Eight Things To Know

Berlin Wall; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Norwegian-Americans in the Civil War; Supreme Court; Spanish Flu, and more

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1. Ransoming East German prisoners to the West

2. FDR, the Spanish Flu, and his marriage

3. Notre Dame Cathedral reconstruction update

4. In their own words: the Kennedy family writes to the Nixons

5. Remembering Civil War hero Hans Christian Heg

6. This week’s bold prediction: Justice Stephen Breyer

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