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Dear Governor Kotek; Today is Confederate Day. The State of Florida declared April 26th. a National Confederate Holiday. I just talked with the law firm of Robins and Kaplan about suing the Republican Party that has forsaken the principles of this party that was co-founded by John Fremont, who I am related to. I became a Republican after President Obama won in order to establish a middle ground. With the leaders of the Republican party wanting to make Canada the 41st. State against their will, is yet another call to arms by the Old confederacy – that refuses to die!
Ninety-four years after we became a Democracy, the Southern States (the core MAGA States) seceded from the United States, and declared war on the Northern States. If they won, would the Traitors want all Americans to be citizens of the Confederated States? Canada is voting today, and they are taking the Threat from King Trump seriously. For this reason I suggest you adopt my plan of giving Florida to Donald Trump, and making two States out of Texas. East Texas will be the home of the New Confederacy. West Texas will; be the home of Black Ideals, something African Americans were never able to promote like other Immigrant Pioneers.
Oregon and the Democrats – have to go on the OFFENSIVE! The Heritage Foundation has worked years to stockpile radical issues to rain down on Democrats like missiles. With two States of Texas ,and Florida out of the race, Democrats are guaranteed to control the White House – for a thousand years. I suggest you hire me to establish a Oregon Think Tank so our State can reverse this rise of the South, and push it back – all the way to the Atlantic Ocean!
I suggest The Ducks play the Gators instead of having a Spring Game. I suggest Duck Players honor Uof O strikers. Democrats! Stop seeking the perfect solution – or sane solutions! Do the Republicans seek these things. You can not send a team in – WITH NO PLAY! Democrats need a GAME PLAN – and stick with it/ A crazy play is better than – no play. Stop demoralizing our team/ Would Trump dare say he hates the idea of being a king? Give him – a leg up! Show him….
WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!
……from his thrown in Orlamdo!
Play ball!
Sincerely
John Presco
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“Donald Trump has just made an attempt to re-segregate America,” said legislative researcher Allison Chapman.
Dear Governor Kotek; There is a pending class action lawsuit against Governor DeSantis, that I want to be part of. I suggest the State of Oregon also join this suit because there is a racist history between the University of Oregon football team, and the University of Florida, that would not allow to black players to play a bowl game on their Florida campus. DeSantis is trying to defund all college lessons that look like Woke. What I see is people joining teams they believe represent them. This is dangerous. Five black police officers were arrest today for beating a black man to death. Did they see themselves as a team – against the world? The NCAA may be the most successfully integrated institution – in the world. Perhaps Phil Knight can help bring about true equity?
he Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential extension of slavery to the western territories.[20] The party supported economic reform geared to industry, supporting investments in manufacturing, railroads, and banking. The party was successful in the North, and by 1858, it had enlisted most former Whigs and former Free Soilers to form majorities in almost every northern state. White Southerners of the planter class became alarmed at the threat to the future of slavery in the United States. With the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, the Southern states seceded from the United States. Under the leadership of Lincoln and a Republican Congress, the Republican Party led the fight to defeat the Confederate States in the American Civil War, thereby preserving the Union and abolishing slavery.
The Florida state flag features a red saltire (diagonal cross) on a white field, with the state seal centered on the flag. The saltire is a design element taken from the Spanish Cross of Burgundy, and it symbolizes Spanish rule in Florida from 1565 to 1763. The state seal in the center depicts a Seminole Indian woman scattering flowers by a shore, a sabal palm tree, and a steamboat in the background.
The current design of Florida’s state flag was adopted in 1900. In that year, Florida voters ratified a constitutional amendment based on an 1899 joint resolution of the state legislature to add diagonal red bars, in the form of a St. Andrew’s cross, to the flag.
Between 1868 and 1900, Florida’s state flag consisted of a white field with the state seal in the center. During the late 1890s, Governor Francis P. Fleming suggested that a red cross be added, so that the banner did not appear to be a white flag of truce or surrender when hanging still on a flagpole.
In the rewriting of the Constitution in 1968, the dimensions were dropped and became statutory language. The flag is described in these words: “The seal of the state, of diameter one half the hoist, in the center of a white ground. Red bars in width one fifth the hoist extending from each corner toward the center, to the outer rim of the seal.”
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The year 1506 is the earliest use in Spain as it made an appearance on the standards carried by Philip the Handsome‘s Burgundian life guards. Philip was Duke of Burgundy since 1482. After marrying Joanna of Castile, Philip became the first Habsburg King of Spain and used the Cross of Burgundy as an emblem. It was the symbol of the house of his mother, Mary of Burgundy.
Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day on Monday, April 28 this year. Only four states still honor the Civil War dead with a day off for public workers, though others still treat it as a holiday.
The Magnolia State takes it a step further and celebrates April as Confederate Heritage Month. Gov. Tate Reeves signed a proclamation on April 17, noting the war started this month in 1861. It was the deadliest conflict fought in the nation.
“Whereas, as we honor all who lost their lives in this war, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation’s past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us,” the proclamation reads.
Here’s what you need to know about Confederate Memorial Day, how Mississippi celebrates, attempts to drop the holiday from the calendar and what other Confederate holidays the state celebrates.
On Saturday, April 26, the state of Florida officially honors the Floridians who took up arms in the Confederate battle against the United States of America in the Civil War.
It’s not a paid holiday, there are no official ceremonies and it has not been publicly recognized by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But Confederate Memorial Day is one of three Confederate holidays — along with the birthdays of General Robert E. Lee and Confederate States President Jefferson Davis — still on the books in the Sunshine State after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them.
What Confederate holidays does Florida observe?
- Robert E. Lee’s birthday, January 19
- Confederate Memorial Day, April 26
- Jefferson Davis’ birthday, June 3
Mark Gall – Christopher Rufo – Insurrectionists – Messiah
Posted on January 5, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
“President Joe Biden’s campaign condemned former President Donald Trump Saturday for sidestepping a decades-old, Illinois ballot-access tradition in which candidates pledge not to “advocate the overthrow of the government.”
I’m going to author a simple Election Denier Oath that I will insist Christopher Rufo sign before we have a debate. If you suspect a friend or family member is using President Biden as a Radical Christian Scapegoat, then have them sign the oath. One quarter of the people you see on the street believe Biden used the FBI to steal the election by causing the violence at the Capitol. Half of American voters believe Trump was cheated, and thus the Insurrection was justified.
THEY ARE CRUCIFYING THE VALID PRESIDENT OF TH UNITED STATES!
They are going to hell – for sure!
Suing Governor DeSantis
Posted on January 26, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
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This morning I collected e-mails sent between Mark Gall and I, then read more about Christopher Rufo. Is he a Christian? Around Noon I called Tayler Lewis at the Department of Education and asked him to call me about a blog I a working on – which is this one!
Then I read about what Jews thought about Jesus, and this stuck out.
But if he did not succeed in all this or was killed, he is definitely not the Moshiach promised in the Torah… and God only appointed him in order to test the masses.
While walking about the campus of the University of Oregon on OCTOBER 6th. I contemplated this statement I had read two days before. I was shocked, because it appears the Messiah of the Jews was murdered, in the flesh, and another cosmology – installed! The new Jesus is extremely anti-Semitic, and along with Paul are divorcing Jews from their own religion.
Jesus had just revealed to His disciples for the first time the plan: He was to go to Jerusalem to suffer, die, and be raised to life (Matthew 16:21; Mark 8:31). Contrary to their expectations of Him, Jesus explained that He had not come to establish an earthly Messianic kingdom at that time. The disciples were not prepared for this new revelation of the Messiah’s purpose. Though Peter understood His words, he simply could not reconcile his view of the conquering Messiah with the suffering and death Jesus spoke of. So Peter “began to rebuke Him” for having such a fatalistic mindset.
