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house speaker nancy pelosi and violently attacked her husband with a hammer. sources say 82-year-old paul pelosi was taken into surgery for a skull fracture. he is expected to make a full recovery. this all started just before 2:30 pacific time at the pelosi home in san francisco where sources say the male suspect confronted paul pelosi screaming, where is nancy, and tried to tie him up, quote, until nancy got home. shortly thereafter, police arrived on the scene. >> the suspect pulled the hammer away from mr. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackl...

To one of the most tumultuous and perhaps darkest chapters in american political history. on november 22, 1963, viewers who turned in to cbs were met by this chilling report. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> only five years later, april, 1965, walter cronkite again. >> good evening. dr. martin luther king, the apostle of non-violence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. >> think about that, the leader of the civil rights movement preaching the importance of non-violence mur...

Virginia, the vietnam war was rolling, protests started to take place on campus at old dominion university. in washington things started to get heated up. april 1965, april 17th, 25,000 people who showed up to protest the vietnam war. they wanted it over with. and then one month later at uc berkeley, in may of '65, there were 30,000 people. fast forward to 1967, there were a hundred thousand people in washington, d.c. who were protestifying to get us out of vietnam, it was a bad deal. guys were dying. in fact we lost 56,000 americans in that war. evolved to this, this day, november 15, 1969, t...