Canada by J.R. Miller
Footprints in the Dust by Douglas W. Light
https://canadaehx.com/2020/07/04/chief-poundmaker/
PoundmakerCN.ca