When I awoke from my nap, I considered the idea that Mark Gall was being pressured to become a Christian, and he threw me under the bus to ease the pressure. I suspected Christopher Rufo is part of a Christian conspiracy to put an end to Secular Choices so young people can be more easily converted. Once they convert – they will see a whole knew world – and help convert others. This has been tried before. Converts will be told to join the Republican party. There are Jews converting to Christianity.
I searched my archives for – WEBFOOT – and struck gold. I already posted our e-mails, and found my letter to Governor Kotek bidding Oregon to sue Ron DeSantis, who in tandem with Rufo, is attacking Critical Race Theory – and LGBTQ people!
“When I first saw photographs of Trayvon, and heard how he was gunned down for what looks like racial reasons, I thought about the two black football players for the Oregon Webfoots (later the Ducks) who were not allowed to go to Florida and compete against the Florida Gators, for fear they would be dragged off the team bus, and shot, or lynched, by the Klu Klux Klan.
Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams were the star quarterback and running back, yet they did not lead their team on the gridiron due to blatant racism that right-wing Republicans claim does not exist in America, especially in the Trayvon murder.”
Rufu did a lot of damage to Harvard where Mark Gall and Ed Corbin attended. I challenge Christopher Rufo to come debate me on the University Campus.
John Presco
Prelude to The World Holy Word War
Posted on October 7, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday, on October 6, 2023, I went to the Knight Library to look for a book I found twenty years ago, that proves Jesus was a Priest overturning rulings by the Sanhedrin.
Trump allies behind January 6 also leading Biden impeachment, says watchdog
Exclusive: Report says former president’s loyalists in the House, including Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan, continue to push 2020 election lies
The attempted US coup of 6 January 2021, never ended, according to a watchdog report, since the same Donald Trump allies behind that insurrection are now leading a sham impeachment effort against Joe Biden.
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Young Jewish adults from all over the world participating in the Taglit Birthright program celebrate 10 years of the Birthright program at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on January 7, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
NEW YORK (JTA) — Are Jewish millennials the most religious generation?
And do one-fifth of them think Jesus was God in human form?
Yes and yes, says a new survey of 599 Jews born from 1984 to 1999. The survey creates a contradictory portrait of Jewish millennials: These young adults describe themselves as religious, and practice Jewish ritual, but are unaffiliated. They value tradition and family, but don’t plan on marrying only Jews. They are proud to be Jewish, but don’t feel that contradicts with practicing other religions.
23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Jesus had just revealed to His disciples for the first time the plan: He was to go to Jerusalem to suffer, die, and be raised to life (Matthew 16:21; Mark 8:31). Contrary to their expectations of Him, Jesus explained that He had not come to establish an earthly Messianic kingdom at that time. The disciples were not prepared for this new revelation of the Messiah’s purpose. Though Peter understood His words, he simply could not reconcile his view of the conquering Messiah with the suffering and death Jesus spoke of. So Peter “began to rebuke Him” for having such a fatalistic mindset.
Suing Governor DeSantis
Posted on January 26, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
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Here is the message I sent to Governor Tina Kotek.
Dear Governor Kotek; There is a pending class action lawsuit against Governor DeSantis, that I want to be part of. I suggest the State of Oregon also join this suit because there is a racist history between the University of Oregon football team, and the University of Florida, that would not allow to black players to play a bowl game on their Florida campus. DeSantis is trying to defund all college lessons that look like Woke. What I see is people joining teams they believe represent them. This is dangerous. Five black police officers were arrest today for beating a black man to death. Did they see themselves as a team – against the world? The NCAA may be the most successfully integrated institution – in the world. Perhaps Phil Knight can help bring about true equity?
“The University of Florida however had a strict policy in place, no black athletes allowed. The Gators refused to play the game if Oregon was to field any black players, forcing Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams to skip their final game for the University of Oregon being left back at home. The Eugene community and UO administration were outraged, yet relented and reluctantly agreed to the callous request.”
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“Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump and attorney Craig Whisenhunt will join students and elected officials to announce their intent to file a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida for rejecting the Advanced Placement African American Studies course from being taught in Florida high schools. Attorney Crump will be joined by three AP honors high school students who will serve as the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit against DeSantis.”
Last week, DeSantis’ administration rejected the College Board’s African American Studies course because, as they stated: “We want education, not indoctrination.” The Florida governor said the course violates legislation called the Stop WOKE Act which he approved last year.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked state universities last December to disclose information on campus programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory amid a court battle over the controversial Stop WOKE Act.
The State University System of Florida and Florida College System administrators had to detail “the expenditure of state resources on programs and initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory within our state colleges and universities,” according to a Dec. 28 memo from Office of Policy and Budget Director Chris Spencer obtained by ABC News.
DeSantis instructed the schools to submit the information no later than Jan. 13, ABC reported.
Some universities in the state have spent millions of dollars on DEI programming, according to the information they submitted to the governor’s office, which the News Service of Florida reviewed.
The University of Florida, the state’s flagship university, listed 43 staff positions connected to DEI and reported expenditures totaling $5.3 million on “diversity-related programs and expenses,” the news service reported. The state provided close to $3.4 million of those funds.
The university’s Office of the Chief Diversity Officer alone included four staff jobs and cost $1,085,485, of which approximately $785,000 came from the state, according to the New Service of Florida.
The University of South Florida reported about $1.2 million in diversity and inclusion office expenditures and credited state funds with over half that amount.
The University Central Florida allocated nearly $4.5 million for diversity-related expenditures, with more than half coming from the state, according to the news service.
Florida A&M University nearly matched that amount in diversity expenditures, with reports of $4.4 million on DEI efforts, including nearly $4.2 million from the state. FAMU is a historically black university, according to its website.
Exactly what programs and activities universities reported ran the gamut, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported: “Florida A&M included its Centers for Disability Access and Resources and for Environmental Equity and Justice, and did not mention any courses. The University of West Florida was more specific in its response, even reporting the $4,800 it spent on phones and office supplies to support its diversity programs and the $100 it spent on World Religion Day.”
The United Faculty of Florida union opposed the DeSantis administration’s Dec. 28 order, the News Service of Florida reported.
“Once again, Governor DeSantis has shown that he would rather outlaw ideas he disagrees with than disprove them. Our belief is that all ideas, regardless of their ideological basis and irrespective of whether we agree with them, deserve the protections of the First Amendment,” union President Andrew Gothard said in a statement to the news service when the administration publicized its request on Jan. 4.
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The University of Oregon may not have been the very first school to openly embrace student-athletes regardless of ethnicity, but starting in 1926 it emerged as one of the leaders in the path towards equality. While some parts of the country lagged far behind marred in racism and unfair stereotypes about what black athletes could and could not do, African-Americans and other minorities were welcomed to come participate on an even level of competition at Oregon as student-athletes, bucking pre-Civil Rights Movement socio-economic trends. That proud aspect associated today with Oregon, of embracing equality and the spirit of individuality, was a path set in motion long ago thanks in large part to Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams.
Officers who were terminated after their involvement in a traffic stop that ended with the death of Tyre Nichols, in a combination of undated photographs in Memphis, Tenn.
The five Memphis police officers who were fired in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop on Jan. 7 have each been charged with murder and are in custody Thursday, according to Shelby County, Tennessee, jail records.
Memphis police identified the officers last week as Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith. All five have been booked into jail.
There has been no official announcement of charges against the officers, but jail records for the officers show they’ve each been booked on several felonies, including second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault.
