On October 2, 1978, the New York Yankees traveled to Fenway Park to take on the Boston Red Sox in a one game playoff. Both teams had finished the season with ninety-nine wins, and were now playing for the American League East Pennant and a spot in the playoffs. Down … Continue reading
On October 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff to visit the White House. In the video above, Jimmy Carter addresses the media following an hour-long meeting with the Pontiff in the Oval Office. Of their discussion, President Carter noted: “We share a belief that the church … Continue reading
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recalls how he admired Hillary Rodham Clinton, his future wife, from afar while they were both students at Yale Law School. Clinton did not, at the time, want to get into a serious relationship so he tried to avoid Rodham until she decided to come … Continue reading
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “I definitely think that it was wrong. I think I was misled. I think I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error.” On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore carried out an assassination attempt against U.S. … Continue reading
Billie Jean King talks about being a female professional tennis player in the early 1970s. She discusses the famous 1973 tennis match called the Battle of the Sexes in in Houston, Texas where she beat her male opponent, Bobby Riggs: “By beating him, people started to change their hearts and … Continue reading
Granddaughter of a newspaper tycoon, victim of a kidnapping and a member of the FBI’s most wanted list–Patricia Hearst’s life is one of the most bizarre and unpredictable in American history. In her own words, Hearst talks about the time between her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in … Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize winner and journalist Bob Woodward remembers the Watergate scandal, his role in reporting on it and how it changed how we perceived the presidency. Specifically, Woodward highlights the “dirty tricks” used by the Nixon administration. Tricks such as the Watergate break-in and the leaking of then vice-presidential candidate … Continue reading
Former mayor of Boston, Kevin White, talks about almost losing in the 1967 general election to Louise Day Hicks, a Boston School Committee member who was anti-desegregation and “anti-black.” The 1965 Racial Imbalance Act, which desegregated the public schools in Boston via court-ordered busing of children into different neighborhood schools, … Continue reading
Between the years of 1966 and 1976, Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong helped to lead what is now known as the Cultural Revolution. This was a time when his Communist Party was worried that capitalistic beliefs were going to take over Chinese society. Because of this threat, Mao Zedong and his … Continue reading
Film director Paul Morrissey who was Andy Warhol’s business manager describes how unimpressed he was with Warhol: “He couldn’t influence anybody. He was incapable of doing anything. He was so severely autistic…He couldn’t read!” Morrissey cites Warhol’s name recognition as the reason for his star power versus his art–and says … Continue reading
