Utterly interesting

In 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme of the Manson Family aimed a gun at President Gerald Ford in Sacramento. The weapon misfired, Ford survived, and Fromme spent 34 years in prison.

On 1 September 2004, militants stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, taking more than 1,100 hostages. After three days, 334 were dead, including 186 children. Nearly twenty years later, the grief and unanswered questions remain.

On March 5, 1959, twenty-one African American boys died in a locked dormitory fire at the Wrightsville reform school in Arkansas. Their forgotten story exposes the neglect and racism of the Jim Crow South.