When American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Rockaway Beach, Queens, it hit a tight-knit community already reeling from numerous losses suffered in the World Trade Center tragedy. After taking off only two minutes earlier from Kennedy Airport, located across Jamaica Bay, flight 587 broke apart and nose-dived directly into a heavily populated area of Rockaway known as Belle … [Read more...] about Another Tragedy for Rockaway
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By Irish America Staff July August 1992
Peace People's U.S. Visit On Wednesday June 3, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Belfast and cofounder of the Community of the Peace People, arrived in Los Angeles airport at 3:30 p.m. — at 5:30 p.m. she was appearing on the Dennis Miller Show, a late night national television talk show. Next day she was the guest of honor at a World Affairs Dinner. … [Read more...] about Hibernia