On Presidential Assassins and the RNC With Rick Perlstein

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ronald Reagan carried a gun in his briefcase when he was president. According to Edmund Morris’ pseudo-historical memoir of Reagan, Dutch, Reagan got the gun in Iowa. “It is a fact … that RR did acquire a 1934 Walther PPK .380 pocket-sized police pistol early in his stay in Des Moines and kept it lovingly the rest of his life,” Morris wrote. “He even toted it in his briefcase as president.”

Reagan was obsessed with the idea that he was a target of assassination and had been since his days as the president of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s.

That’s just one of the bits of ephemera from this episode of Angry Planet where we’re joined by historian Rick Perlstein who is on the ground at the Republican National Convention. On Saturday, a gunman took a shot at former President Donald Trump. He missed, clipping his ear.

What can the lives of past assassins, both failed and successful tell us about Thomas Matthew Crooks? What is the duty of the historian at this moment? Is political violence on the rise in America or is this all business as usual?

Join us as we ask these questions and attempt to find some answers.

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0:12.0	Hey, you there, Angry Planet, listeners Matthew here, just a quick show note up at the beginning.
0:17.8	So this is something that always kind of happens when you're doing a podcast about reactive breaking news.
0:25.6	We recorded this on Tuesday. I edited it on Wednesday.
0:31.2	And on Wednesday evening, kind of Thursday morning some more news broke we got more
0:35.8	information about Thomas Matthew Crooks it kind of confirmed some of the things
0:39.6	that we were talking about in this episode just more stuff about his background and his steam
0:44.0	messages. It appears early indications are that he was kind of looking for a
0:49.0	target of opportunity and that the Trump rally happened to be the closest thing near to where he lives.
0:56.0	I would point you to the New York Times reporting on this that kind of broke as I was finishing the edit here. Anyway, everything else to here is
1:06.2	great. I just wanted to add that little bit of context right up at the top. And away we go. You know what I've been forgetting to do, Jason is.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:21.0	Hello and welcome to angry planet.
1:24.0	Welcome to another conversation about conflict.
1:26.0	Oh, that fucked it up.
1:28.0	I screwed it up already.
1:30.0	I know a great way to start. Welcome to another conversation about conflict on an angry planet.
1:38.4	It's kind of the NPR read, right? Like the low voice. Oh, very nice. Yeah, he, Terry Gross here, thanks. That's just what we needed.
1:47.0	Rick Perlstein's joining us and he is a writer, a historian, and he is in
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