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56: John F. Kennedy Part 3: A Conspiracy?
4d ago
56: John F. Kennedy Part 3: A Conspiracy?
Emileigh and Morgan take one final look at the assassination of JFK. Thanks to the act that mandated all records regarding the incident be available to the public, the Warren Commission's final report doesn't seem to be adding up. Grab a tin foil hat for this one y'all, you'll need it.    Link to V.R. Video of Zapruter film.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=whBmXPaChh4   Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r5eKpptixo https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/bullet-point https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.ba4c34c4-bebd-49f6-8141-7328dd27ffe6?ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb&workflowType=Commerce-TVOD&autoplay=0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXObYpDFmwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GFiqLzeKJ4 https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20House%20of,in%201963%20and%201968%2C%20respectively. https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy/Conspiracy-theories#ref363559 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_CqAwkjiF4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories#Allegations_of_other_conspirators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT2Qjxs6KP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRWF47UvHA https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Revisited-Through-Looking-Glass/dp/B09LHGHQH3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r5eKpptixo https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=whBmXPaChh4
55: John F. Kennedy Part 2: Finding Oswald, Officer Tippit's Murder, and the Warren Commission
May 9 2024
55: John F. Kennedy Part 2: Finding Oswald, Officer Tippit's Murder, and the Warren Commission
Emileigh and Morgan discuss how Lee Harvey Oswald was captured by law enforcement after allegedly assassinating President John F. Kennedy, how he was then murdered, and the findings of the Warren Commission.    Link to V.R. Video of Zapruter film.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=whBmXPaChh4   Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r5eKpptixo https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/bullet-point https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.ba4c34c4-bebd-49f6-8141-7328dd27ffe6?ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb&workflowType=Commerce-TVOD&autoplay=0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXObYpDFmwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GFiqLzeKJ4 https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20House%20of,in%201963%20and%201968%2C%20respectively. https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy/Conspiracy-theories#ref363559 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_CqAwkjiF4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories#Allegations_of_other_conspirators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT2Qjxs6KP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRWF47UvHA https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Revisited-Through-Looking-Glass/dp/B09LHGHQH3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r5eKpptixo https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=whBmXPaChh4
47: The Watergate Affair Part 2
Mar 14 2024
47: The Watergate Affair Part 2
Morgan and Emileigh continue the crazy tale of the Watergate scandal, focusing on the Senate hearings, the releasing of the tapes, and Congress' steps towards Nixon's impeachment.    Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  illequippedhistory@gmail.com   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Ep. 2 Sources   Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022   “Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023)  https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now   https://watergate.info/   https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/watergate.htm    “The Watergate Files” presented by the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/Watergate_files/content.php?section=1&page=a   “The Watergate Hearings,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/watergate    “Watergate and the Constitution” (2017) https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/watergate-constitution   “How federal impeachment works” (2024) https://www.usa.gov/impeachment    “The Saturday Night Massacre: How our Constitution trumped a reckless President,” by Ken Gormley (2015) https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-saturday-night-massacre-40-years-later-how-our-constitution-trumped-a-r    “Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares ‘I Am Not a Crook’” (2011) https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/nov-17-1973-nixon-declares-i-am-not-a-crook/    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Haldeman   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon    “Smoking Gun” audio recording: https://watergate.info/1972/06/23/the-smoking-gun-tape.html    Sound Credits:    Rodeoclash https://freesound.org/people/Rodeoclash/sounds/401192/  titi2 https://freesound.org/people/titi2/sounds/509937/
46: The Watergate Affair Part 1
Mar 7 2024
46: The Watergate Affair Part 1
Join Morgan and Emileigh as they dive into the Nixon administration in the United States. Learn how the President and his loyal cronies would do whatever it took to keep power, including one of the most notorious constitutional violations in American history.    Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  illequippedhistory@gmail.com   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Ep 1 Sources:    Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022   “Richard Nixon.” Biography.com (2021) https://www.biography.com/political-figures/richard-nixon   https://www.enemieslist.info/    https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers    “How The Pentagon Papers Changed Public Perception Of The War In Vietnam” Terry Gross, NPR (2021) https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1007573283/how-the-pentagon-papers-changed-public-perception-of-the-war-in-vietnam   “Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92” Robert D. McFadden, New York Times. (2023) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/daniel-ellsberg-dead.html   “Lawrence F. O’Brien, 73; He Was Target of 1972 Watergate Break-In” Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times. (1990) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-29-mn-1122-story.html   “5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here” Alfred E. Lewis, Washington Post (1972).  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/061872-1.htm   “The Democrat who cried (maybe) in New Hampshire and lost the presidential nomination” Robert Mitchell, Washington Post (2020) https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/09/new-hampshire-ed-muskie-tears-primary/   “Nixon Debated Paying Blackmail, Clemency: ‘Keep Cap on Bottle’” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post (1974) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nixon-debated-paying-blackmail-clemency-keep-cap-on-bottle/2012/06/04/gJQABnH1IV_story.html   https://watergate.info/   “American Social Policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s” Jerry D. Marx https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/war-on-poverty/american-social-policy-in-the-60s-and-70s/   “The Nation: White House Intrigue: Colson v. Dean” Time Magazine. (1973) https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,879211-1,00.html    “Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023)  https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now   “Cancer on the Presidency” recording: https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php/media/33365   Sound Credits:  Reg1n0ld https://freesound.org/people/Reg1n0ld/sounds/508714/
