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The Hurricane Betsy Conspiracy: New Orleans
Nov 13, 2025Did New Orleans' officials bomb the levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward in 1965? When Hurricane Betsy swept through the Atlantic Basin, it killed at least 76 people, led to a 10 foot storm surge, a...
The Supreme Court’s WORST Ever Case: Dred Scott v Sandford
Nov 10, 2025A Supreme Court decision that sent shockwaves across America. Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857. Who was the Chief Justice responsible for the decision? On what grounds did he rule that Dred Scott, and by e...
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?
Nov 06, 2025Why not have a go at understanding one of the most famous conspiracies of the 20th Century? We will probably never get an answer for what really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963. But in this ep...
Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
Nov 03, 2025Was 'Bleeding Kansas' a dress rehearsal for the Civil War to come? During the 1850s pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in the newly created territory of Kansas. From guerrilla raids and pol...
American Origins of Halloween
Oct 30, 2025How did the pre-Christian commemoration of Samhain travel across the seas from Ancient Ireland to America? And how did it evolve into the Halloween we know and love to this day? In this special spooky...
Was the American Revolution a World War?
Oct 27, 2025What makes a war a World War? If it's the involvement of multiple major world powers, will France, Spain and the Netherlands do? If it's battles fought globally, do Canada, West Africa, India and the ...
What If George Washington Became King?
Oct 23, 2025‘No occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations.' This was George Washington's response when the idea of his becoming 'King' was put to him. But what if he had? What would...
What if the Cuban Missile Crisis Sparked WW3?
Oct 20, 2025On October 22 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet missiles has been discovered in Cuba. Over the following days, the fate of the Americas was on the line. In this episode, Don is joi...
What If There Were No CIA?
Oct 16, 2025The Agency. The Company. Langley. Without the Central Intelligence Agency, would we talk about conspiracy theories as much as we do? Who would be in power in Guatemala? What about Iran? Would the Bour...
Origins of the US Navy: America's Revolutionary Pirate
Oct 13, 2025Happy 250th Birthday to the US Navy! Today Don asks, who was John Paul Jones and did he really father the US Navy? Our guest is historian James L. Nelson, author of 'Washington's Secret Navy'. In July...