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.

All right, we're going to roll.

On Christmas Eve in 1968, three American astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission were orbiting the moon for the first time in human history.

There is one dark hole, and I couldn't get a quick enough look at it to see if it might be any volcanic.

They had just completed their second pass when Frank Borman, the commander of the mission,

tilted the spacecraft and revealed a bright blue sphere marbled by swirling white clouds

floating in the darkness over the moon's horizon.

Oh my god, look at that picture over there. Earth.

There's the Earth coming up. Bill Anders, the lunar module pilot, caught a glimpse.

Wow, is that pretty. Anders fumbled to get a camera.

Can me I roll a color quick, would you?

Oh man, that's great. Where is it?

But it was too late.

The earth disappeared from view.

We missed him.

...