Ep 3 | How Woodrow Wilson Used WWI to Become a Dictator | The Beck Story
The Glenn Beck Program
Mercury Radio Arts
4.6 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | On Sunday, July 16th, 1916, three men scurried across a rail yard darting between warehouses |
| 0:16.0 | and along a wharf and almost total darkness. |
| 0:19.0 | One of them crept into the maze-like facility on foot. |
| 0:25.0 | The other two arrived in a rowboat. |
| 0:28.0 | They needed the cover of darkness, |
| 0:32.0 | though it wouldn't stay dark for long. |
| 0:36.4 | The three men work quickly and efficiently. |
| 0:38.9 | They know exactly which storage sheds, boxcars, and barges to visit with their wire, so-called pencil bombs, and sticks of dynamite. |
| 0:47.0 | This stealth operation had been planned for over a year. |
| 0:52.0 | They had to be precise in their mission. They were not likely |
| 0:57.0 | to get another shot at this. |
| 1:00.4 | Getting inside the massive 25 acre shipping facility known as Black Tom Island was the easy part. |
| 1:08.0 | There were only eight guards and on that July 9th there were more concerned with surviving mosquito attacks than any sort of sabotage. |
| 1:17.5 | The hard part would be getting back out of the facility in time. |
| 1:25.0 | The complex on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor |
| 1:28.4 | was no ordinary train depot, |
| 1:30.9 | because this was 1916, and the Great War had been ravaging Europe for two years. |
| 1:38.4 | The United States was officially neutral in the conflict but was selling countless tons of munitions to Great Britain and France. |
| 1:47.0 | Black Tom Island was the distribution hub for most of the munitions and gunpowder heading from the US to Europe. |
| 1:56.0 | It was quite possibly the largest arsenal in the world outside of the European War Zone. |
| 2:04.0 | As the three men went about their task, |
| 2:07.0 | the warehouses, train cars, and barges surrounding them, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mercury Radio Arts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mercury Radio Arts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

