Sometimes there's a man who just fits into his time and place. In the Washington, D.C., of the 1960s, that man was Petey Green, a real-life prisoner-turned-disc jockey who cajoled himself into a job at WOL in 1966 and became a local sensation.
Attentive baseball fans caught a small but important note in the records of baseball transactions taking place this month. Hidden in the lines? Oakland Athletics trade catcher Jason Kendall to the Chicago Cubs for catcher Rob Bowen and minor league pitcher Jerry Blevins.
Filmmaker Werner Herzog is no stranger to the life of Dieter Dengler. Herzog's 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Learns to Fly, retold the story of Dengler's capture, torture, imprisonment, and stunning escape after his A-1 Skyraider was shot down over Laos on a secret mission in 1966.
With Rescue Dawn, a dramatic retelling of Dengler's story, Herzog employs a laser focus on Dengler's tribulations and the friendship that bears him out of his jungle prison.
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