Real History, USA: meeting this Labor Day weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Cincinnati. > more information > register now > ask us about special deals |
Who are our speakers this year?
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Real History, USA: meeting this Labor Day weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Cincinnati. > more information > register now > ask us about special deals |
Who are our speakers this year?
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Regular
featured speaker Don Bustion
"Unravelling Mysteries Using the Archives: The Case of
Dugout Doug and the 500,000 Clams." Lawyer Don Bustion is to
talk on using archives for popular research -- giving as his
example how he tracked the mysterious payments made by the
Philippine Government to General Douglas MacArthur in 1942:
Don has found the contract which MacArthur signed in 1934
giving him a fee "not less" than 48 percent of the
expenditures of the Philippines from 1935 to 1946, plus
certain bonuses. Authors John Costello and John Toland both
missed this item in their books when reporting mysterious
transfers to the general's account.
