In this encore presentation of For the Record, NPR's Rachel Martin looks at the last contested convention: the 1976 GOP meeting in Kansas City. Ronald Reagan nearly denied Gerald Ford the nomination.

The 1976 Oakland Raiders knocked the competition around and upside down, laughing now that they've conquered and won. Pillaging just for fun in NFL.com's version of March Madness was the ...

Jeff Greenfield is a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and author. On Oct. 6, 1976, President Gerald Ford had reason to be optimistic heading into the second debate of a hotly ...

Vaccines were once thought of as an axiomatic good, a longed-for salvation in the form of a syringe, banishing crippling and deadly infections like polio, smallpox and tetanus. But within the past few ...