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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

1970's EPHEMERA: Dylan Gets a Troll, Ford Gets Shot, Skylab Falls, Howard Cosell Talks Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

PROGRAM ONE: Ford's Bad Day - Dylan's Troll - Howard Cosell's Politics PROGRAM TWO: Skylab's Fall Nixon Shako Warriors - One Hit Wonder PROGRAM THREE: High School Riot - Global Cooling and Warming PROGRAM FOUR: Austin Gets Weird We are part of Airwave Media Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

You know, it started out as a pretty good presidential day in 1975 for Gerald Ford, the president of the United States,

0:11.0

receiving lines,

0:12.5

handshakes, meeting the governor, California, balloons.

0:16.5

And it ends with Ford in the back of a limo

0:18.9

with Donald Rumsfeld on top of him,

0:21.6

with Secret Service agents too, lying on top of him with secret service agents too, lying on top of him protecting him from

0:25.2

potential bullet fire and getting to the airport as soon as he can to meet up with Betty Ford

0:30.3

and get home. And he had to be thinking this again.

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What have I done to deserve this? Why do these people want to kill me? Because just three weeks before, he was in the same situation. That time, a member of Manson's gang,

1:11.0

Charles Manson's gang, squeaky from, had put a revolver into his face and he saw the empty barrel.

1:18.0

It didn't go off.

1:20.0

Now as he left the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, they've got him surrounded by cops, surrounded by agents, maxed out with security, but the securities are around him.

1:31.0

And across the street, there's a crowd crowd and he's waving to that crowd.

1:36.0

There's no security in that crowd and within that crowd is Sarah Jane Moore and she's got a 38

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