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"They'd never kill a reporter... ." On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded the New York Sun 's city editor of a similar docks killing from the year before, and so he called over his best general assignment... Read Full Overview

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance, was finally crushed and Shackleton and his men made the very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to... Read Full Overview