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TIL the story of Abraham Bolden, a former Secret Service agent who testified to the Warren Commission about a secret Chicago assassination plot against JFK. Shortly thereafter, he was arraigned on federal charges and jailed for six years.

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vPJ4 TIL that upon becoming the first black man to obtain a PhD from Harvard, W.E DuBois said: “The honor, I assure you, was Harvard’s.”