By Ellis Tucci
Hidden History is a bi-weekly podcast by Ellis Tucci that covers the unknown, and often intentionally hidden, parts of our history. Whether it's on the CIA’s secret armies, the Lavender Scare, or t
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In July 1933, two mysterious men approached one of the most decorated soldiers in American history with what initially appeared to be a simple proposal. He didn’t know it at the time, but Major General Smedley Butler, whose prominent career mirrored the rise of the American Empire, was being recruited into a sordid plan to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt, and bring fascism to the United States. In this episode, take a deep look at the rise and expansion of Imperial America, and the time we came within a hair’s breadth of losing democracy.
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Books
The Plot to Seize the White House, by Jules Archer: Link
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, by Jonathan Katz: Link
Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History: Link
Websites
McKinley and the Spanish-American War: Link
The Signaling at Cuzco Well: Link
Marine Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Huntington to Marine Colonel Charles Heywood, 6/17/1898: Link
Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898: Link
Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life” (10 April 1899): Link
Theodore Roosevelt: Confident Imperialist: Link
Review: Not so Benevolent Assimilation: The Philippine-American War: Link
McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation: Link
The Insular Cases: A Comparative Historical Study of Puerto Rico, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines: Link
ASKS GEN. BUTLER TO EXPLAIN SPEECH; Secretary Adams Calls for a Full Report on His References to Nicaraguan Policy. NAVY OFFICIALS SILENT Stimson Also Refuses Comment on the General's Reputed Remarks at Pittsburgh Dec. 5.: Link
Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness: Link
Gunboat USS Petrel: Link
Gunboat Callao: Link
The Opium Wars in China: Link
Yellow River Floods, Los Angeles Herald, Volume 26, Number 48, 17 November 1898: Link
Great Flood of the Huang-Ho River: Link
Wilhelm II: "Hun Speech" (1900): Link
Mahan, a “Place in the Sun,” and Germany's Quest for Sea Power: Link
The Liscum Bowl: Link
General Jacob H. Smith & the Philippine War’s Samar Campaign: Link
The Water Cure: Link
The Lobby- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914: Link
Hepburn Suspects a Plot to Delay Building Canal: Link
Bunau-Varilla, Russia, and the Panama Canal: Link
The Strange Affair of the Taking of the Panama Canal Zone: Link
USS Nashville (PG 7) and the Building of the Panama Canal: Link
A Roundtable on John M. Thompson, Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy: Link
The New Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation: Link
Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907-1908: Link
Hemispheric Orientalism and the 1907 Pacific Coast Race Riots: Link
Museum of the City of San Francisco, Japanese and Korean Exclusion League- 1906: Link
Merchants, Mining, and Concessions on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1893-1912: Link
American Policy in Nicaragua- Dawson Agreements—Brown Brothers Loan: Link
A Note on the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty and German Interest in a Nicaraguan Canal, 1914: Link
Riot at Cocoa Grove, Panama City, July 4, 1912: Link
The Wilson Administration and Panama, 1913-1921: Link
The Minister of the Netherlands to the Secretary of State- Determining Indemnities Owed to the United States by Panama: Link
CANAL IS OPENED BY WILSON'S FINGER; Gamboa Dike Blown Away as President in Washington Presses Button.: Link
U.S. ambassador plots against Mexican president, Feb. 16, 1913: Link
Henry Lane Wilson and the Overthrow of Madero: Link
El Porfiriato (1877-1911): Link
The structural evolution of the Golden Lane, Tampico embayment, Mexico: Link
Oil and Revolution in Mexico- Chapter 2: The Great Mexican Oil Boom: Link
Mr. De In Mexico: Link
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Tampico Incident: Link
April 20, 1914: Message Regarding Tampico Incident: Link
TWE Remembers: The Tampico Incident: Link
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934: Link
'Take Veracruz at Once'- USNI: Link
The Battle of Veracruz and the Medal of Honor: Link
How the U.S. Came to Dominate Haiti: Seizing the Gold: Link
Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The U.S. Obliged.: Link
'The Greatest Heist In History': How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom: Link
How the U.S. Came to Dominate Haiti: Military Occupation: Link
HAITI, SMEDLEY BUTLER, AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE: Link
Freedom and Sovereignty: Notes on 1826 Haitian Rural Code: Link
The U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934: Link
Americans and Chinese Communists, 1927–1945: A Persuading Encounter: Link
