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It should have made front page headlines all over the country and the world.  After years of planning Philippe Petit pulled off what Time magazine would call the "Artistic Crime of the Century".  Instead of being in the news for weeks, it was barely noticed outside of New York City.  What history changing event was being discussed by everyone all over the nation?  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 3  High Rise and Fall
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/30/archives/aerialist-a-hit-in-central-park.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF9l5RNsNWo (Man on Wire, 2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zZVQPaKKQ (TED Talk)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJWSQlEzrY CBS news August 8, 1974

https://ny.curbed.com/2015/9/30/9916096/world-trade-center-philippe-petit-the-walk

https://allthatsinteresting.com/philippe-petit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwbil5puqng news story about Petit

https://france-amerique.com/en/philippe-petit-the-last-sky-poet/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/newyork-tightrope/

https://gothamist.com/news/why-new-yorkers-couldnt-stand-the-twin-towers

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/30/archives/aerialist-a-hit-in-central-park.html

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/080974-3.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes#The_%22smoking_gun%22_tape

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/071773-1.htm

What if you heard that Martians were invading the world? Within hours New York City was gone, death and devastation coming across the radio airways. And that still wasn't the biggest story of the week? 

When the 23 year-old phenom Orson Welles broadcast across the radio airways his adaptation of War of the Worlds - many feared for their lives, and the entire newspaper industry aimed to end his career.  It didn’t look good. Then, EVERYTHING changed in a minute. What took the headlines away from Welles and quite possibly saved not only his program, but his entire profession? 

 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 2  Out of Nowhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles_filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism#Copernican_heliocentrism
https://faculty.virginia.edu/rwoclass/astr121/mars-in-popular-culture.html
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/milwaukee-history/milwaukee-didnt-panic-over-orson-welles/#/questions 
http://www.jimramsburg.com/the-1938-39-season.html
http://tbgreats.com/seabiscuit/rr.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Admiral
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Seabiscuit
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/nov/01/seabiscuit-war-admiral-horse-race-1938-pimlico
https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2016-seabiscuit-true-rags-riches-story
https://www.liveabout.com/seabiscuit-vs-war-admiral-3862278
http://tbgreats.com/seabiscuit/rr.html 
https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/SANTA-ANITA-HANDICAP-Seabiscuit

What made reporters, photographers, and thousands of spectators suddenly lose interest in a football game?  What changed headlines during a weekend like no other? You don't have to be a sports fan to realize that more than football changed on this day! Find out why 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 1 A Game Changer

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/90449-the-most-forgotten-game-ever-played-dec-7-194

https://vault.si.com/vault/1971/12/06/when-football-went-to-war

https://www.d3football.com/notables/2003/when-willamette-went-to-war

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/footsie-britt-2459/

http://www.ncaa.org/champion/1941-willamette-and-san-jose-state-football-teams-went-hawaii-pearl-harbor-attack-changed-their

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/seventy-years-ago-teams-from-san-jose-state-and-willamette-were-in-hawaii/

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2018/12/06/1941-willamette-football-team-called-arms-after-pearl-harbor/2230806002/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto https://www.history.com/news/pearl-harbor-facts-wwii-attack#:~:text=The%20attack%20killed%202%2C403%20service,killed%20and%20one%20taken%20prisoner. https://pearlharborwarbirds.com/interesting-pearl-harbor-facts

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/pearl-harbor-fact-sheet-1.pdf 

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

After a life changing medical diagnosis, it seemed like First Lady Nancy Reagan would be the top story for the foreseeable future.  But then ALL EYES went from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to just over 1600 miles away.  Find out why headlines instantly changed 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 Episode 8 She's Doing Well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZMIvHNeJ0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/10/18/nancy-reagan-undergoes-mastectomy-for-cancer/51f60703-87ef-4e9f-a24e-da9d92d44106/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fXR7tbRkg

https://www.biography.com/personality/baby-jessica

https://apnews.com/90d8de93eca501e61b59ba7ff8d623e2

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baby-jessica-rescued-from-a-well-as-the-world-watches

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-reagan-breast-cance_b_9447300

https://www.cancernetwork.com/breast-cancer/nancy-reagans-choice-mastectomy-seems-have-influenced-many-breast-cancer-patients

Beaming American television to Japan for the first time was a big deal.  Just hours before the first satellite transmission, EVERYTHING changed. Since it was so early in the Space Race, success was far from certain. What interrupted the VERY first broadcast from the United States and changed the world forever?

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, 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 Episode 7 We Interrupt This Program

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

https://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transpacific_Reception_of_a_Television_(TV)_Signal_via_Satellite,_1963

https://www.edn.com/relay-1-communications-satellite-launches-december-13-1962/

https://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Transpacific_Reception_of_a_Television_(TV)_Signal_via_Satellite,_1963#cite_note-refnum3-8

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/telstar-and-world-1962

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-communications-satellites-helped-world-mourn-jfk

http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=695798113

https://www.mpoweruk.com/satellite_communications.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_z6T9u-tw David Brinkley Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749gdCqSXuo The cancelled broadcast 

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/a-brief-history-of-jfk-and-japan

https://www.businessinsider.com/jfks-funeral-seen-around-the-world-2013-11

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1963/11/22/Rusk-planes-turns-back-on-word-of-Kennedy-assassination/3844805205231/

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1a.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

.https://www.upi.com/Archives/1963/11/22/Rusk-planes-turns-back-on-word-of-Kennedy-assassination/3844805205231/

 http://www.ronaldecker.com/tokyo.html 

President Reagan could communicate like no other.  It would take skills that even he didn't know he had to assure the country that everything would be alright. What happened that made him totally change his prepared remarks just hours before he was to go before Congress and the nation?

