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Witness History Episodes

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    The Arrest of James Earl Ray

    How the man convicted for killing Martin Luther King was detained in London in June 1968.

  2. Date Rape

    In 1991 Katie Koestner went public with her experience of date rape and divided America.

  3. Tanzania's Ujamaa policy

    In the late 1960s Tanzania experimented with a new form of socialism called Ujamaa.

  4. Concordski Plane Crash

    In June 1973 Russia's supersonic rival to Concorde crashed at the Paris Air Show

  5. Karakoram Highway

    In 1979 the Karakoram Highway between Pakistan and China was opened to the public

  6. The Assassination of Trujillo

    On May 30th 1961 Rafael Trujillo, the dictator in the Dominican Republic, was shot dead.

  7. The Thalidomide Trial

    In May 1968, executives of the German company that made the drug thalidomide go on trial

  8. Yeltsin And The Chechen Rebels

    In 1996, a Chechen rebel delegation negotiated peace with Russia's President Yeltsin.

  9. The Israeli Airlift of Ethiopian Jews

    In 1991 14000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel during Operation Solomon

  10. Hands Across America

    The day millions of Americans formed a human chain to try to end poverty and homelessness

  11. The Execution of Anne Boleyn

    In May 1536 the Queen of England was executed on the orders of her husband, Henry VIII

  12. Kia Ora: Maori Rights Breakthrough in New Zealand

    Telephone operator Naida Glavish became known for saying good morning to callers in Maori

  13. Dien Bien Phu

    The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam

  14. Paris Protests of 1968

    How student protests and workers' strikes threatened to bring down France's government.

  15. Marcus Garvey

    In 1916 Marcus Garvey arrived in the US urging black people to unite in a new nation.

  16. Citizen Kane

    Archive interviews with Orson Welles about one of the greatest films of all time

  17. Riverdance

    Irish dance sensation Riverdance debuted at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin

  18. The Pope in Syria - 2001

    In May 2001 Pope John Paul the Second made a historic visit to Syria

  19. Kim Philby: The Third Man

    In May 1988, the death was announced in Moscow of the English spy Kim Philby.

  20. Escape from the South Atlantic

    In the spring of 1982 Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands.

  21. The Imaginary War Heroes

    During World War Two, Soviet propaganda promoted a heroic feat that never happened.

  22. Hitler's Nuclear Programme

    Nazi Germany had a nuclear programme, which could have given Hitler an atomic bomb

  23. The Belfast Blitz

    In 1941, Belfast in Northern Ireland was devastated by German bombing

  24. Ernest Hemingway in Cuba

    Alberto Ramos remembers his time working for the great American novelist in Cuba.

  25. U2 Spy Plane

    In May 1960 Gary Powers was taken captive by the Soviets when his spy plane was shot down

  26. The Salem Witches

    In 1692 nineteen men and women were convicted of witchcraft and executed in America.

  27. The Creation of the Mini

    In 1959 the British Motoring Corporation unveiled a very small new family car - the Mini

  28. The McCarthy Era

    In spring 1950, an American academic was wrongly named as the main Soviet agent in the US

  29. The Funeral of Charles Darwin

    The great English naturalist Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abbey in April 1882

  30. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

    In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine

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