Crimes and Criminals

Sometimes the law makes criminals out of innocent people; other times guilty people go free. Then again ... sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Meet some of history's alleged and actual criminals and learn about their crimes.Sometimes the law makes criminals out of innocent people; other times guilty people go free. Then again ... sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Meet some of history's alleged and actual criminals and learn about their crimes.

Crimes and Criminals Chapters

Calling for Americans to "bind up the nation's wounds," Lincoln has hopes for a reunited America. Soon after his second inaugural, however, Lincoln di...

This chapter describes Jacobo Timerman's arrest and imprisonment

This chapter describes the dark part of Argentina's history known as the Dirty War

This chapter describes the climate of the country under dictatorship.

Pablo Escobar's family views him, and his death, very differently from most people.

Crimes and Criminals Audios

This "unsolved crime" radio show - "Somebody Knows" - was aired by the Columbia Broadcasting Company.

Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.

Combining many different clips from the horror-filled day of November 22, 1963, Mike Swickey created this radio documentary about President Kennedy'...

Crimes and Criminals Audio Narrations

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Viewpoints matter. To some, Gavrilo Princip is a villain; to others he is a hero.

It was a fight, over an unpaid-for wig, which set in motion events leading to the Boston Massacre.

Accused of spreading the plague during medieval times, Jews were burned in Strasbourg.

Audio narration of "Tricky Vic and His Final Con." a chapter in the story "Tricky Vic - An Impossibly Good Con Man."

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