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Artifact 12: Letters From Romney's Mission to France
At age 19, Mitt Romney set out for France to begin 30 months of missionary work for the Mormon church. Each day, he would wake at 6 a.m., eat breakfast, study his bible, and then go door-to-door looking to win over converts.
October 3, 2012
Artifact 11: Obama's Early Impressions of Chicago
In this rarely seen letter, written while he was a community organizer in Chicago, Obama is still very much the writer, scribbling eloquent descriptions of his new hometown on yellow legal paper.
October 3, 2012
Controversial Teenage Guantanamo Detainee Transferred to Canada
A juvenile when he was arrested, Omar Khadr's case has been a lightning rod in the debate over post-9/11 detention policies. His treatment in detention and his family's connections to Al Qaeda have only added to the controversy.
October 2, 2012
New Mortgage Task Force Charges JPMorgan With "Systemic Fraud"
The lawsuit is the first filed by a federal mortgage task force established by the Obama administration to investigate alleged fraud involving home loans.
October 2, 2012
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Blocked for Nov. Election
A judge ruled that Pennsylvania's voter ID law can't be implemented fairly in time for the presidential election in November.
October 2, 2012
FRONTLINE Wins Two News and Documentary Emmys
Watch our latest Emmy-award winning films here.
October 2, 2012
FRONTLINE Announces a Big Collaboration
In an unprecedented collaboration among public media’s most respected news outlets, FRONTLINE and Marketplace launch a groundbreaking multiplatform-media investigation this month into campaign finance practices.
October 1, 2012
Artifact 10: Mitt Romney's Olympic Pins
By 1999, following a crushing defeat in his bid to take the Senate seat of Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) almost five years earlier, Mitt Romney felt he had only one option left to remain in public life: becoming the CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
October 1, 2012
Artifact Nine: Obama's Big Political Play
Obama learned from his first big loss to Bobby Rush. Before he launched his next political campaign, he engaged in some political maneuvering that would allow him to run for, and win, a seat in the U.S. Senate.
October 1, 2012