For nearly thirty years, one man decided what Atlantic City was allowed to be. Enoch “Nucky” Johnson never held real power through an election, technically he was just the county treasurer, but he controlled the police, the courts, the bootleggers, the brothels and the boardwalk itself, all from a suite on the ninth floor of the Ritz-Carlton. He inspired the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, though the real version of the man was stranger, less violent, and in some ways far more s

On the morning of August 1, 1966, a 25-year-old former Marine named Charles Whitman carried a footlocker full of rifles, a shotgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the top of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. By the time police finally reached him 96 minutes later, he'd already killed his mother and his wife in the night, and would go on to kill more people from that observation deck than any single gunman had ever killed in one attack on American soil. It beca