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The Tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School

Friday, December 14, 2012. It was a clear, crisp, and trouble-free start that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Classrooms filled with kids excited for Christmas,

The Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995)

On April 19, 1995, two years to the day following the U.S. government’s botched raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, a rented truck pulled to the curb i

The Freeway Chase of O. J. Simpson

He was an extraordinarily gifted athlete, the premier football player of his time, a California golden child who emerged from abject poverty to win the Heisman trophy in

The Challenger Disaster

The Space Shuttle Challenger flew nine missions into space. But its fateful tenth mission, which lasted only 73 seconds, ensured its tragic place in history. On the morni

The Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald

Pandemonium reigned in downtown Dallas on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. An assassin's bullet had murdered President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Within an hour, police

The War of The Worlds: The original ‘deepfake’ of 1938

“War of The Worlds” is a phenomenon of a bygone era, and of a medium a hundred years old, yet its lessons resonate to this day. It’s the original “deepfake of 1938.” A ra

The Hindenburg explosion – “Oh, the Humanity!” – (May 6, 1937)

The Hindenburg was an engineering masterpiece, an airship as large and as grand as the Titanic - and as doomed. On May 6, 1937, a young radio reporter named Herbert Morri

D-Day Invasion “…about to embark up on a great crusade” – (June 6, 1944)

It was the biggest overseas military operation in the biggest war in world history - and its best kept secret as well. D Day demonstrated radio’s ability to carry news wi

JFK Assassination - “In Dallas Texas, three shots were fired…” – (November 22, 1963)

He was a man in the prime of life when he traveled to Dallas, Texas in November 1963, on a routine political fence-mending mission to help shore up his chances for re-ele

Apollo 11 Moon Landing - “One Small Step…” – (July 20, 1969)

It was the finale to a decade of turbulence and upheaval, but this time it was an event through which a nation could put aside its differences and stand together to marve

President Reagan shot - “The president was [not?] hit,” – (March 30, 1981)

When Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980, he hoped to defy an unusually grim circumstance of that office. In the seven previous even-numbered decades, ev

L.A. Riots following the Rodney King verdict - “Can we all get along?” – (April 29, 1992)

The first reports from Los Angeles had an all-too familiar ring - a black motorist who had been stopped by police for drunk driving was pulled out of his car and beaten b

The Death of Princess Di - “Princess Diana has died…” –(August 31, 1997)

She was a princess who never lived happily ever after - and the world loved her for it. Diana Spencer became a global celebrity when she wedded England’s Prince Charles i

The Columbine tragedy - “Shots fired at Columbine High School” – (April 20, 1999)

It was the darkest nightmare of every parent come to life - and it happened in the land of “It can’t happen here.” The setting was Littleton, Colorado, a comfortably midd

The 2000 presidential election - “…Nobody knows for a fact who has won Florida” – (November 8, 2000)

It was the election that did not decide the presidency, and the biggest media debacle since “Dewey Defeats Truman.” The 2000 campaign between presidential candidates Geor

9-11: America Under Attack - “This has to be deliberate” – (September 11, 2001)

September 11, 2001 dawned crisp and blue in New York City. The gathering hum of a seemingly ordinary workday began taking shape in lower Manhattan. Then the ‘ordinary’ wa

The Nat Turner slave uprising of 1831 - “Band of rebels on a killing spree” (dramatization) – (August 21, 1831)

A 31-year-old enslaved man named Nathanial “Nat” Turner, who was both literate and a preacher in the Virginia slave community, led a bloody two-day uprising in Southampto

The passing of the 19th Amendment - “Tennessee House gives women the right to vote” – (June 4, 1919)

As long and vast as the history of our country may seem to us, the right of women to vote is shockingly new. Many of us had parents or grandparents who were born before w

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