James Ruppert: The Easter Sunday Massacre
On Easter Sunday, March 30, 1975, in Hamilton, Ohio, a family gathering turned into one of America’s deadliest familicides. Forty-one-year-old James Urban Ruppert was an unemployed draftsman. He shot and…
On Easter Sunday, March 30, 1975, in Hamilton, Ohio, a family gathering turned into one of America’s deadliest familicides. Forty-one-year-old James Urban Ruppert was an unemployed draftsman. He shot and…
The Cashtown Inn has stood along the old Chambersburg Turnpike for more than two centuries. Built sometime between 1797 and 1806, it served travelers passing between Chambersburg and Gettysburg. They…
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History gets things wrong all the time. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, a name misspelled in a record, a place misidentified in a report. Other times, those small errors snowball…
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