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From its inception until 1958, only white students were allowed to attend.[46] In 1958, George H. Starke became the first Black student.[47]
The Buckman Act was discontinued after World War II, when the GI Bill provided a college education for returning U.S. military veterans, the overwhelming majority of them male. It was replaced by a Board of Regents. Single-gender provisions of the Buckman Act at the University of Florida (UF) and the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) were officially eliminated in 1947. FSCW returned to coeducational status as Florida State University, while UF became coeducational for the first time. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, the future Florida A&M University, taught both genders from its founding. Civil rights efforts and federal legislation in the early 1960s also led to all three institutions becoming racially integrated during that decade, although FAMU remains a historically black university, with over 87% of its student body African-American as of 2014.
The University of the State of Florida served as the institution for white men; the State Normal School for Colored Students (the future Florida A&M University) served African Americans, and the Florida Female College (the future Florida State University) served white women.[4] A fourth school provided specialized training and education for the deaf and blind (the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind).
Trayvon Has Run His Race
Posted on April 12, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
When I first saw photographs of Trayvon, and heard how he was gunned down for what looks like racial reasons, I thought about the two black football players for the Oregon Webfoots (later the Ducks) who were not allowed to go to Florida and compete against the Florida Gators, for fear they would be dragged off the team bus, and shot, or lynched, by the Klu Klux Klan.
Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams were the star quarterback and running back, yet they did not lead their team on the gridiron due to blatant racism that right-wing Republicans claim does not exist in America, especially in the Trayvon murder.
It was my Radical Republican kindred who took an interest in ending slavery in America, and going South after the Civil War, in order to put black men in Congressional offices – employing force! The Klan targeted the Radical Republicans, as well as blacks who were being empowered by the ideas and language of Radical Republicans, as well as words they found in the Bible – that was all about God’s Social Justice!
I was very moved when I watched the folks that were close to Trayvon speak about the arrest. They spoke from a place universal to all men, of all creeds – everywhere! The Abolitionist Language that God gifted to Moses, says this very loud and clear; “The least amongst you will later be first!” This is to say, if the first can not carry God’s Message, He will choose the least to lift up His Burden!
Owning Liberty – is a burden! No easy task! Why is this so? The answer is simple, God Himself maketh a universal lunaguage that fills those who seek liberty and freedom from oppression, with a divine light – and a Godly Eloquence! All those who shared the podium with Trayvon’s parents, spoke eloqunetly of God’s Justice. It is what WE all need, and want! Let us meet God halfway in the Wilderness, and repent of our sin of inequality.
Above is a photograph of my ex-neighbor, Terrell Turner, who played for the Oregon Ducks, and took them to the Rose Bowl – twice! He helped get our mutual neighbor up a flight of stairs. I called up KVAL news in order to give the Ducks some good press, for a change. The local news spoke of two Good samaritans who were Ducks, and black. At the top of the stairs behind Turner, I had a conversation with LaGarrett Blount who had helped carry a mattress up to my apartment, after beholding this 63 year old man, struggling. We talked about his famous hurdle. After the Boise incident I heard LaGarrett and other Ducks using the N word in regards to the incident where Blount struck a player who was leading a charge in order to taunt Blount, because of an exchange on twitter.
“Were there racial slurs before the game?” I asked Blount, who nodded his head in the affirmative.
Whe my minister in Blue River drove me from his church, I baptized myself and declared I was an Nazarite. On the computer I looked for other Nazarites, and found the Shembe Zulu Nazarite in South Africa. I wrote the late Shembe a letter and told him I would like to be a member of his church. He did not respond, perhaps he believing I was joking – after all, this is a tribal thing! That was 1987, and hence I have watched videos of white South African women taking part in the Nazarite rituals.
The Holy Spirit of God’s Divine Justice, is where you find it! As a believer who found God’s Justice when I died, I can attest to the Truth, Trayvon did as well. He ran his race. He competed in the greatest contest known to humankind. We Nazarite Zulu salute this man who stands on hallowed ground. Trayvon plays on a field of dreams, deferred, but, for just a little while!
Amen!
Jon Presco
Oh, there were racial slurs and negative epithets depicting the duo to be sure, common of the era in a time when the Ku Klux Klan was prevalent in the state of Oregon. However the vast majority of students and fans embraced the talented Robinson and Williams, praising them for their efforts on the field and the classy manner with which they took their adverse conditions in stride.
It was in Florida where a sad reality check of the times emerged, as black players that had been accepted on the west coast found things to be far different in the south, where deep-seeded institutionalized bigotry was status quo. Robinson and Williams had carried the team for three years with their stellar play, vital pieces in Coach McEwan’s attack, particularly with Kitzmiller now out of commission they were to play prominent roles in the game against Florida.
The University of Florida however had a strict policy in place, no black athletes allowed. The Gators refused to play the game if Oregon was to field any black players, forcing Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams to skip their final game for the University of Oregon being left back at home. The Eugene community and UO administration were outraged, yet relented and reluctantly agreed to the callous request..
http://www.kval.com/news/88871417.html
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — On Saturday morning, John Presco could hear the fear in his neighbor’s voice as she left a message on his answering machine.
“Hello John,” said Sandy Maricle. “This is Sandy. Are you home?”
Maricle needed someone to drive her to the hospital.
“I’m in really severe pain in my leg and back,” said Maricle.
With her sciatic nerve throbbing, Maricle barely made it to the car.
“She scooted down on her butt, all the time her face is in agony,” Presco said.
A few hours later, she was released from the hospital — but had no way to get from the car to her second-story apartment.
That all changed when her neighbor, University of Oregon defensive end Terrell Turner showed up, picked Maricle up and carried her up the stairs.
“It was a God-send,” Presco said.
“I was relieved,” Maricle said. “It was like an angel.”
“He was so kind and gentle and just the perfect good Samaritan,” Maricle said.
It’s not the first time this Duck has done a good deed. A few weeks ago, another neighbor needed help carrying a TV up three flights of stairs.
“We got it all the way up so thank God,” Turner said.
Turner said the acts of kindness are inspired by his passion for his family in California.
“I’m just making sure I can help out as if my mom was around to help,” Turner said.
Now, he’s helping his extended family here in Oregon.
“I think a lot of him,” Maricle said.
Oregon’s first black student-athletes: leading the charge towards victory and equality
Reported by Kurt Liedtke on February 13, 2012 inDuckTales, FishWrap, FishWrap Archive | 0 Comments
Eugene, Oregon, despite its predominantly white demographic, has long been a place proud of its diversity and equality. “Keep Eugene Weird” is the popular common slogan used today, though a place where people are allowed to be themselves judged by their actions not the color of their skin or other unfortunate societal misconceptions and stereotypes of the past shouldn’t be a weird concept but a welcome one. Though not without its occasional unfortunate checkered marks in the history books, Eugene has overwhelmingly been a welcoming place for people of all backgrounds to gather uninhibited by their differences.
Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams, the first two black athletes at the University of Oregon
So too is this true in the history of University of Oregon athletics, where from an early era long before it was deemed popular did the Webfoots feature black athletes. With February being Black History Month, it seems proper to focus on the trailblazers at Oregon; Robert Robinson and Charles Williams, the first two African-American athletes to compete at the University of Oregon.
As organized collegiate and professional sports began to emerge in the later half of the 19th century, black athletes were involved from early on. The first professional black baseball player was Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, 63 years before Jackie Robinson broke the 20th century color barrier. Charles W. Follis, better known as “The Black Cyclone,” was the first African-American professional football player, a key cog with the Shelby Blues from 1902-1906 of the Ohio League.
