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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla stood on the forty-fourth floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower and did what he...
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On September 11, 2001, when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority broadcast a message to everyone...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge moments after takeoff from Washington National Airport and plunged into the ice-choked...
In the spring of 2002, the Arizona Cardinals offered their starting safety Pat Tillman a three-year, $3.6 million contract. By every measure of the world,...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
In the summer of 1973, Soviet secret police hauled in Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, a sixty-seven-year-old typist in Leningrad, and interrogated her for days. They wanted one...
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had...
On December 23, 1954, twenty-three-year-old Ronald Herrick lay on an operating table at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, perfectly healthy, waiting to be cut...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander...