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“The world is changing every day; the only question is, who’s doing it?”

Babylon 5, “And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place”

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What do they say about us back home? That you're a bunch of renegades. That you're pirates and traitors working with aliens to subvert Earth.

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January 9th 1811 saw the first women's golf tournament took place in Scotland, at Musselburgh.

A longer post than normal but I think it is worth it.I find it amazing that the first tournament took place here over 200 years ago yet less than 20 miles away Muirfield Golf Club continued their policy of not allowing women as members and only changed their rules  after the Royal & Ancient, who run the professional circuit here, took them off the circuit that are awarded the Open Championship. Anyway a wee bit background here, Scotland is called The Home of Golf but many other countries claim they played it first, between the years 60-1279 during China’s Song Dynasty, the game called chuiwan is played by royalty. 

The royals used a set of 10 clubs to hit balls of different sizes into holes marked by flags. But I refer you to an American, who loved Scotland, and we must bow to his great knowledge (and comical genius) for according to the late great Robin Williams, who loved Scotland. golf WAS invented in Scotland. His version of the story goes something like this, with two guys taking a stroll on the sand dunes of St. Andrews. One says to the other,

“I’ve got a great idea for a game, I want to knock a ball into a gopher hole.” “Oh, you mean like pool?” says the other guy. “Pool? Hell no, I don’t want it to be easy; we’re not gonna use a straight stick, man.” “So you mean like croquet?” asks the second guy again. “Croquet! Sod croquet! I’m gonna put the hole hundreds of yards away!” “Oh, you mean like on a bowling green?” persists the questioner. “A bowling green! No way! I’m gonna put shit in the way, like trees and bushes, and high grass so you can lose your ball. Then, right at the end, I’ll put a little flat, green piece, with a wee flag, waving in the breeze to give you hope, but then I’ll put a paddling pool and a sandbox in the way, just to blow your mind!” “And you’ll do this one time?” suggests his incredulous companion. “Hell no, I’m gonna do it eighteen fuckin’ times!”

Right back to the "wimmin" In 1791, it is recorded that fishwives from Musselburgh played golf on the links, and records show that during the 18th Century a women’s golf competition was held annually on New Years Day amongst the fisherwives of Musselburgh and Fisherrow. However, the earliest known reference recording a competition for women golfers dates from the 9th of January, 1811. 

The world’s first ever tournament for women was held over eighteen holes on a pitch ‘n’ put course at Musselburgh and the prize for the winner was a creel and a skull (a small fishing basket). The runners up prizes were ‘two fine, blue silk handkerchiefs from Barcelona’, all of which no doubt ensured a bumper entry from the hard working women who were ‘Ladies’ for a day, in competing for the ‘Creel Trophy’.

Perhaps the most famous women golfer in the world ever was Mary Queen of Scots  tradition has it that Queen Mary Stuart once lost a golf match to her lady in waiting, Mary Seton, whose family home was Seton House at Longniddry, only a few miles away from Musselburgh, and afterwards the Queen presented Mary Seton with a necklace as a reward. It was sold at Christie's in February 1894 for £365, which would now be a substantial amount.

In 1795 at Musselburgh, the women who worked in fish industry at Fisherrow are reported as playing golf on their days off. The Reverend Carlyle, who was Minister at Inveresk and a golfer himself, reported that the Musselburgh women ‘do the work of men’ and played both golf and football.

These activities were formally supported. On January 9th 1811, the club who would become the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club sponsored the women’s golf competition with meaningful prizes – a fishing basket and blue silk handkerchiefs from Barcelona.

I had a good rummage around T'internet but can't find the name of the winner but during my rooting around I did find that in 1738, on Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh, two married women played a match, with their husbands acting as caddies. The Edinburgh paper reported that the match attracted quite a crowd and large wages. The women are complimented on their 'dexterity' in holing out as well as how manfully they 'tilted' the balls.  

The event was won by the 'charming Sally', though other than her first name, her identity is not known.

1811 was just a tad too early for photos so this pic shows oor Queen Mary playing at St Andrews according to 'The Illustrated News' of 1905, over 300 years after the "event"

So that's that apart from going back to Muirfield who had another vote in 2017 on whether or not to enter the 21st century, this time it went through, the threat  of losing their major was enough to scare them, in my opinion, however it would be over 2 years until they allowed the first woman to join in July last year, The home to The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, defended the two year delay in inducting women, saying it was in fact quicker than the usual waiting time for would-be members.

