Inmates Seek GED Education in Anamosa Prison
Inmates like Dave Hoffman and Todd Reynolds pursue high school equivalency to escape unskilled work and future prison time. Teachers Patricia Shaw and John Petermann emphasize security and long-term student impact, noting turnover and reentry challenges but also success stories of former students advancing education or employment.
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Dave Hoffman
Cedar Rapids
Hoffman
Todd Reynolds
Reynolds
Sioux City
Petermann
Anamosa
Patricia Shaw
Shaw
Shaw Teaches at Anamosa Adults Program Seven Years In
Shaw, a junior teacher at Anamosa for seven years, remains with the rehabilitation program despite lack of student thanks. She values working with motivated adults and cites Kirkwood Community College as a good employer.
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Shaw
Anamosa
Kirkwood
Community College
Kennedy assassination diary fuels new allegations from White
Ricky White, Midland Texas, asserts his father Roscoe White helped plan Kennedy's death in Dallas in November 1963. He cites a diary, a rifle with telescopic sight, Marines records, and coded messages. The JFK Assassination Information Center says the messages are not genuine and supports further investigation.
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J.D. Tippit
White
Oswald
Roscoe White
U.S
Kennedy
Dallas
Bobby Inman
CIA
The
American- Statesman
Midland
Texas
Geneva White
FBI
Jack Ruby
Ruby
U.S. Marine Corps
Ricky White
Japan
Philippines
Marina Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
Soviet Union
United States
Fort Worth
Paris
Texas School Book’ Depository
JFK
U S Will Not Intervene as Liberia Evacuations Continue
The Pentagon says 12 non citizens were evacuated including two Italians a Canadian a French national and eight Liberian dependents. About 70 U S officials and 300 other Americans stay in Liberia while 237 Marines bolster the embassy defenses and the Marine presence is not a pledge of military intervention.
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U.S
Pentagon
Fitzwater
Peter de Vos
Liberia
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Willie Cunningham
Cunningham
John Petermann
Hope
Gazette
John McIvor
Jesse Helms
Marlboro
Surgeon General
Vantage
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
FTC
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