1974

RedHanded's ShortHand episode revisits the 1974 armed attempt to kidnap Princess Anne near Buckingham Palace and its lasting effect on royal security.

North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo sedans from Sweden in 1974, received them, and never paid the invoice—now worth approximately $450 million with interest.

On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old laboratory technician at Kerr-McGee's nuclear facility in Oklahoma, died when her car veered off the highway near Crescent. She was driving to meet a New York Times journalist with evidence of safety violations. Five decades later, her death remains controversial.