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It was Custer's date with destiny.
"The Decisive Point: White Bull’s Second Impetuous Charge" will be discussed at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 25 in the Historic Fort Hays Visitors Center. The event will be held on the 147th anniversary of the historical day.
Presenter Dennis K. Clark, better known as DK, is a veteran of a distinguished 49-year military career as a soldier, leader, associate professor, mentor and coach. During his career he has been a teacher/mentor for officers and enlisted from each of the U.S. military services as well as military officers in 97 different countries.
DK has deployed 163 times to numerous countries around the globe in service to our nation. Among his awards and decorations, he has been knighted five times in four different countries.
He is a member of the VFW, the American Legion, the Company of Military Historians, and various historical societies across the Midwest. He was the secretary of the board of directors for Little Big Horn National Monument for several years.
His academic accomplishments include degrees from The University of Tennessee, University of Maryland, Western Kentucky University, and Kansas State University where he is an Ed.D (ABD) in Educational Leadership. He is now retired and living in Lansing, KS.
DK will share the background and the flowing action of the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sunday, June 25th, 1876. The discussion will reveal who was the catalyst that caused the when and where for the decisive point in the battle. He will unravel the mystery of how and when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer died, as well as the impact of his death upon the Seventh U.S. Cavalry.
Lt. Col. (R) Clark will discuss briefly a couple of military terms with which you may or may not be familiar: Center of Gravity and Decisive Point. Both the physical and psychological decisive points will be discussed.
Key actors discussed in the presentation will include George A. Custer, Myles Keogh, George Yates, Crazy Horse, Joseph White Bull and Stanley Vestal.
During the presentation DK will provide where he found the evidence and how he verified that the story of Custer’s demise was accurate, as well as the indisputable weight of the evidence plus the reason it has been discounted even up to today.