Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel had been a legendary mobster on the Las Vegas scene. In 1947, he was found murdered in Beverly Hills. Time magazine published an article exploring the speculative events that surrounded this "hit."
Ches Washington, journalist for the national African American weekly New Pittsburgh Courier, reported on a planned NAACP protest in Las Vegas, where black residents were segregated on the Westside.
The Mirage Hotel-Casino opened in 1989 on the Las Vegas strip. A few days after, the Associated Press covered the story of Elmer Sherwin, who won the largest jackpot in Vegas history at the Mirage.
Who is better suited to tell history than the people who experienced it? Read the stories of some American soldiers who spent the terrible winter of 1944-1945 on the front lines in Europe.