Twelve women, two from overseas were formally invited to join the club which celebrated it's 275th anniversary last year.

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Orlando Jones

Orlando Jones (born April 10, 1968) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series MADtv, for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999 to 2002, and for his role as the African god Anansi on Starz's American Gods.

Early life

Jones was born in Mobile, Alabama, on April 10, 1968. His father was a professional baseball player in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He moved to Mauldin, South Carolina, when he was a teen and graduated from Mauldin High School in 1985. One of his early acting experiences involved playing a werewolf in a haunted house to help raise money for the junior/senior prom. Jones enrolled in the College of Charleston, South Carolina. He left in 1990 without finishing his degree.

To pursue his interest in the entertainment industry, Jones, together with comedian Michael Fechter, formed a production company, Homeboy's Productions and Advertising. Together Jones and Fechter worked on several projects including a McDonald's commercial with basketball superstar Michael Jordan for the McDonald's specialty sandwich the "McJordan".

He scored his first Hollywood job in 1987, writing for the NBC comedy A Different World, on which he had a small guest role in the season five finale. During 1991-92, Jones penned the Fox series Roc and, in 1993, he co-produced The Sinbad Show. He also made a brief appearance on the FOX sitcom Herman's Head in 1992.

Career

MADtv

After hosting Fox's music series Sound FX, in 1994, Jones became one of the original nine cast members of MADtv. Unlike some of his fellow original repertory performers on MADtv, Jones came to the show with limited sketch comedy experience. However, his comedy writing and television producing skills proved to be valuable to the early success of the show.

Throughout the first two seasons of MADtv, Jones produced characters like the Cabana Chat band leader Dexter St. Croix and Reverend LaMont Nixon Fatback, the vocal follower of Christopher Walken. He was also noted for his impressions of Thomas Mikal Ford, Temuera Morrison, Warwick Davis, Danny DeVito, Michael Jai White, Eddie Griffin, and Ice Cube.

After two seasons on MADtv, Jones left the show to pursue a movie career. However, Jones returned to MADtv in 2004 to celebrate its 200th episode.

Other television projects

Aside from MADtv, Jones made many other television appearances. Perhaps his most popular and enduring television appearance was not in the form of a sitcom or television drama, but rather in a series of humorous commercials as the spokesperson for 7 Up where he gained wide recognition.

This exposure led to a plethora of opportunities for Jones. First, he hosted an HBO First Look special in 2000 and then, in 2003, Jones was given his own late night talk show on FX called The Orlando Jones Show. Although his talk show was short lived, Jones continued to make additional television appearances. In 2003, he appeared on The Bernie Mac Show and on Girlfriends. In 2006, Jones decided to return to television as one of the lead characters of ABC's crime drama The Evidence, as Cayman Bishop. He has also appeared in two episodes of Everybody Hates Chris, the first in 2007 as Chris's substitute teacher and the second in 2008 as Clint Huckstable, an allusion to the character Cliff Huxtable played by Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show.

In 2008, he appeared as Harold Wilcox, a violent veteran with PTSD, on New Amsterdam. In the first season of the show, Jones also starred on Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out. Jones was the first guest star on the show. Jones was the co-host of ABC's Crash Course (which was canceled after 4 episodes). On November 16, 2009, it was announced on TV Guide that Jones had been cast as Marcus Foreman, Eric Foreman's brother on House, appearing in the season six episode "Moving the Chains". In 2013, he was hired as a principal actor in the FOX television series Sleepy Hollow. The freshman drama opened to FOX's highest fall drama premiere numbers since the premiere of '24' in 2001.

From 2016 through 2019, Jones portrayed Mr. Nancy, aka the African god Anansi, in the Starz series American Gods.

Film projects

After leaving MADtv, Jones expanded his cinema resume. He appeared in a bit part in his first big screen film, In Harm's Way (1991), Jones then joined Larry David in the feature Sour Grapes (1998), playing the character of an itinerant man. Subsequently, he appeared in Woo (1990), Mike Judge's Office Space (1999), alongside fellow MADtv alumnus David Herman, and in Barry Levinson's praised drama, Liberty Heights (1999). Since then, Jones has appeared in Magnolia (1999), New Jersey Turnpikes (1999) and in Harold Ramis' Bedazzled (2000).