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on the day JFK was assassinated, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died other news events were on peoples’ minds, in the headlines and on the evening news, but after this event, 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 or top story? 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 Episode 6 I'm Speechless
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_Theater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_television_programs_of_1956%E2%80%9357

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

https://history.house.gov/Institution/SOTU/State-of-the-Union/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_State_of_the_Union_Address

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

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/06/us/white-house-introducingthe-ghostly-speechwriters.html

https://www.history.com/news/state-of-the-union-explained

https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-challenger-shuttle-disaster

https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/184939-1985-super-bowl-champs-to-get-white-house-visit-postponed-by-space-shuttle-accident

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

https://history.nasa.gov/reagan12886.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/29/us/the-shuttle-explosion-reagan-postpones-state-of-union-speech.html

https://www.duarte.com/presentation-skills-resources/remembering-the-challenger-and-one-of-historys-greatest-speeches/

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/29/us/the-shuttle-explosion-reagan-postpones-state-of-union-speech.html

A trip of a lifetime.  An American tourist living the dream.  A proud father, husband, and just a great guy, Todd Bachman from Minneapolis, Minnesota. deserved national headlines but didn’t get them.  Find out why 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 the day JFK was assassinated, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died other news events were on peoples’ minds, in the headlines and on the evening news, but after this event, 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 or top story? 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 Episode 5 Minnesota Nice Show

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

http://www.startribune.com/mccutcheon-s-family-steers-career-path-again/115815129/

https://www.twincities.com/2012/07/06/olympics-4-years-after-bachman-tragedy-hugh-mccutcheon-lindsey-berg-return-to-games/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpyZjdPI7iU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g33VS4U9KJY

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/08/09/bachman-ceo-killed-and-wife-injured-in-beijing-attack

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=todd-l-bachman&pid=116240865&fhid=9267

https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/dale-bachman-retires-minneapolis-bachmans/

https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/susan-bachman-west-president-bachmans/

Former friends, now bitter rivals -- a previous president tries to unseat his protégé who occupies the highest seat in the land. Everyone is talking about this election, and then in a flash, they weren’t.  Find out why on the next episode of Top Fold.   

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on the day JFK was assassinated, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died other news events were on peoples’ minds, in the headlines and on the evening news, but after this event, 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 or top story? 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 Episode 4 Roosevelt and the Massive Split
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%E2%80%93Aldrich_Tariff_Act

https://learnodo-newtonic.com/william-howard-taft-accomplishmentshttps://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-1912-presidential-election

https://millercenter.org/president/taft/campaigns-and-elections
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-speech-that-saved-teddy-roosevelts-life-83479091/. 
https://spiderbites.nytimes.com/1912/articles_1912_10_00002.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_inquiry_into_the_sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3DC133CE633A25752C2A9669D946396D6CF
https://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic/Aftermath-and-investigation

Game Over
One mid-summer day in June, there were a lot of monumental sporting events happening all over the nation.  A major golf tournament, a victory parade, World Cup opening ceremonies, an NBA basketball game, and more.  THEY were the headlines ALL DAY until suddenly...they weren't. 
This episode of Top Fold explores that day and what took them so dramatically out of the headlines.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on the day JFK was assassinated, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died other news events were on peoples’ minds, in the headlines and on the evening news, but after this event, 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 or top story? 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 Episode 3 Game Over podcast...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_U.S._Open_(golf)  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7djSloJyUM (Ranger’s Stanley Cup parade)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_NBA_Finals

https://abc7ny.com/oj-simpson-timeline-of-the-white-bronco-chase/5350306/

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-oj-simpson-boosted-dominos-sales-2014-6

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIy4g4Juw4k

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDHi3M9A5GA

Would you believe that at one time most powerful senator in the United States was involved in an automobile accident resulting in the death of a young woman -- that wasn't his wife? This had to be on the front pages for days - it wasn't! This episode of Top Fold explores this event and what took it out of the headlines.

Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on the day JFK was assassinated, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died other news events were on peoples’ minds, in the headlines and on the evening news, but after this event, 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 or top story? 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 Episode 2  Senator Needs Some Space podcast...
https://www.history.com/news/ted-kennedy-chappaquiddick-incident-what-really-happened-facts

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-true-story-chappaquiddick-impossible-tell-180968638/

https://www.rd.com/true-stories/really-happened-chappaquiddick/

https://apnews.com/f1f418144f184688a7d002b383bbe095

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

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

https://www.space.com/26631-apollo-11-flight-log-july-24-1969.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)

https://www.space.com/michael-collins-remembers-apollo-11-moon-landing.html

https://www.edn.com/apollo-11-celebration-begins-august-13-1969/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1969/08/14/Astronauts-emotion-filled-at-ticker-tape-parade/4021558541250/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90374120/the-apollo-11-astronauts-went-on-a-world-tour-when-they-got-home-from-the-moon-and-it-was-more-surreal-than-beatlemania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQTULkjq1e4 (Ticker tape parades)

https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11CongressJOD.html

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