Listen to American Scandal episodes free, on demand. Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage.Scandals have shaped America since its founding. From business and politics to sports and society, we look on aghast as corruption, deceit and ambition bring down heroes and celebrities, politicians and moguls.
On a serene, leafy street in north Pasadena, Calif., a 70-year-old man has lived a quiet life in a well-preserved Craftsman house since his family bought it in 1963. He keeps the lawn mowed. Trims his fruit trees. Chats with the neighbors.
Listen to American Innovations episodes free, on demand. DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did we get here? It wasn't by accident. Well, sometimes it was. It was also the result of hard work, teamwork, and competition.
Fifty years ago, the Beach Boys released the milestone album Pet Sounds, a collection of groundbreaking songs that redefined what pop music could be. In the decades since, critics and fans have scrutinized and analyzed every aspect of the album's 13 tracks.
When Johnny Cash played his iconic concert at Folsom Prison he covered the song of one very talented inmate. Johnny pulled some strings, plucked Glen Sherley from prison and brought him out on the road. Did this turn of fortune wind up helping or hurting the formerly unknown songwriter?
Franklin Bell has the blues. Every Sunday afternoon, after church in his small Central L.A. garage. And you're invited.
Los Angeles has been home to a wide variety of foods and a varied list of museums over the decades, but now the two have combined. The Disgusting Food Museum is a bold new step into examining what-and why-we eat what we eat, or why we don't.
Dutcher is a wiry man with bright eyes, long gray hair and a white beard. He's a fast-talking fellow who's sharp as a tack and in tremendous shape. He eats right, doesn't smoke or drink, and faithfully strides miles a day in boots he found in a garbage can 13 years ago, covering the trails he's been visiting since Herbert Hoover was president.
Before I went to Nashville in 2006, I'd never had moonshine. Prohibition ended in 1933, right? You can buy liquor in stores. Outside of cartoon hillbillies swilling from jugs labeled XXX, I was unaware that anyone drank the stuff. I was wrong.
It was a crazy idea -- nab Frank's boy -- but the bozos pulled it off. Almost. Thirty-five years ago, just after the death of President Kennedy and just before the arrival of the Beatles, three men kidnapped 19-year-old Frank Sinatra Jr. from a motel in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had just won California's Democratic primary election. He concluded his rousing victory speech with the words, "My thanks to all of you and now it's on to Chicago and let's win this!" and stepped from the ballroom into a small, crowded kitchen pantry surrounded by excited supporters.
An aspiring filmmaker got a dream assignment to film the Rolling Stones' 1969 concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California. But her dream turned into a nightmare after she was dosed with LSD - and Gimme Shelter , the film she was hired to shoot, would come to symbolize the end of '60s idealism.
The guy sitting two rows behind me has a falsetto and a Walkman, one of which he knows how to use. The one made in Japan. But that hasn't stopped him from entertaining this busload of strangers with a voice like a rattail file on a chain-link fence. He began in Washington.
If it weren't for coal, you would not be reading this. If it weren't for coal, a British wife, her Scottish husband and their two young children never would have left their home in Inverness, Scotland, in 1956 and taken a journey that led them to Canada, Peru and finally to Benton, Illinois, where they landed in September 1963.