10. A Michael Jordan Story - At the beginning of the 1981 NCAA basketball season the North Carolina basketball team was the national favorite. They were led by legend Dean Smith and featured a freshman named Michael Jordan. On November 30, 1981, the team was featured on the cover of sports illustrated and Smith was told to select four players to accompany him. He decided on Sam Perkins, Matt Doherty, Jimmy Black, and James Worthy. The honor of being selected for the cover became a competition among the NC players and to this day Michael Jordan feels he deserved and wants that cover. He made comments surrounding the incident at his 2009 Hall of Fame induction. Later that season Jordan hit the game winning shot in the NCAA championship game.
9. The Origins of Travis Bickle - Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. In the film Robert De Niro tackled the role of Travis Bickle, who was a socially inept loner with delusions of grandeur and an unhealthy obsession with weapons. Bickle’s character was strongly based on the real life of Arthur Bremer. Bremer grew up a lonely, socially awkward young man who felt distanced from normal society. Similar to Taxi Driver’s script Arthur Bremer fantasized about assassinating a high ranking member of the U.S. Government. He first set his sights on Richard Nixon, but then turned his attention to Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace. Arthur Bremer attacked Wallace on May 15, 1972. He stuck his .38 revolver in Wallace's abdomen and opened fire, emptying the weapon before he could be subdued. Bremer hit Wallace four times. Wallace lost a pint of blood and one bullet lodged in his spinal cord; the other bullets hit Wallace in the abdomen and chest. Wallace was left paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life, ending his presidential hopes.
8. A Rare Bird Gets Massacred - The California Condor is a North American species of bird. It is the largest land bird in North America. It is one of the world's rarest bird species. As of April 2009, there are 322 condors known to be living, including 172 in the wild. One day recording legend Johnny Cash was driving his camper van through Los Padres National Wildlife Refuge in central California. After noticing an issue Cash pulled over and subsequently oil from a cracked bearing had leaked onto the wheel and engulfing his car in flames. The fire spread to the nearby grass and Cash could do nothing to stop it. It took over 400 firefighters, eight aerial tankers, and four helicopters two days to put out the blaze. The area was home to the endangered California Condor and killed 49 of them.
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