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The question of why Jacqueline Kennedy never divorced John F. Kennedy has circulated for six decades, and the answer that has emerged from newly examined letters, oral histories, and archival records is far more complicated than the familiar explanations of Catholic faith, financial dependence, or maternal sacrifice. The story begins not with the affairs but … Read more

On December 5, 1975, Lindy Sue Biechler returned to her Manor Township apartment in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, after a routine errand. She never got the chance to put the grocery bags away. She was attacked and killed inside her own home, and the case would go unsolved for nearly five decades. Lindy was 19 years … Read more

The family’s story began to unravel in late 1965 when the first of their children died. The Martinez de la Aguilar family lived in a small village in Spain, where the father, Andreas, worked as a laborer and the mother, Antonia, stayed home to care for their six children. There was never any extra money … Read more

In the winter of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln sat beside the bed of a dying patient and asked the nurse to tell him her story again. Not the boy’s story—her own. He had just lost his eleven-year-old son, Willie, to typhoid fever, while his youngest son, Tad, lay sick in another room. His wife, Mary … Read more