When the NFL was established in 1920, nine black players appeared on rosters, including Frederick Douglass Pollard. “Fritz” Pollard is in both the College Football Hall of Fame and NFL Hall of Fame for his efforts, both on the field and in overcoming adversity. Pollard was the first black head coach in professional football, leading the Akron Pros in 1921 as a player/coach. After him there would not be another black head coach until Art Shell was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1990. Pollard also holds the distinction of being the first black athlete to play in the Rose Bowl, when his Brown University team lost to Washington State in 1916, only the second Rose Bowl game ever held (then known as the ‘East-West Tournament Game’).
In fact, black athletes’ involvement in college football stretches back even further, predating the professional sports pioneers. In 1892 William H. Lewis became the first black college football player named to the All-American team, a standout at Harvard. That same year, the first game was played between two black colleges, a 5-0 victory by Biddle College (now known as Johnson C. Smith University) over Livingstone College. However, college and professional sports remained predominantly white, societal injustices and pressures of the day often unfairly barring them from regular participation.
While many African-Americans had been active contributors to athletics in the 19th century, something changed in the early stages of the 20th as many sports barred blacks from participation, while other organized sports simply frowned upon it. By 1934 there were no black athletes left in the NFL, nor would any return until 1946 when the Rams, desiring to leave Cleveland for the sunny confines of Los Angeles, signed an agreement to play their games in the Coliseum, grudgingly accepting a clause in the contract stipulating that the team MUST be integrated if they are to call Los Angeles home. Thus with the signing of Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, both UCLA players, the barrier had been broken in the NFL, a year before Jackie Robinson did the same in baseball.
College football did not experience the same kind of outright banishment that professional sports did, however it was not exempt from blatant racism either. Black collegiate athletes were the exception, not the norm. Alabama was the last holdout, not permitting a single black scholarship student-athlete until 1970 when Bear Bryant signed Wilbur Jackson. Within three years, one third of the Crimson Tide’s football roster was comprised of black athletes.
Head Coach John McEwan led Oregon from 1926-1929
While the University of Oregon was not the first school to feature black student-athletes, in the greater scheme of things amidst the unfortunate inequality that permeated the nation prior to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Oregon was far ahead of the curve.
In 1926 two Portland, OR residents came to Eugene for their academic and athletic pursuits, Robert “Bobby” Robinson and Charles Williams. They were recruited by new Oregon head coach John J. McEwan, an All-American in 1914 at Army, the school where he later coached 1923-25.
At the time freshmen were not allowed to play on the varsity team, so McEwan would have to wait a year for Robinson and Williams to shine on the field, the first two black athletes at the University of Oregon.
Charles Williams was one of the first black student-athletes at Oregon
Robinson was a multi-sport star at Jefferson High School in Portland, a gifted halfback on the gridiron and pole-vaulter on the track, as well as baseball and basketball. Williams meanwhile was a bruising runner in his own right coming from Washington High School in Portland. Both were high school friends and rivals, both selected First Team All-City their senior years, and both packing the stands at Multnomah Field on gamedays with eager fans fanatically following their athletic performances.
Together, the two of them would help Coach McEwan usher in a new era at Oregon, both in success on the field and in a far more important way off of it, paving the path for other minority student-athletes to compete at the University of Oregon.
It was not without its difficulties though, as both Robinson and Williams were initially barred from living in campus dorms, having to find housing in off-campus apartments during their freshman year. Their white teammates signed a petition and submitted it to the school under protest demanding that their fellow players be allowed to live on campus in the dormitories alongside their peers. By their sophomore year the university relented, allowing Robinson and Williams to reside in Friendly Hall, albeit separated from others and permitted to enter the building only through their own designated entrance. On road trips too they were segregated from the rest of the team, not permitted to stay in the team hotel, though Williams later confirmed that despite the separate living quarters both managed to mingle with their fellow students and teammates just fine. Often on road trips after check-in at a hotel their white teammates would sneak them into the hotel anyway to stay with the rest of their fellow Webfoots.
Change was afoot at the UO, not only in accepting black athletes, but also in name. Oregon had long been nicknamed “The Webfoots,” but a student vote would give way in 1927 to a new identity: the Oregon Ducks, selected over other choices such as “Timberwolves” and “Fighting Lumberjacks.” Change too occurred in appearance, as the blue and occasionally purple colors that often adorned Oregon’s uniforms were dropped in favor of green and yellow attire. Around campus a handful of students were creating the first ever student-made full length film thanks to some cameras on loan from Hollywood, a silent movie titled “Ed’s Coeds.”
However, success on the field did not immediately follow. The first two seasons were not kind to Coach McEwan, as the glory days of years past under Coaches Hugo Bezdek and Shy Huntington had led into rough times for the Webfoots. Unable to hang onto their prominent position of west coast powerhouse after Huntington resigned, Oregon was not drawing quality talent to the program the way they once had. Since Huntington’s departure after the 1923 season, Oregon had faded into down years under coaches Joe Maddock and R.S. Smith (Smith had previously coached Oregon in 1904 as well) managing to muster only a 7-11-5 record.
Robert “Bobby” Robinson in 1927, Oregon’s first black quarterback
Handed a relatively bare cupboard, Coach McEwan did something revolutionary for the time, going even beyond having black athletes on the roster. With Robinson and Williams on the team ready for the 1927 season, McEwan chose to place both at quarterback, putting the ball in the hands of his gifted athletes. In fact Williams and Robinson were used all over the field to maximize their talents. Robinson played quarterback, halfback, receiver, defensive back, and returned punts and kickoffs. Williams played fullback, halfback, quarterback, and defensive back.
Not only were Robinson and Williams the first African-American student-athletes at the University of Oregon, but excluding black colleges, Robinson and Williams may in fact have been the first African-Americans to ever play quarterback at a major college, though a lack of substantial records prevents 100% confirmation of this. It would be decades until the concept of a black athlete playing quarterback would be considered acceptable, the ignorant stereotypes associated with the intangibles of the position, thought to be too complex for black athletes to handle, were thankfully shattered with record-setting hall of fame careers by legends like Warren Moon and Randall Cunningham in the 1980s and 90s.
Coach McEwan wanted to win, and had proven himself a winner at Army before joining Oregon. He was determined to do so by any means necessary, regardless of any social stigmas associated with placing black players at the forefront of his teams leading the charge in a prominent position like quarterback. The best way to success in McEwan’s mind was to put the ball every play in the hands of his best athletes, and in 1927 clearly Robinson and Williams were the cream of the crop.
Robert “Bobby” Robinson, Oregon’s first multi-sport black athlete
1927 started off well enough with the Portland duo on the field with the varsity team for the first time. Wins over Linfield and Pacific had the Oregon Webfoots/Ducks thinking that the tide of recent losing had turned, but a 0-0 tie to Idaho followed by four straight losses to end the season dashed those hopes. Despite the 2-4-1 season, Robinson and Williams shined in their roles of team leaders, regardless of their ethnicity and the opinions of some biased outside observers.
1928 brought a remarkable turnaround and return to national attention for Oregon, led by a new addition from far off Harrisburg, PA, John Kitzmiller, who earned the nickname “The Flying Dutchman.” Kitzmiller would take over the reigns at quarterback that season, moving Robinson full-time into the backfield alongside Williams, though due to political pressure they rarely lined up on the field at the same time.
John Kitzmiller became a 2nd team All-American at Oregon
With the 1-2 combo of Williams and Robinson as ball carriers and the direction of Kitzmiller, Oregon put together a 9-2 campaign, succumbing only to Stanford and Cal. It was the first time in school history that nine wins had been reached, a feat that would not be surpassed until Oregon racked up 10 victories in 2000.