1927: 'China Marines' in Shanghai (photo): Link
Smedley D. Butler and Prohibition Enforcement in Philadelphia, 1924-1925: Link
The Machine, the Mayor, and the Marine:The Battle over Prohibition in Philadelphia, 1924–1925: Link
General Butler Cleans Up: Link
BUTLER NEAR BLOWS WITH A MAGISTRATE; Former Wants Philadelphia Ritz-Carlten Patrons to Tell About Liquor Seizure.: Link
An Alternative to Kuomintang—Communist Collaboration: Sun Yat-sen and Hong Kong, January–June 1923: Link
The Nationalist Party in Power: Unification of China Under Kuomintang Programs: Link
The Birth of Communist Party and Soviet Constitution between China and Hungary: Link
Soviet Diplomacy and the First United Front in China: Link
Before and After the May Fourth Movement: Link
Principles and Profits: Standard Oil Responds to Chinese Nationalism, 1925-1927: Link
SS PRESIDENT MCKINLEY Painting: Link
December 7, 1929, Buffalo Courier-Express, Author Asks for Senate Quiz of Butler's Speech; Sinclair Lewis says general confirmed charges against marines in Haiti, Nicaragua: Link
A Mussolini Alfa Romeo Mystery: Link
Interview with E.Z. Dimitman, June 23, 1982: Link
Bonus Army- Oregon Encyclopedia: Link
Walter W. Waters, Commander of the Bonus Expeditionary Force: Link
Fox Movietone News Collection- Butler addresses demonstration--outtakes: Link
Smedley Butler’s fiery speech to World War I veterans is still relevant today: Link
Bonus Expeditionary Forces March on Washington- National Park Service: Link
Zangara's Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Link
Roosevelt's Gold Program: Link
War Is A Racket (1935) Full Text: Link
The American Legion 15th National Convention: official program, 1933: Link
He Put the Funds in Our Foundation: How Robert Sterling Clark Got His Money: Link
“Every Citizen a Sentinel! Every Home a Sentry Box!” The Sentinels of the Republic and the Gendered Origins of Free-Market Conservatism: Link
Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate: Link
The National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, 1937-1941: Link
The Nye Revelations: Link
FDR and the Nye Committee: A Reassessment: Link
Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence: Link
On April 5, 1976, the richest man in the world died of medical neglect on board a jet bound for Houston. At the time of his death, Howard Hughes had not been seen in public for nearly twenty years. With a massive fortune that enabled his worsening mental disorders, Hughes, once famous the world over, receded from the public eye, and for the last decades of his life, ruled a vast and often unsuccessful business empire confined entirely to his bed. In time the expansive and opaque system that Hughes engineered to ensure his own isolation grew out of his own control, and as he sat in his penthouse, seeing only seven people in fifteen years, an army of self serving executives made decisions on his affairs entirely without his knowledge. While Hughes seemed to lose money on every transaction, he made a lot of his employees and their friends very wealthy. This story is a tragedy- the tale of a man who was both created and destroyed thanks to his proximity to great wealth, culminating in his own death in conditions so deplorable his corpse had to be identified via fingerprint by the FBI. In his 70 years, Howard Hughes can certainly be said to have left a colorful mark on American history. This is that story.
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Books
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness: Link
Howard, the Amazing Mr. Hughes: Link
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters: Link
Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia, and Palace Intrigue, Revised and Expanded: Link
Websites
Howard Hughes Lives: Link
A Peek Into the Mind of Howard Hughes: Link
This Day in Aviation History, April 17, 1944: Link
Howard Hughes Memo Disclosed In Controversy Over Gift to Nixon: Link
The Secret Memos of Howard Hughes: Link
Thomas Quits Post As Chief of T.W.A.; Charles S. Thomas Resigns Post As Trans-World Airlines Chief: Link
Hughes’ Neighbor Fed Up, Leaves Hotel in London: Link
Hughes and 4 Associates Indicted in Air West Case: Link
Hughes Estate Agrees to Pay Airline's Stockholders $30 Million: Link
Prize-Winning 'Muckraker' Jack Anderson Dies: Link
SUSPECT GIVES UP IN HUGHES THEFT: Link
Howard Hughes at the End: Contradictions in Accounts: Link
Jury Divvies Howard Hughes' Fortune After an Heir Raid in Texas Court: Link
Music
Howard Hughes’ Blues, performed by John Hartford: Link
On June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was gunned down in the back room of a hotel kitchen just minutes after it seemed he had secured the 1968 Democratic nomination for President. The man changed with, and sentenced to death for, Kennedy’s murder was a 24 year old Palestinian American named Sirhan Sirhan. From the very beginning, it was clear that something was wrong with official story. In this episode, we dive deep and reexamine the evidence of the case to determine who really killed Robert Kennedy.
