Episode Transcript
And now I'll look back up Thisweek in History on iHeartRadio. This week
in nineteen fifty three, Massachusetts SenatorJohn F. Kennedy, the future thirty
fifth President of the United States,Mary's Jacqueline Bouvier and Newport, Rhode Island.
Seven years later, the couple wouldbecome the youngest president and first lady
in American history. This week innineteen seventy one, a group of activists
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set sail from Vancouver aboard a repurposefishing boat that they've named the Green Piece.
Their mission is to stop the UnitedStates from testing in nuclear bomb beneath
the Alaskan island of Umpchitka. Thoughthey will eventually lose the fight, the
environmentalist organization Greenpiece will emerge from thisaction. This week in nineteen eighty three,
twenty year old Vanessa Williams becomes thefirst African American to win the Miss
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America crown. Less than a yearlater, Williams gave up her crown after
nude photos of her surfaced. Despitethe scandal, Williams later launched the successful
singing and acting career and has beenon countless successful TV shows and This week
in two thousand and eight, thevenerable Wall Street brokerage firm Lehman Brothers seeks
Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection, becoming thelargest victim of the subprime mortgage crisis that
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would devastate financial markets and contribute tothe biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
And that's what happened. Thanks forlistening to This Week in History on iHeartRadio.
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