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Landing. everything is going well until the crew nears the final sequence. the bomber sweeps in low above the runway, and holland enters into a tight, steeply banked turn. >> thats fantastic. look at this. >> as spectators look on, the airplane banks past 90 dres. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> oh, my god. no! >> oh, my god. >> the b-52 nose dives and explodes. >> my mom collapsed next to me and just kind of couldnt take the shock of the moment. >> oh, my god. >> but the only thing i could think of was r...

Thought at least by the administrations perspective that the big focus in the focus of the theater would be asia and chan. as you look at china in 2016, do we see it only being an economic headline? >> no, i think we see the land wre reclamation. chinas only engagement really is vetoing any propositions of the united nations security council. theyre growing this land reclamation -- >> the islands? >> exactly. and youre seeing america in the radar basically pushing the boundaries on where those i...

For more on this, were going to talk to aaron david miller, a former adviser to six secretaries of state in about 15 minutes. later in this newscast. stick around for that report. meanwhile, china is accusing the u.s. of a serious military provocation. a defense ministry statement said the u.s. is deliberately raising tensions near the chinese controlled manmade island in the south china sea. this is in response to the flight of an american b-52 strategic bomber. beijing demanding washington tak...

Vietnam, including the hanoi haiphong area. the north vietnamese said american planes carried out heavy attacks around those cities tonight and that hanois armed forces shot down a large number of planes and captured several pilots. >> first lieutenant, navigator, b-52. >> nixon wanted the communists to think he was crazy in the hopes that that would drive them back to the bargaining table. >> a lot of the civilian areas were hit apparently. >> civilian areas must have been hit, and i dont want ...

You dont want to crash a b-52 into a nuclear weapons storage facility. >> its a major disaster narrowly averted, and a personal tragedy. all four men onboard the czar 52 die on impact. >> and when i saw the fireball explode over the trees, at that moment i knew my father was gone. >> crash images reveal the heartbreaking fact that mcgeehan attempted to escape from the airplane in the final desperate seconds. >> my dad initiated his ejection sequence. you could see the hatch below right before im...

There were weapons there. you dont want to crash a b-52 into a nuclear weapons storage facility. >> its a major disaster narrowly averted, and a personal tragedy. all four men on board the czar 52 die on impact. >> and when i saw the fireball explode over the trees, at that moment i knew my father was gone. >> crash images reveal the heartbreaking fact that mcgeehan attempted to escape from the airplane in the final desperate seconds. >> my dad initiated his ejection sequence. you could see the ...

You dont want to crash a b-52 into a nuclear weapons storage facility. >> its a major disaster narrowly averted, and a personal tragedy. all four men onboard the czar 52 die on impact. >> and when i saw the fireball explode over the trees, at that moment i knew my father was gone. >> crash images reveal the heartbreaking fact that mcgeehan attempted to escape from the airplane in the final desperate seconds. >> my dad initiated his ejection sequence. you could see the hatch below right before im...

Everything is going well until the crew nears the final sequence. the bomber sweeps in low above the runway, and holland enters into a tight, steeply banked turn. >> thats fantastic. look at this. >> as spectators look on, the airplane banks past 90 degrees [ bleep ]. >> oh, my god. no! >> oh, my god. >> the b-52 nose dives and explodes. >> my mom collapsed next to me and just kind of couldnt take the shock of the moment. >> oh, my god. >> but the only thing i could think of was run toward the c...

The crew nears the final sequence. the bomber sweeps in low above the runway, and holland enters into a tight, steeply banked turn. >> thats fantastic. look at this. >> as spectators look on, the airplane banks past 90 degrees [ bleep ]. >> oh, my god. no! >> oh, my god. >> the b-52 nose dives and explodes. >> my mom collapsed next to me and just kind of couldnt take the shock of the moment. >> oh, my god. >> but the only thing i could think of was run toward the crash and run toward dad. >> an ...

The police opened fire and killed dozens of those student protesters in 1968. 1968 was the year the united states navy lost a nuclear submarine. "the uss scorpion" disappeared for reasons as yet unknown. 99 crew members declared dead. in 1968, the french nearly staged a second french revolution with huge marches in the streets, more than a million people marching at one time in the streets. workers establishing occupations in french factories. these guys declared a coup deforce. 1968 was the yea...