Charles Manson and his followers settled in at the Spahn Ranch, in Los Angeles County, in the summer of 1968. After the nights of August 9 and 10, 1969, when followers killed seven people in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, group members drifted away from the ranch.
In 1859 John Brown attempted to incite a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The events of those days became a prelude to the Civil War.
In the spring of 2002, college art student Luke Helder set out to trace a Smiley Face pattern over the entire country.
John Murrell, prolific bandit on the old antebellum Natchez Trace, had a talent for masquerade.
In the decades following her trial for the murder of her father and step-mother, Lizzie Borden walked the streets of Fall River, Massachusetts — a minor celebrity, and major curiosity.
