The mysterious death of Buddy Holly, the 22-year-old pioneer of rock and roll, has been re-examined as new documents and buried details have resurfaced around the crash that killed him, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper on February 3, 1959. The official account blamed bad weather and pilot error, but unanswered questions about the flight, … Read more
Lorne Greene did not set out to soften Ben Cartwright. When the Canadian actor took the role on Bonanza in 1959, the scripts presented the widowed rancher as a hard man—a rifle-wielding patriarch who decided who belonged on the Ponderosa. Greene could make that authority believable almost effortlessly. But he gradually resisted the colder version … Read more
Thuy Trang, the actress best known for playing Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, died in a car accident on September 3, 2001. She was 27 years old. Her death arrived at one of the most unlucky moments in modern history. She was buried on September 10, 2001, the day … Read more
Wallis Simpson stood in the gardens of a French chateau in the summer of 1937, just weeks after her wedding, dressed in a pale blue gown that would eventually be named after her. She looked composed and unreadable beside the man who had given up the British throne to marry her. Most people know that … Read more
Frederick Maytag built one of the most trusted brands in American history on a simple promise: machines that never broke. At its peak, one in every five washing machines sold in America carried his name, produced by 4,000 workers in Newton, Iowa, a town so tied to the company that generations of the same families … Read more
Am 23. Mai 1934 endete die Flucht von Bonnie Parker und Clyde Barrow auf einer Landstraße in Louisiana. Die offizielle Version lautete: sechs Gesetzeshüter feuerten über 130 Schüsse auf das gestohlene Fahrzeug, die beiden berüchtigten Verbrecher starben sofort. Die Bilder des zerschossenen Autos gingen um die Welt. Doch die forensische Aufarbeitung Jahrzehnte später offenbart erhebliche … Read more
A letter from an academic stranger in 1967 set two Harlan County brothers on a path that would take more than two years and ultimately overturn an official record their family had carried for eight decades. Denny Feltner read the letter standing at his mailbox in the cold March weather. It was from Dr. Harold … Read more
The end of the German Empire did not come with a single battle, but with a signature in a French forest. On November 11, 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent after four years of devastating conflict. For the German people, the defeat was catastrophic and unexpected, as their government had spent years … Read more
Die Geschichte von Bonnie und Clyde ist in der amerikanischen Popkultur tief verankert. Hollywood hat daraus eine romantische Sage gemacht, voller Stil und Glamour. Doch die Realität war alles andere als glamourös. Besonders das Ende von Bucks Barrow, dem älteren Bruder von Clyde, zeigt eine Grausamkeit, die kein Film je einfangen wollte. Marvin Ivan Barrow, … Read more
Der 14. Februar 1929 sollte als einer der blutigsten Tage in der Geschichte des organisierten Verbrechens in die Annalen eingehen. Was an diesem Vormittag in einer Garage in Chicago geschah, hatte nichts mit den dramatischen Schießereien zu tun, die Hollywood später daraus machen sollte. Es war eine Hinrichtung, kalt, präzise und von brutaler Effizienz. Sieben … Read more