This is a video about The White Rose movement in the 1940's, a secret college group that dispersed leaflets to encourage Germans not to support Hitler. The two siblings who lead it had been part of the Hitler youth and questioned Nazism later in life. In college, they found a group of students who shared their ideas and printed leaflets that they spread across Munich. The students were later reported to the Gestapo by a janitor who witnessed their crimes and were put to death by the government.

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina walloped Louisiana, killing people and destroying almost everything in its path. Nothing like this had ever happened before and no one knew how to clean up after its occurrence. Clean up and rebuilding efforts like The Road Home looked better on paper than they did in practice and many were left unable to rebuild. Issues arose in many cases and grant money never met the hands of those in most need. Then seven years later, Hurricane Sandy hit the East coast and destroyed homes in New Jersey and New York and the federal government now had a benchmark to judge against and knew what not to do, the outcome of their efforts is yet to be determined

On this day in 1919, the United States Industrial Alcohol Company's the bolts in the 58 foot high tank of molasses gave out and released a flood of hot molasses into the streets of Boston, pushing over railway lines, the firehouse and freight cars. 21 people were either burned or drowned by the molasses and several horses died as well. It was a strange and tragic day in history.

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill occurred when an oil tanker tore open its hull on a reef outside of Valdez Alaska. This was the biggest oil spill so far and no one, not even the spill relief teams knew how to respond. Only 15 percent of oil was recovered and the response was embarrassingly slow. It turns out the oil companies were to blame for the spill for resisting safety precautions, and they didn't learn from their mistakes of not employing enough money and resources by the time of the BP Gulf Spill of 2010. Valdez Alaska never recovered and the environmental effects persist.

In 1986 and 2003, NASA had its two biggest disasters ever with the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle on launch and the annihilation of the Columbia shuttle on reentry. NASA became over ambitious after the Appolo missions, attempting to launch shuttles up to 60 times a year due to their funding by private organizations who wanted the shuttles to release experiments and satellites into space. They started out successful with the original Columbia missions and then they became sloppy with the building and safety of their rocket boosters, which later caused the explosion of the Challenger rocket. NASA reevaluated its boundaries for acceptable risk and purged the members of NASA who pushed the Challenger mission through despite the risks. They stopped all launches for years Then in 2003 the Columbia shuttle had its first mission in years and a piece of foam from the rocket hit the wing of the shuttle, causing what they thought were possible damages. They made another bad call in not alerting the crew until the last minute and not investigating, changing the reentry plan, or trying to mend it while in space due to the fact that other foam had not caused issues before. The Columbia burned up on reentry after the piece of foam destroyed a heat resistant panel on the wing that acted as a weak point. NASA's biggest issue throughout all of this was refusing to learn from their mistakes, the Columbia mission could have been saved had NASA taken the proper protocols and tried harder to assess and fix the situation.

This is a video about the minor mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall. It only took one slip up in a press conference about passage between East and West Germany to bring out thousands of people who began freely passing through and eventually tearing down the wall

This is a video about the present and future of nuclear power, a power source that's much more sustainable than any clean energy we have so far, and the efforts scientists are making to remove the stigma of old nuclear power issues and the stigma of nuclear weaponry that have been keeping nuclear advancements from being made.

This is a video about the first genetically modified food to go to market in the US, the Flvr Svr tomato which had the gene removed that makes a tomato get all gross and wrinkly after a few days. It was a huge hit but it raised concerns for some scientists who believed it dangerous. Today, we eat GMOs all the time without knowing it through different grains like corn and wheat in processed foods which for some reason has some people up in arms

In 2007 during the Iraq War, a scandal broke out involving the Walter Reed Military Hospital and other VA hospitals across America and their mistreatment of wounded soldiers. Walter Reed contained poor living conditions in outpatient housing, overpopulation and poor tracking of patients, and issues with staff. It became a nationwide topic and pushes for changes to help support soldiers and keep them from falling into the cracks were put into place. Issues continued to prevail, though, in transitional housing and some hospitals even up to when this video was made in 2013

This is an interesting video about the "meme" of WWII that circled the world, acting as a marking of territory and a joke for all Allied soldiers as they fought in Europe

During the Civil War in El Salvador in the 1980's, four American churchwomen, who were in El Salvador for human rights work and services, were brutally murdered on the side of a road. These women were later found to have been attacked by government military guardsmen due to their work with the poor. Two top El Salvadorian generals were found to have covered up their murders as well as countless other crimes committed by the El Salvadorian government and military throughout the Civil War. The US withdrew aid for El Salvador before eventually intervening in the Civil War, and worked to hold those who murdered the church women and several other Americans responsible. The two Salvadorian generals were also convicted by the US after they were found seeking asylum in Florida.

