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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn Podcast Host

Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes "Found In The Footnotes" 5-10 minutes history shorts, lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII stories, biographies, disasters, legends of the Old West, American Revolutionary history, urban legends, movie backstories, author interviews and much

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01:19:18

REMEMBERING THE TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN OF WWII (INCLUDES...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/06/01

The Tuskeegee Airmen of WWII were the first black pilots to break the color barrier in our Army/Airforce- a job in itself- and this is their heroes story as they paved the way for big changes in our military as well as our industries in the 40's and beyond. Included you will find our 2022 interview with Lt.Col. Harry Stewart as he shares his stories and gives advice to our younger generation about being the best you can be if you want to succeed in life. Lt, Col. Stewart passed this past Feb 2025 at

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39:17

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF BUTCH O'HARE: AMERICA'S 1ST...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/05/25

I first heard this story on Paul Harvey years ago., and I've retold it in part but never in full. This is the story of Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O'Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) who was an American naval aviator of the United States Navy, who on February 20, 1942, became the Navy's first fighter ace of the war when he single-handedly attacked a formation of nine Japanese medium bombers approaching his aircraft carrier. Even though he had a limited amount of ammunition, he was

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39:11

THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PT 2)- A DEEP DIVE TO...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/05/18

For full transcript see our website at www.bestof1001stories.com at each episode at 1001 Heroes-Thank you! and any review telling us that this show was not well researched can pound sand while gleefully tring to listen to the early recordings while reading the BOOK the reviewer recommended. ! Full transcript available at website (www.bestof1001stories.com - see 1001 Heroes episodes)If you enjoy and appreciate what we have shared with these deep-dive , well researched, music included, episodes

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55:28

THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/05/11

Thank you for joining us on this episode of 1001 Heroes. Please leave a review for this show and let Jon know you are enjoying stories of this kind. Let him know, what is your favorite blues artist or song? For now we leave you with Ma Rainey. See 'The Birth of the lues' at our website (www.bestof1001stories.com) for full transcript To the reviewer who low scored us for "poor research": please see "Resources" below- then pound sand trying to listen to the the birth of the blues with the BOOK you

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52:41

IMBEDDED ENEMY: THE INSIDER THREAT by COMMAND SGT....

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/05/10

Interview with Command Sgt. Maj. Bart Womack New Book- IMBEDDEDD ENEMY Shortly after deploying for the war in Iraq, an unprecedented attack was about to take place; the first of it's kind in U.S. military history. Embedded Enemy is the true story of the deadly attack against the men and women of Headquarters and Headquarters Company First Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. The Bastogne Brigade was staged at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait where they prepared for combat. During the early morning hours of

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39:15

SPITFIRES: THE AMERICAN WOMEN WHO FLEW IN THE FACE OF...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/05/04

Britain was fully involved in WWII in 1940-41 prior to the US entering the war- and they were defending their island against Germany to the last man if need be. So many British pilots had been killed that they despertaely needed women to ferry war planes, both new and "shot up" to and from factories and bases all over England. It was dangerous work involving over 140 types of planes. The American women, all licensed flyers, who answered the call were gutsy, determined women who proved themselves

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47:27

THE RISE OF THE KILLER SELFIES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/04/27

Taking a Selfie: A strange yearning to experience the thrill of being photographed in a near-death situation which has taken hold of our "under 30" population- not just here in the US but around the world. Its an obsession being fed by social media and its called "Death by Selfie". We offer dozens of real-life situations and we explain the hows and whys of the social media obsession to be "seen/liked/followed by others"in this story and hopefully give you listeners the motivation to have that

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52:07

THE SEARCH FOR AMY LYNN BRADLEY: DISAPPEARED FROM...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/04/20

1001 HEROES CONFIDENTIAL APRIL 20, 2025: THE SEARCH FOR AMY LYNN BRADLEY Amy Lynn Bradley (born May 12, 1974) is an American woman who went missing during a Caribbean cruise on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in late March 1998 while en route to Curaçao. Her whereabouts remain unknown to this day. She was a 23-year-old Longwood University graduate at the time of her disappearance. After midnight on Monday March 23, 1998, Amy and her younger brother Brad headed to

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43:33

REMEMBERING I LOVE LUCY

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/04/13

TV history was made in 1951 when the first episode of I Love Lucy aired on CBS starring a fiery red head Irish actress named Lucille Ball and her real life husband, Cuban American band leader Desi Arnaz as New York City apartment dwellers Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. The show would air 6 years, making #1 in ratings 4 of those years, and breaking single episode viewer ratings twice- once when Lucy announced she was pregnant, and again when she went to the hospital to have their baby. Today we remember

