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Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick (Part One)

November 30, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.

John Farrar examining the Kennedy automobile as it is being removed from the water near Dike Bridge

Ted Kennedy during nationwide speech following the Chappaquiddick accident

Edgartown Police Chief Dominick “Jim” Arena, later in life

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick. (Part Two)

November 30, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.

Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan in the mid-sixties

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Joe Gargan’s sister Ann, Joe Kennedy’s longtime caretaker.

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Catherine The Great, One of a Kind (Part One)

October 8, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.

Catherine on the the balcony of the Winter Palace after she seized the throne from Peter III

Catherine, in the uniform of the Imperial Guard

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Catherine the Great, One of a Kind (Part Two)

October 8, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.

Catherine’s coronation painting, wearing her remarkable crown

Pugachev, harassing captive nobles before their execution

The Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great

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Bob Marley, Reggae Superstar and Legend (Part One)

September 5, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

Listen to this February 5, 2020 flashback episode about Bob Marley, homeless at age 20 in one of the poorest cities of the Third World, he became a popular music phenomenon and 20th century icon.

Bob Marley’s mother’s home, Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica

Bunny Wailer, one of Marley’s earliest collaborators

Peter Tosh, another Marley associate, performing in 1978

The I Threes, performing with Marley, Rita, his wife, center

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Bob Marley, Reggae Superstar and Legend (Part Two)

September 5, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

Listen to this February 5, 2020 flashback episode about Bob Marley, homeless at age 20 in one of the poorest cities of the Third World, he became a popular music phenomenon and 20th century icon.

Marley, performing last outdoor show, Dublin, Ireland, July 6, 1980

Bob Marley, mausoleum complex entrance, Nine Mile, Jamaica

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D. B. Cooper and the Only Unsolved Air Hijacking in US History (Part One)

August 8, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

This special flashback episode, from March 16, 2018, discusses D. B. Cooper and the most infamous unsolved hijacking in US history.

Some of the crew members from the plane Cooper hijacked

Initial crude wanted poster circulated by the FBI

Richard McCoy, wanted poster circulated after he escaped from a federal penitentiary

Another potential D. B. Cooper, Robert Rackstraw.

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D. B. Cooper and the Only Unsolved Air Hijacking in US History (Part Two)

August 8, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

This special flashback episode, from March 16, 2018, discusses D. B. Cooper and the most infamous unsolved hijacking in US history.

Northwest Orient Plane similar to the one DB Cooper hijacked.

Money recovered on the shores of the Columbia River that was ultimately identified as part of Cooper’s $200,000

Grave of Richard Mccoy, who many believe was D. B. Cooper

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Howard Hughes and His Empire of Madness (Part One)

July 2, 2025 Phil Gibbons Leave a comment

On April 5, 1976, when he died in a private jet, en route to Houston, Texas, Howard Hughes was a hopeless drug addict, weighed 93 pounds and hadn’t even taken a step on his own in several years. He was also the world’s wealthiest man, living proof that money can’t buy happiness.