When John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999, the media came to a quick conclusion — the so-called “Kennedy curse” had struck again. After all, the heir apparent to the family dynasty had lost both his father, President John F. Kennedy, and his uncle, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, to brutal assassinations, making JFK Jr.’s death all the eerier.

On July 16, 1999, the late president’s son had planned to travel to a family wedding. Though he had a broken ankle, John F. Kennedy Jr. climbed into a single-engine Piper Saratoga plane alongside his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette. He meant to drop off Lauren at Martha’s Vineyard, and then fly with Carolyn to the Kennedy family compound for the wedding in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

But the trio never made it to their destinations. Sixty-two minutes after taking off from the Essex County airport in New Jersey, Kennedy’s plane — which he was piloting himself — crashed into the water. The crash killed everyone aboard the plane on impact.

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From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the

wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived –

and ask whether they have the rep they deserve.

Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it

is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his

art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even

short?)

Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t

always like what it sees.

Listen to Legacy on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can

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“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” astronaut Neil Armstrong said on July 20, 1969 — the day humanity first landed on the moon. Or, did we? Was that just what They wanted us to think? It was the middle of the Cold War, and the Russians had already sent Sputnik into orbit. America needed a win, and landing on the moon was the perfect way to one-up the communists. Too perfect, some might say. Which begs the question, was the moon landing fake?

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First mentioned by Plato in Timaeus and Critias, the lost city of Atlantis later became a widely debated topic among historians. But is Atlantis real?

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Andrew Jackson once declared: "I was born for the storm; calm does not suit me."

And throughout his life, Jackson was no stranger to close calls. The scrappy president from Tennessee had been a boy when the Revolutionary War broke out, and he cut his teeth fighting against the British. When he was captured in 1781, a British soldier slashed him for refusing to shine his boots, giving Jackson scars on his hand and face that he bore for the rest of his life. As an adult, Jackson survived a duel that left him with a bullet in his chest, and he was once shot so badly during a Nashville street brawl that he almost lost one of his arms.

This is the story of the assassination attempt against Andrew Jackson, and how the president somehow beat the odds — yet again — to live another day. 

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Most people know the “Ring Around the Rosie” nursery rhyme, and most people have heard that it has a dark meaning: It’s all about the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which tore through Europe in the 14th century.

But is that really true?

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Last seen with Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba during a trip with her Alabama high school class in May 2005.

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Discover why the wider Abraham Lincoln assassination plot was far larger than the death of one man and how this three-pronged attack sent out violent aftershocks for decades to come.

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On October 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt — then running for an unprecedented third term under the banner of the Bull Moose Party — set out to give a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Wisconsin. En route, he crossed paths with a mentally ill saloon owner named John Schrank.

For some reason, Schrank had become convinced that Roosevelt had assassinated President William McKinley in 1901. And so Schrank waited with the crowd, then fired at Roosevelt with a Colt revolver.

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It’s the end of March 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about…

The discovery of a mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg…

…the story of how a well-preserved Ming tomb was found in China…

…how archaeologists finally unearthed the missing half of a Ramses II statue in Egypt…

…the discovery of Europe's oldest known human settlement in Ukraine…

…and the discovery of a golden ring with Christ imagery in Sweden…

…as well as a number of historical anniversaries from March, including the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the discovery of China's terracotta army, and much more.

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