American Timelines

Episode 212: Clutter Family Murders & Judd Nelson: November of 1959

On this penultimate episode of season 5, Amy covers the Clutter Family Murders.  Perry Edward Smith · Richard Hickock were two heartless robbers who had rough childhoods. That’s no excuse for what they did in the same month that Bryan Adams was born and Lara Flynn Boyle’s grandfather was killed in a car accident. We also discuss Black Like Me, The Moroccan mass oil poisoning, Jacques Plante’s hockey puck to the face, tainted cranberries, the premieres of Ben-Hur and Rocky and Bullwinkle, the births of Judd Nelson and The Minnesota Vikings and much more!

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 211: Bonanza & A School Bombing: September & October of 1959

Amy tells us all about Paul Harold Orgeron, a disgruntled tile setter who becomes a school bomber, while Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Quick Draw McGraw & The Untouchables all premier, Weird Al, Dave Coulier and Marie Osmond are born, Nikita Khrushchev visited a farm in Iowa to learn about corn from Roswell Garst, The Dodgers beat the White Sox in the World Series, Walter F. Munford accidentally killed himself while putting away kitchen utensils, and we learn of a guy named Larry Schacht proununced “SHATT” and James Carter and the prisoners were recorded singing a prison song which later showed up in O Brother Where Art Thou, and much more useless history trivia!

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 210: The 40 Minute Free Fall & The 3 Christs: July & August of 1959

Amy tells us all about Psychologist Milton Rokeach’s Three Christs experiment in 1959, where he gets three gents who all think they’re Jesus to live together. Meanwhile, The Vietnam War began, Al Sharpton started preaching, Pilots saw a UFO, Magic Johnson, Kurtis Blow and Richie Sambora were born, Billie Holiday died, the Redsox integrated, Khrushchev and Nixon debated in the kitchen, a parachuter got caught in a storm for 40 minutes, John Gotti was arrested for the first time, Roseburg, Oregon was leveled, The Platters were arrested, Gil Carter hit the longest home run ever, A satellite took a picture of Earth, an earthquake created a lake in Yellowstone, Hawaii became a State, lightning killed a bunch of people and a teenage serial killer named Salvador Agron struck at a NYC playground and the first person to get HIV got HIV.

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 209: The Alabama Torso Murders, George Reeves & More Scottish Timelines: June of 1959

Our beloved Scottish pals Daniel & Nathaniel return for another edition of Scottish Timelines. They are fresh from their new comedy group At Least 4 Prats on Youtube and ready to share some Scottish tales of serial killer Malcolm John Webster and the tragic Mona Lifeboat disaster. Amy tells the tale of the Alabama Torso Murderer. Plus Joe tells the story of the mysterious alleged suicide of George Reeves, Libarace’s libel suit, and Billie Holiday’s sad hospital arrest. Excuse Daniel’s audio as he records from a strange Scottish automobile.

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Amy & Joe are back with another episode about 1959!  Amy tells the story of a tragic lynching of an innocent black man, and Joe fills in the timeline with birthdays, a tragic rape, a UFO conspiracy, burglars, baseball, some plane crashes and more!

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 207: Feb/March of 1959

Amy covers the day the music died because she is a Don McLean superfan. Joe tells us all about the world record for longest flight set in 1959. Speaking of records, we have a radio record, breath-holding record, and a phone booth stuffing record! Also Flavor Flav and Sting were born!

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 206: The Dyatlov Pass incident & The Murder of A Little Rascal:  January of 1959

Amy sheds some light on a mysterious death of a group of mountain hikers in 1959, while Joe reveals the harrowing details of the murder of Alfalfa from the Little Rascals.  Plus:  Jody Watley & Susanna Hoffs are born, a newborn is kidnapped and found, a retired movie star is murdered and Fidel Castro comes to power, all on this episode of American Timelines by History For Jerks.

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

This week, a family mysteriously disappears in Portland, Multiple people die on TV/Movie sets, Star Wars & Bewitched Inspirado, A tragic school fire are all events covered.  PLUS:  A Cult Leader is Murdered by Suicide Bombers and Jamie Lee Curtis is born!

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

This week, Amy tells us all about the Candlestick Murder, while Joe tells us of Martin Luther King Jr. getting a letter opener plunged into his chest.  Plus:  The World Series, A New Pope, Joan Jett, An International Incident & The Great Neil deGrasse Tyson!  Also:  Tons more awful racism, after all, it was still the 50’s!

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Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 203: The Glamour Girl Slayer & Plane Crashes Galore:  July and August of 1958

Onion Futures Act, Superstar Birthdays, Tons of Plane Crashes, Lemming & Cartoonist Suicides,  and the Glamour Girl Slayer are all covered in this thrilling episode of American Timelines!

Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  The Washington Post, VQR, Unsolved Mysteries, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks.

Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!