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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/04

Reading the paper on January 4, 1943.The US Army Air Forces suffered its biggest single-day loss of B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers yesterday, with seven failing to return to their base following an air attack on the Nazi U-boat pen at St. Nazaire, in western France.The thousand-mile-trip had precluded full coverage by escort fighters, who were forced to travel out for just the first part of the mission and accompany the raiders on the last portion of their return.The aircraft losses occurred

3:15

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/03

It is July 4, 1861.Lincoln has been in office for four months.Eleven states have seceded from the Union,formed the Confederate States of America,selected a provisional president,adopted a constitution,established a seat of government in Richmond, Virginia,seized federal arsenalsand fired on Fort Sumter.Lincoln responded militarily,calling for the marshaling of 75,000 federal troops,ordering the blockade of Southern portsand suspending habeas corpus along key rail corridors in Maryland. Get full

4:02

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/02

During her time as First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt traveled the country gathering information for her husband on economic conditions and the impact of New Deal legislation.During these trips, she asked people to write to her, telling her about their life.She repeated this request on the radio and later, in her daily newspaper column.And the people responded, sending Mrs. Roosevelt more than 300,000 letters each year while she was in the White House and hundreds of thousands more after she left.Some

3:37

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/01

Today, a story about different paths.More than three million American babies were born in 1946.Among them were Donald Trump and Joseph Ewing Smith.Trump was born and raised in suburban New York.Joe grew up in Corsicana, Texas, a small town near Dallas of about 19,000.Both graduated from high school in 1964. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/31

It is December 31, 1939.And, to the two million gathered in a windy, twenty-two-degree chill in New York’s Times Square, it looks pretty good.And they’ll roar their approval when the illuminated ball drops and “1940” lights up each side of the Times Building marque.And why shouldn’t they?The Depression, Prohibition, the drought, Hoovervilles, long ladies’ skirts — all those miseries of the 1930s were gone.People had jobs and money again.And the 1940s looked good. Get full access to Photo of the Day

4:50

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/30

It is September 1934.The journalist William Shirer is in Nuremberg to cover the six-day Nazi rally.As he writes in his diary, Shirer explains how an ordinary, somewhat clownish man has captivated a grievance-filled people and convinced them that his cruel path will lead to a restoration of their rightful national greatness.From Shirer’s diary:September 4, 1934Like a Roman emperor Hitler rode into this medieval town at sundown today past solid phalanxes of wildly cheering Nazis who packed the narrow

5:29

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/28

Reading the paper on December 28, 1941.Japanese aircraft have bombarded Manila despite General Douglas MacArthur’s declaration that it was an ‘open city’ which would not contest Japanese occupation.MacArthur’s declaration was a tacit acknowledgment that he lacked the resources to defend Manila, and was made in an effort to spare the city’s cultural landmarks and civilian population from Japanese attack.MacArthur has withdrawn US and Philippine troops to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island on

4:30

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/28

It is April 1861.America’s democracy is in great peril.Seven states have seceded from the Union and formed a new government.Four more will soon join. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:22

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/26

It is June 28, 1940.France has capitulated after Nazi Germany’s six-week assault.An armistice ending the fighting was signed six days ago.The signing took place in the train carriage in which German officials had signed the armistice ending World War I.An intentional humiliation.Now, Hitler strolls down the Trocadéro, in the heart of Paris, and poses for a picture in front of the Eiffel Tower. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:03

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/25

1968.Exuberant pop culture.An anguished world.Those who were alive then remember 1968 more vividly than the years which came just before or after.Who alive then could forget…The Beatles. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:39

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/24

Today: a perspective on gifts.It is Tuesday, June 6, 1944.Norman Brown, a B-17 radio operator, is writing in his diary:Tuesday, 6thThis is it.D-day.We were in the first wave of heavies [B-17s] over the coast.It was the greatest sight a person could seeand if I lived to be a thousandI could never forget it. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:11

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/23

Big Tim Sullivan was the lord of New York City’s Bowery and Lower East Side.At the turn of the twentieth century, he controlled jobs, extortion rackets, prostitution rings and gambling operations while owning legitimate interests in real estate, theaters, nickelodeons, racetracks and athletic clubs.Big Tim had grown up in these neighborhoods and had started out shining shoes and selling newspapers as an eight-year-old.By his mid-twenties, he owned interests in several saloons.Tammany Hall, the

5:12

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/21

Reading the paper on December 21, 1944.At least thirteen German motorized and infantry divisions have driven through a fifty-mile-wide gap in Allied lines in Belgium and Luxembourg in an offensive of mounting intensity.The German columns are cutting through Allied defensive lines and isolating pockets of Americans as they loot and destroy supplies and cut off communications.There are reports of German troops employing ‘dirty tricks’ to kill Americans, such as waving a white flag of surrender only to

3:59

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/20

It is 1915.And the poet, Robert Frost, is writing from his new home, a wooded farmplace in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.A stranger has come from the city and is asking about his trees. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:23

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/19

It is August 1942.And a young Marine, aboard a vessel in the Eastern Solomon Islands, is writing in his diary:“6/8/42Well, we finally found out the dope this morning.We are attacking Tulagi Island and Guadalcanal Island, two islands of the Solomon group.By what we were told it might not be such a hot picnic.All of my gear is ready to go ashore!The tension is extremely high. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:29

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/19

It is June 17, 2000.Arthur Miller, the playwright, is reflecting on his contempt of Congress conviction and Hollywood blacklisting during the McCarthy era of the 1950s.Miller had become a target of the US House Un-American Activities Committee after the staging of his play, “The Crucible,” a story about the Salem witch trials of the 1690s.In the play, Miller had drawn a parallel between the conviction and execution of Salem women on baseless charges of witchcraft and the persecution of people

2:43

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/17

It is November 16, 1918, five days after the World War I armistice was signed.Allison LePontois, a college student before the war, is in France where he serves as an ambulance driver.Here is his diary entry for that day:“On the night of Nov. 9th I stood in front of the dressing station in Beaumont,the town formed for the last French battle prior to Sedan in 1870,watching the glow in the horizon where Sedan was burning. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:21

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/16

What makes America great?Theodore Roosevelt explains.“We cannot be content to rot by inches in ignoble ease within our borders,taking no interest in what goes on beyond them,sunk in a scrambling commercialism.If we are to be a really great people,we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:30

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/15

Reading the paper on Dec. 14, 1941On the topic of the Pearl Harbor attack, a week ago today, the newspaper has little to say.The Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, is on his return trip to Washington after traveling to Hawaii to inspect the damage.He has refused to answer reporters’ questions, saying he’ll make no public statement until he has conferred with President Roosevelt.Yesterday, the Japanese War Minister, General Tojo, warned the Japanese people against ‘intoxication by initial victories,’

2:31

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/13

A parable from Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac on clinging to promises well-known to be false.“[T]here are among us great numbers of honest artificers and labouring people, who,fed with a vain hope of growing suddenly rich,neglect their business, almost to the ruining of themselves and families,and voluntarily endure abundance of fatigue in a fruitless search after imaginary hidden treasure. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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