Highlights:

Introduction: Espionage and Sedition Acts | @00:45

Guest: Mike Shuster “Where Are The Americans?” | @02:15

Feature: Going big on the air war | @06:45

War In the Sky: the “Flying Circus” | @10:15

Feature: The StoryTeller & The Historian - Americans arrive | @12:45

Commission: Memorial restoration matching grant deadline extension | @18:45

Guest: Courtland Jindra - Victory Memorial Grove project profile | @19:50

Q? Who said: “Lafayette We Are Here!” | @27:00

Feature: National History Day prize winners | @28:40

Media: Cylinder recording archive | @32:30

Media: Wonder Woman - Again? | @34:30

Honors: Capt. James Miller - Distinguished flying cross 99 years after | @35:45

Q? What is the Ghost Fleet? | @36:30

Social Media: The 11 soldier sons of Ike Sims3 | @39:30

And much more…

Opening

Welcome to World War One Centennial News. It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.

WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library.

Today is June 21st, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host.

World War One THEN

100 Year Ago This Week

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We have gone back in time 100 years and in mid June 1917 one of the key events here in the United States is the passing of the “Espionage Act”.

The law makes it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces’ prosecution of the war effort.

The convicted spy is subject to a fine of $10,000 - that is the equivalent of 200,000 in 2017 dollars,  plus a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

And within a year, the pendulum swings ever further into autocracy as the espionage act is reinforced by the Sedition act of 1918.

It imposed similarly harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution or the military; agitating against the production of necessary war materials; or advocating, teaching or just defending any of these acts.

Both pieces of legislation are aimed at socialists, pacifists and other anti-war activists and are used to punishing effect in the early years and those immediately following the war - It is a chilling attack on the first amendment - that seems incredibly strong and even excessive in today’s terms. We will be following this story and it’s consequences over the coming months.

links about the Espionage act are in the podcast notes:

link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-espionage-act

http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/espionageact.htm

http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/161878079908/espionage-act-passed-emma-goldman-arrested

Great War Project

Looking over at Europe - we have a running theme for this week, 100 years ago… A theme that is very well set up by our first guest this week

We are joined by Mike shuster, former NPR correspondent and curator for the Great War Project blog.  Mike -

“Where ARE the Americans?”

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