Diary Revisits American Tragedy
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On March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette, 25, was executed at Auburn State Prison in New York for the murder of his pregnant lover, Grace Brown, on an Adirondack lake in 1906. His sensational trial inspired the Theodore Dreiser novel âAn American Tragedy,â the 1951 film âA Place in the Sunâ and an opera staged by the Metropolitan Opera. Now, as the 100th anniversary of Gilletteâs electrocution approaches, Hamilton College has published âThe Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette,â taken from papers donated to the college last year by Gilletteâs grandniece, Marlynn McWade-Murray, The Associated Press reported. The editors, Jack Sherman and Craig Brandon, said Gilletteâs writings offer neither an explicit admission of guilt nor any clear assertion of innocence, but they do provide a window into his character and his metamorphosis in prison from a blithe youth into an introspective, compassionate, religious adult. In the penultimate entry in the diary, Gillette wrote: âIn all that I have done, I hope I have done as men would have me do. I know that I am right with God, and that is the all important thing.â.
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&#34;This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss.&#34;
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Just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened, stock market historian Yale Hirsch called the event &quot;a modern Pearl Harbor by a band of terrorists with more than twice the dead [that] will change our lives forever.
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Past personal and political catastrophe has become part of the narrative of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.âs campaign.
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The 11 September 2001  attacks on America are to be recalled at ceremonies in New York and across the US.
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A newly-discovered diary of a young Jewish woman has shed a haunting glimpse on her life in a Dutch prison camp in World War II before she was sent to her death, in an echo of the Anne Frank diaries.
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The nation observed the third anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, which took almost 3,000 lives.
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The 40th day since the siege of Middle School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia, brought forth a fresh outpouring of pain. It also laid bare some of the darker emotions, like vengeance.
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New Yorkers are doing all they can to preserve the way Sept. 11 is commemorated, and with it falling on a Tuesday for the first time since 2001, the day is another trigger of tragic memories.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.
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Nearly 2,000 pages spell out in excruciating detail something that is plain to Virgil Tiller but not the Federal Emergency Management Agency: His school was destroyed and needs to be rebuilt.
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Five years after terrorists wrought death from clear skies, the nation began its observation of a solemn anniversary Monday, with plans for silent reflection and fresh mourning for the nearly 3,000 lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
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America is are preparing readied to observe the third anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. In New York, a ceremony at Ground Zero will featuring parents and grandparents reading the names of the 2,749 victims of the attack.
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Events of the day entangled many of us in an emotional lost and found.
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A peek into the lives of American teens
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