The US Supreme Court's first woman justice

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...  Show more

In 1968, American television boldly went where it had never gone before, broadcasting what's claimed to be the country's first interracial kiss in a TV programme. The moment of passion was between Captain Kirk of the starship USS Enterprise and communications officer Lieutenant U ...  Show more

Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to America's top court in 1981. She'd been nominated by newly-elected Republican president Ronald Reagan. Also in the programme: an eye-witness on the beaches during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the worm that unlocked secrets of ge ...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor solidified her legacy as the first female jurist to sit on the Supreme Court. One of her former clerks, Tamarra Matthews Johnson, joins Cases and Controversies to discuss her former boss as a justice and as a role model for women. She touches on O’Conn ...  Show more

With the recent passing of Sandra Day O'Connor, we wanted to celebrate her life by re-releasing her episode. Sandra was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and served from 1981 to 2006. Join us as we learn about her childhood and rise to the U.S. Supreme Cour ...  Show more

With her confirmation to the US Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has made history. We dig into her past as a public defender and discuss the importance of her confirmation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.