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Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet
Season 72 Episode 5
In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington D.C. hotel. Over the next several hours, split-s…
1 year, 8 months ago
History Daily: The Great Fire of London Begins
Season 72
September 2nd 1666: the Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane, before quickly spreading and reducing one third of London to ashes. …
1 year, 8 months ago
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas
Season 72 Episode 4
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo through downtown Dallas. His violent and public death…
1 year, 8 months ago
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Anarchist at the Exposition
Season 72 Episode 3
In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York to deliver a speech celebrating American achie…
1 year, 9 months ago
History Daily: A Failed Coup in Moscow
Season 72
Description: August 19, 1991. A group of Communist Party hardliners attempt to save the collapsing Soviet Union by staging a coup against party leade…
1 year, 9 months ago
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils
Season 72 Episode 2
On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died hours later, shocking the wa…
1 year, 9 months ago
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Protecting POTUS (NEW)
Season 72 Episode 1
The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret Service. There have been many highs and lows in the…
1 year, 9 months ago
History Daily: The Lonesome Cowboys Raid
Season 71
August 5, 1969. Police in Atlanta, Georgia raid a screening of Andy Warhol’s underground film Lonesome Cowboys, triggering a wave of protests that sp…
1 year, 9 months ago
First Ladies | No Handbook
Season 71 Episode 6
There’s no job description for the role of First Lady of the United States. Betty Ford described it as being “much more than a 24-hour job.” First La…
1 year, 9 months ago
First Ladies | Michelle Obama
Season 71 Episode 5
In the summer of 1989, Michelle Robinson was an up and coming lawyer at a Chicago law firm when she met a charming associate named Barack Obama. The …
1 year, 9 months ago