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Who Killed Robert Kennedy? | Al Jazeera World: Link
The Second Gun: Link
June 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy's last speech: Link
The Bobby Kennedy assassination tape: Were 13 shots fired or only 8?: Link
Pease, Lisa. A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. United States: Feral House, (n.d.).
Did L.A. police and prosecutors bungle the Bobby Kennedy assassination?: Link
New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in Elaborate “Hit” Plan to Prevent RFK From Ever Reaching White House: Link
New evidence challenges official picture of Kennedy shooting: Link
RFK Assassination Witness Denies Recanting ‘Polka Dot Dress’ Story: Link
Man gets 8-year sentence on weapons charge: Link
The Robert Kennedy Assassination: Link
How did a shootout between two undercover cops on an LA freeway in 1997 lead to the discovery, and subsequent coverup, of one of the largest and most sinister networks of police crime and corruption in modern American History? Learn about Kevin Gaines, Suge Knight, Versace shirts, bank robberies, drug dealer cops, the Rampart Scandal, and more in this episode of Hidden History.
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PBS, Rampart Scandal Timeline: Link
PBS, The Outcome Of Rampart Scandal Investigations: Link
The Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.: Link
Cop Shoot Cop: Link
4 Officers Back Tales of Parties After Shootings: Link
Rafael Perez’s Statement to the court: Link
Mugshots: Rafael Perez - LAPD's Notorius Cop: Link
LAPD Detective Frank Lyga on Killing Police Officer Kevin Gaines: Link
Ex-LAPD Officer Sentenced in Bank of America Robbery - Los Angeles Times: Link
Ex-LAPD Officer Is Stabbed in Prison - Los Angeles Times: Link
2nd-Oldest Barracks in U.S. Closes : Marines Won't Be Defending Maine Anymore - Los Angeles Times: Link
A Brief History of the Consent Decree: Link
What happens when your home is built on top of 20,000 tons of toxic chemical and radioactive waste? What about the park? The playground? Your child’s school? These questions were all too real for the residents of one sleepy Niagara Falls suburb, little they know they were in the fight of their lives. Learn more about the Love Canal disaster in this week’s episode.
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Making Love Canal: Link
Love Canal & Lois Gibbs 35 Years Later: Link
ABC News Close-Up: The Killing Ground (1979): Link
Residents say Love Canal chemicals continue to make them sick: Link
A history of the Love Canal disaster, 1893 to 1998: Link
There’s No Love Lost for Entrepreneur Who Envisioned Model City: Link
The International Boundary Water Treaty: Link
Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb: Link
Love Canal: A Special Report to the Governor & Legislature: April 1981: Link
Lawsuits: Love Canal still oozes 35 years later: Link
On February 29, 2004, American troops landed in Haiti to depose the country’s first democratically elected president. Who was Jean-Bertrand Aristide, why was he overthrown by two (2) US-backed coups, and what role does it play in the context of greater US-Haiti relations?
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Lest we forget the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti: Link
New documents detail how Canada helped plan 2004 coup d’état in Haiti: Link
The other regime change: Link
A Haitian Leader of Paramilitaries Was Paid by C.I.A.: Link
Reparation day: Link
An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Link
U.S. is Still Undermining Haiti: Link
Bush’s man for Cuba author of the Haitian disaster: Link
Haiti Human Rights Investigation: November 11-21, 2004: Link
The 2004 coup d’état in Haiti: Canada’s legacy: Link
Aristide says U.S. deposed him in 'coup d'etat': Link
Aristide accuses U.S. of forcing his ouster: Link
In Haiti: Link
An Interview with Robert Fatton: Link
25 Years After 'Operation Uphold Democracy,' Experts Say the Oft-Forgotten U.S. Military Intervention Still Shapes Life in Haiti: Link
You’ve seen it- a black flag bearing the silhouette of a forlorn prisoner, emblazoned with the letters POW MIA. The enduring myth of the missing Vietnam POWs, symbolized by this flag, is a conspiracy theory that has persisted into the current day, but its roots can be traced back to the political schemes of Richard Nixon. What’s the story behind the POW MIA flag and the right wing mass movement that inspired it?
