27Jul
27 Jul, 2020
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Jim Blackburn,
Jim Blackburn Seminars,
Dr. Lorna M. Breen,
Lorna Breen,
overwhelmed,
corona virus,
stress,
help,
friends,
family,
Presbyterian Allen Hospital |
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For a number of years, I have been a part of a group, mainly from the eastern part of the state, that meets on a regular basis for the express purpose of visiting as many different eating establishments as we can from Raleigh to many points east to taste new meals and enjoy each other's company. We are from all walks of life in our careers, some in business and others in law and medicine. We are conservatives and liberals, but that never interferes with our having a good time.
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28Dec
28 Dec, 2018
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Jim Blackburn,
Jim Blackburn Seminars,
Jeffrey MacDonald,
August,
1979,
closing argument,
guilty verdict,
murder,
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina,
Judge Fox,
Colette MacDonald,
Kimberly MacDonald,
Kristen MacDonald,
Bob Shaw,
Butch Madden,
FBI,
Joe McGinniss,
Bill Ivory,
Freddy Kassab,
Mildred Kassab |
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Maybe this Time
In a federal courtroom in late August, 1979, near the end of my closing argument to the jury, I said "It is time, ladies and gentlemen - it is so late in the day - it is time that someone speak for truth and justice and return a verdict of guilty against this man". That man was Jeffrey MacDonald.
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10Jul
10 Jul, 2018
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Jim Blackburn,
hope,
New York Times,
Nelson Mandela,
Tayari Jones,
Asheville,
Blackburn Seminars,
George Burns,
mental health,
ethics,
professionalism |
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On July 6, 2018, the New York Times published an Essay by the Novelist Tayari Jones on “The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela.” Here are my thoughts on it.
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