Witness History Episodes Available now
The Secret US Bombing of Cambodia
In May 1969 the New York Times revealed that US war planes were secretly bombing Cambodia
Pavarotti's UK Debut
On May 7th 1963 Luciano Pavarotti first perfomed on a British stage, in Northern Ireland
IRA Hunger Strike
In 1981 the British government was faced with prisoners on hunger strike
The White Collar Art Collectors
In 1992 an ex-postal worker and his wife donated a priceless art collection to a gallery
The Children's Crusade
Thousands of black American children protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama
Australia's Aboriginal Referendum
In May 1967 campaigning began across Australia to consolidate Aboriginal rights
The death of Hitler
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.
The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke
In 1968 German students called for a revolution when their leader Rudi Dutschke was shot
The Ballerina and the Coup
In April 1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot against Panama's government.
Muhammad Ali and the Draft
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
