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• Explaining the district court's ruling, Judge Oded Gershon said Corrie "put herself in a dangerous situation" and called her death "the result of an accident she brought upon herself." He said the military conducted a proper investigation, and rejected the Corrie family's request for a symbolic $1 in damages and legal expenses.
• Corrie's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie of Olympia, Washington, did not speak immediately after the verdict, but clasped each other's hands.
• Their lawyer, Hussein Abu Hussein, lamented the court's ruling, saying "the verdict blames the victim."
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Aug. 28, 1862, the Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) began in Prince William County, Va., during the Civil War (the result was a Confederate victory).
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• On this date:
• In 1609, English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day Delaware Bay.
• In 1910, the Kingdom of Montenegro was proclaimed.
• In 1922, the first-ever radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City (the 10-minute advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid a fee of $100).
• In 1947, legendary bullfighter Manolete (man-oh-LEH'-tay) died after being gored during a fight in Linares, Spain; he was 30.
• In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.
• In 1962, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter resigned; President John F. Kennedy nominated Arthur Goldberg to succeed him.
• In 1963, more than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washing

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