Create an interactive timeline in flash

I'm looking for a tutorial to create a timeline with interactivity similar to the links below.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/50th/main.html
http://classic.motown.com/timeline/
Thanks for any help.

I don't think you will find anything in the way of a tutorial for either of those timelines, possibly not for any.  Timelines are not a common thing that someone would normally tutorialize, though I could be wrong.  While the first seems to have a bit more interactive features, it appears to be just a movieclip that moves to different secctions based on a button selection, which also triggers an audio file to play for that segment.  The second appears to simply be a movieclip that is scrolled using a scrollbar... I didn't detect anything in the way of audio that changed when scrolling it.

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