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June 6, 1944: the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.

Gerald Ford hands Richard Nixon his get-out-of-jail free card.

Bob Dylan probably had no idea how much the times really were a' changin'.

In a possible prelude to World War III, America invades Russia following World War I.

Sixty years before Leona Helmsley, J.P. Morgan says that only the little people have to pay taxes.

Alger Hiss may have been the defendant, but a whole generation was put on trial--and convicted.

Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss are caught up in what Chambers calls a 'tragedy of history.' For Hiss, that's what it turns out to be.

President Eisenhower sends federal troops to defend the
Constitution in Little Rock.

By overplaying his hand, Orval Faubus may have unintentionally done more to advance civil rights than anyone since Abraham Lincoln.

Nixon and Kissinger fiddle and Chile burns.