Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Oswald’s Coffin, Part 2

December 14, 2023 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in February, 2011. It was Monday November 24, 1963 and recently widowed Marina and the rest of the family were watching the John F. Kennedy funeral in a Fort Worth, Texas motel. Marina wanted to keep watching it, but the family said it was time to … Read More

Lee Harvey Oswald and the Death of Innocence, Part 1

December 7, 2023 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in February 2011. Fifty years ago this month, the death of innocence in America began. I believe its roots can be found in  a single diary entry  made on February 1, 1961 that reads: “Make my first request to American Embassy, Moscow for reconsidering my position, … Read More

Batman and the Playboy Bunny

November 30, 2023 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in February of 2011. The very first Playboy club opened at 116 East Walton in downtown Chicago, Illinois on February 29, 1960. Playboy magazine owner Hugh Hefner decided that Leap Year would be an appropriate time to open up his controversial club on Chicago’s Gold Coast. … Read More

Abraham Lincoln and the turkey

November 23, 2023 | by Al Hunter

While Abraham Lincoln is credited with creating the Thanksgiving holiday as we know it today, historians differ on the question of whether he was the first to “pardon” a turkey for the holiday he created. Laying those two issues aside, as a native Hoosier, I believe the true genesis of … Read More

Washington Irving’s “A Christmas Carol”?

November 16, 2023 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in December 2010. Perhaps no single Indianapolis community has a stronger connection to the Victorian Era than Irvington. Irvington was founded in 1870 at the height of the Victorian Era. The man widely acknowledged as the most prolific chronicler of this era is English novelist, Charles … Read More