House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has responded to news stories about his plan to get rid of the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare) by claiming his comments at the closed-door campaign event on Monday were taken out of context.
On February 1, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker died when they took shelter from a torrential rainstorm in the back of the dilapidated city garbage truck they were operating and the compactor malfunctioned, crushing them to death.