Warning: This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence. After almost fifty years of litigation, the MacDonald murders remain one of America's most controversial murder cases.

Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.  For close to fifty years, the Macdonald murders have remained one of America's most controversial cases.

When ten incarcerated Irish Republicans starved themselves to death in a British prison, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher became the object of one of the most audacious assassination attempts in British history.

When ten incarcerated Irish Republicans starved themselves to death in a British prison, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher became the object of one of the most audacious assassination attempts in British history.

During his remarkable escape from the Nazis, through some of the most inhospitable parts of Norway, Jan Baalsrud proved that some human beings can just refuse to die.

During his remarkable escape from the Nazis, through some of the most inhospitable parts of Norway, Jan Baalsrud proved that some human beings can just refuse to die.

F. Scott Fitzgerald as a child

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1927 publicity photo

Zelda Fitzgerald

Ginevra King, 1918

Gerald and Sara Murphy on the French Riviera

Hotek Du Cap, Cap D”Antibes, France

Ernest Hemingway, 1923

First edition cover art work, The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, 1937

Maxwell Perkins

Fitzgerald family passport

MGM Studio Entrance

Irving Thalberg

Sheilah Graham

F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald grave, Rockville, Maryland

A literary sensation in his twenties, when he suddenly died of a heart attack in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald's last royalty check was $13.13.

A literary sensation in his twenties, when he suddenly died of a heart attack in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald's last royalty check was $13.13.