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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

FromThe History Hour


Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

FromThe History Hour

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Passenger Kwame James recalls how he helped overcome the British-born Richard Reid on American Airlines flight 63. Reid had hidden explosives in his shoe which failed to go off. Plus, the US apology for the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans in WW2, the first computer password, the woman who wrote Mary Poppins and a British theatrical group tours the Sahara.

Photo: One of the shoes worn by Richard Reid on the American Airlines flight to Miami (ABC/Getty Images)
Released:
Dec 22, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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