On June 14, 1985, in Athens, Greece, a TWA jetliner was hijacked by armed Shiite terrorists, who ordered that the aircraft be flown to Beirut, Lebanon. The terrorists, members of the radical Muslim organization Hezbollah, or ''Party of God,'' demanded the release of 766 Shiites imprisoned in Israel. Among the 104 Americans aboard were five U.S. Navy divers; two were singled out by the terrorists for physical abuse. One of the two, Robert D. Stethem, an underwater steelworker, was beaten over a prolonged period of time, and on June 15, killed with a bullet to the head. On June 18, his body was returned to the United States. The same day, President Ronald Reagan spoke of the slain diver and blamed lax security at the Athens airport for the hostage crisis. Meanwhile, in Beirut, the terrorists released all but thirty-nine Americans, who were removed from the aircraft and kept hostage in a more secure location. Complicated negotiations finally led to their release on June 30, after...
In June of 1987, President Ronald Reagan traveled to Venice to attend an economic summit with European leaders. On his way home, he stopped in West Berlin on the occasion of the 750th anniversary...
Ronald Reagan answers reporters' questions on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). SDI, popularly referred to as Star Wars, was announced by Reagan in a speech in March, 1983. Courtesy of the...
On May 14, 1983, in his Saturday radio address, President Ronald Reagan spoke to the nation about the progress of his controversial economic programs. In 1980, Reagan was elected to the White House...
President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation in the wake of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986 73 seconds into its tenth flight, killing all seven crew...
On October 23, 1983, a Lebanese terrorist drove a truck packed with more than two thousand pounds of explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. Fifty...
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that women, as part of their constitutional right to privacy, could terminate a pregnancy during its first two trimesters. Only...
In the summer of 1987, Congress held forty days of public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair; during which time they listened to twenty-eight witnesses give more than 250 hours of testimony. The...
On August 3, 1981, almost 13,000 air-traffic controllers went on strike after negotiations with the federal government to raise their pay and shorten their workweek proved fruitless. The...
In 1975, a bloody civil war erupted in Lebanon, with Palestinian and leftist Muslim guerillas battling Christian militias and other groups. Over the next few years, Syrian, Israeli, and United...
On January 20, 1981, minutes after Ronald Reagan's inauguration as president, the fifty-two U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, were released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage...
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