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The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’: Link
The Story Behind the POW/MIA Flag: Link
The Myth of the Lost POWs: Link
Prisoners of hope : exploiting the POW/MIA myth in America: Link
The Vietnam myth that gave us all those ‘Rambo’ movies: Link
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Link
Review: Nixon as Madman: Link
VIETNAM: The Other Prisoners: Link
Americans Missing In Southeast Asia, Final Report: Link
Colonel Gritz's Dubious Mission: Link
On July 16, 1976, the worst nuclear accident in American history- the second worst in the world- took place at a uranium mill in Navajo Nation. 94,000,000 gallons of nuclear sludge, and over 1000 tons of uranium tailings rushed into the Puerco River when an dam failed at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Mine. Though the disaster poisoned thousands of Navajo people in the surrounding areas, contaminating hundreds of square miles with cancer causing radioactive waste, the victims were given $2000 each and left to die. UNC would go on to clean up just 1% of the spill, and to this day 85% of the radiation remains. What was the Church Rock Mill disaster, and why have you probably never heard of it?
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Navajos Battle for Environmental Justice, Church Rock Spill: Link
Forgotten nuclear accident in Church Rock: Link
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history: Link
Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later: Link
On Poisoned Ground: Link
Navajo Nation: Cleaning Up Abandoned Uranium Mines: Link
Uranium Processing: Link
A Brief History of: The Church Rock Uranium Mill Disaster (Short Documentary): Link
How the US poisoned Navajo Nation: Link
UNC Resources At Odds With New Mexico Over Uranium: Link
Northeast Church Rock Mine: Link
On November 10, 1995, the government of Nigeria, at the urging of Royal Dutch Shell, executed nine environmental and indigenous rights activists known as the Ogoni 9. They had fought nonviolently to protect their ancestral home: a 400 square mile area of the Niger River Delta known as Ogoniland, which had been turned into hell on earth by decades of oil extraction. Who were the Ogoni 9, how did they fight back, and has there been any justice for these terrible crimes?
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Nigeria: Ogoni 9 activists remembered 25 years on: Link
Remembering Nigeria’s Ogoni 9, Murdered for Their Organizing Against Shell: Link
Nigeria: Shell complicit in the arbitrary executions of Ogoni Nine as writ served in Dutch court: Link
Dutch court will hear widows' case against Shell over deaths of Ogoni Nine: Link
The Case Against Shell: The Hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa: Link
The final Trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa: Link
Faces Of Africa Ken Saro-Wiwa: All For My People: Link
Long-term effects of oil spills in Bodo, Nigeria: Link
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People: Link
Cleaning up Nigerian oil pollution could take 30 years, cost billions – UN: Link
Ogoni Bill of Rights: Link
Ken Saro-Wiwa trial proceedings to resume without adequate legal defense: Link
THE KEN SARO-WIWA TRIAL: A JUDICIAL TRAVESTY THAT MADE NIGERIA A COMMONWEALTH PARIAH: Link
It took five tries to hang Saro-Wiwa: Link
Ken-Saro Wiwa Killer Judge Becomes Acting Chief Judge Of Nigeria: Link
In August 1996, investigative reporter Gary Webb published a series of three articles that shined light on a vast network of international cocaine smuggling that had both caused to crack epidemic, and was sanctioned by the CIA. Though his reporting was meticulous and factual, major newspapers engaged in a massive campaign to discredit him and his work, culminating in Webb’s blacklisting from journalism followed by a tragic end. How was the CIA involved in the crack trade, what was Dark Alliance, and why was it suppressed? Find out in this episode.
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Say Hello to Rick Ross: Link
Dark Alliance, Part I, America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war: Link
Dark Alliance, Part II, Shadowy origins of 'crack' epidemic: Link
Dark Alliance, Part III, War on drugs has unequal impact on black Americans: Link
How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb: Link
CIA-Contra Crack Cocaine Controversy, Chapter 2, Part I: Link
CIA Reading Room, Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story: Link
Gary Webb: In His Own Words (2002) | CIA Cocaine Dark Alliance: Link
Freeway Rick Ross Interview About CIA Involvement: Link
Written in Pain: Link
The podcast currently has 143 episodes available.