t3003

On the night of October 12, 1957, a professional killer named Joey Caruso stood three feet behind Bumpy Johnson inside the Red Rooster, a Harlem restaurant owned by Bumpy's childhood friend Memphis Slim. His hand was inside his jacket, fingers wrapped around a .22 caliber pistol fitted with a suppressor. One bullet to the base … Read more

She was, by every account, the most powerful woman in twentieth-century Britain that nobody knows. Not the Queen Mother, not Queen Elizabeth II, not Princess Margaret or Princess Diana. The woman who raised the woman who saved the British monarchy. The woman who stood one step behind the throne and never once tried to step … Read more

Most people remember Grace Kelly for the crash. A winding road above Monaco, a Rover 3500, a 120-foot fall, and a death the next day. That is the version that documentaries return to again and again. But the crash covers only the final morning of a 26-year story that began long before it. Between the … Read more

On October 12, 1964, a jogger named Henry Wiggins heard a woman scream near the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown. Looking down from the tow path, he saw a slender Black man in a light jacket standing over a woman on the ground. Then he heard two gunshots. The woman stopped moving. The man … Read more

In April 1961, Abraham Bolden was a 26-year-old Black Illinois State Trooper who had recently transferred to the Secret Service. He was standing guard at a restroom door at a Chicago convention center when President John F. Kennedy walked up to him. Kennedy stopped and asked Bolden whether there had ever been a Negro Secret … Read more

In April 1961, a 26-year-old Black Illinois State Trooper named Abraham Bolden was standing guard at a restroom door in a Chicago convention center. He had recently transferred to the Secret Service, and the duty was routine and unglamorous. Then President John F. Kennedy walked up to him and asked a question that would change … Read more

At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, the most protected man in the world became the most exposed. President John F. Kennedy's limousine was crawling through Dealey Plaza at just 11.2 miles per hour. The motorcycles that were supposed to surround his car trailed twenty feet behind. The agents who should have been on the … Read more

At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, Jean Hill stood 21 feet from President Kennedy's limousine, watching through the viewfinder of her friend's camera. She wore a bright red raincoat. Years later, people would call her the lady in red. As the presidential motorcade passed, Hill heard multiple shots. Her immediate reaction, captured on film, … Read more