Alan Shepard after fifteen-minute suborbital mission and splashdown, sixty years ago today: #NASA

45 RPM recordings were introduced by RCA Victor today 1949:

Jennifer Battisti, poet and writer, explores coming of age in #Vegas in her new book, "Off Boulder Highway." fal.cn/3hpZ5

LBJ with channel-changer and family in LBJ Ranch bedroom, watching tumultuous Democratic convention in Chicago on TV, this week 1968: #LBJL

No sentence that begins "Death is horrible but..." is going anywhere good. (See also "I love you but..." and "I know I said I wasn't going to do that thing any more but...")

Oddly mesmerizing.

So sad. A true professional and a truly nice guy.

Not against a remake, so long as she plays everybody.

February proved to be the deadliest month for COVID-19 in Clark County since vaccinations became widely available. reviewjournal.com/life/health/fe…

Thank the Royal Family of 1940-1941. Ponder where America and Britain would be today if whoever was British monarch at the time had cowered in front of the Nazis and tried (as many in London and Washington were demanding) to end the European war by making a deal with Hitler.

Fox News is complaining about a nationwide teacher shortage today. Here are some of the things Fox has said about teachers over the last two years:

Help us find this person #LasVegas

I can’t believe we’re still talking about this, but my emails… As Trump’s problems continue to mount, the right is trying to make this about me again. There’s even a “Clinton Standard." The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.

Police on Monday released surveillance images of the person suspected in the fatal stabbing of Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, and they are asking for the public’s help finding more footage. fal.cn/3rE10

So incredibly tragic. Jeff was, of course, a stellar journalist. He also was a good guy who always was there to offer a colleague a number, a name or just a bit of valuable historical perspective. We’ll miss him in so many ways …

Stunning development this morning in connection with the killing of longtime Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German. Search warrant executed at home of politician he wrote about. reviewjournal.com/crime/homicide…

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has demanded that authorities not review the electronic devices and journalistic materials of slain reporter Jeff German as part of the prosecution and defense of his accused killer, according to a letter sent Thursday. By Katelyn Newberg lvrj.com/post/2644727

Wow. Just …wow.

Thank you, Poynter, for this clear-eyed look at how a social media trolling frenzy was aimed at our reporter Sabrina Schnur Petrel and her newspaper, Las Vegas Review-Journal, without letting facts get in the way. poynter.org/reporting-edit…