students took over. a panicked moment captured in argo. burn it all. reporter: where the embassy including the cia would do its most sensitive, and back home a teletype machine, ancient fax machine. this looks like coding equipment. all of it now the prized possessions of the iranian revolutionary guard. equally prized is more modern propaganda. a tacky mural tells a familiar middle eastern con speerspiracy claiming the u.s. is behind 9/11. why would we do that to our own people? translator: to make them feel in danger so they could attack other countries. reporter: any optimism about the new diplomacy between iran and the u.s. could you ever imagine american diplomats returning to the embassy and opening the embassy again?
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said. now run by the iranian government and while many in this country have grown disillusioned with the revolution, here the anger against america still survives. do you still believe it was justified to hold the americans as hostages? yes, he said, definitely. every room and every piece of equipment is an exhibit. this is a walk back in time. reporter: a sound proof meeting room complete with dusty mannequins and encrypted machine marked as belonging to the nsa. and the shredder to destroy secret documents as students took over. a panicked moment captured in arg argo. this is where the embassy would do its most sensitive communications as a pressure sensor here and then inside all the ways they would communicate with back home. there s a teletype machine, an ancient fax machine. this looks like coding equipment. all of it now the prized
america remembers the jfk assassination. hardball chris matthews, author of jack kennedy, elusive hero. you ve talked to great american minds and heroes about where they were when he was assassinated. where were you? i was in omaha, nebraska, first year of my job as morning news editor. had to do three today show cut-ins, write the noon news and do part of them. it was a long day. at about 12:30 i was cleaning all the bills and the teletype machine started going crazy. i wandered over there and read that memorable merriman smith first bulletin dictated from the motorcade, shots fired at the presidential motorcade, the president perhaps fatally wounded. and i stood there staring at that thinking this doesn t happen in america. by the time we got on the air,
use sentence caps, it is a rule, one of the only ones we ve got. one place where it is still normal to write all communications with the caps lock key on is the united states navy. since the mid-19th century, all official naval messages were typed in upper case, that is in part because the navy was the adopter of the teletype machine, and so it ended up being all caps all the time. for decades, all military communications have been in capital letters, no sentence case, all caps, but now, the navy announced it will no longer use all caps. sentence case is the accepted form of communication and all naval personnel are hereby authorized to use mixed case, shift at will, except, apparently in the subject line of any official message. they will stay all caps, but other messages will no longer be will be constantly in