Jack Manning
Summary
John E. "Jack" Manning (December 20, 1853 – August 15, 1929) was an American Major League Baseball player. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States, he broke into the National Association in 1873 at the age of 19. His career covered 12 seasons, eight teams, and 3 leagues. He was a pitcher who also played many games in right field, and would play the infield positions on occasion as well.On October 9, 1884, when his Philadelphia Quakers ballclub were visiting the Chicago White Stockings in Lakeshore Park, he hit three home runs in the same game, becoming the 3rd player to do so. The first occasions were done by Ned Williamson and Cap Anson.
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This Week in Review: A referendum on fact-checking, and the Times Co. in transition
Rethinking political fact-checking: PolitiFact, the fact-checking organization launched in 2007 by the St. Petersburg Times, named its Lie of the Year this week, and the choice wasn’t a popular one: The Democratic claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare was widely denounced among liberal observers (and some conservative ones) as not actually being a lie.
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Evan Hansen: Is Bradley Manning a Traitor or a Hero?
The U. S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is now entering his 14th month of incarceration on suspicion of passing classified U. S. government documents to WikiLeaks, and evidence supporting both sides of the argument has steadily mounted. It's spawned a divisive national debate about the role and legitimacy of whistleblowers in a democracy that's unlikely to subside no matter what the outcome of his pending court martial.
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Assange Calls Manning Coverage 'Appalling'
NEW YORK -- WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange called out the Obama administration for its aggressive pursuit of leakers and criticized media coverage of suspected WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning during a conference call Wednesday about the soldier's legal situation.
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Greg Mitchell: Trouble for Assange? Tomorrow's PBS Frontline Probes Bradley Manning's Ties to WikiLeaks Leader
The influential PBS Frontline series presents a full hour tomorrow night on WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, and the producers claim that we will learn "for the first time, the whole story. . . from the inside. " They've posted three teasers / trailers already plus a lengthy text preview. Frontline has been promising it since March 29th when it devoted a ten-minute segment to Bradley Manning's formative years.
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The Government's Case Against Julian Assange Is Falling Apart
With popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt spinning along, each with a certain amount of world-reshaping potential, there's been a lot of new attention focused on the role that WikiLeaks has played in these events. Ian Black, the Middle East editor of The Guardian, one of the key newspapers disseminating diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks' trove, told NPR last night that he didn't feel the leaked cables were the primary driver of these uprisings.
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WikiLeaks' Assange Granted Bail, Will Be Released By Tomorrow
Britain’s high court today granted bail to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape.
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WikiLeaks' Assange Released On Bail
o Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was freed on bail and vowed to continue to fight against the rape allegations he faces in Sweden. He said he hoped to reveal evidence to proved his innocence as and when he obtained it.
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Medea Benjamin: WikiLeaks vs. Facebook? No Match.
Time magazine readers chose Julian Assange as Person of the Year. Hands down. But Time's editors preferred to go with the safer choice: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The loser in this contest is Time. Hands down.
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Julian Assange And Pfc Bradley Manning Have Done A Huge Public Service
Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U. S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning, a former army intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in prison. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is not allowed to see his parents or other outside visitors.
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Amazon Drops WikiLeaks Site Amid Pressure By Homeland Security
The United States struck its first blow against WikiLeaks today after Amazon. com (NSDQ: AMZN) pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in an apparent reaction to heavy political pressure. The main website and a sub-site devoted to the diplomatic documents were unavailable from the US and Europe on Wednesday, as Amazon servers refused to acknowledge requests for data.
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