Port Arthur, Texas. Population approximately 50,000. Located on the Gulf Coast near the Louisiana border. An oil town built on the Spindletop discovery, which in 1901 produced the largest oil gusher in American history. A town that smells like petroleum when the wind comes from the wrong direction. A town that knows what it is…
Janis Joplin revised her will on October 1st, 1970. The same day she recorded Mercedes Benz. The same day she tried to call Seth Morgan and he didn’t answer. The same day she drove to Sunset Sound and sang one last song into a microphone alone. She sat with her attorneys in Los Angeles and…
January 31st, 1968, San Francisco. Janis Joplin sat down and wrote a letter to her parents in Port Arthur. She wrote about a lot of things, the band, the city, the people she had met, and then she wrote this, “Thanks for the article on Aretha. She is by far and away the best thing…
She has asked the hardest questions in every hard room in America. She has sat across from presidents, from survivors, from people at the worst moments of their lives. And she always remembered everything. The date, the name, the detail no one else thought to follow up on. And then, on a…
August 17th, 1969. Woodstock, 2:00 in the morning, 400,000 people were waiting in a field in upstate New York. They had been there for 2 days. They had been rained on. They had slept in the mud or not slept at all. They had eaten whatever the Hog Farm could distribute and drunk from communal…
On the first weekend of October 1970, people started dying in Los Angeles. Not one person. Several in different rooms in different parts of the city. Over the same few days, all customers of the same heroin dealer. One of them was found on the floor of room 105 at the Landmark Motor Hotel with…
There is a version of this story that sounds impossible. A woman receives a cancer diagnosis on a Tuesday and anchors the morning show on Wednesday. She hears words that would silence most people forever. And her first instinct is to sit down in front of a camera and say, “Good morning.” Not because…
The white flag came out at 6:14 in the morning. One of the Americans marked the time because it seemed like the kind of thing you marked. A bed sheet actually, not a military flag. A bed sheet pulled from somewhere inside the building and tied to the barrel of a rifle and pushed out…
On September 1st, 1939, Germany launched a sudden invasion of Poland, marking the official outbreak of World War II. Throughout this deadliest conflict in human history, Germany committed countless horrific war crimes, bringing immense suffering to nations across the globe. But from a purely military perspective, the German military’s combat prowess was truly impressive, especially…
Daniel Day Lewis is retiring from acting. His spokeswoman confirming the news saying Daniel Day Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. The actor has won three Oscars, all for best actor. >> Apart from…
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