During the 2000s, Jones' career began to branch out. In addition to his witty appearances in the 7-Up campaigns, Jones played the role of Clifford Franklin in The Replacements (2000) and the horror film From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2003). In 2002, Jones landed the lead role of Daryl Chase in the action-dramedy Double Take (2001), alongside Eddie Griffin, and worked with David Duchovny, Seann William Scott and Julianne Moore in Ivan Reitman's sci-fi comedy, Evolution (2001). Jones was also in the 2009 film Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and he appeared as the computer Vox 114 in The Time Machine (2002). His other more recent films includes Biker Boyz (2003), Godzilla (2005), Runaway Jury (2003) and Primeval (2004). Jones appeared in an uncredited cameo and played in Grindhouse Planet Terror (2007 film).

In 2011 Jones appeared in the documentary film Looking for Lenny in which he talks about Lenny Bruce and freedom of speech. In 2012, Jones starred in Joe Penna's original interactive thriller series Meridian created in conjunction with Fourth Wall Studios.

Voice acting

Jones has been featured in many voice acting projects over the years. In 1993, Jones appeared in Yuletide in the 'hood and in 1998, he made a guest appearance in the animated comedy TV Series, King Of The Hill. More recently, he lent his voice to the TV series Father of the Pride and the video games Halo 2 as the marine Sergeant Banks as well as other black marines and L.A. Rush. In 2006, he co-created, produced and voice acted for the MTV2 animated series The Adventures of Chico and Guapo.

In early April 2013, it was largely thought that Jones would be taking Tyler Perry's place as Madea. This stemmed from Jones's own report that he would be taking over the role, and photography of himself impersonating Madea. This led to public outcry from fans. Perry later revealed, however, that this was an elaborate prank played by Jones, stating, "That was an April Fools' joke that HE did. Not true. And not funny. When I’m done with Madea, she is done."

Personal life

Jones married former model Jacqueline Staph in 2009. They have a daughter. In October 2011, Jones provoked controversy when he joked on Twitter that someone should kill former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He apologized for the comment several days later.

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On this Sunday, I thought it would be appropriate to share this particular quote during these times. From the Babylon 5 character Reverend William Dexter: portrayed by Mel Winkler. #greatquote #sunday #preacher #babylon5 #babylonfive #greatwriting #fear #ignorance #focusonwhatyousee #sundayservice #michaeljstraczynski #greatsciencefiction #greatstory #quotesoftheday #quotesofinstagram #2020 #melwinkler #acting #actor https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Crrp_JZLd/?igshid=97bav6wmumu3

