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If you liked this episode, subscribe to HISTORY This Week wherever you listen to podcasts! May 15, 1940. It’s opening day. San Bernardino, CA is a city on the rise, and to meet this new demand for cheap, good food, two brothers have created a restaurant: McDonald’s Famous Barbecu ...  Show more

This is a brand-new episode from HISTORY This Week, available wherever you listen to podcasts!September 16, 1968. Richard Nixon isn't exactly seen as a comedian. But tonight, he's trying to change that by appearing on Laugh-In, a TV show similar to Saturday Night Live. Nixon need ...  Show more

Teddy Roosevelt is a sickly child born into a wealthy New York family. But he’s determined to seek out physical and intellectual challenges that instill in him a spirit of adventure that will guide his political life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

The son of a rich and prestigious family, John F. Kennedy’s childhood is seemingly idyllic. Yet his mother is strict and distant, and his father is openly a womaniser who resents John's frailty as a sickly child. But John is a fighter. He thrives at Harvard, and during World War ...  Show more

Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is an American gangster who became the underboss of the Gambino crime family. This is his story. Directed by James Carroll. Original Score and Sound Design by Angelo Palazzo. Sammy is asked to become an associate for the Co ...  Show more

Charles Sherrill was everything a gentleman of his generation was supposed to be: rich, handsome, charming, Ivy-Leagued. He was impossibly well connected and extravagantly mustachioed. He was also the person who, as much as anything, decided whether American athletes would partic ...  Show more