The Ducks ended the 1928 season with two victories in Hawaii, first against a non-collegiate all-star team on Christmas Day, followed up a week later by a win over Hawaii, 6-0. The triumphant win in the tropics earned Oregon the title “Champion of the mid-Pacific,” a moniker given the team during the national radio broadcast of the game, a rare live event for the era.
With Kitzmiller leading the way and the talented Robinson/Williams duo pounding the rock, Oregon had amassed more points in their 45-0 opening day victory over Pacific than they had accumulated all of the previous year. However some in the community had objections to both Robinson and Williams being on the field at the same time, and Coach McEwan often had to grudgingly adhere to pressure from the administration to abide by these unfortunate requests.
Oh, there were racial slurs and negative epithets depicting the duo to be sure, common of the era in a time when the Ku Klux Klan was prevalent in the state of Oregon. However the vast majority of students and fans embraced the talented Robinson and Williams, praising them for their efforts on the field and the classy manner with which they took their adverse conditions in stride.
While Kitzmiller had become the face of the program’s return to relevance, it was Robinson and Williams at the forefront of the fireworks. In the fourth game of the 1929 season while hosting Washington, exactly 65 years and two days before Kenny Wheaton made his legendary interception against the hated Huskies, Bobby Robinson made a nearly identical play, intercepting a pass at the goal line and returning it down the sideline for what would have been an easy touchdown unopposed…had Washington player Larry Westweller not come off the bench onto the field to tackle Robinson as he streaked down the sideline. Referees awarded Robinson a touchdown anyway, and the Ducks cruised to a 27-0 victory.
Bobby Robinson was an instant do-everything star for the Oregon Ducks
Expectations were very high for the 1929 campaign at Oregon with the trio of Robinson/Williams/Kitzmiller, many thought that the Ducks could win the Pacific Coast Conference title earning a trip to the Rose Bowl. Alas they could not get past Stanford, racking up a 6-1 conference record heading into the last three games of the season vs. Hawaii, St. Mary’s, and Florida. Worse still, Kitzmiller had broken his leg the week prior vs. Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State), though the Ducks had managed to end their 3-game losing streak to the hated OAC with a 16-10 victory in the Civil War.
With Kitzmiller out for the rest of the season, it fell back to Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams to pick up the slack, leading the team through the final three games. A 7-0 victory over Hawaii at home had the team at 7-1 thanks to an impressive defensive effort, but the good times would not last. Oregon suffered a 31-6 loss to St. Mary’s, a powerhouse at the time given the nickname “the Notre Dame of the west,” though the 6-points scored by Oregon were the only points given up all season by St. Mary’s. Licking their wounds, Oregon traveled cross-country by train for the final game of the season to play the Florida Gators in Miami. It was there that the season would end on both a sad and shameful note.
It was in Florida where a sad reality check of the times emerged, as black players that had been accepted on the west coast found things to be far different in the south, where deep-seeded institutionalized bigotry was status quo. Robinson and Williams had carried the team for three years with their stellar play, vital pieces in Coach McEwan’s attack, particularly with Kitzmiller now out of commission they were to play prominent roles in the game against Florida.
The University of Florida however had a strict policy in place, no black athletes allowed. The Gators refused to play the game if Oregon was to field any black players, forcing Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams to skip their final game for the University of Oregon being left back at home. The Eugene community and UO administration were outraged, yet relented and reluctantly agreed to the callous request.
Without Robinson and Williams, Oregon was inept against the Gators, losing 20-6, leaving Oregon without a post-season bowl to attend. The Florida heat may have had something to do with Oregon’s sub-par performance as well as the absence of Robinson and Williams, as many of the Oregon players chose to play the game with their jerseys off amidst the humidity of the deep south.
Coach John McEwan called Charles Williams “the toughest man I ever met…”
Not only would the Florida loss be the end of Robinson and Williams’ playing careers at Oregon, but it also marked the end of McEwan’s tenure. Following multiple clashes over forced restrictions on playing time for Robinson and Williams, with a year left on his contract the University of Oregon bought out the remainder of his deal, choosing to bring in C.W. Spears from Minnesota.
Under Spears in 1930 Kitzmiller would earn 2nd team All-American status and tackle George Christensen would be named a 1st team All-American, only the second Oregon player to earn such distinction. Kitzmiller was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.
Following the 1929 season, Bobby Robinson was named third team all-Pacific Coast Conference halfback. While Bobby Robinson’s football days were done, he continued to compete in track & field and other sports, including a first place tie for the conference championship in the pole vault. He had a stellar career competing in track & field in Canada, before eventually settling in Los Angeles where he became a social activist in his later years. Charles Williams meanwhile returned to Portland where he married, and worked in a warehouse.
Bobby Robinson was also a standout pole-vaulter at Oregon
Whatever feats of athletic prowess Robert “Bobby” Robinson and Charles Williams accomplished on the field, it was just as important to the future of the University of Oregon how they carried themselves off of it. Coach McEwan referred to Charles Williams as “the toughest man I ever met,” for his strength on and off the field amidst adverse times. Their efforts at Oregon paved the way so that others too may follow, unimpeded by societal barricades aimed at keeping minorities from being on a level playing field with their white counterparts.
Bobby Robinson at a 1930 golf tournament. From left to right: Wally Boyle, unidentified, Art Schoeni, Bobby Robinson, Faulkner Short.
Their efforts paved the way for other black athletes to shine at the University of Oregon.
Joe Lillard, 3-sport star at Oregon, seen here playing for the Chicago Cardinals
In 1931 Oregon was led by “The Midnight Express,” a trio of runningbacks that included Joe Lillard, one of the last black players in the NFL prior to the 1946 Rams, contributing for two seasons with the Chicago Cardinals prior to the ban on African-American players following the 1933 season. Lillard also played on the Oregon basketball and baseball teams.
In the 1940s Bob Reynolds played for Oregon in 1942, before leaving to fight in World War II, and upon the end of the war returned to Eugene to continue his football career for the ‘45 and ‘46 seasons. His nephew Walt S. Reynolds would also attend Oregon, playing three sports as a Duck; first as Dan Fouts backup QB on the 1969 freshmen team, then a 4-year letterman at Oregon as a guard for the basketball team and playing two seasons of baseball.
Bob Reynolds was a standout RB at Oregon in 1942, and again after WWII in 1945, 46
In 1948 and 1949, Woodley Lewis, a transfer from Los Angeles City College, would shine as Oregon’s star halfback. In 1949 the Ducks would play in the Cotton Bowl, with Woodley Lewis named team MVP.
Woodley Lewis, the first black athlete selected in the NFL draft
In 1950, Lewis became the first African-American selected in the NFL draft. Lewis remains Oregon’s single-season and career record-holder in kickoff return average (43.2 and 34.1 yards per attempt respectively), and holds the records for the longest punt and kickoff returns in school history.
Many others would follow, as by the 50s seeing black athletes donning the yellow and green of Oregon was common. Willie West and Alden Kimbrough among others would help lead the efforts of the scrappy 1957-58 Oregon Ducks as they fought valiantly with #1-ranked Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, losing 10-7.
A decade later Bobby Moore (now Ahmad Rashad) would become a star at Oregon, eventually becoming the third overall selection in the NFL draft in 1973. In 1979-80, quarterback Reggie Ogburn would be the one-man human highlight reel, leading Oregon in passing and rushing both seasons.
The University of Oregon may not have been the very first school to openly embrace student-athletes regardless of ethnicity, but starting in 1926 it emerged as one of the leaders in the path towards equality. While some parts of the country lagged far behind marred in racism and unfair stereotypes about what black athletes could and could not do, African-Americans and other minorities were welcomed to come participate on an even level of competition at Oregon as student-athletes, bucking pre-Civil Rights Movement socio-economic trends. That proud aspect associated today with Oregon, of embracing equality and the spirit of individuality, was a path set in motion long ago thanks in large part to Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams.
