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Everyone in old footage thought they were living in modern times.

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@aixeltf How is the lead scientist allowed to be her foster dad and her researcher at the same time?

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Six hours before he shot John Lennon, this man asked him for an autograph. Lennon signed his album and asked if he wanted anything else.

That night he shot Lennon four times in the back, then sat on the sidewalk reading The Catcher in the Rye until police came.

In the video below, Mark David Chapman tells Larry King about that autograph in 1992. He says Lennon was looking “into the eyes of the person that was going to kill him.”

Chapman flew to New York from Hawaii. Inside his copy of the book he wrote “This is my statement.” He told King he didn’t know how to handle being a nobody.

He pleaded guilty and got 20 years to life. In 2022 he told the parole board: “I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong.”

He has been denied parole 14 times. His next hearing is in February 2027.

Most people convicted of murder in New York don’t serve 46 years. Is he still inside for what he did, or for who he did it to?

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@aixeltf So the guy who sent them there just walked?

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Six hours before he shot John Lennon, this man asked him for an autograph. Lennon signed his album and asked if he wanted anything else.

That night he shot Lennon four times in the back, then sat on the sidewalk reading The Catcher in the Rye until police came.

In the video below, Mark David Chapman tells Larry King about that autograph in 1992. He says Lennon was looking “into the eyes of the person that was going to kill him.”

Chapman flew to New York from Hawaii. Inside his copy of the book he wrote “This is my statement.” He told King he didn’t know how to handle being a nobody.

He pleaded guilty and got 20 years to life. In 2022 he told the parole board: “I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong.”

He has been denied parole 14 times. His next hearing is in February 2027.

Most people convicted of murder in New York don’t serve 46 years. Is he still inside for what he did, or for who he did it to?

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@danysvnt The tears got me… He had every reason to be bitter, and he still called them his heroes on national tv

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@bonnyxen His son Joe said almost the same thing. Anyone who kills a candidate over his politics should get life without parole at the very least.

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This man shot Robert Kennedy in the head in 1968. Twenty-one years later he sat down in prison and explained why: Kennedy had been his hero.

On May 18, 1968, he wrote in his notebook: “Kennedy must die before June 5th.” He shot him just after midnight on June 5.

In the video below, David Frost asks how Kennedy, “the friend of the downtrodden,” became the focus of his hatred. Sirhan answers: 50 Phantom jets Kennedy promised Israel.

Sirhan Sirhan was born in Jerusalem and was 24. He fired at Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, minutes after Kennedy’s speech celebrating his California primary win. Kennedy died about 26 hours later.

At trial Sirhan said he killed Kennedy “with twenty years of malice aforethought.” He got the death penalty. In 1972 California struck it down, and he got life instead.

Today he says he doesn’t remember the shooting.

In 2021 a parole panel voted to release him. Two of Kennedy’s own sons supported it. Governor Gavin Newsom blocked it.

Two of the sons of the man he killed wanted him free. Should he be?

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@aixeltf RFK Jr believes someone else fired the fatal shot. The coroner fount it hit behind Kennedy's right ear from about an inch and a half, and witnesses places Sirhan in front of him.

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A man in this crowd saved President Ford from a woman with a gun. A few days later, newspapers told the whole country he was gay.

His name was Oliver Sipple, and he had asked reporters to keep it quiet. They printed it anyway. In 1989 he was found dead alone in his apartment.

In the video below, Ford walks out of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on September 22, 1975, and agents push him into his car. The shots came from across the street, where you see police run into the crowd.

The woman was Sara Jane Moore, 45. Sipple grabbed her arm as she fired, and the bullet hit a bystander instead. It was the second attempt on Ford’s life in 17 days.

Sipple was a former Marine, wounded in Vietnam. Gay rights activist Harvey Milk believed a gay war hero could change how America saw gay people, and he was one of the people who told a newspaper columnist.

Ford sent Sipple a thank-you letter. He was never invited to the White House.

Sipple sued the newspapers for $15 million and lost. When police found him in 1989, the coroner estimated he had been dead for about 10 days. He was 47.

Milk got his gay hero. Sipple never got his privacy back. Was Milk right to tell?

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@aixeltf She comes across so calm and normal that it's honestly unsettling. Something has to be off in her head, because she genuinely doesn't seem to get what she did.

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@0vVane The doctors own journal wasn't much faster. JAMA kept running cigarette ads until 1953.

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This was a real TV ad in the late 1940s. A doctor finishes his house calls, lights a Camel, and the narrator asks: what cigarette do you smoke, doctor?

Camel claimed 113,597 doctors were asked. The survey was run by its own ad agency.

Historians who went through the records later found that many doctors seem to have been asked right after they were handed free cartons of Camels.

The campaign ran for about six years from 1946. This ad ends

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@aixeltf He taunted the cops for 30 years and a floppy disk is what finally got him

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This is what radiation looks like on camera. The man who made this film near Chernobyl’s reactor died of radiation sickness less than a year later.

His crew had 30 seconds by the destroyed reactor. The film came back covered in white specks. The studio called it defective.

Those specks were gamma rays hitting the film as it ran through the camera.

In the video below, you hear it first, a detector crackling over the plant. Then the narrator asks you to look closely.

Vladimir Shevchenko died in March 1987, weeks after Soviet censors finally let his film out.

Would you have taken those 30 seconds next to the reactor if it meant the world got to see this?