Latest Truman Podcast Episodes
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
"To the Best of My Ability" - December 17, 2020 14:31 - 28 minutesAfter more than 20 years living abroad as an expatriate in Italy, poet and Nazi sympathizer Ezra Pound was charged with 19 counts of treason against the United States. During World War II, Pound broadcast pro-Facist propaganda into the US, accepting payment from the Italian government. He expres...
Aliyah Bet
"To the Best of My Ability" - December 02, 2020 16:59 - 27 minutesThroughout World War II and in the aftermath, persecuted Jews tried to find their way into the British Mandate of Palestine, often deemed illegally by British authorities, as the Royal Navy tried to stop them. On December 14, 1945, the ship Hannah Senesh, carrying 252 refugees, evaded British pa...
Doomed Men on Gallows Hang
"To the Best of My Ability" - November 18, 2020 16:46 - 29 minutesOn November 20, 1945, an International Military Tribunal of the victorious Allies began a series of war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, designed to bring prominent Nazis to justice. The very men who had perpetrated some of the most horrific crimes in human history, including the Holocaust a...
The Threshold of the New World
"To the Best of My Ability" - November 13, 2020 18:43 - 2 minutesHistory’s greatest war was over, but our story has only just begun. The Truman Presidency not only had to deal with the legacy of the recently concluded war, it also had to wrestle with new problems at home and abroad: a dangerous international situation, the spread of Communism and Soviet in...
The Pool of Armed Might
"To the Best of My Ability" - September 09, 2020 15:59 - 26 minutesAllied victory had rescued humanity from a dark future, but for President Truman and his administration, the celebrations were short lived. There were still a number of challenges that remained, including the demobilization of millions of men and women, reshaping the economy without putting mill...
Sign Surrender
"To the Best of My Ability" - August 19, 2020 17:15 - 20 minutesWith Japan’s defeat, World War II finally came to an end. The formal end of World War II took place in suitably dramatic fashion, with a surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri on September 2. “This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor,” said President Truman. “This is the...
A City Vanished
"To the Best of My Ability" - August 05, 2020 12:00 - 24 minutesIn the hours after Truman drops the bomb on Hiroshima, news reports begin to surface of “a city vanished.” As he said on many occasions, Truman never regretted the decision—seeing the bomb as the quickest way to bring an end to the bloodiest war in history. Speaking to the American people via r...
883 Killed
"To the Best of My Ability" - July 15, 2020 17:05 - 22 minutesEven with victory in sight, soldiers, sailors, and airmen continued to die in the Pacific theater. The USS Indianapolis, for example, was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58 while transporting parts of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” from San Francisco to Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Three hundr...
Urgent Summons
"To the Best of My Ability" - July 01, 2020 12:43 - 24 minutesIn July 1945, representatives of the victorious Allies met in the heart of Germany, in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. It is a new cohort of leaders, while Stalin was still Soviet dictator, the inexperienced Truman and a brand-new British prime minister, Clement Attlee, represented the Anglo-Ameri...
Episode 1: The Cold War Part I (1945-1962)
Mr. O'Grady's History Time Machine Podcast - June 29, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutesThis episode of Mr. O’Grady’s History Time Machine podcast features an overview of The Cold War from 1945 thru 1962... it explores the beginnings of the Cold War from Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech to the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift. Topics covered include: the Yalta and Po...
Charter Into Deeds
"To the Best of My Ability" - June 17, 2020 15:18 - 25 minutesWorld War II had been so horrible that the victorious powers decided that nothing like it must ever happen again. President Roosevelt’s dream had been to establish a “United Nations” (UN) organization, in which the peace-loving nations of the world would settle disputes and intervene to punish a...
Supreme Authority
"To the Best of My Ability" - June 03, 2020 16:51 - 22 minutesWith the war in Europe over, the Allied powers had to turn to the difficult business of governing Germany and the other occupied territories. It was a huge task: to restart a functioning economy for an entire continent, to restore systems of law and government, to bind up the wounds of war. On J...
