Jimmy Hoffa
For weeks this show has lived in the corridors of power, among presidents and spies and the men who shaped the country from behind closed doors. This time we leave all of that behind and walk into a r...
7 Jun 1h
George W. Bush: The War On Terror
In this episode of the Disturbing History presidential series, we cross out of settled history and into living memory to examine the presidency of George W. Bush through the architecture of the War on...
5 Jun 1h 14min
Warren Harding: Corpse Of An Administration
The nation wept for Warren G. Harding in August 1923. The funeral train crawled home through crowds that stretched for miles, mourners singing hymns by the tracks, certain they were burying one of the...
3 Jun 1h 10min
The Corpsewood Manor Murders
This week we step away from the corridors of presidential power and head into the North Georgia mountains, to a hand-built stone castle on Taylor's Ridge and one of the most misunderstood crimes in th...
31 Mai 59min
The Fourteen Men Before George Washington
Everyone knows George Washington was the first President of the United States. Technically true. But it's also a sleight of hand, because fourteen men held the title of President before him, and almos...
29 Mai 1h 5min
Dwight Eisenhower: The Secret Coup Machine
Dwight Eisenhower is the president most Americans remember as the calm grandfather of the nineteen fifties. The general who beat Hitler. The man who built the interstate highways.The smile under the b...
27 Mai 1h 6min
The Foo Fighters of World War Two
The story of the Foo Fighters of World War Two is one of the strangest, best-documented, and least-resolved cases in the history of military aviation. In the late autumn of nineteen forty-four, pilots...
24 Mai 1h 1min
Richard Nixon: Watergate Was Only the Doorway
Most people think they know Watergate. They don't. They know the headline. The break-in, the tapes, the resignation, the wave from the helicopter on the South Lawn. They know the word. They've seen th...
22 Mai 1h 4min
