Ghost Curriculum

I wish I had specific information about this pic but I don’t, here’s what the blurb under it said in the encyclopedia I got it from:

Other tombstone placards read: “I GOT THE PLACEBO — R.I.P.”; “AZT WASN’T ENOUGH”; “DEAD FOR LACK OF AEROSOL PENTAMIDINE”; “DEAD FROM LACK OF AL-721”; “DEAD FROM LACK OF DEXTRAN SULFATE”, “BECAUSE WOMEN WITH AIDS DIE TWICE AS FAST.”

According to activist Douglas Crimp, “The success of SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA can perhaps best be measured by what ensued in the year following the action. Government agencies dealing with AIDS, particularly the FDA and NIH, began to listen to us, to include us in decision-making, even to ask for our input. […] Following the FDA action, ACT UP continued to lobby for parallel trials, meeting with NIH and FDA officials, negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, and testifying before congressional committees. One year after SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA, ACT UP’s idea, now called Parallel Track, was accepted by the NIH and FDA and went into effect for ddI (dideoxyinosine), the first antiviral AIDS drug to become available since AZT.”

More on Seize Control of the FDA:

ACT UP’s actual 40+-page handbook that prepared activists for the action

Footage of the action, including this die-in.

Coverage of the action in the documentary on ACT UP, United in Anger (2012)

Outline of human figure with writing “Lost Angeles” on column at homeless camp in Los Angeles, California, 1987.

Photograph of Sandra Day O'Connor Being Sworn in a Supreme Court Justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Her Husband John O'Connor Looks On, 9/25/1981

Series: Reagan White House Photographs, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989. Collection: White House Photographic Collection, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989

UFOs, the U.S. Government, and the Space Age

Today in America there seems to be an increase fascination with aliens and UFOs. One of the most infamous reports of a UFO crash happened on July 8, 1947 outside the New Mexico town of Roswell. 

In celebration of that event, we wanted to share some information about a visit between NACA’s (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics– the predecessor of NASA) Western Coordination Officer, Edwin P. Hartman and John K. Northrop of Northrop Aircraft.  Mr. Hartman would often travel to different aerospace companies and would document industry activities. On May 3, 1950, Mr. Hartman went on a scheduled visit to Northrop Aircraft Inc. and met with Mr. John K. Northrop. During Mr. Hartman’s visit, Northrop told him privately that he thought atomic powered saucers from other planets were possible. Mr. Northrop also stated that some Northrop men flying a P-61 in the Fort Worth TX area chased a bright aerial object (possibly a flying saucer?) but had to abandon the chase before reaching the object because of lack of oxygen.  A B-36 was sent to continue the chase but it was unsuccessful. 

Also posted is the original memo (without the UFO discussion) of Mr. Hartman’s visit to Northrop Aircraft, Inc. indicating that they discussed missile development and the development of computing machines. Northrop’s computing machine named “Mad Ida” could gobble data 10 times faster than MIT’s computing machine.