Episode 170: Reed v.

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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Music

As Old Roads by Goldmund
Wake by Taylor Duepree and Marcus Fischer
Sedentary II by Kyle Bobby Dunn
Talk to the Church by Gaussian Curve

Notes

The best resources I found for Sally Story (it’s easy to find out more about Reed v. Reed) came from a couple of sources: 100 Americans Making Constitutional History, A Biographical History, edited by Melvin L. Urovsky. And Natalie Wexler’s article, “Sex Discrimination - a Search for a Standard.”

Transcript

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0:00.0	A word of warning, this episode contains reference to suicide.
0:05.4	This is the memory palace.
0:06.8	I'm Nate Demau.
0:09.5	Before she was a citation, legal precedent, or key turning point in the biography of the
0:15.4	late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a station of that cross, Sally Reed was asleep
0:21.4	in the phone ring.
0:23.6	She was a mother of a teenage son.
0:26.6	She was supposed to be sleeping in his dad's place, though she didn't like it when he
0:29.6	did.
0:30.6	There were reasons they'd split up.
0:32.6	In the phone rang in the middle of the night, and it was the police.
0:36.0	And whatever she had been afraid of, about a call in the middle of the night, as she
0:40.4	was, as we are, it was worse.
0:44.8	Her boy was found dead in the basement of her ex-husband's house from a gunshot wound.
0:49.6	It was ruled to be self-inflicted, though it seems she never quite believed it.
0:53.8	There were so many guns in that house.
0:56.1	Something bad was bound to happen.
0:57.8	She had worried so much.
0:59.1	And then the phone rang.
1:01.1	Late winter, 1967.
1:04.2	Boycee Idaho.
1:06.0	Her son's name was Richard, though she called him Skip.
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