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VHS #367

Martin Scorsese - The Blues simulcast on WBGO https://www.pbs.org/theblues/index.html The first 4 episodes. (#4 is partial) 1)  Feel Like Going Home by Martin Scorsese1 & 1/2 hrs You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had - Muddy Waters, Martin talks about the series, work songs, Leadbelly- Goodnight Irene, Corey Harris, Corey meets Sam Carr, Willie King, Muddy Waters at Stovall place, Son House - ain’t but one kind of blues, Dick Waterman, Taj Mahal, Spoonful, Johnny Shines, Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail, Sweet Home Chicago, Keb Mo, squeeze my lemon, John Lee Hooker, african fife and drum, Bamako, Mali, Salif Keita - Ana Na Ming, Habib Koite, Sankore Mosque, Toumani Diabate, Ali Farka Touré, Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - My Babe. performances: Ali Farka Touré Corey Harris Salif Keita Son House Taj Mahal John Lee Hooker Keb' Mo' Willie King Interviews: Corey Harris Sam Carr Toumani Diabate Willie King Dick Waterman Taj Mahal Johnny Shines Otha Turner Ali Farka Toure Habib Koité Salif Keita Keb' Mo' (Not in order) 1. Robert Johnson- Traveling Riverside Blues Recorded Dallas, Texas; June 20, 1937 2. Johnny Shines- Dynaflow Blues Recorded Chicago, Illinois; December, 1965 3. Robert Johnson- Hell Hound On My Trail Recorded Dallas, Texas; June 20, 1937 4. Muddy Waters - Country Blues Recorded Stovall, Mississippi; August 26-31, 1941 5. Taj Mahal - The Celebrated Walking Blues Recorded Hollywood, California; August 18, 1967 6. Son Simms Four - Rosalie Recorded Stovall, Mississippi; July 24, 1942 7. Son House - My Black Mama Pt. II Recorded Grafton, Wisconson; May 28, 1930 8. Son House - Government Fleet Blues Recorded Klack's Store, Lake Cormorant, Mississippi; August 24-31, 1941 9. Muddy Waters- Gypsy Woman Recorded Chicago, Illinois; 1947 10. Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. I Recorded Grafton, Wisconson; October, 1929 11. Lead Belly - CC Rider Recorded New York, New York; January 23, 1935 12. Willie King & The Liberators - Terrorized Recorded Aliceville, Alabama; April 19, 2003 13. Napoleon Strickland & Otha Turner - Oh Baby Recorded 1967 14. Otha Turner & Corey Harris - Lay My Burden Down Recorded Senatobia, Mississippi; June 9, 2001 15. Ali Farka Toure - Mali Dje Recorded Niafunke, Mali; 1999 16. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues Recorded Detroit, Michigan; April, 1959 17. Ali Farka Toure - Amandrai Recorded London, England; 1988 18. John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues Recorded Detroit, Michigan; 1949 19. Salif Keita - Ana Na Ming Recorded Mali; August 16, 2001 20. Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - My Babe (Willie Dixon) Recorded St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York; November 9, 2001 *** credits for one of them. John The Revelator m Corey Harris and Otha Turner - Sitting on Top Of The World *** 2)  The Soul of a Man by Wim Wenders2/29/?simulcast on WBGO You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had - Muddy Waters, Martin intro, NASA Voyager disc with blues on it, actor as Blind Willie Johnson, Marc Ribot, Skip James wins talent show, Lucinda Williams, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Bonnie Raitt, …, John Mayall, Roosevelt Sykes had a rent paying party, Skip was there, Bonnie Raitt,  Steve and Ronnog Seaberg, Los Lobos, JB Lenoir, Shemekia Copeland, T Bone Burnett, Cassandra Wilson, Dick Waterman, Skip James at Newport, Cream - I’m So Glad,  Garland Jeffreys,  Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid and James "Blood” Ulmer. Skip James Blind Willie Johnson J. B. Lenoir (not in order) 1. Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues (J.B. Lenoir) 2. Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid and James "Blood" Ulmer - Down In Mississippi (J.B. Lenoir) 3. Lucinda Williams  - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Nehemiah Skip James) Lucinda Williams (guitar, vocal); , Bo Ramsey (guitar) Recorded at St. Ann's, Brooklyn, November 9, 2001 4. Lou Reed - Look Down The Road (Nehemiah Skip James) 5. