[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to episode 442 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast my name is Seth peran historian and deputy director of the Mississippi...
When John Wayne walked out of that studio, he did something he had never done in his entire career. He went silent. He had run out of words. He...
Sarah Martinez wiped the espresso machine for the third time that morning. Even though it was already clean, the steady, boring movement helped calm her down. It gave her...
The phone rang at 4:47 in the morning on May 29th, 1979. Clint Eastwood reached for the phone in the dark bedroom of his home in Carmel by the...
At 3:00 in the morning, a nurse leaned over John Wayne’s hospital bed and whispered his name. Not the name on the chart. Not the name everyone used, just...
The telegram arrived on the worst possible day of Russell Witmore’s life, though he would not know until later that it also heralded his salvation. He stood in the...
John Wayne was the toughest man in Hollywood. He had faced down outlaws on screen, survived wars, and never showed weakness to anyone. But in 1964, he found a...
It was 1962 in a small Texas town and 12-year-old Miguel Hernandez was standing outside the majestic theater with 37 cents in his pocket. The movie playing was the...
The year was 1964. Republic Pictures had just informed John Wayne that they were cancelling his next project, a film he had spent three years developing, a story he...
Burbank, California. November 12th, 1976. The NBC Studios parking lot sits under a blanket of smog that turns the afternoon sun into a pale disc. Inside Studio 1, the...