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Jake LaMotta, 1949 middle-weight champion

Boxer Rocky Graziano

Zaharias that is; great all-around woman athlete and pro golfer

1950s; Lenny Bruce dies as a result of govt. prosecution and persecution

Dead in 1978; worst Am film director, but loved as campy hero

1960 probe into cheating on TV quiz shows ($64,000 Question)

1940s art scene with abstract painter Jackson Pollock

Sexologist Alfred Kinsey shocks America with his study of its sexual habits; (overestimates the amount of homosexuality)

Truman Capote's tale of the murder of a Kansas farm family

The murder of a Kansas farm family as seen from the perspective of the writer of In Cold Blood

Capote falls in love with condemned murderer and pays a high emotional price for his getting too close to his story

Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate on a teenage murder spree

Marlon Brando; corruption and resistance to it

Soviet nuclear submarine faces a meltdown and explosion

A Russian code specialist is brought to Canada to help with a spying project &decides to defect