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Scenic Route: Inside the World Trade Center

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/01/ScenicRoute_JoeCarillo.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 23:29 — 16.1MB)If you were old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, you know exactly where you were when you heard the…

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Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/11/ScenicRoute-016.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 17:07 — 15.7MB)Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the…

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6 St. Louis Spots History Lovers Shouldn’t Miss

A lot of visitors to St. Louis may catch a Cardinals game, take in the world-class zoo, or ride to the top of the St….

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Five Places to Find Columbus in the New World Today

In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. And ever since, people have been building monuments to him. In fact, one Internet…

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Scenic Route – Conversation with an Assassin

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/ScenicRoute-015.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 21:28 — 14.7MB)Pierce Allman was working as a young man at a Dallas radio station in November 1963. He was only feet…

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Five Texas Hotspots for JFK History Buffs

Today’s Dallas is a busy, growing city. But 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it remains inextricably linked to a tragic…

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Scenic Route 14: The North Dakota Boy and the Top of the World

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/ScenicRoute-014.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 9:35 — 6.6MB)Carl Ben Eielson grew up in North Dakota, but his aviation career took him much further north than that. The…

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Scenic Route 13: Paula Neuman Gris

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/ScenicRoute-013c.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:10 — 26.9MB)On this edition of The Scenic Route, Andrew talks to Paula Neuman Gris, who was just three years old when…

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Visiting St. Joseph, Mo.

We’ve spent a lot of time in historic St. Joseph, Missouri, over the past week. If any of our shows piqued your interested and have…

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Civil War Deaths Off the Battlefield

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/26Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Many soldiers died in the Civil War to things uncommon today. Simple adjustments in sanitation and cleanliness were a big part…

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Raising the Civil War Death Toll

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/25Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In recent years, the casualty estimates from the Civil War have been raised. Joe Houts says there’s a good reason for…

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Medicine in the Civil War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/24Jul13-Civil-War-Medicine-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Most of us would do good just to know the name of our great, great grandfather. Joe Houts not only knows…

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History’s First House Flipper?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/23Jul13-William-Wyeth-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Imagine building a grand, castle-like home for your wife, only to have her grow tired of it just a few…

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Video: St. Joe’s Early Entrepreneur

The latest American Countryside video features St. Joseph, Missouri, and one of its early entrepreneurs. William Wyeth helped outfit settlers as they headed west from…

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St. Joseph’s Early Entrepreneur

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/22Jul13-William-Wyeth-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Today we begin a series from St. Joseph, MO…the city many know as the place the Pony Express began and…

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The Poisoned President?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/19Jul13-Zachary-Taylor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Zachary Taylor died in office in 1850, yet his body was exhumed over a century later to determine if his…

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The Wounded Eyewitness

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/18Jul13-Tague-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)James Tague holds an interesting distinction in the assassination of President John F Kenney. Other than the president and Governor…

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A Skeptical Eyewitness

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/17Jul13-Tague-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)We continue our story with James Tague, a man who witnessed the assassination of president Kenney and was wounded by…

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Moments After an Assassination…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/16Jul13-Tague-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)The city of Dallas was abuzz with excitement on November 22, 1963 as President Kennedy made a visit to the…

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James Tague – Eyewitness and Researcher

James Tague was not only an unexpected eyewitness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he also has become a dedicated historical researcher. Tague’s…

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