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July 5, 2008

Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

By Margaret Bassett

I picked up my hometown paper this morning where this AP story appeared with banner headline on first page. Now I find it in Salon. Jesse Helms is dead. Is it remarkable that 2 such diverse media picked it up? Or is the news in the fact that AP is the one covering the story. Or is it because he died July 4. Heck, both Adams and Jefferson did that!

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I picked up my hometown paper this morning where this AP story appeared with banner headline on first page. Now I find it in Salon. Jesse Helms is dead. Is it remarkable that 2 such diverse media picked it up? Or is the news in the fact that AP is the one covering the story. Or is it because he died July 4. Heck, both Adams and Jefferson did that!

Authors Bio:
Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.

Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.

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