May 5th, 1945. Upper Austria. The US 11th Armored Division was moving through the beautiful Danube Valley. The war was practically over. But…
The 1st of October 1946, Nuremberg, Germany. After more than 10 months on a trial, 21 defendants who are among the most important …
On the night of 15 October 1946, Hermann Göring ended his life in his Nuremberg cell, just hours before his scheduled execution. …
When Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, more than a hundred U-boats were still at sea. In the days that followed, they …
In 1968, Leonard Cohen stepped into an elevator at the Chelsea Hotel in New York and found Janice Joplain standing there. She told…
Dick Cavitt asked Janice Joplain about the kind of life her parents had wanted for her. Not fame, not the blues, not limousines,…
Four days after Martin Luther King was shot, the greatest musicians of a generation gathered at a small club in New York City…
Houston, Texas, December 1969. The air inside the Sam Houston Coliseum wasn’t just hot. It was heavy. It was the kind of Texas…
Four days before she died, Janis Joplin called her mother and told her she was engaged. Her mother asked who the man was.…
Janice Joplain was drunk in the audience at Madison Square Garden on Thanksgiving night 1969 when Tina Turner took the stage. Nobody invited…