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01:07:50

THE JFK ASSASSINATION COVER-UP: THE REPORTER WHO KNEW...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/04/06

Full Transcript at https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/ In light of the recent release of thousands of previously classified documents concerning the Kennedy Assassination we present an in-depth look at the aftermath, which left investigators wirth the murder of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by strip club owner Jack Ruby, who was said to be heavily in debt to the New Orleans mafia, and the suspected murder by poison of journalist and popular tv

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51:06

THE LEGEND OF LASSETER'S REEF

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/30

In 1929 an Australian named Harold Bell Lassiter announced that he had found a fabulously rich gold deposit in the Northwest Territory years ago and that he needed the cash to raise an expedition to go after it. At first, he had no takers, but as the depression took hold and his story spread the money appeared and a group of experts gathered for a 1931 expedition. It wasn't long before Lasseter's story began to crumble, he had no samples and no map and very vague recollections- and the party ended

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05:13

BIG NEWS FOR ANDROID LISTENERS THAT ALSO LOVE APPLE...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/30

HOW TO INSTALL APPLEPODCAST APP ON YOUR ANDROID DEVICE IN ONE MINUTE ARTICLE FROM PODNEWS: https://podnews.net/article/apple-podcasts-android

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01:04:31

THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 2) THE TRAP IS...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/23

Part Two tells the story of the hunt for both lions, and how Lt.Col Patterson corners them both, as well as the time things got so bad with the coolies being killed that most of them left the bridge project. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to tell history the way it really happened by chipping in a little every month at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Follow us a facebook.com/1001heroes! Thanks Other 1001 Podcasts: Found Everywhere 1001

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51:28

THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 1): THE GHOST AND...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/16

The incredible true story (the 1996 movie is largely fiction) of a British railroad project in Kenya in 1898 that was being harassed by man-eating lions which would attack coolies in the night,dragging them out of their tents screaming for help. Coolies, African workers, teamsters, and British authorities were mauled over a peroid of 9 months, with an estimated death toll of 150. A man named Lt. Col John Henry Patterson tracked the lions for months, finally bringing them down in December of 1898.

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47:46

THE WOMEN OF VALLEY FORGE: UNSUNG HEROES OF THE...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/09

They say behind every good man there is a strong woman- and if ever men needed strong moral support it was during the harsh winter of Valley Forge (1777-78), where the wives of George Washington, Henry Knox, Nathaniel Greene- and members of the "camp followers"- wives and children of the soldiers- tended to the sick, washed laundry, cooked what food there was, and helped to keep the flame of liberty which had brought them there alive. This is their story... Resources: Martha Washington’s birthday

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18:31

BEST OF (#54 of 514) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/07

The story of old Adolph Ruth, who used a map whiich his son had found (supposedly the old Peralta Map) to venture into the Superstitions to find the gold. He never made it out. This is the story of how he was found and others that followed.

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31:32

BEST OF (#53 OF 513) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/07

This is the story of most famous legend of buried gold in the west. An old prospector who mined in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona was witnessed to have possessed hi grade gold. Many men have tried trying to find his mine but noone ever has, There is an old Apache superstition that the mountain takes revenge on those who get close.

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01:02:42

THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 2): SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS,...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/03/02

In part two we cover a recap of the3 flood path and devastation, survivor and media accounts, causes and blame,including the 2016 report, Clara Barton's efforts with the Red Cross, and the Johnstown floods of 1936 and 1977, showing that Johnstown still isn't safe from being destroyed again. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com.

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01:16:36

THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 1) HEROES & SURVIVORS

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/02/23

On May 31st 1889 the earthen dam holding back Lake Conemaugh 15 bmiles upstream from Johnstown, PA burst duriung heavy spring rains, sending a 40 foot wave of death down a narrow river valley in which was located 80,000 persons, and finally reaching Johnstown with houses, alive and dead persons, trees, and scrap of all types, which caught on fire when it all hit the bridge at Johnstown, literally roasting many survivors alive in the conflagration. We feature survivor and author accounts in part one,

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01:01:27

PARIS UNDERCOVER: A WARTIME STORY OF COURAGE,...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast ·

2025/02/09

Two woman in Nazi-occupied Paris, bith close friends over 50 years old create a daring escape line that rescued dozens of allied servicemen . With one still in prison, one was returned to the states on a prisoner swap and wrote a tell-all book which the publishers added to to boost sales, and the one in prison was "re"-discovered and treated mercilessly. The story is a gripping qaccount of courage and fortitude, and sheds an intense light on the terror of fascist regimes.

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