Category Archives: Podcasts

Bobby Sands and the IRA Plot To Kill Margaret Thatcher (Part One)

Some major players and events from Ireland’s “Troubles”

Bobby Sands, from a Northern Irish mural
The Ten Hunger Strikers
Bobby Sands Grave, and two other hunger strikers.
Long Kesh Prison

Bobby Sands and the IRA Plot To Kill Margaret Thatcher (Part Two)

Some major players and events from Ireland’s “Troubles”

The Grand Hotel after the bomb blast.
Grand Hotel Detail after bombing
Patrick Magee and Jo Berry
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Oval Office, 1988.

Jan Baalsrud and World War II’s Greatest Escape (Part One)

Some men just refuse to die.

Jan Baalsrud’s escape route from Norway to Sweden
Jan Baalsrud
The Toftefjord
A replica of the Hotel Savoy, the original was burnt by vandals, this sits on the same spot as the original
View from the Hotel Savoy towards Furuflaten, Norway
Incline behind the Hotel Savoy to the Maggdalen plateau

 

Jan Baalsrud and World War II’s Greatest Escape (Part Two)

Some men just refuse to die.

Map of Jan Baalsrud’s escape from Norway to Sweden
Jan Baalsrud
The Gentleman’s Rock
Plaque on the Gentleman’s Rock
Area near Lake Kilpisjarvi
Jan Balsrud grave, Manndalen, Norway

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paradise Lost (Part One)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tragic Brilliance

F. Scott Fitzgerald as a child
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1927 publicity photo
Zelda Fitzgerald
Ginevra King, 1918
Gerald and Sara Murphy on the French Riviera
Hotek Du Cap, Cap D”Antibes, France
Ernest Hemingway, 1923
First edition cover art work, The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, 1937

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paradise Lost (Part Two)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tragic Brilliance

Maxwell Perkins
Fitzgerald family passport
MGM Studio Entrance
Irving Thalberg
Sheilah Graham
F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald grave, Rockville, Maryland

Ira Hayes and the Flag Raisers of Iwo Jima (Part One)

The incredible story of the Marines who raised the American flag over Iwo Jima and the iconic photo that changed their lives forever.

Ira Hayes
Rene Gagnon
Joe Rosenthal on Suribachi
Bill Genaust, left, on Iwo Jima
Wreckage on Iwo Jima, Suribachi in the background
First flag raising
Second flag raising
The Gung Ho photo

Ira Hayes and the Flag Raisers of Iwo Jima (Part Two)

The incredible story of the Marines who raised the American flag over Iwo Jima and the iconic photo that changed their lives forever.

Marine Harlon Block, his mother always knew.
Navy Medic John Bradley, on the 7th Bond Tour, still on crutches
Flag raiser Franklin Sousley, misidentified for seventy years
Harold Schultz, flag raiser who never went public.
Harold Keller, flag raiser, he also kept quiet for the rest of his life
Grave of Ira Hayes, Arlington National Cemetery
Rene Gagnon grave, Arlington National Cemetery

John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)

In thirteen months, John Dillinger transformed himself from inconsequential ex-con to the most famous criminal celebrity in US history and the first Public Enemy Number One.

John Dillinger, at the height of his fame
Homer Van Meter
Tommy Carroll
Billy Frechette, wanted poster
Dillinger arrest location, Tucson, Arizona
Biograph Theater, early morning July 23, 1934
Chicago alley where Dillinger was shot
Dillinger family plot, Crown Hill Cemetery
One of several Dillinger death masks

John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part Two)

In thirteen months, John Dillinger transformed himself from inconsequential ex-con to the most famous criminal celebrity in US history and the first Public Enemy Number One.

Lester Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson
Eddie Green, St. Paul criminal
Melvin Purvis
Front entrance, The Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Falls, Wisconsin
Anna Sage