George Lucas

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/24/19
  

  Filmmaker George Lucas, Wife Mellody Hobson Seek Control of Ebony, Jet Archives

  A company controlled by the couple says the archives are at risk after the recent bankruptcy of the magazines’ former publisher.

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• The Secret History of G.I. Joe

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Credit: Wiki Commons.Originally posted in two parts on TomDispatch.com 1. The First Coming of G.I. JoeIt was 1964, and in Vietnam thousands of American “advisers” were already offering up their know-how from helicopter seats or gun sights. The United States was just a year short of sending its first large contingent of ground troops there, adolescents who would enter the battle zone dreaming of John Wayne and thinking of enemy-controlled territory as “Indian country.” Meanwhile, in that inaugural year of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, a new generation of children began to experience the American war story via the most popular toy warrior ever created.