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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

415: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

November 10, 1975, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 crew members were lost, a tragedy later memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic song. My guest is bestselling author John U. Bacon, who shares details from his new book, "The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald". The author's website: https://johnubacon.com/ The author's publisher page: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324094647 The author on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnUBaconAuthor/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How's the business going?

0:01.2

We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.

0:23.1

Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. view at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle

0:21.2

out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at

0:25.9

business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. What's something you learned in

0:31.5

history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth? Better yet, what's something you didn't learn

0:37.3

at all that was omitted

0:38.6

completely? That's what I like to call redacted history. My name is Andre White, the host of the

0:45.0

Redacted History Podcast, the place where histories forgotten events, heroes, and villains get their

0:50.9

story told, one episode at a time. The Redacted History Podcast.

0:56.2

Real history never dies.

0:58.8

Stream the Redacted History Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcast.

1:04.8

Podcasts.

1:06.5

Music I'm going Riveness.

1:37.1

Well, I am so pleased to have John U. Bacon on the podcast. Today, he is a New York Times best-selling author who has worked for more

1:46.3

than three decades as a writer, public speaker, college instructor, radio and TV commentator,

1:53.3

and high school hockey coach, winning awards in all five areas. He has authored 14 books on

2:00.5

sports, business, health, and history, eight of which

2:04.4

are bestsellers. And I don't know if the book we are talking about today, The Gales of November,

2:11.1

the untold story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, is officially on the bestseller list yet at the point that we're recording this,

2:19.6

but I'm sure it's well on its way.

2:22.8

Oh, it is.

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