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Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police detective and commander in the Chicago Police Department.He was found guilty of lying about "directly participating in or implicitly approving the torture" of at least 118 people in police custody in order to force false confessions.
Giving Thanks is an American Public Media radio special that airs nationwide on Thanksgiving Day.It is hosted by John Birge.The show consists of classical music, songs, and dramatic readings all related to Thanksgiving.
Nevada State Fire Marshal Thomas J. Huddleston examining the bomb. The Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing took place on August 26–27, 1980, when several men masquerading as photocopier deliverers planted an elaborately booby trapped bomb containing 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of dynamite at Harvey's Resort Hotel ("Harveys" since 1986) in Stateline, Nevada, United States. [2]
John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist.He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship (1983), second prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival (1984), and five PROCAN Young Composers' Competition prizes between 1985 and ...
John Birges (born 1922), Mastermind of Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing; June Bingham Birge (born 1919), American author and playwright; Birge Clark (born 1893), American architect; Raymond Thayer Birge (born 1887), American physicist; Edward Bailey Birge (born 1868), American music educator; L. Birge Harrison (born 1854), American genre and ...
The John Birch Society (JBS) is an American right-wing political advocacy group. [1] Founded in 1958, it is anti-communist, [2] [3] supports social conservatism, [2] [3] and is associated with ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populist, and right-wing libertarian ideas. [12]
John Peter Berger (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ər / BUR-jər; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize , and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing , written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential.
"Birge's Western Sharpshooters" was a multi-state, Federal unit organized at St. Louis, Missouri and mustered into federal service on November 23, 1861. Initially two companies were raised in Ohio, three in Illinois, one in Michigan, and four were organized at St Louis' Benton Barracks of Missourians and detachments of volunteer candidates sent by recruiting officers from Iowa, Minnesota and ...