Stuff That Happened

They say you can’t outrun your past, but a man named Leonard Rayne Moses managed to do it for nearly 50 years. In today’s video, we’ll look at the story of Moses, including why he was convicted, how he escaped, how he evaded capture for so long and the incredible way that he was finally apprehended. On April 4th, 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. What followed was a wave of civil unrest across the nation. On April 5th, disturbances erupted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lasted until April 11th. Over 100 businesses were looted or burned and many buildings were set ablaze. During the first day of riots, a 15-year old named Leonard Rayne Moses got involved and was seen outside of a home with a group of youths drawing a white chalk mark on the ground. The following evening, the group returned to the home and threw Molotov Cocktails towards the home, created by filling pop bottles with gasoline taken from an abandoned cars and placing wicks in the b...

  On the morning of May 19th, 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror departed England with a crew of 134 men. Their mission was to become the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage, a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans which could be used a shortcut when traveling between Europe and Asia. They never returned. What happened to them was a complete mystery for years, but multiple findings over the years, including a document left by the crew, the incredibly well preserved bodies of 3 crew members and the discovery of each ship about 170 years after their departure have shed light on the shocking & horrifying journey these men had to endure. Going all the way back to the days of Christopher Columbus, Europeans had been on the lookout for this potential western shortcut. After hundreds of years of exploration, it was eventually determined that if a passable shortcut did exist, it would have to be through the unexplored Canadian Arctic – an inhospitab...