By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2024
Was Anyone Shot on the Titanic?
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 April 2024
James Cameron’s 1997 film, Titanic, has a scene showing First Officer William Murdoch shooting several male passengers who try to force their way onto the final lifeboats just before the ship sinks and then shooting himself. This caused great controversy with the Murdoch family because it picked at a wound that was already nearly a century old. The story of Murdoch killing himself originates from survivor testimony in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in April 1912, and it was denied just as quickly by Charles Lightoller, the Second Officer and most senior crewman to live, who was loading the lifeboats on the other side of the ship.
Titanic: Tragedy, Heroism, and a Lost World
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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 April 2024
The West Needs a Strategy to Counter Iran’s “Ring of Fire”
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2024
The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024
Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024
An Islamic State ‘Distinguished Martyr’ Who Defected From the Taliban
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2024
Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024
Aaron Bushnell Can’t Be a Political Martyr If You Cover Up His Politics
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 February 2024
Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024