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From the New York Times bestselling author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES comes the true (sic) history of our sixteenth president - Seth Grahame-Smith's ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER. (Click onto the link provided to watch the video)

("What if" in History - No. 3) June 1, 1944: NEW YORK TIMES breaks OPERATION OVERLORD DFU "what if" in history | June 1, 1944 | Jonathon Risen (fictitious name) Posted on 12/26/2005 7:15:58 PM PST by doug from upland =========================================================================== Jonathon Risen, New York Times Dateline: France June 1, 1944 The NEW YORK TIMES, always first with breaking news, has discovered that a daring invasion is planned on the coast of France on June 5 in an effort to liberate the courageous and valiant French citizens from the Nazis. If the weather conditions are not right, we have learned...

Jonathon Risen, New York Times Dateline: New York Dec. 21, 1943 In an exclusive interview with a Navajo Indian, the NEW YORK TIMES has learned that Navajo Indians have been forced into service by the U.S. military establishment. It is shocking that, in the middle of the 20th Century, such abuse of our Native Americans could be taking place without approval of the courts. Neither President Roosevelt nor Secretary of War Stimson has given a public comment or returned a telephone call. The TIMES has learned that so-called Navajo Code Talkers have been used by our military for secure communications....

"What-if" No. 1 - Navajo Code Talkers Dateline: Chicago, Ill. July 30. 2003 Jonathon Risen, exclusive to the NEW YORK TIMES In a shocking discovery, exclusive to the NEW YORK TIMES, it has been learned that the United States Government has been working on a secret project to develop a new super weapon. It is called a "nuclear weapon" or an "atomic bomb." This effort is called the "Manhattan Project." Work on the project is going on in several areas, including the University of Chicago, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington. General Leslie R. Groves,...

1 - NAVAJO CODE TALKERS 2 - MANHATTAN PROJECT =========================================================================== Jonathon Risen, New York Times Dateline: France June 1, 1944 The NEW YORK TIMES, always first with breaking news, has discovered that a daring invasion is planned on the coast of France on June 5 in an effort to liberate the courageous and valiant French citizens from the Nazis. If the weather conditions are not right, we have learned that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower may delay the invasion for a day. OPERATION OVERLORD will be a massive Allied invasion of Western Europe that will include simultaneous landings on five beachheads...

PREVIOUS STORIES FROM JONATHON RISEN: 1- Navajo Code Talkers 2 – Manhattan project 3 - Operation Overlord ==================================================================== Jonathon Risen, New York Times July 17, 1944 Working on a tip from informants in Berlin, the TIMES has learned exclusively that there is going to be an attempt to assassinate German Fuhrer Adolph Hitler on July 20. Hitler will be at his headquarters in Rastenberg, East Prussia with other members of his senior staff. The planned coup is known as the “July Plot.” It is being led by senior military leaders Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and General Ludwig von Beck....

<p>The NEW YORK TIMES has learned exclusively that U.S. forces in the Pacific plan a daring bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan on April 18. Our sources have revealed that Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle will be the leader of the raid. It will be the most daring operation yet in the young Pacific war.</p>

1 - Navajo Code Talkers 2 - Manhattan Project 3 - Operation Overloard 4- Plot To Assassinate Hitler 5 - Tokyo bombing raid ========================================================================== The NEW YORK TIMES has learned exclusively of an amazing story about a Jewish family that has been hiding from the Nazis in an annex of rooms above a business in Amsterdam. Otto Frank, a German businessman, became fearful for his family when Adolph Hitler came to power in 1933. In the summer of 1933, Frank left Frankfurt for Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, to set up a business called the Dutch Opekta Company. Less than...