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 May 1923, Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
January 4, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA
9 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
18 September 1941, Independence, Kansas, USA
2 June 1971, Salina, Kansas, USA
2 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
January 20, 1918
7 January 1946, New York City, New York, USA
19 August 1947, Collins, Mississippi, USA
20 July 1965, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
25 March 1928, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
30 November 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 21, 1952
