Top Fold

Would you believe that a deadly fire at the largest casino in Las Vegas was NOT what everyone was talking about?  How could such a monumental disaster not be the topic of conversations all around the country? Find out what was on this episode of TOP FOLD.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold. What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.

Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S3 Ep4 THE BURNING QUESTION

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Grand_fire

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/hell-on-earth-40-years-ago-a-historic-fire-at-the-mgm-grand-2181965/

https://classiclasvegas.com/clv-history-blog/2020/11/20/40-years-gone-the-mgm-grand-fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7 ln4 Disasters TV show

https://classiclasvegas.com/clv-history-blog/2020/11/20/40-years-gone-the-mgm-grand-fire 

https://www.qrfs.com/blog/271-the-deadliest-fires-in-u-s-history-the-mgm-grand-fire-in-las-vegas/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_(1978_TV_series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_shot_J.R.%3F
https://outsider.com/news/entertainment/dallas-jr-ewing-shot-this-day-1980-leading-who-shot-jr-campaign/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbl2-RA-_m8

Would you believe the top story was NOT an explosion in a Texas harbor that was SO massive that it leveled every building in sight, blew out windows TEN MILES away and registered on a seismograph over a thousand miles from the destruction?  The high death count and extreme devastation was NOT what everyone was talking about.  Find out what was on this episode of TOP FOLD.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold. What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.

Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S3 Ep3 SHATTERED

https://abc13.com/disaster-fire-explosion-texas-city/1865491/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fertilizer-explosion-kills-581-in-texas

https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-City-explosion-of-1947

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:1947_Texas_City_Disaster

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/remembering-texas-city-explosion/

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/hittinglogs.php?p=robinja02&y=1947

http://www.apbr.org/reddevils.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VE0-ynbg4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MT7jEz3kOU

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-04-15-1997105101-story.html

https://nypost.com/2017/04/15/jackie-robinson-was-as-brilliant-on-the-field-as-he-was-important/

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/04151947.shtml 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Stevens_(baseball) 

https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/As-Jackie-Robinson-made-history-Texan-became-a-1807596.php

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/mickey-livingston/ https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-e68ddf2b https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/t-lh12696/y-1956

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Brooklyn_Dodgers_season 

Would you believe that a popular governor perishing in a plane crash was NOT the lead story? On the exact same day, the networks were airing ANOTHER huge breaking news event . Find out which one on this episode of Top Fold.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold. What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.

Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S3 Ep2
https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1993/april

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/36677

https://apnews.com/article/a1fed0e707db61d979c1b336006d024a 

https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_0eb2b9f3-ebd2-5c6d-ace8-e9475fecdd10.html

https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_48e631c4-9113-57cd-a1e0-c15306f1b0d2.html 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-20-mn-25062-story.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/south-dakota-plane-crash-governor/2095881/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/04/20/governor-7-others-die-in-plane-crash/8474b74c-b22f-47a6-83a3-ccb838336077/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Mickelson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mickelson 

https://www.zippia.com/john-morrell-careers-28168/history/ history of the plant

https://www.history.com/topics/1990s/waco-siege

https://www.britannica.com/event/Waco-siege

https://abcnews.go.com/US/survivors-1993-waco-siege-describe-happened-fire-ended/story?id=52034435

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/timeline5.html

How could ten thousand union strikers battling 1300 Ohio National Guardsmen in hand-to-hand combat in the streets of Toledo NOT be the main headline? What other story could everyone else have been talking about even when two people were killed in the melee?  Find out which one on this episode of Top Fold.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold. What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.

Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S3 Ep1

https://woodstockwhisperer.info/2019/05/23/auto-lite-battle-of-toledo/

https://libcom.org/history/overview-1934-toledo-auto-lite-strike-philip-korth-margaret-r-beegle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Lite_strike

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bonnie-and-Clyde-American-criminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Methvin

https://texashideout.tripod.com/victims.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hamer

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde

https://texoso66.com/2016/07/07/funerals-of-bonnie-and-clyde/#:~:text=Bonnie's%20funeral%20was%20held%20at,to%20family%20members%20and%20friends.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/bonnie-clyde-50/#:~:text=On%20a%20sunny%20day%20in,miles%20away%2C%20in%20South%20Dallas.

Everyone should have been discussing the catastrophic airplane crash into the icy waters of the East River in New York City, instead everyone from coast to coast were talking about another historic event?  Find out which one on this episode of Top Fold.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold. What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.

Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S2 Ep8
https://www.wikizero.com/en/American_Airlines_Flight_320https://www.wikizero.com/en/American_Airlines_Flight_320
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States
https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15062541.htm Angel on the Wing, Flight 320, Come in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Pacoima_mid-air_collision
https://www.startribune.com/feb-3-1959-the-day-the-music-died/290777121/
http://www.chimesfreedom.com/2013/01/31/who-flipped-a-coin-with-ritchie-valens-the-day-the-music-died-and-the-coin-toss-controversy/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bopper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Valens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_and_the_Belmonts
http://www.chuckberry.us/winterdanceparty1959
https://www.history-of-rock.com/bobby_vee.htm
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/the-day-the-music-died/ 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Winter_Dance_Party_Tour_Schedule%2C_1959.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died
https://www.history-of-rock.com/winter_dance_party.htm list of musicians and tour dates AFTER crash

Would you believe that when the first documented female serial killer in the United States confessed to multiple murders, it didn’t make the headlines?  What monumental event kept her story from newspapers all over the country?  Find out now on this episode of Top Fold.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold. What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.

Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S2 Ep 7 - A Monster Storm
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yi2dbaQ3mM 2003 Confession

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/last-call-for-aileen/Content?oid=2264882 Liz Randell, Orlando Weekly https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.381/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbkwTJ0tps CNN Headline News 1/16/1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWit4HWKPE Breaking news coverage of Desert Storm 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEiyamDB5W4 Bush’s address to the nation Jan. 17, 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Schwarzkopf_Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKi3NwLFkX4 Gen. Schwarzkopf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vki7L-Iw3NA Thunder In the Gulf - Airpower used. 6/8/91

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDv0ZG0AFDw Victory parade 

On the night of the biggest ever break-in of an FBI office, NO ONE heard or saw a thing.  What had EVERYONE'Ss attention for days before, during, and after the raid which kept the crime from making headlines until much later.  Find out on this episode of Top Fold!

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold.
What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.
Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S2 E6 -Met Their Match
https://monthlyreview.org/2014/09/01/how-we-found-out-about-cointelpro/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/burglars-who-took-on-fbi-abandon-shadows.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-08-sp-2333-story.html

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/06/in-1971-muhammad-ali-helped-undermine-the-fbis-illegal-spying-on-americans/ (talks about promoters not allowing it on tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm2txwP7qYo

Frazier-Ali Fight of the Century March 8, 1971, Radio Broadcast (PART I)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5ZiL BR8 

Frazier-Ali Fight of the Century March 8, 1971, Radio Broadcast (PART II)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-08-sp-2333-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_(2014_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWuJipChs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoTjCrq2BDc 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQk5cUMhI8k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_of_the_Century

Her Royal Majesty came to America, on the world's largest yacht no less, but no one was talking about Her.  What had everyone's attention that the Queen of England was NOT the top story.  Find out in this episode of Top Fold!

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold.
What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.
Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S2 Ep  5 Cheerio, Ta-Ta, and Amen

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/throwback/queen-elizabeths-visit-to-san-diego-in-1983/509-828f384d-2b4a-4aea-bcdc-72c1797ae7bc
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-queen-elizabeth-ii-visits-california-1983-20160420-snap-htmlstory.html
https://www.biography.com/royalty/queen-elizabeth-ii
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/02/26/Queen-Elizabeth-II-was-greeted-Saturday-in-her-first/6886415083600/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/02/25/The-following-is-a-schedule-for-Queen-Elizabeth-IIs/5765414997200/ (Queen’s schedule)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtG6VAG5fA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_EsEPWPcVI
https://www.stripes.com/news/reagan-queen-saddle-up-for-a-ride-at-windsor-castle-
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/02/us/queen-s-party-fords-streams-in-rain.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/14/The-last-episode-of-M-A-S-H-was-a-royal-flush/3459416466000/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen
https://www.metv.com/lists/8-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-m-a-s-h-finale
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/final-episode-of-mash-airs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/28/106-million-people-watched-mash-finale-35-years-ago-no-scripted-show-has-come-close-since/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_EsEPWPcVI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_M*A*S*H_characters#Henry_BlakeRatings Analysis.https://www.mash4077tv.com/articles/gfa-ratings/
https://variety.com/2019/tv/ratings/game-of-thrones-series-finale-draws-19-3-million-viewers-sets-new-series-high-1203220928/

Would you believe the arrest of a CIA double agent who spied for Russia  and had at least ten foreign agents killed wasn't the headline story?   What possibly could have had everyone's attention so that nothing else mattered?  Find out in this episode of Top Fold!

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold.
What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines? The -name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD"-TOP FOLD.
Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.

Sources for S2 Ep 4 Skating the Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames#:~:text=Aldrich%20Hazen%20Ames%20was%20arrested,for%20the%20Russians%20since%201985.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/02/24/even-a-mailbox-has-its-15-minutes-of-fame/4f3daacd-317d-4d15-b6ab-77f5ec68fbb4/

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/March-April-08/On-this-Day--Aldrich-Ames-Sentenced-for-Role-as-Double-Agent.html

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames#:~:text=Aldrich%20Hazen%20Ames%20was%20arrested,for%20the%20Russians%20since%201985

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/skater-nancy-kerrigan-attacked

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a15172746/tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan-timeline-scandal-hit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksana_Baiul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kerrigan

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-10-23-9410230405-story.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2014/02/gif-guide-figure-skaters-jumps-olympics/357723/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA32W9t8YOU

https://www.oregonlive.com/tonya-harding/1994/02/1994_winter_olympics_tonya_har.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-02-25-9402250278-story.html