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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/12

The Ardennes Forest was not on the Allies’ radar.The seventy-five-mile stretch of heavy Belgian woods wasn’t perceived as having any strategic significance.So, in late 1944, they sent four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions there for rest.The mistake in judgment was made clear early on the morning of December 16, 1944, when 200,000 German troops and 1,000 tanks mounted a surprise assault.Taking advantage of fog, deep snow and record-cold temperatures, the Germans intended to drive

6:01

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/12

Lincoln’s Last Christmas, 1864.From what we can tell, it seems to have been a good one.The year had brought more Union victories than defeats, and General Sherman’s march through Georgia to the sea had succeeded in cutting the South in two.Sherman had captured the City of Savannah on December 21 and presented it to the President as a Christmas gift.And the City of Washington had celebrated with a 300-gun salute. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:49

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/11

It is December 10, 1856.Abraham Lincoln is speaking at a Republican dinner in Chicago, four weeks after the Republican presidential candidate, John Frémont, lost the election.And Lincoln has a warning for the new president, who did not receive a majority of the vote. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:57

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/09

When ‘big government’ works.It is 1935.Five hundred thousand men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five are employed in “Roosevelt’s Tree Army,” the nickname given to the Civilian Conservation Corp.They live in 2,900 military-style camps across the country run by General Douglas MacArthur and staffed by Army Reserve officers.For doing heavy manual labor on government-owned land they receive $30 per month, with most being sent home to their families.It is an intense, life-changing experience

5:21

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/07

Reading the paper on December 7, 1942, the first anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.The US Army now has one million troops stationed in sixty-five nations or islands around the globe.The Chief of the US Army in Hawaii predicts that Japan will strike the islands again ‘when circumstances permit.’But he warns that his men “are impatient for action” and such an attack will be ‘repelled with disastrous Japanese losses.’ Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:10

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/06

It is 1933, the bottom of the Depression.A quarter of the nation’s workers are unemployed.More than half of the elderly are destitute.Herbert Hoover’s reliance on charity to provide for millions in need has failed.And FDR’s promise of a “New Deal” for Americans has swept him into the White House.Now, people are writing to ask for help. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:42

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/05

It is March 1915.And, American newspaper reporter Phil Rader has written a personal account of the Christmas Truce of 1914 for United Press International.Rader was one of a hundred Americans who had enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1914.On Christmas Day 1914, he was in the trenches of Northern France.“We had been in the trenches for twenty days facing that strip of land, forty-five feet wide, between our trenches and that of the Germans,that terrible No-man’s land, dotted with dead bodies,

3:02

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/12/04

It is December 4, 1863.First Lady Mary Lincoln has received a brief telegram from her husband while staying at New York’s Metropolitan Hotel.“All going well,” he had said.Mrs. Lincoln was concerned about his health and had telegrammed him earlier in the day: Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:41

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/04

It is December 3, 1960, the opening night for the musical “Camelot” at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre.The show will run for 873 performances.The play tells the story of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere and Lancelot with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet in the leading roles. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:05

Photo of the Day

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2024/12/02

It is April 12, 1961, and President Kennedy, in his third month in office, is holding a press conference.He begins by noting the day’s historical significance:“Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” he says.“It is also the anniversary of the announcement that a vaccine has been discovered to prevent paralytic polio.”Then and now, FDR was the most recognized polio victim. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:17

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2024/11/30

Reading the paper on Nov. 30, 1944The US Army has engaged German field divisions in a sudden assault launched along a broad front in northwest Germany, as a thousand heavy bombers of the US Eighth Air Force struck German industrial and rail targets.Retreating German forces have opened or destroyed river dams in their wake, adding floodwaters to the difficulty of fighting in heavy mud.The difficult job of clearing German defenders from the Hürtgen Forest is nearly finished and hundreds of German

3:12

Photo of the Day

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2024/11/29

It is late evening on November 5, 1912.Election Day.And Theodore Roosevelt, the former president, has lost his third-party bid to return to the White House.He has come in second to Woodrow Wilson, a man whom he will call “the most wretched creature we have had in the Presidential chair; and we have had some pretty weak sitters there.”So Roosevelt writes to his son, identifying the elements of the campaign which led to his loss.And it is striking.These are the same forces which deprived Kamala Harris

8:06

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/28

It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1941.The weather is unseasonably warm all across the country: 62 degrees in New York; 60 in Los Angeles; 56 in Phoenix; 36 in Minneapolis.The short-skirted baton-twirlers in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade will introduce Macy’s newest balloon, a seventy-five-foot-tall football player straining to catch a twelve-foot-long football.Those who can’t make it into the city to see the parade can listen to it on the radio. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

1:55

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/27

The two babies born on the Mayflower.When the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, England, on September 16, 1620, two women in the final stage of pregnancy were among the 102 passengers aboard.While still at sea, Elizabeth Hopkins gave birth to a boy who was named “Oceanus.”And Susanna White gave birth to a boy soon after the Mayflower reached the new world, while the ship was anchored off Cape Cod.He was named “Peregrine,” from a Latin word meaning “one from abroad.” Get full access to Photo of the

3:40

Photo of the Day

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2024/11/26

It is October 1940 and chaos reigns.France has fallen and its puppet Vichy government has issued its first antisemitic legislation.The remnants of France’s army are in Britain with the survivors of the British Expeditionary Force following their rescue at Dunkirk.Winston Churchill has replaced Neville Chamberlain as Britain’s prime minister.The Luftwaffe blitz bombing of Britain is in its final weeks and the RAF is conducting retaliatory bombing of German cities.The Soviet Union has invaded the

1:34

Photo of the Day

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2024/11/25

On November 5th, a few hundred thousands, in a few states, set the world on a different course.On November 5th, the future lurched.What had been ended.And, like the uprooting of a great tree, a deep hole emerged.Now, unlikely characters are rushing to fill it using both hands.Cause and effect. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:32

Photo of the Day

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2024/11/23

Reading the paper on Nov. 23, 1941.Yesterday, Secretary of State Cordell Hull summoned the Chinese ambassador from his sick bed to join discussions with ambassadors from Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands regarding the status of US—Japanese bilateral negotiations.Japan currently occupies Manchuria and a large portion of China’s eastern coast, including Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing.Hull assured the ambassadors that, while the US wished to avoid war, no accommodation to Japan would be made at

3:48

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/11/22

It is October 18, 1931.Will Rogers, America’s cowboy philosopher, is on the radio.The stock market crash is two years old.Drought has come to thirty states, devastating family farms.Employers have laid off millions to cope with declining consumer demand for their products.Workers who have managed to keep their jobs have accepted wage cuts.Early in the year, a wave of European bank collapses rippled through the economy, triggering more lay-offs.And the needs of millions for food and necessities is

3:21

Photo of the Day

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2024/11/21

JFK’s warning.It is November 21, 1963.The last full day for President Kennedy.It begins with a late morning flight from Washington to San Antonio for three days of meetings and speaking engagements. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

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2024/11/20

In February 1945, FDR, Churchill and Stalin decided there would be no summary executions of the surviving Nazi leadership.They would instead be held as defendants in an international criminal trial.Prosecutors and jurors would come from the four Allied powers, who would cobble together and apply the world’s first precepts of international criminal law. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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