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Byte Sized Biographies…
Hosted by Philip D. Gibbons · EN
Some Very Famous People You’ve Never Really Heard Of, Byte Sized Biographies of the famous, the infamous and the quirky in less than hour. Think of that doorstop sized bio or history related book that you will never read made accessible in an hour. These are people that you may think you know a lot about but really don’t, remarkable human beings you have never heard of and incidents covered in new and different detail, all fascinating.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paradise Lost (Part One)
Feb 1900:54:30Tap to summarizeF. 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
Transcribe →F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paradise Lost (Part Two)
Feb 1900:54:24Tap to summarizeF. Scott Fitzgerald, Tragic Brilliance Maxwell Perkins Fitzgerald family passport MGM Studio Entrance Irving Thalberg Sheilah Graham F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald grave, Rockville, Maryland
Transcribe →Ira Hayes and the Flag Raisers of Iwo Jima (Part One)
Jan 2300:42:25Tap to summarizeThe 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
Transcribe →Ira Hayes and the Flag Raisers of Iwo Jima (Part Two)
Jan 2300:36:06Tap to summarizeThe 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
Transcribe →John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)
Dec 2700:38:38Tap to summarizeIn 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
Transcribe →John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part Two)
Dec 2700:52:29Tap to summarizeIn 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
Transcribe →Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick (Part One)
Nov 3000:53:26Tap to summarizeOn 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 M. Kennedy, 1968 Edward Kennedy, campaigning in 1962 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 District Attorney Edmund Dinis Edgartown Police Chief Dominick “Jim” Arena, later in life
Transcribe →Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick. (Part Two)
Nov 3000:53:16Tap to summarizeOn 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. Joe Gargan, late in life. Kopechne family gravestone
Transcribe →Catherine The Great, One of a Kind (Part One)
Oct 900:53:22Tap to summarizeBrought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe. Peter III, Catherine’s husband Catherine’s mother, Princess Johanna The Empress Elizabeth Frederick the Great Grigori Orlov Poniatowski 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
Transcribe →Catherine the Great, One of a Kind (Part Two)
Oct 900:51:21Tap to summarizeBrought 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 Paul I, Catherine’s son and heir Grigori Potemkin Peterhof Palace The Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum The Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great
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