Death Stand
"To the Best of My Ability" - May 20, 2020 19:05 - 24 minutesThe war in Europe was over, but fighting raged in the Pacific. “We are only half-through,” Truman declares to the American people. He was right. The Battle of Okinawa (April 1 - June 22) was one of the hardest-fought in the history of the US military. Okinawa is a mass of mountains, jungle, and ...
It's All Over
"To the Best of My Ability" - May 06, 2020 15:33 - 22 minutesTruman’s first few weeks in office were some of the most tumultuous in Presidential history. As Nazis forces experience blow after blow from Allied forces, fascism in Europe begins to crumble. Before the end of April, both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini are dead. After more than five years of...
The Truman Show Episode 5
Call Me Watkins - April 13, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is the fifth episode in the series on 'The Truman Show'. It provides a close viewing of the film from 60 minutes until the end.
The Truman Show Episode 4
Call Me Watkins - April 12, 2020 15:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is the fourth episode on 'The Truman Show'. It provides a close viewing of the film from 40 minutes until 60 minutes.
Wilson's Stare and the LBJ Treatment, Why FDR Picked the Democrats and More
Presidents of The United States Podcast - April 11, 2020 15:31 - 38 minutesEverything you want to know about Presidents, but were afraid to ask on this collection of Presidential facts.
President Roosevelt is Dead
"To the Best of My Ability" - April 10, 2020 18:13 - 3 minutesApril 1945: In a war that changed the world, a month that changed the course of the war.
The Truman Show Episode 3
Call Me Watkins - April 07, 2020 00:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is the third episode on The Truman Show. It provides a close viewing of the film. This episode focuses on the film from 14 minutes to 40 minutes.
The Truman Show Episode 2
Call Me Watkins - April 02, 2020 01:51 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is a guided close viewing of The Truman Show. This episode focuses on the first 14 minutes of the film.
The Truman Show Episode 1
Call Me Watkins - March 30, 2020 11:38 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is an introduction to The Truman Show. It includes an overview of the film and a close analysis of the opening scenes.
Lyndon Johnson and the Trick That Created Medicare
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 28, 2020 14:15 - 30 minutesBe a fly on the wall for Lyndon Johnson's discussions around the passage of Medicare, and how he co-opted his opponent's plans to make it work, and pulled off a political stunt that ensured the program would work.
McKinley Is More Than Just "That President Who Died in Office"
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 28, 2020 14:14 - 43 minutesA talk with author and historian Robert Merry about William McKinley, his contributions, and his political skill.
There's Too Much Lincoln in Your Diet
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 25, 2020 23:36 - 31 minutesA look at Lincoln that starts at 1865 - as the image of a President is formed. Should we question the image we have of Lincoln today? The amount of history that is about him?
I am James Buchanan
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 25, 2020 02:37 - 1 hourA look at the 15th President, widely viewed as the worst ever. His Presidency began and ended with deaths. Does he deserve the censure he gets? The answer, as we go through his story, is a solid maybe.
The Trial of Thomas Jefferson, Governor
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 25, 2020 02:32 - 32 minutesBefore he became President, Thomas Jefferson was a governor. And it didn't go well.
Nixon in Full
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 25, 2020 02:29 - 1 hourA complete look at Richard Nixon's life, Presidency and legacy.
President Twenty-Two and Twenty-Four: Grover Cleveland
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 24, 2020 12:50 - 33 minutesIf he's known at all, it's for two non-consecutive Presidencies. The only Democrat elected between the Civil War and the 1910's Stephen Grover Cleveland was a different President from Democrats then - and now. His uniquely anti-imperial, frugal and good government mix brought him enormous pers...
You Don't Know Franklin Pierce
Presidents of The United States Podcast - March 24, 2020 11:47 - 56 minutes"Nothing can ruin him" Handsome, young, exactly in the middle of American politics, a Northerner that Southerners could love - Franklin Pierce emerges as a dark horse compromise in a time of crisis. And from there, everything goes downhill. A deep look into POTUS 14, perhaps the most unknown.
John Donne Episode 17 Elegy His Picture
Call Me Watkins - April 20, 2019 11:07 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode provides a reading and analysis of 'His Picture' by John Donne.