President's Day Special: Kenneth C. Davis
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this holiday - John discusses presidential history with American history expert and author Kenneth C. Davis, known for his series of books titled "Don't Know Much About".
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| 0:00.0 | When the media covers true crime, you usually get fragments, short clips, sound bites, headlines. |
| 0:06.6 | And when documentaries are made, stories are often shaped around an angle, an agenda, or some predetermined narrative. |
| 0:12.3 | Unheard, true crime in their own words, is different. Hi, I'm Justin Shepard, the host of Unheard, |
| 0:17.6 | and we focus on raw, unfiltered conversations with the people closest to these stories, |
| 0:22.6 | the survivors, families, insiders, and at times even perpetrators who want to tell their |
| 0:27.5 | story the way that they actually want it told, in their own words, without being reduced to a quote |
| 0:32.8 | or headline. On this show, there are no gimmicks, no forced angles, and no predetermined narrative. |
| 0:38.2 | These are the full stories with context, nuance, and human experiences, and all without editing. |
| 0:44.1 | This is their platform to reclaim their narrative, explain what really happened, and share their story in a way that it's never been heard before. |
| 0:51.3 | Unheard, true crime in their own words. |
| 0:53.1 | Listen now Everywhere podcast stream and on YouTube |
| 0:55.7 | at just in the nick of crime. All one word. This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 1:18.1 | So President's Day, 2026, is coming at a curious moment when American history itself is under attack. |
| 1:30.3 | We're seeing something that I think George Orwell would recognize right away a state-sanctioned attempt to shove inconvenient truths down the memory hole. Around the whole country, we see this White House ordering the National Park Service to remove or rewrite historical materials that |
| 1:36.9 | Donald Trump thinks disparage Americans or promote what they're calling a corrosive ideology, |
| 1:43.2 | which I think means racial justice. |
| 1:45.8 | In Philadelphia, exhibits acknowledging that George Washington enslaved humans were physically |
| 1:50.8 | taken out of Independence National Historical Park with crowbars. |
| 1:54.6 | At Muir Woods, plaques explaining climate science are gone. |
| 1:58.8 | At Lowell National Historical Park. Films about exploited mill workers |
| 2:02.4 | have been shut down. Oh yeah, labor too. And just last week, the administration |
| 2:07.6 | instructed the park service that the man who murdered Medgar Evers, Klansman, Byron |
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