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - I Feel So Good (J.B. Lenoir) 6. Cassandra Wilson  - Slow Down (J.B. Lenoir) 7. T Bone Burnett  - Don't Dog Your Woman (J.B. Lenoir) 8. Los Lobos  - Voodoo Music (J.B. Lenoir) 9. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - The Death Of J.B. Lenoir John Mayall (harmonica, piano, guitar, vocal);  Mick Taylor (guitar); John McVie (bass); Keef Hartley (drums); Recorded at Decca Studios, London, July 11-12, 1967; originally released 1967. 10. J.B. Lenoir - Alabama Blues (J.B. Lenoir) Recorded Chicago, May 5, 1965; original release date unknown. 11. Shemekia Copeland  - God's Word (J.B. Lenoir) 12. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Illinois Blues (Nehemiah Skip James) 13. Beck - I'm So Glad (Nehemiah Skip James) 14. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Special Rider Blues (Nehemiah Skip James) 15. Marc Ribot  - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground (Willie Johnson) 16. Bonnie Raitt  - Devil Got My Woman (Nehemiah Skip James) 17. Skip James  - Crow Jane (Nehemiah Skip James) Recorded 1964; original released 1965. 18. Garland Jeffreys  - Washington, D.C. Hospital Blues (Nehemiah Skip James) 19. Blind Willie Johnson  - Soul Of A Man Recorded Atlanta, Georgia; April 20, 1930; original release date unknown. 20. Lou Reed  - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson) followed byA conversation with Wim Wenders and Alex GibneyHow they made the movie. *** 3) The Road to Memphis by Richard Pearce2 hrs See the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/Aie3iOHkRnw 1 & 1/2 hrsBobby Rush, BB King, Rosco Gordon, Rufus Thomas, Beale St, WDIA, Martha White flour ad, The Thrill Is Gone, the chitlin circuit, Sam Phillips, Howlin Wolf, Junior Parker, Ike Turner, Ike and Sam in the Sun Studios, talk race relations, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Little Richard, church service, Jim Dickinson, BB talks about playing the Fillmore West with a white audience, 1968, Rev. Gatemouth Moore, Handy Awards at the Orpheum Theater, dress rehearsal, show, 6 weeks after that show Rosco died. Robert Gordon B. B. King Bobby Rush Rosco Gordon Ike Turner (not in order) 1. Rev. Gatemouth MooreBeale Street Ain't Beale Street No More (live street recording) — 1:10 Rev. Gatemouth Moore (vocals) Recorded on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, February 5, 2002 2. Elmore James Dust My Broom — 2:45 Elmore James (vocals, guitar); Sonny Boy Williamson (harmonica) 3. B.B. King Three O'Clock Blues — 3:01 B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Johnny Ace (piano) Recorded Memphis, Tennessee, circa September 1951 4. Howlin' Wolf How Many More Years — 2:43 Howlin' Wolf (vocals, harmonica); Willie Johnson (guitar); Ike Turner or Albert Williams (piano) Recorded Memphis, Tennessee, either May 14 or August 1951 5. Howlin' Wolf Moanin' At Midnight — 2:57 Howlin' Wolf (vocals, harmonica); Recorded Memphis, Tennessee, either May 14 or August 1951 6. Rosco Gordon Rosco's Boogie — 2:45 Rosco Gordon (vocals, piano) Recorded Memphis, Tennessee, February 1951 7. Little Junior's Blue Flames Mystery Train — 2:26 Junior Parker (vocals); probably: Floyd Murphy (guitar); William Johnson (piano); possibly Kenneth Banks (bass); John Bowers (drums) Recorded Memphis, Tennessee, September/October 1953 8. Jackie Brenston Rocket 88 — 2:48 Jackie Brenston (vocal, baritone sax);; Ike Turner (piano); Recorded Memphis, Tennessee, March 3, 1951 9. B.B. King Precious Lord — 3:22 B.B. King (vocals, guitar); The Charioteers (backing vocals); remainder of personnel unknown Recorded Los Angeles, California, 1959 10. Bobby Rush Hoochie Man (live) — 6:19 Bobby Rush (vocals, harmonica) Recorded at Larry's Place, Nesbit, Mississippi, February 9, 2002 11. Robert Belfour Done Got Old (live) — 4:04 Robert Belfour (vocals, guitar) Recorded at The New Daisy Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee, May 24, 2002 12. Bobby Rush Hen Pecked — 5:55 Cumulative album personnel: Bobby Rush (vocals, guitar, harmonica) Recorded Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, Miami, Florida, 1995 13. Rev. Charles E. Polk & The Saint Luther Choir Medley: Stand