History Honeys

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Continuing our string of connected episodes, Grant dives into one of the events referenced in our previous topic: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Among the deadliest events in American history, it was a watershed moment. Disaster relief, seismology, and the city itself all changed completely in 1906. Is efficency more valuable than dignity? Is the region prepared for the next one?

Links!

• Eyewitness reports, compiled by the Museum of the city of an Francisco
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  San Francisco Earthquake And Fire - April 18, 1906; a newsreel of footage shot in May, 1906
• Article on temporary "earthquake shacks" still in the housing market
• https://earthquake.usgs.gov/

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The Public Broadcasting Service

In this episode, Grant talks about the United States' Public Broadcasting Service, the most trusted institution in the country. A need for non-commercial programming became a need for a federally-supported structure, which quickly became a national treasure. How does the profit motive shape content? What will it take for public broadcasting to continue? How much time could we spend just reminiscing? 

Links!

• PBS
• The Corporation for Public Braodcasting
• Newton Minow's "A Vast Wasteland" speech
• The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
• Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate subcommittee testimony
• PBS Digital Studios

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Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

The Roswell UFO Incident

Grant starts October with a creepy topic. In 1947 a rancher thought he may have found pieces of a flying disk, and a military press release agreed. Over the decades to come this story blossomed into a wide-reaching global conspiracy with bodies, buried treasure, and the keys to every mystery since. How do legends develop? How does fact intersect with belief? Who names their child Trudy Truelove?

Links!

• Images of Roswell debris, and weather baloon demonstration
• Transcript of the Roswell Daily Record's July 8th story
• Compilation of stories run on the Roswell Incident based on the July 9th AP story
• Roswell Daily Record's July 9th story, including Brazel's description of the debris
• Air Force report on Project MOGUL
• NSA report on the Roswell Incident
• 1994 NY Times article on Project MOGUL theory
• Jesse Marcel: The Evolution of a Roswell Witness by Bruce Hutchinson
• Unsolved Mysteries covering Roswell; Unsolved Mysteries would often re-package popular segments, and I did not find a link for the original 1989 version.
• Alien Autopsy
• The Roswellian Syndrome: How Some UFO Myths Develop, by Joe Nickell and James McGaha
• Do You Want to Believe? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
• International UFO Museum and Research Center
• SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter

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Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

Here With Me (Roswell Theme) by Dido

The X-Files Theme by Mark Snow

Soviet Space Dogs

The Space Race was contested by governments and scientists, but the first explorers were a cadre of stray dogs from the streets of Moscow. These dogs sit at the intersection of mid-century optimism, political posturing, and questionable ethics. 

Links!

• A Chapter on Laika's pop culture memory
• Soviet Space Dogs, a book of merchandise and tributes to the dogs.
• Gallery of images from Soviet Space Dogs

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