Today University of Oregon athletics feature student-athletes of all discernible backgrounds. Athletes come from all over the globe to train in Tracktown U.S.A., to compete at Hayward Field in the Prefontaine Classic and other events, while the athletic program benefits from the talents of athletes of all ethnicities, creeds, and other differences once thought unacceptable to be mixed on campuses across the country.
At the University of Oregon, truly the only colors that matter today are green and yellow…and black, and steel matte, and grellow; and whatever other fluorescent rainbow uniform combinations may be unleashed in the future. Oregon is a place of innovation and forward-thinking, spurred by the sense of family within the program and universal acceptance in the community. For the present and future grand accomplishments to come at the U of O, we all owe a debt of gratitude to those who have come before, in particular the incredible talents and groundbreaking courage displayed by Bobby Robinson and Charles Williams.
Photos provided courtesy of University of Oregon Knight Library special collections
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Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:35 PM
Hi John:
I think people are interested in history that is relevant to their lives. I am interested in the history of Bay Area, Oregon, and Guam because I lived in those places. Family history is also popular with some folks.
Ed is in a nursing home in Springfield. I spoke to him recently by phone. His voice was weak. He can’t have visitors because of Covid.
Sure, let’s take up fishing again. I haven’t been up the McKenzie since the devastating fires, but I’m hopeful that some of my fishing holes are still there.
I hope you resume your creative work. I don’t have PTSD. I have something just as bad: PROCRASTINATION.
Mark
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:36 AM
I just found this. I just raised Talitha Getty from the dead. Google her. Her relapse is suspicious. Paul Getty is dead. I feel consolatory towards everyone. I only wanted to esteem you all. It was all – or nothing? This has not been easy. It has been near impossible. But – I did it! I have contacted Stanford and Notre Dame de Namur. I’m going to call San Francisco University and give them William Stuttneister’s history that I just sent you. Being right – is the hardest thing in the world. I went for the brass ring. My intentions were pure. I never intended to hurt anyone.
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:58 AM
Your games with the dead go with what they did to my grandparents. The Corbin tax evaders took down all my posts on Ed’s Facebook. Many nations and Jews consider the leaders of Israel – the new Nazis!
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:07 AM
Read it and weep!
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 9:31 AM
In 1990 I had a dream I would be in Jerusalem walking behind the Jewish Messiah,
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:42 AM
John Eastman, Kamala Harris, Fremont | Rosamond Press
Heather
From:hhanson939@comcast.net
To:braskewitz@yahoo.com
Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 12:00 AM
It worked this time. Very nice! You did a great job. Now we have a more realistic look at her life. Luv you!
Heather
—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: Rosamond Biography
Try again.
Dad
Heather <hhanson939@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi Dad,
This looks great! The blog site you gave me just goes to the blogspots home page and not you blog.
This email is okay to use to sell prints.
Love you,
Heather
—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 11:07 PM
Subject: Rosamond Biography
Here is my new blog about Christine. You can lead your friends to…
Can I use your email to help you sell prints, or, set up another account?
Love
Dad
ohn Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:12 PM
You are talking about GREG. Say it. Admit it. When you say “odd” you are accusing me of mental illness, and unpredctable behavior, and thus you PROTECT GREG FROM ME? I accused Greg of being a Christiaan Nationalisst, a movement that you and Ed knew nothing about. Now the whole world knows about them. They are insurectionist Christians who backed Trump – and the Insurrection. Greg is why you did not invite me to Jonny’s funderal. How odd of you. You made a religious gesture, and made an example of me – because you are a ATHEIST-ADULTERER, who offered me money to fuck your love in my appartment – while I waited in my truck! This is what you were afraid I would blurt out at Jon’s funeral. Joy knows about your infidelites? How about – GREG – and he is still your friend? Did he try to get you to repent, and stop cheating on Joy, a fellow Christian. I considered Joy my friend, and sat at your mother;s table every month. I took her to temple. That you concluded I dont’ give a shit about Joy, but LOVE the little money I get by helping you betray my friend Joy – is pure evil. You fucked me over, you little worm of a man. You fucked your wife over – and Jonny knew it! Your reputation – IS SHOT! You have been slandering me with the lie I am “odd”.. I will tell the truth to the whole world!
John
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:John Ambrose
Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:40 PM
John, You were not an “honorary member” of my family. You were a friend. I stopped seeing you because you started acting odd, mainly by defaming other friends of my family. Why are you even bothering with me? Why not just hang out with the big shots who are doing your bios and movie script? Why not hang out with the other artists in our area? I’m just a piss-ant compared to them. — Mark Nobody
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:16 PM
You do write very well, Jon, but you’ve got quite a backstory that few people are likely to know about.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:56 PM
Visitacion Valley. Note the spelling: It’s “Visitacion” not “Visitation.”
Government projects for white workers were on one side of a hill that you see when driving up from South SF. The other side of the hill was Hunters Point, where the black families lived during WWII and long afterwards. You drove through Hunters Point to get to the navy’s shipyard.
We played along the shore facing the south side of the Bay.
I can show you photos if and when we get together.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:53 PM
You have a complex genealogy and family history, Jon.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
Email: mgall@uoregon.edu
Mail: 4810 Mahalo Drive, Eugene OR 97405
Mobile phone: 541-914-3029
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:45 PM
Ed never called me either. It was my decision to get in touch with him.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:02 PM
My parents saved up their dollars and eventually bought a small row house. We got out of the projects.
As I recall, black families were not able to buy houses, which were mostly in white neighborhoods, even if they had money.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:41 PM
Yep. The good old days…
Enjoy your easel.
I don’t feel comfortable about giving anyone Ed’s contact info. I got it from his son Cosmos. You can give him a call. His number is 541-517-2690.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:36 AM
I just found this. I just raised Talitha Getty from the dead. Google her. Her relapse is suspicious. Paul Getty is dead. I feel consolatory towards everyone. I only wanted to esteem you all. It was all – or nothing? This has not been easy. It has been near impossible. But – I did it! I have contacted Stanford and Notre Dame de Namur. I’m going to call San Francisco University and give them William Stuttneister’s history that I just sent you. Being right – is the hardest thing in the world. I went for the brass ring. My intentions were pure. I never intended to hurt anyone.
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:58 AM
Your games with the dead go with what they did to my grandparents. The Corbin tax evaders took down all my posts on Ed’s Facebook. Many nations and Jews consider the leaders of Israel – the new Nazis!
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:07 AM
Read it and weep!
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 9:31 AM
In 1990 I had a dream I would be in Jerusalem walking behind the Jewish Messiah,
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:42 AM
John Eastman, Kamala Harris, Fremont | Rosamond Press
Heather
From:hhanson939@comcast.net
To:braskewitz@yahoo.com
Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 12:00 AM
It worked this time. Very nice! You did a great job. Now we have a more realistic look at her life. Luv you!
Heather
—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: Rosamond Biography
Try again.
Dad
Heather <hhanson939@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi Dad,
This looks great! The blog site you gave me just goes to the blogspots home page and not you blog.
This email is okay to use to sell prints.
Love you,
Heather
—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 11:07 PM
Subject: Rosamond Biography
Here is my new blog about Christine. You can lead your friends to…
Can I use your email to help you sell prints, or, set up another account?
