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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

100 YEARS AGO TODAY - A Look at 1924 With Jon Blackwell

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

With Jon Blackwell, Wall Street Journal Editor and creator of the Twitter handle 100 Years Ago News, we discuss significant news stories of 1924 that have meaning for today - especially Tea Pot Dome, Coolidge, The 103-Ballot Democratic Convention, and the Klan. Jon is also the author of Notorious New Jersey.  Follow Jon on Twitter at - @100YearsAgoNews Support the Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp Email advertise@airwavemedia.com to enquire about advertising on the podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:04.0

I am so glad to have John Blackwell on.

0:08.0

He is on Twitter at 100 years ago news and what he does is he looks at the news from 100 years ago.

0:18.0

We last interviewed John when he was looking at 1921 because it was 2021.

0:25.4

Now it's 2024 as you know.

0:28.1

And so he's looking at 1924.

0:31.5

And John is just not gonna stop. And he's. and John

0:35.0

Thanks for coming on the program today.

0:37.0

John, thanks for coming on.

0:39.0

Well, thanks for having me on.

0:40.0

Love this show, love to be on it.

0:42.0

Yeah, it's always great to talk to you and I know your Twitter once again 100 years ago news is just a wealth of info

0:49.0

It gets very esoteric which is cool and you get into little you know a little

0:53.9

interesting stories and just like people might find when they listen to my

0:58.2

cast but it will be about the year that we're you know looking at the time period of

1:02.4

a hundred years ago so we're going to

1:04.4

talk a little 1924 there's a lot going on I mean the biggest thing though is it's an election

1:10.0

year you got a national scandal with the teapot dome. We're going to get into that unfortunate hold that the Ku Klux Klan has over America not just like hidden in the woods somewhere, but really in suburbia and other places.

1:27.3

So all of these things are things to talk about when we look at 1924, good, bad, and ugly. I don't even know where to begin maybe we should begin with that

1:36.4

teapot dome yeah that's a good place to start because it's a it kind of explodes

1:41.4

into the headlines right in January so you can start the year with it.

1:45.0

And it is amazing to see it like take off right away as like this catchphrase, like in the 70s it's Watergate in the 20s it's

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