On June 15, 1904, a steamship called the General Slocum left the pier on East Third Street in New York …
Last Witness
My Iron Lung
On June 8, 1953, five-year-old Martha Lillard contracted polio. She spent six months in the hospital, where she was put …
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
Former Senator Oklahoma Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a group appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the root causes of the violence and civil unrest that swept the nation in the late ’60s.
Remembering Olivia Hooker
Olivia Hooker was one of the last surviving witnesses to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
Russell Gackenbach is the only surviving member of the crew that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This is his story.
Last Witness: The General Slocum
In 1904, a steamship on its way to a church picnic sank in the East River. More than 1,000 people, many of them women and children, died in the disaster.
