America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Forty-seven years after the death of President Kennedy, Gerald Blaine (a former Secret Service agent assigned to the White House Detail) and Clint Hil...
Clint Hill was Mrs. Kennedy's secret service agent on November 22, 1963.
This video clip is one of the trailers for Cold Mountain, a 2003 film directed by Anthony Minghella, based on the book by Charles Frazier.
WARNING: THIS CLIP INCLUDES AN EXECUTION SCENE WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
The Bay of Pigs fueled Castro's worry of an American invasion and his desire for missiles from the Soviet Union.
President Kennedy summoned his most trusted advisors to evaluate America's options.
Walter Cronkrite recalls tension in the CBS newsroom during the height of the "missile crisis.
As plans for an invasion of Cuba continued, during the "Missile Crisis," President Kennedy sent his advisors home on Saturday evening.
It is 1763, and after more than a century of British rule in the colonies, people in America still consider themselves British.
On the 1st of February, 2003, two RNAF (Royal Dutch Air Force) pilots were training on a Longbow Apache Helicopter (AH-64) out of Fort Hood, Texas. Th...
About 84,000 pieces of shuttle debris fell to Earth, but investigators needed to locate the orbiter's flight-data recorder.
This video clip, from the BBC's documentary Last Flight of Columbia, includes pre-flight interviews with crew members who died sixteen minutes before ...
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