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Students took over. a panicked moment captured in argo. >> burn it all. >> reporter: where the embassy including the cia would do its most sensitive, and back home a teletype machine, ancient fax machine. this looks like coding equipment. all of it now the prized possessions of the iranian revolutionary guard. equally prized is more modern propaganda. a tacky mural tells a familiar middle eastern con speerspiracy claiming the u.s. is behind 9/11. why would we do that to our own people? >> transl...

Equipment is an exhibit. >> this is a walk back inside. >> a sound proof meeting room with dusty mannequins and teleexmachine marked as belonging to the nsa and the shredder used to destroy secret documents as students took over. captured in argo. >> this is pressure sensitive here. inside, all the ways they would communicate back home. a teletype machine and ancient fax machine. this looks like coding equipment. all the prized possessions of the iranian revolutionary guard. >> equally prized is...

America remembers the jfk assassination." hardball chris matthews, author of "jack kennedy, elusive hero." youve talked to great american minds and heroes about where they were when he was assassinated. where were you? >> i was in omaha, nebraska, first year of my job as morning news editor. had to do three "today" show cut-ins, write the noon news and do part of them. it was a long day. at about 12:30 i was cleaning all the bills and the teletype machine started going crazy. i wandered over the...

Use sentence caps, it is a rule, one of the only ones weve got. one place where it is still normal to write all communications with the caps lock key on is the united states navy. since the mid-19th century, all official naval messages were typed in upper case, that is in part because the navy was the adopter of the teletype machine, and so it ended up being all caps all the time. for decades, all military communications have been in capital letters, no sentence case, all caps, but now, the navy...