and i'm your host, bill kurtis. this is "through the decades." and i'm your host, bill kurtis. this is "through the decades." day after day here we play witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we "relive, remember and relate" to the accomplishments, the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat all happened "through the decades" we begin with the weekend road trip. it's been an american institution since henry ford first started cranking out model t's. but on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. "10-9-8- ignition sequence on - engines on. 5-4-3-2-1. all engines running. liftoff. we have liftoff at 9:34 am, eastern daylight time" when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moon-landing mission in barely over two years. but if blasting rockets towards another

and i'm your host, bill kurtis. this is "through the decades." day after day here we play witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention this week in august, we have "relived, remembered and related" to the scandals, the controversies, the iconic debuts and more that all happened "through the decades" america's economy was facing another recession. richard nixon was facing re- election. he result was a dramatic re- thinking of the united states' role in the global economy which has had a lasting impact on the value of the dollar today. "the range of actions i have taken and proposed tonight on the jobs front, on the inflation front, on the monetary front, is the most comprehensive new economic policy to be undertaken in this nation in four decades." in 1971, america's economy was facing a crossroads. paying for the vietnam war, aiding other countries and expanding social programs had stretched the value of the dollar. it was a dollar that since world war ii was linked directly to th

and i'm your host, bill kurtis. this is "through the decades." day after day here we play witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention this week in august we have "relived, remembered and related" to the scandals, the controversies, the iconic happened "through the decades" we begin with ruby ridge. a mountaintop in idaho infamous beginning in august of 1992 pitting the fbi against a wanted white separatist. a mother and her teenaged son would be killed. a federal marshall would also die. in the aftermath, the government would pay millions to settle the case and leave questions about the use of enforcement agencies which are still being debated today. "i'll be all right." "it was the testimony federal lawmen have been dreading for three years. a carefully prepared father's story of finding his son dead, shot in the back by u.s. marshals." "i was cussing and screaming and yelling and kissing him and holding him in my arms." "randy weaver was recalling august 21, 1992 and what would