The Final Show Of The Greatest Country On Earth

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
On May 31, 1866, John C. Ringling was born in Iowa to German immigrants in what felt like an extremely bleak year.
The chaos and devastation from the Civil War that had ended in 1865 were still keenly felt, and the US economy was in the midst of a deep recession
The country was still shaken from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
And the new President, Andrew Johnson, was embroiled in a major political crisis with Congress that would soon lead to his impeachment.