Inside the Picture

Amir Aslan Afshar was one of the men closest to the Shah of Iran. Grand master of imperial protocol, he was the privileged witness of the meteoric rise and then the brutal fall of this extremely controversial leader.

Celebrities parade into the office of Max Jacobson, nicknamed Doctor Feelgood, to take advantage of his amphetamine-based remedies. When Jacobson becomes Kennedy's personal physician, no aspect of the presidency escapes his grasp.

Cardinal Dziwisz was the private secretary of Pope John Paul II. From Poland he followed Karol Wojtyla to Rome where he became one of the most powerful men in the Vatican.

Clementine was 23 when she met Winston Churchill. Through two world wars, she shared all her struggles. She supported him in his darkest moments and accompanied this giant of history until his last breath.

In 1962, Clarence B. Jones gave up his career as a showbiz lawyer to become legal and political advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement. He will be in all his fights.

Sister Sara is Egyptian. At the age of 29, in 1975, she joined Sister Emmanuelle in the shantytowns of the ragpickers of Cairo and became her right hand and her confidante. She shares her commitment to the poor around the world.