44: The Indomitable Wilma Rudolph
Feb 22 2024
44: The Indomitable Wilma Rudolph
Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss one of the most amazing women athletes of all time, Wilma Rudolph. Growing up in the Jim Crow south, Wilma, with the support of her loved ones, overcame a debilitating disability to become a triple gold medalist.    Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  illequippedhistory@gmail.com   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources:   (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph by Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith (2015)   “Rudolph, Wilma Glodean (1940- )”. Famous American Women A Biographical Dictionary from Colonial Times to the Present. (1980). Edited by Robert McHenry. G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers (Merriam-Webster Inc.)   https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph   http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/11/newsid_3554000/3554568.stm   “50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph’s triple gold in 1960” by Rob Bagchi. The Guardian, Jun. 1 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/jun/01/50-stunning-olympic-moments-wilma-rudolph   “Leaders of Afro-American Nashville. Wilma Rudolph and the TSU Tigerbelles” by Bobby L. Lovett (1997) https://www.tnstate.edu/library/documents/Rudolph.pdf   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Rudolph   https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm   https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws  Sound Credits:  GregorQuendel Attribution 4.0  snapssound  Kyster Attribution 4.0
43: Fast and Left: The History of NASCAR (Featuring a Special Guest)
Feb 15 2024
43: Fast and Left: The History of NASCAR (Featuring a Special Guest)
Emileigh, Morgan, and their guest go on a high speed journey through the history of NASCAR from the humble beginnings as moonshine runners to today's cars that exceed 200 MPH.  Videos from the Episode: Jocko Flocko  Ross Chastain's video game move to advance to the Championship 4 | NASCAR https://www.tiktok.com/@dana_beers/video/7238596440036150574?lang=en   Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  illequippedhistory@gmail.com   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources:  https://www.nascar.com/nascar-history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc-sv-w4yeA https://www.britannica.com/sports/stock-car-racing https://www.nascarhall.com/blog/nascar-cars-through-the-generations https://www.nascar.com/nascar-cup-series/2024/schedule/ https://sportsnaut.com/best-nascar-drivers-all-time/ https://dailydownforce.com/every-2024-nascar-track-from-oldest-to-youngest/ https://www.biography.com/athletes/dale-earnhardt https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history#:~:text=Here%20are%20a%20few%20of,got%20to%20win%20every%20race.%22 https://sportsnaut.com/worst-wrecks-nascar-history/ https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history https://www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/news-media/2021/09/16/where-to-build-bill-france-sr-s-vision-becomes-reality-as-alabama-international-motor-speedway-comes-to-life-in-1969/
41: The Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition: Endurance and Aurora
Feb 1 2024
41: The Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition: Endurance and Aurora
In 1914, Shackleton and his crew, aboard two ships, voyaged to Antarctica with the purpose of crossing the frozen landscape from end to end. The expedition didn't go as planned and the resulting story is one of survival, bravery, and true endurance.    Links you'll need to reference:  Map of Expedition  List of Crew Footage of their voyage Underwater footage of the Endurance   Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  illequippedhistory@gmail.com   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYzfGGG-BGU https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/endurance.php https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-is-it-bad-luck-to-change-name-ship.ht https://swmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Endurance_Map_swmaps.jpg https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/the-heart-of-the-great-alone/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace/elephant-island-1916 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/hero-who-rebelled-against-shackleton-is-honoured-with-statue-of-beloved-cat-733172.html https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mrs-chippy-monument https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/aurora.php#google_vignette https://endurance22.org/history-of-endurance https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Henry-Shackleton
40: The Domestication of Animals
Jan 25 2024
40: The Domestication of Animals
We're diving into paleo-genomics today with this episode, where Morgan and Emileigh dive into how animals became domesticated. Learn how man's best friend came to be, and the unique way cats entered our lives!    Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources:  MacHugh, David; Larson, Greger; & Orlando, Ludovic. “Taming the Past: Ancient DNA and the Study of Animal Domestication.” (2016). Annual Review of Animal Bioscience, 5: 329-51. doi: 10.11146/annurev-animal-022516-022747 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-animal-022516-022747 Driscoll, Carlos A.; Macdonald, David W.; & O’Brien, Stephen J. “From wild animals to domestic pets, and evolutionary view of domestication.” (2009). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106(1). 9971-9978. doi: 10.1073/pnas.090158106 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702791/ Wilkins, Adam S., Richard W. Wrangham, and W. Tecumseh Fitch. 2014. “The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics.” Genetics, 197 (3): 795-808. doi:10.1534/genetics.114.165423.  https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12717449/4096361.pdf?sequence=1 McHugo, Gillian P.; Dover, Michael J; & MacHugh, David E. “Unlocking the origins and biology of domestic animals using ancient DNA and paleogenomics.” (2019). BMC Biology, 17(98). doi: 10.1186/s12915-019-0724-7 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889691/ Driscoll, Carlos A.; Clutton-Brock, Juliet; Kitchener, Andrew C.; & O’Brien, Stephen J. “The Taming of the Cat.” (2009). Scientific American, 300(6), 68-75 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790555/ Larson, Greger & Fuller, Dorian Q. “The Evolution of Animal Domestication.” (2014). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 45, 115-36.  doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135813 http://www.palaeobarn.com/sites/domestication.org.uk/files/downloads/112.pdf  Pennisi, Elizabeth. “The taming of the pig took some wild turns.” (Aug. 31, 2015).  doi: 10.1126/science.aad1692 https://www.science.org/content/article/taming-pig-took-some-wild-turns Gon III, Samuel M. & Price, Edward O. “Invertebrate Domestication: Behavioral Considerations” (1984). BioScience, 575-579. doi:10.2307/1309600   Sound Credits:   https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/  https://freesound.org/people/kvgarlic/  https://freesound.org/people/BiancaBothaPure/