Collectors live among us–everywhere–whether they’re interested in bicycles or … in Napoleon’s wedding tackle.
That’s according to the New York Times, which was once ringside for the story of the men who are arguably New York’s most famous collectors, the Collyer brothers.
Now, we have the story of Evan Lattimer, whose father, the late urologist Dr. John [...]

HAVANA (AFP) – Fidel Castro resigned Tuesday as president and commander in chief of Cuba, the online official press said. Fast-breaking related:

2008 Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins today cracked open an old courthouse safe stuffed with a bunch of stuff belonging to 1963 Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and all the best goodies had Jack Ruby’s name all over them—most notably, a goofy transcript where Ruby and Lee Oswald yeg it up about rubbing out the [...]

Lead poisoning blinds Justice
It’s 44 years later, and the bullets Lee Harvey Oswald fired at President Kennedy are still claiming victims. During its investigation of the Kennedy assassination, the FBI introduced a new forensic tool: comparative bullet-lead analysis. But the FBI’s tool, which has been used in an estimated 2,500 cases, is as fictional as [...]