Leslie "Les" William Coffelt is the only secret service agent to be killed while protecting the president. It was a terrorist attack, in Washington, DC, in broad daylight, perpetrated by two US citizens.
If you've ever walked the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, you've heard the voices of the past. Even if you haven't, you can still hear them in podcast form! A history podcast about Arlington National Cemetery and the individual stories of those buried there
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55 years ago, last January, the crew of Apollo 1 (left to right Gus Grissom , Ed White , Roger Chaffee ) strapped into their command modul... -
After the 369th Infantry Regiment returned home from World War I, a terrible summer of racial violence spread across the South and into the ...
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When the Harlem Hellfighters returned from the Great War the two most famous members of the acclaimed regiment were band leader First Lieu...
