27/06/2015 GMT
In this edition of Witness, we'll hear from a photojournalist who was in Tehran at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral, and a leader of the civil rights struggle in the US.
In this edition of Witness, Tanya Beckett brings us the month's round-up of history through the eyes of people who were there. We'll hear from a photojournalist who was in Tehran at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral, the 103 year old who passed letters to Stalin and a leader of the civil rights struggle in the US.
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Denmark's Inuit Experiment
22 Inuit children were removed from their families by the Danish government.
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Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Civil Rights Movement
The campaigner who became a role model for radical black activists in the USA.
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Ayatollah Khomeini's Funeral
In 1989, millions mourn the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Eric Bouvet was there
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Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR
In 1948, Yugoslavia broke with the USSR. Dragica Srzentic delivered the news to Moscow.
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The Battle of the Carmens
At the 1988 Winter Olympics two ice skaters chose to dance to the music from Carmen.
