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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

ALL BLOOD RUNS RED (PT III): THE TRUE STORY OF EUGENE BULLARD, THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOT

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In "All Blood Runs Red Part III", we tell the story of Bullard's escape from war torn France to Spain and then Portugal, where, suffering from wounds and exhaustion, he is placed upon a ship bound for New York. Upon reaching New York, he reunites with other veterans of the war, his daughters are returned, he visits the south of his boyhood only to find it hasn't changed- finding his older brother has been lynched. In New York City he is encouraged to write his story 'All Blood Runs Red", which is re-authored and released as "The Black Swallow of Death", and he appears on the Today Show with Dave Garroway. During his later years in New York, he is visited by de Gaulle, and brought to France to be one of three men to light the Eternal Flame of the Unknown Soldier before being knighted by France for his sacrifice.

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0:57.2

Hello everyone.

0:58.4

Welcome to Part 3 and the conclusion of All Blood Runs Red.

1:02.4

The story of Eugene Jacques Boulard, a Georgia boy who had to grow up fast, who followed a dream that his father had given him to France,

1:11.0

then became a prize fighter, a French Legionaire, the first African-American

1:16.8

fighter pilot in history, the hero of France in two wars, an impresario in Paris's lofty jazz age, a business owner three times over, a friend

1:27.4

many, a spy working for French intelligence, and a hero of French president Charles De Gaulle.

1:34.0

Yet in America, the land where people can rise to be whatever they want to be.

1:39.0

Berlard and his young brothers and sisters saw their lives destroyed by racism. He became a runaway, lived

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