WW1 Centennial News

If you play this episode on 11/11 starting at 10:03:30 am local, the Bells of Peace will toll at 11am exactly.

Episode #148

Host: Theo Mayer

This special episode brings you the sound of World War I Armistice Day Sacred Service, a multi-denominational service honoring the Centennial of the WWI Armistice, from the WWI Centennial Commission in partnership with Washington National Cathedral. ----more----

Download the Service program (a keepsake in its own right) at:

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/images/2018-ace/pdf/wwi_armistice_sacred-service_program_11_11_2018.pdf

View full length unedited video of service at: 

ww1cc.org/sacredservice

Special Thanks

Washington National Cathedral

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Episode #147

SPECIAL: 

First into Germany: SGT Roy Holtz - And he did it on a Harley

By author Robert Laplander

• Introduction | 01:55 

Rob Laplander Links

https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Laplander/e/B06W5MR685%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share 

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/1953-four-questions-for-bob-laplander-of-finding-the-lost-battalion-and-doughboy-mia.html 

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lostbattalion 

https://www.facebook.com/robert.laplander 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/doughboy-mia-makes-sure-missing-world-war-i-heroes-get-recognition-1495443601 

https://www.army.mil/article/189688/volunteer_doughboy_team_works_to_bring_wwi_mias_home 

https://www.legion.org/magazine/239680/doughboy-mia 

Links to Harley info

:https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/museum/explore/archives.html 

http://www.ridingvintage.com/2012/12/war-machines-american-motorcycles-of-wwi.html 

https://www.thrillist.com/cars/history-of-u-s-military-motorcycles 

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/06/29/100-year-old-harley-davidson-returns-from-france-to-honor-american-wwi-soldiers.html 

https://www.facebook.com/operationtwinlinks/ 

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katherine Akey & Katz Laszlo

Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe

Research: JL Michaud

WWl Through Many Lenses

Host: Theo Mayer

• Bells of Peace 2019 - Host | @02:05

Link: http://ww1cc.org/bells

https://tombguard.org/centennial/#national_salute 

Links:http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-winter-20140625-column.html

http://www.dw.com/en/world-war-i-created-new-culture-of-mourning/a-17233945

https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-War-between-History-Century/dp/0300110685

Links:http://www.history.upenn.edu/publications/2001/frederick-r-dickinson

http://www.history.upenn.edu/publications/2013/frederick-r-dickinson

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-62-supernova-in-the-east-i/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_SzUVNo8I

https://www.c-span.org/video/?322722-5/discussion-japan-world-war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oSaG0WiD8

Links: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/67

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

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

Links:https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/aerial-photography-first-world-war/ 

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/wwi-photos/  

http://dronecenter.bard.edu/wwi-photography/ 

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/03/16/shooting-world-war-i-the-history-of-the-army-signal-corps-cameramen-1917-1918/    

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/photos-world-war-i-images-museums-battle-great-war/   

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/the-vest-pocket-kodak-was-the-soldiers-camera/  

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/photography 

https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/technique/interviews/vest-pocket-kodak-book-107481 

Links: https://www.fathomevents.com 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74h-o8dFU8E 

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katherine Akey

Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe

Research: JL Michaud

Intern: Rachel Hurt

Episode #145

Host: Theo Mayer

• Overtures to peace - Host | @01:30

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https://nyti.ms/2CrsVsn

https://nyti.ms/2C0ZL2y

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/10/07/horrible-massacre-in-syria/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/alvin-yorks-tragic-glory/

https://www.facebook.com/EdwardLengelAuthor/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/nj-wwi-centennial-events/eventdetail/6717/remembering-world-war-i-through-the-eyes-of-a-wwi-veteran-charles-edward-dilkes.html