Love
Dad
ohn Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:12 PM
You are talking about GREG. Say it. Admit it. When you say “odd” you are accusing me of mental illness, and unpredctable behavior, and thus you PROTECT GREG FROM ME? I accused Greg of being a Christiaan Nationalisst, a movement that you and Ed knew nothing about. Now the whole world knows about them. They are insurectionist Christians who backed Trump – and the Insurrection. Greg is why you did not invite me to Jonny’s funderal. How odd of you. You made a religious gesture, and made an example of me – because you are a ATHEIST-ADULTERER, who offered me money to fuck your love in my appartment – while I waited in my truck! This is what you were afraid I would blurt out at Jon’s funeral. Joy knows about your infidelites? How about – GREG – and he is still your friend? Did he try to get you to repent, and stop cheating on Joy, a fellow Christian. I considered Joy my friend, and sat at your mother;s table every month. I took her to temple. That you concluded I dont’ give a shit about Joy, but LOVE the little money I get by helping you betray my friend Joy – is pure evil. You fucked me over, you little worm of a man. You fucked your wife over – and Jonny knew it! Your reputation – IS SHOT! You have been slandering me with the lie I am “odd”.. I will tell the truth to the whole world!
John
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:John Ambrose
Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:40 PM
John, You were not an “honorary member” of my family. You were a friend. I stopped seeing you because you started acting odd, mainly by defaming other friends of my family. Why are you even bothering with me? Why not just hang out with the big shots who are doing your bios and movie script? Why not hang out with the other artists in our area? I’m just a piss-ant compared to them. — Mark Nobody
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:16 PM
You do write very well, Jon, but you’ve got quite a backstory that few people are likely to know about.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:56 PM
Visitacion Valley. Note the spelling: It’s “Visitacion” not “Visitation.”
Government projects for white workers were on one side of a hill that you see when driving up from South SF. The other side of the hill was Hunters Point, where the black families lived during WWII and long afterwards. You drove through Hunters Point to get to the navy’s shipyard.
We played along the shore facing the south side of the Bay.
I can show you photos if and when we get together.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:53 PM
You have a complex genealogy and family history, Jon.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
College of Education
Email: mgall@uoregon.edu
Mail: 4810 Mahalo Drive, Eugene OR 97405
Mobile phone: 541-914-3029
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:45 PM
Ed never called me either. It was my decision to get in touch with him.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:02 PM
My parents saved up their dollars and eventually bought a small row house. We got out of the projects.
As I recall, black families were not able to buy houses, which were mostly in white neighborhoods, even if they had money.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:Jon Presco
Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:41 PM
Yep. The good old days…
Enjoy your easel.
I don’t feel comfortable about giving anyone Ed’s contact info. I got it from his son Cosmos. You can give him a call. His number is 541-517-2690.
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Professor Emeritus
University of Oregon
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 6:55 AM
I laugh in your and Joy’s face!
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:34 AM
!’m calling your bluff. I believe you removed me from honoring Jonny and Ed because it helps your image as a – Nazi Fighter.
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 8:08 AM
You and Joy scapegoated me because your Liberal Leader bubble got popped.- as it did for millions of Democrats. But, the Galls are a élite Liberal Family who pushed me out of your circle of friends – and made room for Evangelicals and Christian Scientists. If I had just keep my mouth shut bout being a real prophet full of valuable Biblical knowledge, I could have been seated in the Gall Family Dunce Chair.
After correctly predicting the course that Israel was taking, that divided Israel, you called me a Nazi, then toned that down to saying I acted “odd”. When I told you there was much difficulty with my newfound family – you made notes in order to own proof – I was the crazy trouble maker! You did nothing to help US, and you and Joy are educated psychologists – who knew I had a book, a biography millions would read!
In this post Joy and I are marching for peace – side by side! What happened? Am I supposed to know – or, guess! Guessing games are over! Time to put my autobiography together – and you and Joy are in it! Go ahead! Give me more grief!
John Presco
I’m The Chosen Crazy Scapegoat
John Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 2:14 PM
The book that people want to read is how a group of American Liberals got along great, until the Evangelical Extremists began to work Israel into their secret plan to take over the Republican Party, and then the U.S. in order to create a Christian Kingdom that will be friendly with Putin, Saudi, Arabia, and the Anti-Democratic Nation of Israel. Salman murdered Kashoggi and Putin murdered members of the Russian Press. The Extremist ex-President said the top general of the our armed forces – should be executed for treason. British and other foreign Intelligence is on this – BIG TIME! All NATO allies are circling the wagon, as world war three is a real possibility. The balance of world power depends on AMERICAN SWING VOTERS. Damn those Liberal American Democratic Jews – all to hell!
Meanwhile, a Jewish mother moves from New Jersey ad is put in a old folks home in Eugene Oregon.
John
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:27 PM
You are the odd one that WAS not worthy to be at my friend’s funeral! Jonny knew you were cheating on his mother. I bet you Bill and Greg knew too. I bet Jonny confided in them because he felt you were degrading him – and his mother! You were the one that acted “odd” – all the time! You are a nacissisitic piece of shit who takes after your mother who insists she be the center of attention – all the fucking time! Her sexy talk was “odd”. I think she lusted after me – because I was like a member of her family – and available. You were your mother;s pimp you little fucker!
John
John Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:01 AM
Your son, and Ed’s three sons, wanted their fathers to – stop killing himself with alcohol, and, stop being unfaithful to his mother. They needed this in order to see themselves as moral young men. Priest Greg – knew this, but he was afraid to confront the big Harvard Professor. I talked Ed into checking in to Serenity Lane. I should have taken you to Adulterers Anonymous. Is there such a thing?
There’s a good chance – Jon did not want you and Ed at his funeral. How about the Corbin boys? .When one is facing their own death, they do a fearless moral inventory. But, Jonny could not communicate. Yet there was a moral showdown coming. What do to? The Harvard guys don’t want to be caught in the open – with their pants down.
Suddenly, their close friend, John, is ranting and raving about Jews backing Evangelicals who are becoming Republicans. . He says he is a prophet. He is acing – ODD! He sounds like a anti-Semitic anti-Christ neo-Nazi that has come in the midst of the Circle pf Liberal Friends. How perfect! Ed and Mark need a distractor, a
ODD SCAPEGOAT
Our story is going to be a play, the sequel to ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf’. That you employ DEATH to defend the living from me, is the crux of the play. You as the Hero Jew will protect Priest Greg from the Dark One. This stops Greg from ganging up with Joy, and doing an exorcism on you.
There is a Dangerous Demon in our midst. We must unite, and destroy the enemy of the Liberal God. “
You have been terrified all your life of being beaten black and blue by a big Arian. So has Greg, the weakling. You two have longed to strike a deadly blow to a Viking Man. You employ the Death of Jonny to castrate me in a public manner. How thrilling for you two sneaky cowards.
“We had to keep him guessing about what he did wrong – because he was acting odd. If we gave him a clue, he might hurt us!”
The Odd Little Jew
a play by
John Presco
John Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 7:39 AM
I suspect you gave me the title “odd’ because I was saying I was a prophet. Did Joy Gall agree? How about her friend, Greg? You are a fucking liar when you claimed The Galls did not consider me family. I brought my daughter and grandson to your house. We went to an Em’s game with Joy – then she got religion! You agreed to be my Co-Executor. This is in righting. John Ernest told me an Executor should be a member of your family.
I’m going through all my emails I sent to you where I PREDICT the rise of the Christian-right, and, their destructive takeover of the Republican Party, co-founded by kin, John Fremont. You chose to back Greg, who told me in your garage he was overjoyed that Al Gore was defeated. You and Joy are supposed to be Liberal Democrats. However, your needed a religious cover to hide the truth…Gall Family Values is a – fucking lie! You are a infamous adulterer, and Greg is willing to look the other way as he converts you two, Jon knew he was part of a BIG SHAM! He was the smartest student at the UofO.
The Galls will be my main distractors in regards to my religious and family values.