Still, Stay Right Here / Dance For The Devil (live) — 4:54 Reverend Charles E. Polk (vocals); The Saint Luther Choir (vocals); Darron Daniel (keyboards); Dexter Allen (guitar); Fred Robinson (bass); Stacey Robinson (drums) Recorded at the St. Luther Church, Jackson, Mississippi, May 19, 2002 14. Bobby Bland I Pity The Fool — 2:42 Bobby Bland (vocals); Recorded Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 1960 15. Sonny Boy Williamson Bring It On Home — 2:34 Sonny Boy Williamson (vocals, harmonica);; Matt Murphy (guitar) 16. Hubert Sumlin & David Johansen Killing Floor (live) — 4:03 David Johansen (vocal); Hubert Sumlin, Bob Margolin (guitars); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica); Henry Gray (keyboards) Recorded at The New Daisy Theater, Memphis, Tennessee, May 24, 2002 17. Rosco Gordon Now You're Gone — 4:46 Rosco Gordon (vocals, piano); Duke Robillard (guitars) Recorded at Lakewest Studios, West Greenwich, Rhode Island, January, 2000 followed by In Love With The BluesA conversation with Peter Guralnick, Robert Gordon, Richard Pearce, Robert Kenner, Bobby Rush, BB King, Robert Belfour. 1/2 hr *** 4) Warming by the Devil's Fire by Charles Burnett46:00 See the whole thing here: http://www.magazzininesistenti.it/warming-by-the-devils-fire-charles-burnett-documentary-film-2003/ 1959, New Orleans train station, PA RR GG-1, Big Bill Broonzy, Congo Square, jazz funeral, Eureka Brass Band, Fats Houston, Son House, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mamie Smith,  Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Dinah Washington, Lucille Bogan, Sonny Boy Williamson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sam Chatmon, Charley Patton, tape runs out. Big Bill Broonzy Elizabeth Cotten Reverend Gary DavisIda CoxWillie Dixon Jesse Fuller John Lee Hooker Lightnin' Hopkins Son House Mississippi John Hurt Vasti Jackson Bessie Smith Mamie Smith Victoria Spivey Sister Rosetta Tharpe Dinah Washington Muddy Waters Sonny Boy Williamson (not in order) 1. Jelly Roll Morton Turtle Twist Jelly Roll Morton (piano); Barney Bigard (clarinet); Zutty Singleton (drums) Recorded New York City, New York; December 17, 1929 2. Ma Rainey See See Rider Ma Rainey (vocal) acc. by Her Georgia Jazz Band: Louis Armstrong (trumpet); Fletcher Henderson (piano) Recorded New York City, New York; October 16, 1924 3. Son House Death Letter Recorded New York City, New York; April 12-14, 1965 4. Billie Holiday I'm A Fool To Want You Billie Holiday (vocal) Recorded New York City, New York; February 19, 1958 5. Mississippi John Hurt Big Leg Blues Recorded New York City, New York; December 21, 1928 6. Memphis Jug Band K.C. Moan Recorded Memphis, Tennessee; October 4, 1929 7. Robert Johnson Sweet Home Chicago Recorded San Antonio, Texas; November 23, 1936 8. Tommy McClennan Deep Blue Sea Blues Recorded Chicago, Illinois; September 15, 1941 9. Bessie Smith Muddy Waters Bessie Smith (vocal); Coleman Hawkins (clarinet); Fletcher Henderson (piano) Recorded New York City, New York; March 2, 1927 10. Sonny Boy Williamson Cross My Heart Sonny Boy Williamson (vocal-harmonica); Robert Jr. Lockwood (guitar);, Otis Spann (piano); Willie Dixon (bass) Recorded Chicago, Illinois; September, 1957 11. Elmore James Dust My Broom Sonny Boy Williamson (harmonica) Recorded Jackson, Mississippi; August 5, 1951 12. Willie Dixon Nervous Blues Archival Footage 13. Muddy Waters You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had Muddy Waters (vocal-guitar); Otis Spann (piano) Recorded Chicago, Illinois; April 1964 14. W.C. Handy Beale Street Blues 15. Charley Patton Hang It On The Wall Recorded New York City, New York; February 1, 1934 16. Sister Rosetta Tharpe Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air Recorded New York City, New York; November 24, 1947 17. Carmen Twillie Give Me Freedom 18. Mildred Jones Mr. Thrill Recorded Houston, Texas; 1954 19. Lightnin' Hopkins Lonesome Road From Archival Footage 20. John Lee Hooker I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive John Lee Hooker (vocal-guitar); Muddy Waters (guitar);Otis Spann (piano) Recorded New York City, New York; August 30, 1966 , Live At The Café au Go Go

