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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)

A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper

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00:09:11

State’s worst plane crash is also its most mysterious

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/10

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 was a brand-new DC-9; the airline literally bought it on Monday and crashed it on Saturday. It hit a mountain while flying calmly along, 5,000 feet too low. But, no one has been able to figure out why. (Welches, Clackamas County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1712c.oregons-worst-plane-crash-mystery-474.html)

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00:16:09

Abigail Scott Duniway's party on the Oregon Trail...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/09

When WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn interviewed Miss Jean Slauson of Lake Grove in January 1939, Miss Slauson gave Ms. Wrenn a hand-written treatise to transcribe, written by her great-aunt, Harriet Scott Palmer; it was a description of Ms. Palmer's experience crossing the plains on the Oregon Trail with the party that included Abigail Scott Duniway and Harvey Scott. This is that document. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001975/ )

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00:10:59

Heaven’s Gate UFO cult started at Waldport hotel

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/06

Two decades later, the cult, now named “Heaven's Gate,” would make national headlines by committing mass suicide in hopes that a UFO hiding behind Comet Hale-Bopp would carry their spirits away to Planet Heaven. (Waldport, Lincoln County; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1606a.heavens-gate-ufo-cult-394.html)

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00:07:57

Oregon's contribution to space program nothing to...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/05

An Oregon astronaut holds the record for time spent in space. Another peformed the first unscheduled spacewalk. And a third was a participant in NASA's first public love triangle. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1005a_Astronauts.htm)

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00:06:37

The rowdy-but-golden past of almost-ghost-town Granite

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/04

Not long ago, the former gold-mining Blue Mountain boomtown was an incorporated city of one; it's grown 2,800 percent since. (Granite, Grant County; 1870s, 1880s, 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/0905d_h105.granite-ghost-town.html)

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00:09:55

Klamath Falls airport had unusual run of bad luck

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/03

In the past 75 years, there have been only four lethal commercial-airliner crashes in Oregon. By an odd statistical fluke, two of those happened to planes flying out of the airport in Klamath Falls. (Klamath Falls, Klamath County; 1960s, 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1712b.klamath-falls-plane-crash-capitol-473.html)

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00:13:47

The everyday life of a pioneer woman (WPA...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/09/02

When WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn interviewed Miss Jean Slauson of Lake Grove in January 1939, Miss Slauson gave Ms. Wrenn a hand-written treatise to transcribe, written by her great-aunt, Catherine A. Coburn. This is that document. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001975/ )

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00:09:48

Albany woman should be in Swindlers Hall of Fame

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/30

Talented actress could dilate a pupil at will, dislocate joints, fake broken ribs and get her gums to bleed on demand. She was so good, railroad claims agents actually formed a national association just to share info about her scams. (Salem, Marion County; 1890s, 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1605e.maud-johnson-queen-o-fakirs-393.html)

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00:09:09

When steamboats exploded on the upper Willamette

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/29

When the steamboat Gazelle reached the dock, the man in charge of its steam boilers leaped ashore and ran like a man being chased by demons. A few seconds later, the Gazelle exploded, killing 20 people. (Canemah, Clackamas County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1307c-boiler-explosions-in-willamette-steamboats.html)

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00:09:16

“Hermit of the Craggies” went from acorns and roots...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/28

Convinced his only neighbor was out to get him, solitary trapper and paranoid former prospector “Crazy Hugo” ambushed him with a rifle; the state prison became his retirement home. (Agness, Curry County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1105b-crazy-hugo-hermit-of-craggies.html)

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00:09:14

Hawaii-bound airliner out of PDX ditched in open sea

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/27

Lessons learned in the crash ended up saving countless lives in subsequent at-sea ditchings, but those lessons came at a price: Four people died, including the co-pilot who had saved everyone's life. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1712a.pan-am-845-ditching-off-coos-bay-472.html)

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00:11:55

Pioneer and Oregon Trail folkways of women (WPA...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/26

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Miss Jean Slauson of Oswego and two of her young cousins, sharing some of their family stories, oral and written. Part 1 of 3 parts. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001975/ )

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00:10:34

As demagogue's empire collapsed, he plotted a...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/23

The “Jackson County Rebellion” faded away after political boss Llewellyn Banks shot a policeman with a .30-06 during an attempted warrant service. Coverage of the whole debacle won the Medford Mail-Tribune a Pulitzer Prize. (Medford, Jackson County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1605d.jackson-co-rebellion-part3-392.html)

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00:09:41

Jackson County Rebellion: Fehl and Banks win power

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/22

For leaders of the “Good Government Congress,” the Great Depression was a golden opportunity to crystallize popular bewilderment into hatred that could be used to grab for power. And it worked ... too well, as it turned out. (Medford, Jackson County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1605c.jackson-county-rebellion-part2-391.html)

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00:08:29

‘Jackson County rebellion’ started as newspaper fight

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/21

An autocratic populist from southern California, arriving in Medford in a flashy Cadillac, managed to position himself as a leader of the poor and disenfranchised. The results would rock the county, and the state, to the core. (Medford, Jackson County; 1920s, 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1605b.llewellyn-banks-murder-boss-390.html)

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00:11:48

Murderer blew PDX-bound airliner up for mom’s insurance

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/20

Jack Graham had planned for the airliner to explode over the Wyoming mountains; but the plane got out late, and the bomb went off a few minutes after takeoff — while he sat with his wife and son in an airport cafe. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1711d.united-629-dynamited-on-flight-to-pdx-471.html)

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00:21:14

Life in the 'Fizzle No. 13' gold mine (WPA...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/19

WPA writer William C. Haight's oral history interview with gold miner Carl Hentz, talking about gold mining lore. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001947/ )

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00:16:10

KGW Order of Hoot Owls changed U.S. radio history

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/16

In 1923 when Oregon’s KGW Radio launched the world’s first radio variety show, it became almost a nationwide sensation within just a few months. At its peak, it had listeners in all but four U.S. states along with the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, as well as most of Canada and Mexico. All three of the U.S. Presidents who served in office during its run — Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover — were at least occasional listeners.The show was called The Hoot Owls, and it may

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00:08:50

Oregon’s Harry Lane was a real hero of World War I

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/15

As his countrymen and colleagues succumbed to the enthusiasm and propaganda for joining the conflict, only Senator Lane and a handful of other lawmakers kept their wits. But Lane paid dearly for his commitment to sanity. (Sellwood, Multnomah County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1307b-harry-lane-war-hero.html)

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00:08:52

Coast Guard’s dramatic rescue saved ship — for...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/14

Norwegian freighter got off course, piled onto Peacock Spit; a cutter pulled it off, and motor lifeboat crews rescued its crew, and the wallowing ship was pulled to port and repaired. A happy ending? Well, not for the Russians, it wasn't. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1105a-coast-guard-rescued-future-soviet-gulag-ship.html)

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