On December 30, 1942, 25-year-old Frank Sinatra stepped onto the stage of New York’s Paramount Theatre. On cue, a dozen girls planted in the audience began screaming. Two pretended to faint. Unexpectedly, what began as a publicity stunt unleashed an episode of mass hysteria. Hundreds of other young women joined in the screaming and fainting, and 30 were rushed away in ambulances.

It was a heap of skulls, intermingled with bones from all parts of the human body, skeletons nearly entire and rotting, clothing, human hair and putrid flesh lying there in one foul heap, around which the grass was growing luxuriantly. It emitted a sickening odor, like that of a dead horse, and it was here that the dogs had been seeking a hasty repast when our untimely approach interrupted them. In the midst of this heap, I could distinguish the slight skeleton form, still inclosed in a chemise, the skull wrapped about with a colored handkerchief, and the bony ankles encased in the embroidered footless stockings worn by Bulgarian girls. We looked about us. The ground was strewed with bones in every direction, where the dogs had carried them off to gnaw them at their leisure. At the distance of a hundred yards beneath us lay the town. As seen from our standpoint, it reminded one somewhat of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii.

We looked again at the heap of skulls and skeletons before us, and we observed that they were all small and that the articles of clothing intermingled with them and lying about were all women's apparel. These, then, were all women and girls. From my saddle I counted about a hundred skulls, not including those that were hidden beneath the others in the ghastly heap nor those that were scattered far and wide through the fields. The skulls were nearly all separated from the rest of the bones - the skeletons were nearly all headless. These women had all been beheaded.

During World War I, governors of four western states proposed to the federal government that members of the Industrial Workers of the World be interned for the duration of the war.

In 1939, the Hohbs "Concentration Camp" Bill, which sought to detain aliens before or instead of deporting them, passed the House by an overwhelming majority but failed in the Senate. In 1950, the McCarran Act contained provisions allowing the establishment of concentration camps for "subversives."

And through the 1960s, the FBI kept secret lists of more than two hundred thousand Americans it proposed to detain immediately upon the declaration of a national emergency.

CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST "KARABAKH" COMMITTEE DISAPPEARS FROM RA PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE

Noyan Tapan
Nov 5, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. NT correspondent was informed
that the criminal case (containing several dozen volumes) against
the "Karabakh" committee has disappeared from the RA Prosecutor
General's Office. An internal investigation was launched by the
Prosecutor General's Office in order to reveal the circumstances,
under which the case disappeared. The criminal case was initiated in
1988, as a result of which the members of the "Karabakh" committee
were imprisoned for several months.