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Exclusive Video: Who Really Killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? - HISTORY

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Exclusive Video: Who Really Killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in 1968—but King’s friend, attorney William Pepper, spent the remaining decades trying to prove it was merely a cover-up for a government ploy to end the activist’s influence.

In an exclusive video, Pepper recounted his history with the late Reverend Dr. King.

Pepper became friends with King in the last year of the activist’s life. King contacted the then-journalist after seeing his photo essay, “The Children of Vietnam,” in the January 1967 issue of Ramparts magazine, depicting victims of napalm in Vietnam.

Afterward, they planned to create a third-party ticket to “change American history,” with Dr. King running for President. They even held a convention at Palmer House in Chicago on Labor Day of 1967. Whether or not their plans would come to fruition was cut short by King’s death less than a year later.

In an interesting twist, Pepper would later serve as Ray’s lawyer as part of Pepper’s efforts to uncover the truth behind King’s assassination.

MLK Civil Trial Finds a Conspiracy

On December 8, 1999, after four weeks of testimony and with over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict after about an hour of deliberations that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.

According to The King Center, King’s family stood firmly behind this civil trial verdict.

Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the widow of the late activist, spoke at a press statement after the trial, saying: “There is abundant evidence of a major high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court’s unanimous verdict has validated our belief.”

She stressed that her family was not seeking retribution but the full truth of the assassination to be validated by the court.

There was allegedly substantial evidence identifying someone other than James Earl Ray as the shooter and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame.

Witnesses even testified that Ray was not a racist.

Ray originally pled guilty to the murder in 1969—agreeing to do so to avoid the death penalty—and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He maintained his innocence until his death 30 years later, from complications of Hepatitis C.

He said he was the patsy of a mysterious figure named Raoul.

Orders to Kill

Everything would be explained in Pepper’s book that was published in 1995, called “Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King.”

According to the book, U.S. military intelligence and CIA agents teamed up with the mafia, renegade Memphis police officers, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI (which some speculated wanted Martin Luther King dead), because they believed King’s ideas were too revolutionary.

After all, Dr. King was strongly anti-war and publicly decried the US government for being the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world.”

In the words of William Pepper, Dr. King “had just become too inconvenient a leader, and so they decided to dispose of him.”

Pepper wrote that a crack team of snipers was assembled by these organizations, plus a civilian shooter named Raoul Pereira—and set up King to be neutralized in Memphis on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel.

Unfortunately, Pereira fired too early. In the ensuing chaos, the supposed execution squad failed to take out its secondary target, the esteemed activist and later, Congressman, Andrew Young.

Pepper would further state that he met with King’s family members to discuss his theory in 1997, which they found convincing.

On the video footage below, Pepper detailed alleged inconsistencies between the public’s knowledge of the murder, and the actual evidence corroborating his beliefs.

MLK’s Family Believes the Government Was Involved

“[The King family] were astounded at the results and the meeting was highly emotional. It was clear that they had already decided to help,” Pepper wrote in his book. This helped Pepper to push for a new trial for his client James Earl Ray.

Nine days later, on February 13, the King family, including Coretta, held a press conference and announced that they supported a new trial for Ray.

It didn’t stop there. The unthinkable, for some, occurred only a month later: on March 27, Dexter King, who bears a striking resemblance to his father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., visited James Earl Ray in prison with the help of Bill Pepper.

King told Ray he was glad to meet him and shook his hand. They had a short conversation culminating in the point-blank question, “Did you kill my father?”

“No, no, I didn’t, no. But like I say, sometimes these questions are difficult to answer, and you have to make a personal evaluation,” said Ray, according to The New York Times.

There were certainly skeptics to this newly mounting theory.

“I simply don’t understand it,” former Martin Luther King aide Samuel Billy Kyles told the Associated Press.

Another former aide named Julian Bond said he was “mystified,” adding “I’m open to the argument that others were involved, but to say Ray wasn’t involved is impossible to me.”

After Ray’s death in 1998, Pepper and the King family turned their attention to Loyd Jowers, owner of a restaurant next to the Lorraine Motel called Jim’s Grill. Four years previously, he claimed to have hired a gunman—a renegade Memphis cop that would ultimately be King’s assassin, not James Earl Ray.

Jowers had claimed that James Earl Ray’s rifle was a dummy and that he concealed the real murder weapon.

The now 71-year old testified in 1999 that Memphis police officer Earl Clark fired the fatal shots. The jury found Jowers responsible and found that the assassination plot also included “governmental agencies.” The jury took less than an hour to find in favor of the King family for the requested sum of $100.

In his videotaped public discussion, Pepper even went on about how Dr. King didn’t die immediately from gunshot wounds, but later in the hospital.

Support For Pepper and Government Involvement in MLK Assassination

Several prominent figures have since come forward with support for Ray’s theory.

Clayborne Carson, the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers project at Stanford University, declared that Pepper’s work “should be read by every serious student of King’s life and his tragic death.”