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service/2952-charles-edward-dilkes-sgt.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3087941.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Dugouts-Trenches-Baseball-during-Great/dp/0803290721

http://www.aabaseball.org/

https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars-and-stripes/?sb=date

https://twitter.com/ww1baseball?lang=en

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katherine Akey

Additional Scripting: Dr. Edward Lengel

Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe

Research: JL Michaud

Intern: Rachel Hurt

Episode #144

Host: Theo Mayer

• October 1918 Overview Roundtable - Dr. Edward Lengel & Katherine Akey | @02:15

https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Lost-Battalion-Legends-Americas/dp/1411676564

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/doughboy-mia-home.html 

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service/4382-john-chester-foster.html

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service.html

http://ww1cc.org/guide 

https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwi/prologue/default/index.html

https://history.army.mil/index.html

https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/wwi-cb.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7a-370JeE

https://www.c-span.org/video/?450879-1/the-lost-battalion 

http://www.echofilmsproductions.com/the-lost-battalion.html

Guests:

• Dr. Edward Lengel, Military historian and author 

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Starr Foundation

Production:

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katherine Akey

Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe

Research: JL Michaud

Intern: Rachel Hurt

Episode #143

Host - Theo Mayer

• Announcement: Bells of Peace 2019 | @ 01:10

National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C. Design package

http://ww1cc.org/memorial-design 

Living Memorial - A Special Introduction

https://vimeo.com/299480300

Episode 43 10/25/17 16:28

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3363-ww1-centennial-news-episode-43-10-25-2017.html

Episode 133 7/29/19, 17:56

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/6461-ww1-centennial-news-episode-133-07-29-19.html

Episode 43 10/25/17 18:23

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3363-ww1-centennial-news-episode-43-10-25-2017.html

Episode 105 1/11/19 - 29:50

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/5910-ww1-centennial-news-episode-109-02-08-19.html

Episode 105 1/11/19 33:08

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/5910-ww1-centennial-news-episode-109-02-08-19.html

Episode 109 2/8/19 31:27

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/5910-ww1-centennial-news-episode-109-02-08-19.html

Episode 54. 1/12/18 - 18:36 

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3949-ww1-centennial-news-episode-54-01-12-2018.html

Episode 111, 2/22/19 20:19

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/5949-ww1-centennial-news-episode-111-02-22-19.html

Episode 131 7/13/19 - 15:05 

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/6410-ww1-centennial-news-episode-131-07-15-19.html

Episode 43 10/25/17 23:15

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3363-ww1-centennial-news-episode-43-10-25-2017.html

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer

Editing:

Mac Nelsen

Website support: JL Michaud

Special guests:

Commission Chairman Terry Hamby

Commission Vice-Chair Edwin Fountain

Commissioner Dr. Mathey Naylor

Joe Weishaar

Sabin Howard

Commissioner Dr. Libby O’Connell

Pangolin Edition Director Steve Maule

Landscape Architect David Rubin

Episode #142

Host - Theo Mayer

• Posts raising money for Nat. WWI Memorial - Derek Sansone & David Hamon  | @ 02:10

Ken-Ton Bee article

https://www.kentonbee.com/articles/town-resident-raising-funds-to-support-wwi-memorial-project-in-washington/

Derek Sansone

Email: [email protected]

David Hamon

Email: [email protected] 

Sources

New York Times Archive (paid)Feather weight cars

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser 09/30/1919 page 11

Official Bulletin - President urges congress to pass Suffrage

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/educate/places/official-bulletin/3557-ww1-official-bulletin-volume-2-issue-425-september-28-1918.html

The Kentuckian, October 8, 1919, p. 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069398/1919-10-08/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=09%2F25%2F1919&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Alvin+York&proxdistance=5&date2=10%2F15%2F1919&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=alvin+york&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

“Veterans of Thirtieth Start First Big Reunion,” The News Scimitar, September 29, 1919, p. 1,

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn98069867/1919-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=09%2F25%2F1919&index=7&date2=10%2F15%2F1919&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=ALVIN+YORK&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=alvin+york&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

