Kinshasa Zire, October 30th, 1974. 4:00 in the morning. Behind a concrete wall, 70,000 Congalles are already filling the stadium seats, chanting a phrase that sounds like a war drum. Ali Bay, kill him, Ali, kill him. The noise bleeds through the cinder blocks like a pulse, vibrating up through the wooden bench where a…
Rome, January 1962. Studio 5 at Chinachita, the sprawling Italian film lot where empires had been built and broken in equal measure. Inside a cramped dressing room that smelled of cold cream and cigarette smoke, a woman lay on a narrow cot, still wearing a costume that cost more than most Americans earned in a…
The garage smelled like motor oil and sweat. It was somewhere in Oakland, California in the late fall of 1964, and a 24year-old man stood in the center of a cleared concrete floor, rolling his shoulders, bouncing lightly on the balls of his feet. His name was Lee Jun Fon, though he had already begun…
On a September evening in 1953, 42 million Americans sat in front of their television sets. That was more people than had watched Dwight Eisenhower raise his right hand and swear the oath of office just a few months earlier. More people than had tuned in for any single broadcast in the short flickering history…
Chicago, 1930. The city was drowning in Prohibition money, booze, guns, and bodies on the pavement. And in the middle of it all stood a man with a boy’s face and a killer’s heart. His name was Lester Joseph Gillis. The world knew him as Babyface Nelson. He wasn’t the biggest or the smartest, but…
November 22nd, 1963. 12:30 p.m. Dallas, Texas. Three gunshots. A president slumped in his motorcade and within minutes, the news was racing across the Atlantic. When it reached the Kremlin, the Soviet leadership didn’t celebrate. They panicked, not because they were guilty, because they feared they were about to be accused. The shooter, the man…
At 12:30 p.m. on November 22nd, 1963, the most protected man in the world became the most vulnerable. President John F. Kennedy’s limousine crawled through Dele Plaza at 11.2 mph. The motorcycle escorts that should have flanked his car were 20 ft behind. The agents who should have been on the running boards were standing…
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They invaded peaceful nations. This is a criminal regime. Slaughtered innocent people. They’re performing murder and terrible crimes, but at the same time trying to make it look as though it’s correct. Committed genocide. He likened the Jews to a virus. But how did Adolf Hitler and his small band of criminal conspirators persuade the…
The gin and dubenet before lunch, the pastel blue hat, the wave from the balcony, that little twist of the wrist that photographers loved. When Elizabeth Bose Lion died on March 30th, 2002, more than 200,000 people queued to file past her coffin at Westminster Hall. The newspapers called her the queen mom. They described…
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