DH Ep:64 "In Event of Moon Disaster"
In July of 1969, while the world watched Apollo 11 head for the Moon, a speech sat folded in a White House desk drawer. Written by Nixon speechwriter William Safire, the memo titled "In Event of Moon ...
8 Helmi 1h 15min
DH Ep:63 The Night I Turned Off the Grammys
Something happened the other night that got me thinking. I sat down to watch the Grammy Awards, expecting a celebration of music. What I got instead felt more like a political rally than an awards sho...
4 Helmi 1h 16min
DH Ep:62 The Holocaust
This episode takes you through the full, unflinching story of the Holocaust — from the ancient roots of antisemitism that made it possible, to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in a broken a...
1 Helmi 1h 7min
DH Ep:61 911
We all know where we were that morning. The clear blue sky. The impossible images on our television screens. The moment when time itself seemed to split into before and after.In this episode of Distur...
27 Tammi 1h 19min
DH Ep:60 AIDS
In June of 1981, the CDC published a brief report about five young gay men in Los Angeles diagnosed with a rare pneumonia. Two were already dead. That report marked the official beginning of the AIDS ...
22 Tammi 58min
DH Ep:59 Did We Fake The Moon Landing?
In this special follow-up to our Space Race episode, we dive headfirst into one of the most persistent conspiracy theories in American history. Did NASA really land men on the moon six times between 1...
18 Tammi 1h 29min
DH Ep:58 The Bay Of Pigs
On October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, the world came within a single vote of nuclear annihilation. Deep beneath the Caribbean Sea, Soviet submarine commander Valentin Savitsky prepared to lau...
16 Tammi 54min
DH Ep:57 The McCarthy Hearings: America's Reign of Fear
In the spring of 1954, Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt walked into his Senate office with a rifle hidden beneath his overcoat. Weeks of blackmail by allies of Joseph McCarthy had broken him. The gunshot t...
12 Tammi 1h 24min
