Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet | 5
In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington D.C. hotel. Over the next several hours, split-second decisions made by Secret Service agents and D...
4 Sep 202438min
History Daily: The Great Fire of London Begins
September 2nd 1666: the Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane, before quickly spreading and reducing one third of London to ashes. This episode originally aired in 2022.Support the s...
2 Sep 202417min
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas | 4
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo through downtown Dallas. His violent and public death became one of the most traumatic moments in the na...
28 Aug 202438min
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Anarchist at the Exposition | 3
In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York to deliver a speech celebrating American achievements at home and abroad. But waiting in the crow...
21 Aug 202436min
History Daily: A Failed Coup in Moscow
Description: August 19, 1991. A group of Communist Party hardliners attempt to save the collapsing Soviet Union by staging a coup against party leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. This episode originally aired...
19 Aug 202420min
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils | 2
On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died hours later, shocking the war-torn nation and becoming the first President to b...
14 Aug 202441min
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Protecting POTUS (NEW) | 1
The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret Service. There have been many highs and lows in the agency’s more than 150-year history – most poignan...
7 Aug 202452min
History Daily: The Lonesome Cowboys Raid
August 5, 1969. Police in Atlanta, Georgia raid a screening of Andy Warhol’s underground film Lonesome Cowboys, triggering a wave of protests that sparks the gay rights movement in the Deep South. Thi...
5 Aug 202418min
