Bangkok, August 1971. The Siam Intercontinental Hotel, fourth floor. A man named Surachai Sirut sits in a leather chair with his hands flat on his knees, waiting for an answer he has already received twice before. Bruce Lee is across from him, 5’7 in 135 lb, wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled to…
The meeting was scheduled for 2:00. Bruce Lee arrived at 11:30. This was March 1972. Warner Brothers lot, Burbank. The building where they handled pre-production for martial arts sequences looked like every other sound stage from the outside. Beige, numbered, forgettable. Inside, it smelled like sawdust and sweat, and the particular kind of coffee that…
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…
Every night at 2:00 a.m., her baby stood up in his crib and pointed his finger at the Doberman. “Zeus, stay.” She watched it on the monitor and smiled. A toddler scolding a 90 lb dog. Adorable. She had no idea her son had been saving her life every single night for 6 weeks. Before…
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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….
700 ft above Negros Island, air speed decaying through 130 mph, the P38’s left wing dropped hard as the nose pitched upward beyond recovery. The twin Allison’s were still running. The controls still responded, but physics had already decided the outcome. In 3 seconds, the most successful active fighter pilot in the Pacific would be…
Good evening friends and welcome to Starlight News. I’m your host and it is just wonderful to have you with us tonight. Before we begin, I want to ask you something. Where are you watching from tonight? Are you in Tennessee, California? Maybe you’re up in New York, or down in Florida. And here’s what…
May 1st, 1958, Red Square, Moscow. The rumble of diesel engines echoed off the Kremlin walls as a new machine rolled past the reviewing stand where Nikita Kruev stood watching. The T-54, soon to be designated the T-55 after modifications, represented the pinnacle of Soviet armored engineering. 100 tons of steel powered by a 520…
at a little past three in the morning on November 29 1944 the American submarine USS archerfish fired six Torpedoes and sank the 71 000 ton Japanese super carrier shinano this is the extraordinary story of how a single Submarine skippered by a then unremarkable Captain claimed the largest warship then afloat the events that…
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