Coffee With Jeff

This is the story of Dr. Thomas S. Harvey who did the autopsy of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. When he finished, he kept something to study… Einstein’s brain! For more than 40 years, he would travel around with the brain. This is the story of Dr. Harvey and Einstein’s Brain!

Show Notes for this Episode:
Albert Einstein - Wikipedia
Thomas Stoltz Harvey - Wikipedia
Who Stole Einstein's Brain?
The Long, Strange Journey of Einstein's Brain
The strange afterlife of Einstein's brain
The Tragic Story of How Einstein’s Brain Was Stolen and Wasn’t Even Special
The final days of Albert Einstein
My Search for Einstein's Brain: Steven Levy at TEDxBeaconStreet
The Search for Einstein’s Brain
Possessing Genius: The True Account of the Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
by Carolyn Abraham

Mary Anning spent her whole life hunting fossils and her work changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. He found some of the greatest fossils ever discovered but she was not noticed because she was self-educated, working-class, and more importantly, a woman. Today’s show is about this amazing lady who risked her life chipping away stone in the cold on the side of a cliff with the waves of the English Channel sneaking up behind her.

Show notes and links:

• Mary Anning, Finder of Fossils (sdsc.edu)
• Mary Anning Facts, information, pictures (encyclopedia.com)
• Rocky Road: Mary Anning (strangescience.net)
• Mary Anning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org)
• Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (MacSci): Shelley Emling: 9780230103429: Amazon.com: Books (amazon.com)

In this episode, I have the story of Maude King and how she entrusted her fortune to one of American's most notorious men, the American private detective, salesman, bootlegger, forger, swindler, murder suspect, blackmailer, and con artist, Gaston Means.

Link to the Sources I Used:
Spectacular Rogue: Gaston B. Means by Edwin Palmer Hoyt
The Saturday Evening Post History Minute: America’s Greatest Grifter
Gaston Means - Wikipedia
The Original Flim-Flam Man: How Gaston Means Fooled a Nation
Means, Gaston Bullock - NCpedia

On April 10, 1933, the film King Kong was released to great reviews and did fantastic at the box office! And even though he died in the end, it wasn’t the end for the Great Gorilla! In this episode, I have the story of King Kong’s release and all that followed on the 203rd episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

Links to the sources I used to write this:
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong by Mark Cotta Vaz
New York Times - Getting That Monkey Off His Creator's Back
Wikipedia - Ernest B. Schoedsack
Wikipedia - Merian C. Cooper
Wikipedia - King Kong (1933 film)
Invention & Technology King Kong
King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson
By Ray Morton
Mighty Joe Young (1949 film)-Wikipedia

On this thrilling episode, I have the second part of my story of the 1933 film King Kong! How was it created? Find out on the 202th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

Links to the sources I used to write this
The making of King Kong by Orville Goldner & George Eugene Turner
Wikipedia - King Kong
Fay Wray discusses "King Kong"--Rare TV Interview
The Making Of 'King Kong': Screams, Score And More (NPR)
Origin of 'Kong': The Unbelievable True Backstory of Hollywood's Favorite Giant Ape

It was back when sound films were new and special effects were very primitive. Yet, with boundless energy and drive, Merian C. Cooper was able to create his vision is a giant gorilla. Today I have the first part of the story of Cooper and the film King Kong on the 201st episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

Links to the sources I used to write this:
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong by Mark Cotta Vaz
New York Times - Getting That Monkey Off His Creator's Back
Wikipedia - Ernest B. Schoedsack
Wikipedia - Merian C. Cooper
Wikipedia - King Kong (1933 film)
Invention & Technology King Kong

The once was a 4-piece rock and roll band from Liverpool England in the early 1960s. The group was one of the first all-female Rock and Roll bands. Today I have the story of Valerie, Pamela, Mary and Sylvia, known as the Liverbirds on the 200th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

This is the story of Joseph Meister, a nine-year-old boy who was the first to be given the Rabies vaccine. The Vaccine was developed by and one of the fathers of germ theory, Louis Pasteur after five years of work. This is the story of how Pasteur took a great risk in giving the young child his cure.

Link to the Sources I used to write today's Episode
Rabies Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prophylaxis and Treatment by Charles Rupprecht
Vaccination A History from Lady Montagu to Genetic Engineering By H. Bazin 
Louis Pasteur By Patrice Debra(c)
The Importance of Louis Pasteur Library Binding by Lisa Yount 
Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia
The Rabies Vaccine Backstory
Joseph Meister - Wikipedia
The Life and Death of Joseph Meister

Alan Freed was one of the most successful disc jockeys of the 1950s. He coined the term Rock and Roll. His career was cut short when he was accused of excepting payments from record companies to play their records. This is the rise and fall story of Mr. Rock and Roll.

Sources I used to write this episode:
Alan Freed - Wikipedia
Payola - Wikipedia
History of Rock and Roll - Payola
FREED, ALAN - Case Western Reserve University
Alan Freed - Encyclopedia.com 
Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock and Roll by John A. Jackson

She grew up poor in 1890s Ireland. Coming to the United States as a teenager, all by herself, she was able to build a good life as a cook for New York’s wealthiest families. One day she is approached by a name named George Soper, who told her she could be the carrier of a deadly disease. She might be unknowingly responsible for bringing sickness and death to others. Her name was Mary Mallon, but the press gave her the title of Typhoid Mary!

Sources to today's show
Germ City: Epidemics throughout New York’s History
George Soper on Mary Mallon
THE CURIOUS CAREER OF TYPHOID MARY
Typhoid Mary - Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever
The Most Dangerous Woman In America
In Her Own Words
Mary Mallon - Wikipedia