Witness History Episodes Available now
Jackson Pollock
It is one hundred years since the great American abstract painter was born.
The Wannsee conference
It is 70 years since senior Nazi officials met to plan the killing of European Jews.
Roe v Wade
In January 1973 abortion was legalised across the USA.
The Warsaw ghetto
On 18 January 1943 German soldiers began a final drive to empty the Polish capital of Jews
The Great Brinks Robbery
In 1950 a Boston gang stole over $2.5m and they almost got away with it.
Vietnam draft pardon
In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.
Folsom Prison Blues
In January 1968 the country legend Johnny Cash recorded a concert in a high-security jail.
Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad
In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to avert the first Gulf War.
Zola and the Dreyfus affair
In 1898 the novelist Emile Zola took up the cause of a Jewish prisoner - Alfred Dreyfus.
The death of Emperor Hirohito
When the Japanese Emperor died in 1989 it marked the end of an era.