In the 70's antiwar movements against the Vietnam War were raging and the FBI was secretly keeping tabs on protesters. They would go through people's mail, monitor their calls, and other invasive actions to monitor people they found dangerous, even famous individuals, politicians, and diplomats. In Media PA, just outside of Philadelphia, three political protesters broke into the FBI building and took documents proving the surveillance which they distributed to newspapers. The information put the FBI and its head, J Edgar Hoover, in deep trouble with the American public and revealed illegal means. They were never found until they revealed themselves decades later. I think this was a pretty interesting story since it took place so close to home and it features regular people performing impossible feats.

In 1982, random bottles of Tylenol across America were tampered with and laced with cyanide, killing seven people and creating a panic across America. The person who did it was never found as many people claimed they were the perpetrator. This Retro Report addresses this crisis and its impacts on both the people of America and Johnson and Johnson, the makers of Tylenol. It also touches on how major companies that have lost the trust of their patrons for whatever reason should now follow the same or a similar formula Johnson and Johnson did to regain trust in their product.

Today was the 5th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in France where two Islamic brothers forced their way into the Hebdo office, shooting and killing 12 people. The brothers and many other people who followed Islam were enraged and outraged by the publication of antiIslamic and in some cases very insensitive comics posted in the newspaper. Charlie Hebdo and its journalists were known to be very secular and often bashed religions. The two brothers were found and killed in a police shoot out two days later.

This is an article about the Lindbergh baby and his subsequent kidnapping and death. Charles Lindbergh's, famous for his flight across the Atlantic, son was kidnapped overnight by Richard Hauptmann who demanded a ransom for the return of his son. Hauptmann received his money from the Lindberghs for the safe return of their child, but lied to them about the whereabouts of their child. It was a month later that Hauptmann had dropped and killed the child trying to transport him out of the Lindbergh house and buried his body two miles from their home. Hauptmann was found and tried for the murder of their child, creating a public fiasco

Today is the day actor William Terriss was killed at the door of the Adelphi Theatre by a fellow deranged actor. Terriss is said to haunt the Adelphi Theatre to this day, alluding to his last words of "I will come back" having been seen in his dressing room, a train platform, and the cafeteria

This is a video about the way gun control works now and why its not working as well as it should to keep criminals from accessing guns. It also offers a better solution that would both allow people who are safe to have guns to get them easily but keep dangerous individuals from getting them.

This is a video about the 1912 race between British and Norwegian expeditioners to get to the South Pole. The Norwegian team won the race thanks to their vast knowledge of transportation and travel in subzero snowy conditions. The trek home turned deadly for Scott and his British exploration team as a freak weather occurrence made the trek much more difficult and exposed them to much colder temperatures than expected.

This is a Retro Report about Thalidomide, a miracle drug that acted as a sedative with no adverse effects. Unfortunately, this drug caused terrible birth defects, there were babies were born without limbs or severely stunted limbs despite its supposed safety. Thalidomide was somewhat blocked in the US by Doctor Kelsey of the FDA and was immediately pulled here and many other places. Now, thalidomide is back in use for cancer patients and its the most limited access drug you can get in the US

This is a Retro Report on the murder trial of a British nanny who was accused of killing baby Matthew through a little known abuse syndrome called "shaken baby". "Shaken Baby Syndrome" has become a much-debated accusation as it is a huge criminal charge for a triad of signs that can come from a multitude of causes and places and are often not directly witnessed when they occur. It is difficult to diagnose with total certainty "shaken baby" and that type of child abuse