Thirty years ago this week the Chinese government sent forces into Tiananmen Square in Beijing, to enforce martial law declared after thoiusands of mostly-young protesters assembled in the Square to
What can you say about a performer who’s won seven Grammys, had a slew of number one hits, and who is one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Singers of
When people ask me which of my some ten thousand interviews I enjoyed the most, there’s one that always comes to mind. That day in the fall of 1986, when
Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr. may be best known, best remembered, for prosecuting Charles Manson and members of his “family” after the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969. Bugliosi wrote a book
This past weekend would have been baseball great Yogi Berra’s 94th birthday. One of his closest friends, from childhood on through their playing days together, was Joe Garagiola, who of
For thirty years readers faithfully turned to a column in their local newspaper. It wasn’t about politics, or education, or religion, or even advice to the lovelorn. It was just
Twin baby boys from Germany were the talk of the world in 1987. As was the American neurosurgeon, who led the successful operation that separated the twin boys who were
If you grew up in the ’50s or ’60s, I don’t have to tell you who June Loclhart was. She was Ruth Martin. Or she was Maureen Robinson. Or she
How would you have reacted if, as an impressionable five-year-old, you were watching TV and suddenly on screen, flying monkeys came and took your mom away? Welcome to Lorna Luft’s
Julie Nixon Eisenhower was born into a political family. Her father was Richard Nixon, former Congressman, Senator, Vice President, and eventually the 37th President of the United States. Her mother
