Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick (Part One)
On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1968
Edward Kennedy, campaigning in 1962
John Farrar examining the Kennedy automobile as it is being removed from the water near Dike Bridge
Ted Kennedy during nationwide speech following the Chappaquiddick accident
District Attorney Edmund Dinis
Edgartown Police Chief Dominick “Jim” Arena, later in life
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick. (Part Two)
On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.
Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan in the mid-sixties
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Joe Gargan’s sister Ann, Joe Kennedy’s longtime caretaker.
Joe Gargan, late in life.
Kopechne family gravestone
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Catherine The Great, One of a Kind (Part One)
Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.
Peter III, Catherine’s husband
Catherine’s mother, Princess Johanna
The Empress Elizabeth
Frederick the Great
Grigori Orlov
Poniatowski
Catherine on the the balcony of the Winter Palace after she seized the throne from Peter III
Catherine, in the uniform of the Imperial Guard
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Catherine the Great, One of a Kind (Part Two)
Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.
Catherine’s coronation painting, wearing her remarkable crown
Pugachev, harassing captive nobles before their execution
Paul I, Catherine’s son and heir
Grigori Potemkin
Peterhof Palace
The Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum
The Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great
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Bob Marley, Reggae Superstar and Legend (Part One)
Listen to this February 5, 2020 flashback episode about Bob Marley, homeless at age 20 in one of the poorest cities of the Third World, he became a popular music phenomenon and 20th century icon.
Bob Marley performing in July of 1980
Bob Marley’s mother’s home, Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica
Bunny Wailer, one of Marley’s earliest collaborators
Peter Tosh, another Marley associate, performing in 1978
The I Threes, performing with Marley, Rita, his wife, center
Some Very Famous People You’ve Never Really Heard Of, Byte Sized Biographies of the famous, the infamous and the quirky in less than hour. Think of that doorstop sized bio or history related book that you will never read made accessible in an hour. These are people that you may think you know a lot about but really don’t, remarkable human beings you have never heard of and incidents covered in new and different detail, all fascinating.
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