been compared to al capone but his demise today is more images that of another american gangster john dillinger the man was shot outside his favorite restaurant in central moscow the law enforcement agencies have already reported that there found six bullet shells shells on the on the scene believing this was an assassination attempt which proved fatal for grandpa hassan the man with a very turbulent history has been believed to be running several gambling and to prices as well as involved in drug trafficking and weapons sales here the man who was believed to be one of the biggest biggest crime lords in russia he also had several attempts on his life before the most. famous the most recent one was in twenty ten when he was shot in the stomach and for some time the information was speculating that was circulating that he actually he was actually killed that was as later explained for security reasons but he survived that he had a very very serious operation very serious surgery now obviously proved fatal for grandpa and he died in hospital without regaining conscious straight after he was delive

and we have doj simpson, the monica lewinski scandal and the al capone trial or the death of john dillinger. beautiful columns by steve and peggy noonan and michael daley but then jack london talking about the 1906 earthquake in san francisco and it has a sense of a perspective that we've visited a lot of this stuff before and great storytelling creates a perspective on our own problems. >> the destruction that is almost never talk about outside of texas puts to shame what's happened in new york with the hurricane. hundreds of thousands of people affected, destroyed and to read about it and see that there were people on the ground who knew about it and cared about it and were wondering at a time will anybody remember this and when the years have gone by it's really important for people to get the perspective. >> when we balance the scandals and the tragedies as well it's amazing when you read the perfect game the column where he calls him the cinderella man that is later made into a movie has never been before. we found it in the new york public library you get these great inspiring stories

go back to david runyan writing about the al capone trial with the death of john dillinger. we got 9/11, beautiful columns is steve lopez and peggy noonan, but then you read jack london about the 1906 earthquake in san francisco and it does create a sense of perspective. we been through a lot of this stuff before and it's great storytelling that creates perspective on our problems. the instruction of galveston outside of texas puts to shame i just have been in new york with hurricane stan knee. hundreds of thousands of people affect it, destroy to see there were people on the ground who knew about it, cared about it and were even wondering at the time, will anyone remember this? will people remember what happened to this town. it's important for people to get that data. thematically balanced tragedy to triumph as well. when you need surely povich on john larsen's perfect game, damon runyon's column where he calls cinderella man, later made into a movie. we found it in the new york public library, see her get these inspiring stories across with this scandal, tragedy and trium

. >> finally, john dillinger i think that he says he is 97 but she asked why did you retire from nasa? >> when we finished our work we were invited to the white house. we had a dinner and the president asked the three of us what we wanted to do. she said i know you've been talking to secretary rogers in the state department and mike wanted to work with the state department and some of its contacts with other nations pure also designed the center in washington, a very competent job, very well done. neil wanted to serve and aeronautics and i wanted to go back to the service i had come from, the air force. as it turned out i was the first astronaut to ever go back to active duty and i felt my experience at west point been at the air force academy for the first year when it opened up and was indeed to the team of the faculty there would be a good deutsch up to the cadets as a role model. that isn't what happened. for those of you that might be familiar with the names of people, i have a classmate whose last name was vandenberg. he got the job because his father had been chief of staff at