John Presco
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:John Ambrose
Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 11:28 PM
John,
As I’ve suggested before, I think a counselor—not a mediator—can help you see yourself in a different light. Unless you think you’re just fine as you are.
Trump thinks he’s fine just the way he is. It’s other folks that are the problem.
Mark
M. D. “Mark” Gall
Mark Gall
From:mgall@uoregon.edu
To:John Ambrose
Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:56 PM
John, I’m still recovering from surgery last Friday. Had to go to the ER Monday because of intense pain. — Mark
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall,Mark Gall
Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:30 AM
I have had time to reconsider. Going fishing is not enough to repair the rent. You owe me $2,000 dollars for having to hire a trustee when you refused to serve. I was apart of a Jewish community when I sat at your Jewish mother’s table religiously for three years. I took her to the temple.
We are going to the Wailing Wall where I will slip a piece of paper in a crack where upon it is written an apology to God for your mother biting the attendant at Fox Hollow. Your note will be between you Johnny, and God. I need to see this. Arrange a place for us to stay.
John
John Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:Mark Gall
Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 6:16 AM
Being right is the hardest thing in the world. The secular roots of Israel will be destroyed and replaced by religious zealots who read their Torah. So do I. I am but one man. They ar many. Why does it take so many – fools?
John
John Ambrose
From:braskewitz@yahoo.com
To:mgall@uoregon.edu
Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 1:45 AM
An oldie but goodie. We tried!
John
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 12:42:43 PM PST, John Ambrose <braskewitz@yahoo.com> wrote:
The Locked Box of The Art Buddies
Posted on January 26, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
A bust of Abe Lincoln is carried out of the White House grounds. (C-SPAN)
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Chapter: The Locked Art Buddy Box
After enjoying the fine spaghetti dinner the Kraut made our intrepid spies, Victory and Miriam now involved The Bundster in one of their Clue Sessions.
“How Top Secret documents got out of the offices of the President and Vice President is a typical Locked Box exercise for Spies.” said Victoria.
“The Four Ws apply!” Offered Starfish.
“WHO had access to these files and – WHEN?” Victoria said. “If you are Putin, you WANT WHAT is being secured”
“WHERE are the documents kept? WHY are they not kept there -all the time? WHEN are these documents -moved?” Starfish offered.
WHEN is the door/lid to the Locked Box – opened?” asked Professor von Bundhorst.
To be continued
Hours after the news broke on Tuesday, Trump urged people to leave Pence alone in a Truth Social post.
“Mike Pence is an innocent man. He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!” the former president wrote.
CNN first reported that one of Pence’s lawyers discovered roughly a dozen documents with classified markings at the former vice president’s home in Carmel, Indiana, after Pence himself had said he had no such records in his possession.
My Art Letter To Trump
Posted on March 29, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Dear Art Buddy “No!No!No!
Posted on January 23, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Implement John Warner’s Insurrection Act
Posted on October 5, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
I declare President Biden has a duty to follow the guidelines Senator John Warner, former Secretary of the Navy, put into law in dealing with Insurectionists. The American Christian Taliban has subverted our Democracy, and rendered us and our allies powerless to deal with our enemies, at home, and abroad! Demand that Jim Jordon, and other neo-Confederates sign The Iron Clad Oath!
“Flying The Flag For Global Britain”
Posted on April 27, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The “ghost fleet” I saw through Victoria Rosamond Bond, is going to set sail. The contact I had with my muse, Rena Easton, has changed the world and set a new course that has strengthened the alliance between the allies who defeated Hitler.
Seer Jon
Britain is sending a huge naval force through some of the most tense waters in Asia (msn.com)
The largest naval flotilla assembled by Britain in recent years will set sail in May on a months’ long voyage through the Pacific, the country’s Defense Ministry said Monday.
“When our Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sets sail next month, it will be flying the flag for Global Britain — projecting our influence, signaling our power, engaging with our friends and reaffirming our commitment to addressing the security challenges of today and tomorrow,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said. Monday.
Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead (February 27, 1932-April 1939)
Heathwood is the Hampstead (North London) home where Elizabeth was born in 1932. Located on 8 Wildwood Road, the three story, 5082 square foot red brick Georgian style home designed by Matthew Dawson was built in 1926. Inside, the home has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a living room, a sitting room, a large kitchen/breakfast room, and even servant’s accommodations. The home was previously owned by the esteemed painter Augustus John, whose paintings remained on the walls when the Taylors moved in. A few years later, Augustus John’s success in America would be in large part due to Francis Taylor, who sold his paintings exclusively in the United States.
Outside the home features lush gardens, described by Elizabeth’s mother, Sara Taylor as having “tulips almost three feet high, forget-me-nots, yellow and lavender violas, flaming snapdragons, rich red wallflowers, and a formal rose garden that terraced down to [the] heath”. The seven acre Turners Wood Bird Sanctuary was accessible through the Taylor’s garden, and if that wasn’t enough, the backyard also sported a tennis court.
In 2008, Heathwood was put up for sale for the first time in almost thirty years for £6.5 million pounds—and sold quickly.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
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“H.R. 5122” redirects here. For the star (HD 118384), see List of stars in Centaurus.
| Long title | An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. |
|---|---|
| Enacted by | the 109th United States Congress |
| Citations | |
| Public law | Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–364 (text) (PDF) |
| Statutes at Large | 120 Stat. 2083 through 120 Stat. 2521 |
| Legislative history | |
| Introduced in the House as National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122) by Duncan Hunter (R–CA) on April 4, 2006Committee consideration by House Armed Services CommitteePassed the House on May 11, 2006 (396–31)Passed the Senate as the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 on June 22, 2006 Reported by the joint conference committee on September 12, 2006; agreed to by the House on September 29, 2006 (398–23) and by the Senate on September 30, 2006 Signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006 | |
H.R. 5122, also known as the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, was a bill passed in the United States Congress on September 29, 2006 and signed by United States President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006, becoming Public Law 109–364. The House vote was 396 ayes (227 Republicans, 168 Democrats, 1 independent) with 31 nays and 5 present not voting; the Senate vote[1] was 96 ayes (53 Republicans and 42 Democrats), with 0 nays and 4 not voting (2 Republicans and 2 Democrats). H.R. 5122 includes:
- $10,876,609,000 allocated to the U.S. Army
- $17,383,857,000 allocated to the U.S. Navy
- $24,235,951,000 allocated to the U.S. Air Force
- $21,111,559,000 allocated to Defense-wide activities ($181,520,000 of this amount “is authorized for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.”)[2]
- Expansion of the President’s power to declare martial law under revisions to the Insurrection Act, and take charge of United States National Guard troops without state governor authorization when public order has been lost and the state and its constituted authorities cannot enforce the law (amended in 2008 by H.R.4986 SEC.1068[3]);
- The elimination of the position of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction as of October 1, 2007, currently held by Republican lawyer Stuart Bowen, which is in charge of auditing expenditures in Iraq, transitioning Inspector General responsibilities to the Inspector General offices in the departments of State and Defense, now that the Coalition Provisional Authority is dissolved and Iraq is now a sovereign nation.
- A sunset date of September 30, 2012, which was later repealed[4]).
It was named for Senator John Warner of Virginia.
Amendment to Section 1076 of the law[edit]
In 2008, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 struck much of the existing text in section 1076. That same section had been what Naomi Wolf talked about when she commented to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!: “You don’t make it easier for the President to declare martial law, as we just did with the 2007 Defense Authorization Act.”[5] The revised section of the law, section 1068 had one amended section had multiple parts with the same exact text.[clarification needed] These sections (as amended, and bolded to show the similar parts) read as follows:`Sec. 333. Interference with State and Federal law`The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it–`(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or`(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.’.[6]
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