Category: Presidents
A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/10/20Nov13-JFK-Nurse-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. She was in the…
An Unexpected Surprise
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/04Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/03Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/02Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of…
On the Scene of An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/01Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1963, Pierce Allman was manager of programming and production for WFAA radio in Dallas, Texas. When President Kennedy came…
The Willard Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/16Sep13-Willard-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have…
A Place For the President To Stay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/13Sep13-Willard-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed…
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…
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…
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…
Scenic Route: Witness to an Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:52 — 18.2MB)You may think you know all there is to know about the JFK assassination. But there was one man wounded…
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…
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…
Some Abraham Lincoln Stories You Won’t Get from Hollywood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/28Jun13-Vandalia-Lincoln.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)What was Abraham Lincoln doing with 81 bottles of champagne and 14 pounds of raisins? Thankfully he didn’t consume them…
Witness to An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/05Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer…
A Personal Connection to a National Tradgedy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/04Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Deputy Eugene…
Searching the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/03Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School…
In Search of An Assassin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/02Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the…
Yards Away from the Texas School Book Depository
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/01Apr13-JFK-Eugene-Boone-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Deputy Eugene Boone could have never imagined the life changing events that would occur in his life and those around…
New Ways to Explore the Universe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/28Feb13-Arecibo-Observatory-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s a marvel of science and engineering – a construction project so large that it took three years to complete….
