Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. >> In the moments following JFK’s assassination, his wife Jackie began repeating something over and over again. Two haunting sentences that will never be forgotten. For less than 3 years in the early 1960s, many Americans looked to…
On June 5th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down after delivering a triumphant speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. While the official story claimed the assassination was politically driven, some say the truth is much darker. This is [music] the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their…
January 24th, 1961. 12:30 a.m. The skies above North Carolina. A B-52 Stratofortress bomber is flying through the night. The aircraft is carrying two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs. Each bomb is approximately 260 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The plane is on a routine airborne alert mission during the Cold…
August 1957, Washington DC. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts takes the floor of the United States Senate. He is 40 years old. He has been a senator for 5 years. He is already thinking about running for president and he is about to deliver a speech that will infuriate the Israeli government and American…
Johnny Carson asked a question. Clint Eastwood heard it, turned his head, and chose not to answer. Johnny’s smile faded in seconds, and nobody knew what to do. It was March 1978. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Studio 6B and Burbank. Another week night, another lineup of guests. Another audience expecting laughs and easy…
career, busier than she’d ever been, which made what she was about to do even more remarkable. The envelope was cream colored, slightly yellowed at the edges, addressed in careful handwriting with a return address that read Mrs. Barbara Douglas, why I’m missing Pennsylvania. Taylor didn’t recognize the name immediately, but something about it felt…
July 14th, 1997.  Giani Versace is the most famous  fashion designer in the world.  He made very knowing sexy clothes and  all the movie stars wanted to be in  them. When I tried on this dress  designed by Johnny Versace, it  was the pinnacle of my career. …
My friends, I close on a note of hope. We are not lulled by the momentary calm of the sea or the somewhat clearer skies above. We know the turbulence that lies below and the storms that are beyond the horizon this year. But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly…
Why did Hollywood truly fear Jean Kelly? The contradiction. Welcome back. In 1952, audiences around the world watched Jean Kelly dance through puddles with an umbrella, his face radiating pure joy. That single scene in Singing in the Rain became the defining image of post-war American optimism. But what the camera didn’t capture was the…
Marlon Brando cheated for 40 years. The women who paid for it never made the headlines. Imagine you almost die. Not a car accident, not an illness. You almost die because of a medical procedure that the man you love arranged quickly, cheaply, because he did not want the child the two of you had…
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