Spectacles

Who killed Aldo Moro, and why? Our deepest thanks to Miller & Company, P.C. for generously lending us the Fiat 500 featured in this video — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/aldo-moro/

Every year New Zealand parties in Waitangi. This year was tense. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/happy-birthday-isnt-so-simple-in-new-zealand/

Maketū Wharetotara went on a killing spree, and New Zealand was born. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/how-a-quadruple-murder-made-new-zealand/

The Hawaii state capitol doesn't look like any other capitol in America. Why? — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/why-hawaiis-capitol-is-not-very-hawaiian/

Seriously, it was a really wild (and dark) year. The research for this video video relied extensively on the book Japan at the Crossroads, by Nick Kapur. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/japan-in-1960-was-insane/

Shinzo Abe was murdered almost two years ago, and Japanese politics still isn't the same. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/what-happens-when-an-assassin-wins/

These are the dark secrets of America's royal family. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/the-crimes-that-made-the-kennedy-dynasty/

Baseball is the most popular sport in Japan. Its popularity has a lot to do with the American occupation. Very special thanks to William Neal Dahlberg, who wrote an excellent and essential Masters thesis on this very topic and has allowed us to share it publicly with you all (it’s normally behind an academic paywall). If you want to learn more about democratization through sport in postwar Japan, here is the link! → https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aKPmb_FCYv2Y_V4yj7yjVSd4-wXNRpNv/view?usp=drive_link The rest of our sources and citations can be found below. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/who-needs-an-empire-when-you-have-baseball/

One of America's first gay elected officials found his home in San Francisco and spent the 1970s fighting tirelessly for gay rights. His murder and legacy transformed the movement for equality. — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/the-murder-that-reshaped-gay-rights-forever/

On December 1, 1934, Leonid Nikolaev entered the Smolny Institute. The Soviet Union would never be the same. — Check out our script and sources: https://www.spectacles.news/this-is-the-ussrs-jfk-mystery/

JD Vance is obsessed with death. Why? And does it matter? — Check out our script & sources: https://www.spectacles.news/why-wont-jd-vance-stop-talking-about-death/

In 1932, Japan witnessed a triple-assassination of leading figures. The consequences would prove beyond catastrophic. — Check out our script and sources: https://www.spectacles.news/japan-in-1932-was-insane/

In 1979, the FBI went undercover and executed the largest federal anti-corruption sting in American history. We've never seen anything like that operation since—but why? — Script and sources: https://www.spectacles.news/how-the-fbi-sent-congressmen-to-prison/

In 2003, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated. The question was not who did it, but how it happened. — Script and sources: https://www.spectacles.news/how-the-fbi-sent-congressmen-to-prison/