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.

He asked me to go out socially with him.

What happened then?

In 1991, a Washington state senator named Patty Murray sat in her living room watching Anita Hill testify during the Senate confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas.

It is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration and sleepless nights that I am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone but my close friends.

As the hearing went on,

Murray was appalled by what she saw,

an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee

hurling insensitive, often graphic questions at Hill

about Thomas's alleged sexual harassment.

Here's Hal Heflin, then a Democrat from Alabama.

Now, in trying to determine whether you are telling falsehoods or not, I've got to determine what your motivation might be.

Are you a scorned woman?

Like millions of other women across the country, Murray wondered how Hill would have been treated if there were women on the Judiciary Committee. And later, at a neighborhood party, there was only

one subject women wanted to talk about.

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