EPISODE
SEASON
American Experience - Season 34
American Embassy Tehran, November 4, 1979. American diplomats, Marines and civilians were taken hostage for 444 days. The crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.
27 April 1972, Scarsdale, New York, USA
14 July 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
16 July 1911, Independence, Missouri, USA
12 March 1960, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1 April 1928, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
12 January 1961, Penang, Malaysia
May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 May 1944, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
August 26, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
January 23, 1935 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
9 March 1890, Kukarka, Yaransk Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast, Russia]
18 September 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
29 July 1980, New York City, New York, USA
19 December 1958, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1964, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
November 29, 1923 in East Chicago, Indiana, USA
14 August 1979, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, UK
