When she wanted company and her friends told her they were busy, she paid them as much as $30,000 a month to clear their schedules and simply be present with...
She was a Brooklyn girl who fell in love with a young man at a bar. She married him. She raised his children. She kept his household. She sat in...
At his peak, he had half of Chicago’s police department on his payroll. His organization employed over a thousand men and generated an estimated $60 million a year in 1920’s...
Helman Province, Afghanistan, 2008. A US Army Ranger platoon commander is standing on the outer edge of a Taliban compound in the dark, watching a 12man SAS element work through...
The security guard’s hand was shaking as he reached for his radio. It was February 3rd, 1978, 11:47 p.m. at NBC Studios in Burbank. Johnny Carson was live on air...
Some men carry their strengths like a warning. Others carry it like a question waiting to be answered. Los Angeles, 1971. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, backstage minutes before...
Afghanistan, 2002. A joint observation position in the mountains east of Kandahar. A Delta Force reconnaissance team was watching through their own optics when the SASR sniper pair in the...
Nobody on the crew saw it coming. Not the stage manager who had worked those floors for 11 years. Not Ed McMahon who had spent more time at Johnny Carson’s...
Tina Turner is sitting across from Johnny Carson in the middle of what looks like the greatest night of her life. The comeback is real. The album is selling. The...
The security camera footage from NBC Studios Burbank captured it at exactly 6:14 in the evening on a Tuesday in December of 1977. Frank Sinatra, the most powerful voice in...