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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/10

The demagogue takes the stage. Freedom weeps.He is a character as old as time.The bane of democracies.For it is democracies which empower the people.And it is the demagogue who manipulates the people for his own selfish purposes. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:15

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/09

In the beginning…All brave young men wanted to go.Including George Snowden, a twenty-one-year-old lawyer from Franklin, Pennsylvania.In 1862, the new Civil War was an adventure that beckoned.It promised travel, comradeship, excitement.And, if you returned home, public adulation.[No one appreciated the scale of the carnage that was to come.] Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

8:06

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/07

Reading the paper on September 7, 1944.Allied armies are attacking the outer defenses of the Siegfried Line, the German west wall of defense.The Line extends for 390 miles and is comprised of thousands of bunkers, tunnels, dragon’s teeth and anti-tank ditches.Germany had begun constructing the Line in the mid-1930s.After the Allies’ D-Day invasion in June, Germany began upgrade efforts using forced labor, concentration camp prisoners and German teenagers.Allied headquarters says the Siegfried Line

6:11

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/06

‘The old playbook.’Kamala Harris said recently that Trump was using that ‘same old, tired playbook’ in his verbal attacks against her.So, what’s in that old playbook?And who wrote it?Let’s go back to 1958.Alabama’s George Wallace is running for governor. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:35

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/05

Anything to win.It is the fall of 1968.Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon’s early lead in the polls is evaporating.Vice President Hubert Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, is steadily gaining ground.And President Lyndon Johnson is pursuing negotiations which would end the Vietnam War, the number one issue in the campaign.But Nixon is determined to win.So, he creates a communications back-channel with the governments of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Get full access to Photo of the Day

5:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/04

American neutrality.It is September 4, 1939.The events of the past few days have been dizzying.And those paying attention are convinced the world will never be the same.On Friday, September 1, 1939, a bedside phone call had awakened President Franklin Roosevelt at 2:50 AM.The call was from William Bullitt, the American ambassador in Paris.He told FDR that he had just spoken to Tony Biddle, the American ambassador in Warsaw.Biddle had told him air raid sirens were wailing across Warsaw and the Polish

4:28

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/03

Divided loyalties.It is September 3, 1861, and Kentucky’s neutrality in the American Civil War has come to an end.While the six-month-old war had pitted state against state, in Kentucky, the war had turned brother against brother.Both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had been born in Kentucky.Views on slavery varied.Twenty percent of Kentuckians were enslaved people.And many who weren’t themselves enslavers nevertheless considered slavery necessary for the state’s economy.But a strong current of

3:51

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/09/02

A winner’s attitude.American troops faced off against the Nazis for the first time in North Africa.And it didn’t start out well.They were defeated at the Kasserine Pass, a two-mile wide gap in a mountain range in west-central Tunisia.Losses were heavy. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:22

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/31

Reading the paper on August 31, 1940.British bombers attacked central Berlin in three waves today, using incendiary and explosive bombs.The Krupp Works at Essen and German shipping in the Netherlands were also struck.Overnight, British Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft attacked formations of seven hundred German planes which bombed London and thirteen other British cities.Britain’s air losses from this raid would be the heaviest of the entire Battle of Britain. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

3:15

Photo of the Day

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2024/08/30

It is June 3, 1907.And Hammerstein’s Paradise Roof Garden theater has reopened to a full house for the summer season.The headline act is Barnold’s Dog and Monkey Pantomime company, which performed “a whole scene of drunkenness and arrest carried out by little animals.”The Paradise Roof Garden, which Oscar Hammerstein built on the roofs of the Victoria and Belasco theaters in 1899, covered an entire block at 44th and Broadway in New York.It was just one of many rooftop theaters built by New York

5:37

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/29

Divide and conquer.Nixon had gone to Camp David to be left alone.For days, he had carried a yellow pad and pen and sat in empty cabins for hours at a time.On the yellow pad: a scribbled speech defending his Vietnam War policies which he intended to deliver in a televised Oval Office address.The speech would rebuke the antiwar movement which had brought fifteen million protesters into the streets of America’s cities two weeks earlier.And it would call on the rest, the ‘silent majority,’ to give him

4:23

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/28

The long road home.Bob left college at the end of the spring semester in 1941 and enlisted in the Air Force.It seemed like all young men were enlisting then, and it made Bob’s dad, a former Army engineer, proud.No more talk of going to Hollywood to become a movie star.Bob was sent to the Philippines to help push the Japanese out of Southeast Asia. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:50

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/27

Taking the plunge.It is August 27, 1905.And the nation’s leading newspapers are aghast.President Theodore Roosevelt has ridden down to the bottom of the Long Island Sound in a submarine! Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:42

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/26

‘The ballot or the bullet.’It is August 26, 1863.Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia have been driven from the battlefield in Gettysburg and have retreated south across the Potomac.Confederate forces will never again cross into Union territory.Vicksburg has fallen to the relentless General Grant.The Mississippi River, the Confederate supply lifeline, is now under Union control.In Washington, Lincoln has received an invitation from his longtime Springfield friend, James Conkling.He asks Lincoln to

4:49

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/24

Paris is Free.Reading the paper on August 24, 1944.“Yesterday a Frenchman burst into Lieut. Gen. Omar Bradley’s headquarters.“He was the chief of the French Forces of the Interior in Paris and he had a staggering, incredible story to tell.“He said that he had concluded an armistice with the German forces in Paris.“The people of Paris had risen and had so hounded the Germans that the German commander had requested an armistice. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:10

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/23

The Second Great Fire of London.It’s Sunday night, December 29, 1940.And the German Luftwaffe’s bombing campaign against Britain is in its fourth month.American journalist Ernie Pyle is standing on a London balcony watching as 100,000 incendiary bombs fall on the city.From his report:“It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:44

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/22

Okies.About 440,000 people in Oklahoma packed up and left the state during the 1930s.Most of them went to California.But Oklahoma’s farmers had been coping with tough conditions long before the Dust Bowl hit in 1934. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:27

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/21

Proving your worth.It is September 12, 1918.The first day of the American fight to push back a triangular German bulge into the Allied lines near Verdun in northeast France.The bulge is 25 miles wide at its base and 15 miles deep and is called the Saint-Mihiel salient.The Germans had fortified the salient with dense entanglements of barbed wire, trenches, machine-gun nests, and artillery emplacements. This would be a significant operation. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

4:18

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/20

Finding yourself.It is 1872.And in Paris, the artist Edgar Degas, age thirty-eight, is a demoralized former soldier in the French National Guard.The Guard had been charged with the defense of Paris against the onslaught of German troops under the leadership of the Prussian Army.But, despite four months of heroic effort, the Guard had failed to break the Prussian Army’s siege of the city.Paris had fallen and the victorious Prussian Army had paraded through its streets.The emperor, Napoleon III, had

4:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/08/19

Voting for a madman.His quest for absolute power had begun years earlier.Probably sometime after November 1918.Hitler was then an embittered soldier in Germany’s defeated army.He was temporarily blind from a mustard gas attack suffered near Ypres, on the Western Front, in the waning days of World War I.And, as he recovered, he learned of the German government’s capitulation to the punitive demands of the victorious Allied powers. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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