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From the Archives of The Funky Writer Show. Medicine on Trial. Retired surgeon James Ogsbury relates how a medical procedure gone sideways, leading to a collapsed lung and a subsequent stroke. Which is the basis of the malpractice lawsuit.

@HistoryUnd Doubt seriously it’s a NYC policeman. Uniform is wrong and check the wings on his coat and, they didn’t carry bags.

A New York policeman hanging from a girder, 1920.

@60sPsychJukebox James Brown, The Legend!

April 5th 1968 - After riots had broken out in thirty US cities, James Brown made a national television appeal for calm in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Brown’s appearance that night at the Boston Garden had been scheduled for months, but it nearly didn’t happen.

@edwereddie Love this tiny candy stores with 2 for a penny candy.

“SPRING COMES TO BROOKLYN” 1940s Our favorite hangout, the candy store Photographer: Ralph Morse LIFE Picture Collection

@mlduncan7 Nope.

Dear fiction writers, Does religion play a significant role in your novel(s)?

The opening of my upcoming Urban YA novel, Imagination High. Chapter 1.

@Albumism Yes. Jazzy B. is a genius!

OK, it's time to show your age! Did you buy Soul II Soul's debut album 'Club Classics Vol. One' when it was originally released back in 1989? | Rediscover the album here: album.ink/SoulIISoulCCv1

@MichiganisMAGA @ronsterd89 @TheDarkPages Wow! Thanks!

@FunkyWriterShow @ronsterd89 @TheDarkPages That's a young Bobby Darin. Gone too soon

Recognize anyone?

@SVG__Collection The opening cut, Flight Time is tremendous and sets the pace. 🔥

“Black Byrd” by Donald Byrd was recorded 53 years ago today.

@james_j_bailey Why wouldn’t people be on here?

If anyone’s even on here any more, I’m popping back to say that my book, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, is The Times’ Book of the Week! Book’s out on 9th April. Go on, treat yourself 🐈‍⬛

@gaugler_j From Brooklyn!

Edward Everett Horton. Always a welcome presence in any movie.

@PeterVecsey1 Man was a scoring machine for Knicks in his first few seasons. RIP, King!

Recently deceased Cazzie Russell, pivotal contributor to Knicks’ 70 title team, and Bernard King during nba all-star weekend in New York, 2015

@HirookaRicardo What a beauty!

Merle Oberon

@ClassicMovieDig Also good in ‘I Never Sang For My Father’.

98-year-old Estelle Parsons! An Oscar-winner for her role in "Bonnie and Clyde," she went on to TV fame as Roseanne and Jackie's opinionated mother in "Roseanne."

@cameralab21 Amazing pic!

Jill Freedman - Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost - 1968

@ActualEnoch @ronsterd89 @NicholasStix Not Sal. Looks like Paul Anka.

@ronsterd89 @NicholasStix Hmm... front row: Pat Boone, Bob Denver, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello... behind them I see Edd Byrnes and mayyyyyybe Sal Mineo, not sure.... and I can't do the back row.

@_Damilola_O No one should complete a book they don’t enjoy.

When you pick up a book and you find out you don’t enjoy it, do you drop it(pick another one) or you force yourself to complete it?

@HannahWardEdu Imo, it is, at least partially, the screens. And this is due to their compactness, their portability. If we had a 6 inch version of that TV in the picture, we probably would’ve been just as distracted. Albeit, there was no internet, but we’d be watching TV everywhere.

This is going to make so many people mad. It's not the screens. If it were the screens earlier generations (before late Gen Z/Alpha) would have been struggling with just as much brain rot. It's the lack of curation and involvement when screens are presented to kids. If the goal is "highest stimulus activity so that my kid will be quiet and leave me alone" you're going to absolutely melt your kid's brain. Short form, attention seeking, algorithmic nightmare content? Yeah. That'll do it. That's just not happening with some Little Bear while playing with blocks or playing some Zoo Tycoon for an hour or watching Heidi as a family. The screen can't be a substitute for parenting - but, it can be a super useful tool while parenting. There is a happy medium here.

@HistorylandHQ Looks AI.

Stunning photo of Hedy Lamar from the 1940s.

@SGuglie Looks AI.