Theodore Roosevelt Jr: 9/13/1887-7/12/1944

Jane Addams: 9/6/1860-5/21/1935

Maurice Chevalier: 9/12/1888-1/1/1972

1. Scott Fitzgerald: 9/24/1896-12/21/1940

Sources

Hall, Zoe Dare, “French Entertainer Tricks His Way Out of German POW Camp,” The Telegraph, November 29, 2013,

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-four/10483881/prisoner-of-war-camp-escape-chevalier.html

Whitman, Alden, “The Elegant Boulevardier,” New York Times, January 2, 1972, https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/02/archives/the-elegant-boulevardier-maurice-chevalier-singer-and-actor-is-dead.html

“Theodore Roosevelt Jr., The Theodore Roosevelt Center

https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Family-and-Friends/Theodore-Roosevelt-Jr.aspx

BG Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Military Hall of Honor

https://militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=1622

Zahniser, J. D., “Jane Addams, Secular Saint, Scorned During World War I,” American History, 

https://www.historynet.com/jane-addams-secular-saint-scorned-during-wwi.htm

Michals, Debra, Jane Addams, National Women’s History Museum

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/jane-addams

1. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), F. Scott Fitzgerald Society,

https://fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/about-us-2/biography/

https://willson.uga.edu/history-professor-john-morrow-wins-pritzker-award-for-lifetime-achievement-in-military-writing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Morrow_Jr.

http://history.uga.edu/directory/people/john-morrow-jr

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-morrow-92685321/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-24/how-world-war-i-changed-watches-forever

https://lititzrecord.com/news/wilbur-employees-world-war-history-to-be-preserved-in-the-park/

https://www.forces.net/news/pre-wwi-battleship-wreck-granted-heritage-protection

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/World-War-I-Veterans-Honored-in-Denton-560985601.html

http://www.wbiw.com/2019/09/23/orange-county-historical-society-hosting-traveling-exhibit/

https://www.miragenews.com/historic-ww1-field-gun-for-barkly-gardens/

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/west-virginia/articles/2019-09-14/huntington-man-reunited-with-fathers-wwi-items

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/community/local-wwi-vet-receives-purple-heart/71-9477f935-a0e6-4db0-86e1-c5518d9c91c7

https://www.recordnet.com/news/20190913/history-in-making-all-over-again-convoy-of-historic-wwi-military-vehicles-stops-in-sj

https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/09/12/guardsmans-purple-heart-returns-to-maine-after-101-years/

https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2019/09/butler-football-honoring-hometown-vets-with-help-from-west-point.html

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer

Editing:

Mac Nelsen

Website support: JL Michaud

Special guests:

Derek Sansone

David Hamon

Dr. John Morrow

Host - Theo Mayer

• Breaking News: CFA’s final approval of Memorial design- Host | @01:25

http://ww1cc.org/memorial-design 

http://ww1cc.org/horses 

Nalewicki, Jennifer, “The Animals that Helped Win World War I,” Smithsonian, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/animals-that-helped-win-world-war-I-180963042/

Tams, Leah, “How Did Animals (Even Slugs) Serve in World War I?” National Museum of American History, https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/how-did-animals-even-slugs-serve-world-war-i

World War One Centennial Commission Episode 13

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2106-ww1-centennial-news-episode-13-3-29-2017.html

World War One Centennial Commission Episode 50

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3851-ww1-centennial-news-episode-50-12-15-2017.html

World War One Centennial Commission Episode 94

https://www.wo...-19-2018.html

World War One Centennial Commission Episode 63

https://www.wo...-16-2018.html

World War One Centennial Commission Episode 52

https://www.wo...-29-2017.html

World War One Centennial Commission Episode 120

https://www.wo...04-26-19.html

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

Written by: David Kramer & Theo Mayer

Editing:

Mac Nelsen

Website support: JL Michaud

Special guests:

