Letter from America: The Clinton Years (1997-2000)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
OJ Simpson's damages
14 Feb 1997
Contributed by Lukas
Is the $33.5m damages a fair sum for guilty OJ Simpson to pay, or simply the price of revenge masquerading as justice?
OJ Simpson guilty
07 Feb 1997
Contributed by Lukas
Why the jury found OJ Simpson guilty on his second trial. The black-and-white pattern which lies behind the second trial verdict, described as a 'reas...
Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005)
31 Jan 1997
Contributed by Lukas
The instillation of Pope John Paul II in 1978 caused a flutter amongst the Polish immigrants in Long Island who worship at Our Lady of Ostrobrama.
A history of Washington DC
24 Jan 1997
Contributed by Lukas
The history of Washington D.C as the capital city of the United States, and the effect of the reign of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the crime rate in New...
Presidential Inauguration
17 Jan 1997
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential inaugurations - from George Washington's 1789 pomp and parade, to Andrew Jackson's drunken brawl, to finally Bill Clinton's home-grown ve...
The Speaker of the House
10 Jan 1997
Contributed by Lukas
The various roles of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the future of Newt Gingrich following his guilty plea to the charge of misinform...
The Boston Massacre
03 Jan 1997
Contributed by Lukas
How an engraving by Paul Revere exaggerated the 1770 riot at Boston's Customs House into the Boston Massacre. Plus, the unsolved mystery of why flight...