The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics were supposed to be America’s triumphant centennial Games — the hundredth anniversary of the modern Olympics, held on home soil, a celebration broadcast to the entire world. For twelve days it was exactly that. Then, in the early hours of July 27, a backpack changed everything. America’s Olympics Atlanta had…
In the spring of 1993, America sat glued to its TV sets watching a tense standoff unfold on a remote Texas compound. Fifty-one days, 76 deaths, and one charismatic doomsday preacher later, nothing would ever be the same.
On the night of March 18, 1990, two men in Boston Police uniforms buzzed the side entrance of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and said they were responding to a disturbance call. It was 1:24 AM. The security guard on duty — Rick Abath, a 23-year-old Berklee music student working a graveyard shift — broke…
