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Richard James Flaherty (November 28, 1945 — May 9, 2015) was a historically notable United States Army captain in Vietnam War service. As once the smallest serviceman in US history (standing at 4 feet 9 inches (1.45 m)) and inspired to undermine size-prejudice, investing his military leadership with insight and skills to survive bravery - Capt. Flaherty is today renowned as "The Giant Killer".
March 12, 1968 () Jeannie II shows up with a pair of potions, one that makes a person irresistibly lovable and the other detestable, and offers them to Jeannie for her use. But she secretly switches them and Jeannie sprinkles Tony with the wrong one, causing her to hate him with murderous intensity.
Flaherty had a strong showing in Allegheny County, which contains his home town of Pittsburgh, which Schweiker had won in 1968. The final election results represented a political divide between the eastern and western portions of the state, Schweiker in the east and Flaherty in the west, with the exception of Flaherty's slim 4,491 vote victory ...
1968; 1970; 1974; 1976; ... former State Representative from Adams County and candidate for U.S. Senate in 1976 and Lt ... Flaherty employed a general election ...
The battalion was commanded by Maj. Charity Adams (later Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley), the first Black woman to serve as an officer in the WAC. By the time the war ended, Adams was the highest ...
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C. She was valedictorian of Booker ...
The race began with a primary that slated an impressive field of candidates. Flaherty, the former Mayor of Pittsburgh who was known for providing a progressive challenge to urban machine politics, bested State Auditor General Bob Casey, who had lost the Democratic nomination for this office twice before. Casey's campaign was greatly hurt by the ...
In June 1966, the Army Vietnam Combat Artists Program was established as part of the United States Army Art Program, utilizing teams of soldier-artists to make pictorial records of U.S. Army activities in the course of the Vietnam War for the annals of military history.