The Carter Corporation’s lavish Christmas gala was nearly over when Messy Brooks, a black delivery worker who had just dropped…
She was freezing. She was starving. All day hundreds of people in warm coats had walked right past her, like…
April 9th, 1945, before sunrise. The birds haven’t started singing yet over the Bavarian hills of southeastern Germany. The forest…
Kris Kristofferson played the song for Janis Joplin in a dressing room in Nashville. She listened to the whole thing…
Picture this, December 17, 1944, a frozen field in rural Belgium, no cameras, no witnesses, no one to hear them…
Janis Joplin was 15 years old the first time someone heard her sing and understood what they were hearing. It…
In June, 1967, Grace Slick was the most powerful female voice in rock music. She performed at Monterey on Friday…
Janis Joplin performed for hundreds of thousands of people. She filled stadiums. She was one of the loudest voices of…
He had photographed every major act at Monterey that weekend. Janis Joplin’s negatives stayed in a shoe box under his…
Many people assume the story of Nazi justice ended with the famous trials at Nuremberg. But for a small…