Hi there, this is Jeff Edgers. 50 years ago, the Rolling Stones headlined a free concert that

ended in chaos, violence, and death. It was called Altamont. I spent the last eight months reporting on it

to try to understand what it meant and why everything went so wrong. I talked to everybody I could,

from Keith Richards to the guy who built the three-foot stage.

You can listen to the story now on the All-told podcast.

Get it at Washington Post.com slash podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Hey, history lovers.

I'm Mike Rosenwald with RetroPod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

When Clara Barton moved to Washington, D.C. in 1854,

she took a job at the U.S. Patent Office.

She had one of those jobs that seems almost impossible more than a century later.

Copiest.

She literally rewrote document after document by hand.

A career civil servant, a paper pusher, her life was beginning to take shape.

That is, until April 19, 1861, the day of the Baltimore riot, considered to be the first bloodshed of the American

Civil War. Wounded soldiers were brought to the district and laid out in the unfinished Capitol

building. Barton raced there to offer assistance.

That moment ignited in her a desire to help,

a desire that led her to battlefields,

to care for the wounded and dying, and to create the American Red Cross.

She is perhaps the most famous nurse in American history.

Barton had not set out to be a nurse.

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