At 2:17 a.m. on November 14th, 1943, Private First Class Raymond Beckett crouched in a bullet riddled foxhole on Bugenville Island, bleeding from a shrapnel wound to his left shoulder. Japanese snipers controlled the ridge 400 yd ahead, invisible, deadly, systematic. In the previous 72 hours, they’d killed 11 Marines from his company. Beckett’s M1…
He was the king of Hollywood, famous for a devilish grin that charmed the world. But that smile was a masterpiece of deception, hiding a mouth full of dentures, a terrified boy from Ohio, and a heart shattered by a plane crash. He abandoned a secret daughter to save his crown, and joined the war…
There is an image that no one who has ever seen it can ever forget. [music] The king of rock, the man who made entire stadiums tremble with just his voice, kneeling before a coffin, sobbing like a 6-year-old child. The cameras captured it, and the world was speechless. Elvis Presley, the idol of an…
December 4th, 1956. Sun Records Studio, Memphis, Tennessee. Two 18 in the afternoon. The room smells like cigarette smoke and cheap coffee and something older. The particular tension that fills a space when two very large egos are about to collide. Carl Perkins is in the middle of a recording session. His new single is…
At 2:47 a.m. on September 14th, 1943, Private First Class Angelo Bianke pressed himself against the volcanic rock of Monte Casino, Italy, watching Italian soldiers move through the darkness 300 yards below his position. He had 17 rounds left in his Springfield. No reinforcements, no radio. The rest of his squad lay dead in the…
The year is 1960. The Fontine Blow Hotel in Miami Beach. The room is packed with Hollywood’s elite music legends and high society. The air is thick with cigarette smoke and expensive perfume. On stage stands Frank Sinatra, the chairman of the board himself, commanding the room like he owned it. And in many ways…
The image of Adolf Hitler, the furer, leader of the Nazi party, cast a long shadow over the second half of the 20th century. A vision of incomprehensible evil that endures today. But behind this figure was an ordinary man, a master manipulator whose talent for public speaking and deep understanding of how to effectively…
the following program was recorded a few months ago and it represents Elvis’s last concert tour I’m going to see Elvis the pelvis and it’s going to be great he is just the king the king he’s the king the king of Music King he is the king he’s the king he’s great I love…
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December 7th, 1941, 7:48 a.m. The first Japanese bomb tears through the deck of the USS Arizona. Then another, then another. In less than 9 minutes, 1,177 American sailors are incinerated alive inside a steel tomb that sinks before most of them even wake up. The harbor turns black with oil and red with blood….
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