Ramsey Clark, the former attorney general who served under President Lyndon B. Johnson during the time of the assassination, stated, “No one has done more than Dr. William F. Pepper to keep alive the quest for truth concerning the violent death of Martin Luther King.”

Is Pepper’s theory merely a standard conspiracy that emerges from a major historical event, or has it been conveniently obscured from public view to further government agenda?

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January 9th 1811 saw the very first women's golf tournament at Musselburgh.

A longer post than normal but I think it is worth it. 

I find it amazing that the first tournament took place here over 200 years ago yet less than 20 miles away Muirfield Golf Club continue their policy of not allowing women as members! 

Anyway a wee bit background here, Scotland is called The Home of Golf but many other countries claim they played it first, between the years 60-1279 during China’s Song Dynasty, the game called chuiwan is played by royalty. The royals used a set of 10 clubs to hit balls of different sizes into holes marked by flags. But I refer you to an American, who loved Scotland, and we must bow to his great knowledge (and comical genius)  for according to the late Robin Williams, golf WAS invented in Scotland. His version of the story goes something like this, with two guys taking a stroll on the sand dunes of St. Andrews. One says to the other,

“I’ve got a great idea for a game, I want to knock a ball into a gopher hole.” “Oh, you mean like pool?” says the other guy. “Pool? Hell no, I don’t want it to be easy; we’re not gonna use a straight stick, man.” “So you mean like croquet?” asks the second guy again. “Croquet! Sod croquet! I’m gonna put the hole hundreds of yards away!” “Oh, you mean like on a bowling green?” persists the questioner. “A bowling green! No way! I’m gonna put shit in the way, like trees and bushes, and high grass so you can lose your ball. Then, right at the end, I’ll put a little flat, green piece, with a wee flag, waving in the breeze to give you hope, but then I’ll put a paddling pool and a sandbox in the way, just to blow your mind!” “And you’ll do this one time?” suggests his incredulous companion. “Hell no, I’m gonna do it eighteen fuckin’ times!”

Right back to the "wimmin"  In 1791, it is recorded that fishwives from Musselburgh played golf on the links, and records show that during the 18th Century a women’s golf competition was held annually on New Years Day amongst the fisherwives of Musselburgh and Fisherrow. However, the earliest known reference recording a competition for women golfers dates from the 9th of January, 1811. The world’s first ever tournament for women was held over eighteen holes on a pitch ‘n’ put course at Musselburgh and the prize for the winner was a creel and a skull (a small fishing basket). The runners up prizes were ‘two fine, blue silk handkerchiefs from Barcelona’, all of which no doubt ensured a bumper entry from the hard working women who were ‘Ladies’ for a day, in competing for the ‘Creel Trophy’.

Perhaps the most famous women golfer in the world ever was Mary Queen of Scots and I have a wee connection with a post from yesterday where I mentioned Mary Seton, one of the four Mary's, ladies-in-waiting to the Queen. Well tradition has it that Queen Mary Stuart once lost a golf match to her lady in waiting, Mary Seton, whose family home was Seton House, and afterwards the Queen presented Mary Seton with a necklace as a reward. It was sold at Christie's in February 1894 for £365, which would now be a substantial amount. In 1795 at Musselburgh, the women who worked in fish industry at Fisherrow are reported as playing golf on their days off. The Reverend Carlyle, who was Minister at Inveresk and a golfer himself, reported that the Musselburgh women ‘do the work of men’ and played both golf and football.

These activities were formally supported. On January 9th 1811, the club who would become the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club sponsored the women’s golf competition with meaningful prizes – a fishing basket and blue silk handkerchiefs from Barcelona. 

I had a good rummage around T'internet but can't find the name of the winner but during my rooting around I did find that  in 1738, on Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh, two married women played a match, with their husbands acting as caddies. The Edinburgh paper reported that the match attracted quite a crowd and large wagers. The women are complimented on their 'dexterity' in holing out as well as how manfully they 'tilted' the balls.  

The event was won by the 'charming Sally', though other than her first name, her identity  is not known. 

1811 was just a tad too early for photos so this pic shows oor Queen Mary playing at St Andrews according to  'The Illustrated News' of 1905, over 300 years after the "event" 

So that's that apart from going back to Muirfield who have another vote this month on whether or not to enter the 21st century.