Cindy Rullman and Jo Ellen Hayden from Brooke USA

Journalist and Author Andrew Blechman

Jacy Jenkins and Jordan Beck from Fun Academy Motion Pictures

Leah Tams from the University of Mary Washington

Episode #140

Host - Theo Mayer

• Government, Industry & Labor in WWI - Host | @ 05:15

Sources

Helgeson, Jeffrey, “American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900-1945,” Oxford Research Encyclopedias https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-330

Keir, Malcolm, “Post-War Causes of Labor Unrest,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1919, pp. 101-109,  https://www.jstor.org/stable/1014423

Mintz, Steven, “Historical Context: Post-World War I Labor Tensions,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/historical-context-post-world-war-i-labor-tensions

 “How War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century,” Foundation for Economic Education, 

https://fee.org/articles/how-war-amplified-federal-power-in-the-twentieth-century/

Dr. Mark Robbins

Links:

https://www.delmar.edu/degrees/history/faculty-listing.html

https://www.amazon.com/Middle-Class-Union-Organizing-Post-World/dp/0472130331

CENTURY IN THE MAKING

Traci Slatton: https://medium.com/@tslatton/and-so-it-begins-sabin-howard-starts-sculpting-the-national-wwi-memorial-e31d4b20cda7

Gallery of images and videos

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bEdrAjQCdYuLRa1V8  

Links:

https://www.militarycityusaradio.org/main/marine-corps-colonel-ret-mike-visconage/

Links

Veterans worried as WWI monument faces demolishing

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/-that-legacy-needs-to-be-carried-on-veterans-worried-as-wwi-monument-faces-demolishing

Veterans Group Marks 100-Year Milestone for WWI’s Polish-American Freedom Fighters

https://citylimits.org/2019/09/11/veterans-group-marks-100-year-milestone-for-wwis-polish-american-freedom-fighters/

 “ETCHED IN MEMORY”

https://www.facebook.com/theworldwar/photos/a.10150262914016241/10157508089181241/?type=3&theater

John Logie Baird

https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/17894519.john-logie-baird-features-new-ww1-exhibition-holyrood/

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer

Editing:

Mac Nelsen

Website support: JL Michaud

Special guests:

Col. Michael Visconage, US Marine Corps (Ret.)

Dr. Mark Robbins

Special thanks to novelist Traci Slatton for allowing us to read her article in M on the show

Episode #139

Host - Theo Mayer

• Unprecedented  logistics - Joe Johnson | @ 05:00

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Terrett, Dulany, “The Signal Corps: The Emergency (to 1941),” The Army Signal Corps, https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-16/CMH_Pub_10-16-1.pdf

DARPA

https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/about-darpa

Gray, Andrew, “The American Field Service,” American Heritage, December 1974, https://www.americanheritage.com/american-field-service

“World War I Rations:  Full Belly, Fully Ready,” Army Heritage Educational Center, https://www.armyheritage.org/75-information/soldier-stories/359-worldwar1rations

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 27

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2747-ww1-centennial-news-episode-27-7-05-2017.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 62

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4179-ww1-centennial-news-episode-62-03-09-2018.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode  82

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4838-ww1-centennial-news-episode-82-7-27-2018.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 34

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3043-ww1-centennial-news-episode-34-8-23-2017.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 68

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4369-ww1-centennial-news-episode-68-04-20-2018.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 69

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4385-ww1-centennial-news-episode-69-04-27-2018.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 54

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3949-ww1-centennial-news-episode-54-01-12-2018.html

World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 115

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/6077-ww1-centennial-news-episode-115-03-22-19.html

Senate Hello Girl Bill

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/206/all-info

House Hello Girl Bill

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1953

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer

Editing:

Mac Nelsen

Website support: JL Michaud

Special guests:

Joe Johnson of the Defense Acquisition University

Professor Elizabeth Cobbs

Nicole Milano from the American Field Services

Lynn Heidelbaugh from the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum

Robert Rheid from Stars & Stripes

Historian Dr. Edward Lengel

The US Army Chaplains Corps Dr. John Boyd

Patri O’Gan from the Smithsonian Institution