Beyond the Classroom at Kent State
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
Release Date: 08/24/2023
"I killed JFK.": The Story of Roscoe White
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
J. Gary Shaw and Brian Edwards recently published, Admitted Assassin: Roscoe White and the Murder of President Kennedy. This podcast discusses the results of their research. Brian Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has interviewed many of the Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police and sheriff’s officers; Parkland doctors and medical personnel who were on duty at Bethesda Medical Center. He has given hundreds of presentations on the assassination and since 2001 was a regular presenter at the JFK Lancer Conference Mr. Edwards has extensive Law Enforcement...
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The Woman Who Warned: Rose Cherami Predicts the Assassination of JFK
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
DR. MICHAEL MARCADES is the son of Rose Cherami, aka Melba Christine Youngblood Marcades. You have seen an incident in the early stages of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, with a delirious woman in a hospital bed sharing information about the impending assassination attempt on President Kennedy, BEFORE it happened. Dr. Michael Marcades heard of the JFK assassination at school and all students were sent home. For as long as Michael could remember, his mother, often referred to as Crit by family members, was a mysterious, purportedly troubled person, incapable of raising him full-time. A few...
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Bluegrass Champions and Oscar Winners: The Legacy of Putney Folk
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
The Green Mountain Boys band from Putney, Vermont had formed in 1969 and performed in Craftsbury Common, Vermont on March 14, 1970. Banjo player, Bruce Stockwell, 14 years old, won the banjo contest that day. Within a short time, news spread of the Green Mountain Boys and they caught the attention of Windham College students who were part of an early 1970s college funded Student Activities group. They included David W. Gray. We contacted David W. Gray, part of the group coordinating concerts at the college and in the tri-state area. According to Gray, “At Windham and student...
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Primary Source: Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez has a lineage of power. She is the daughter of Marco Jimenez, dictator of Venezuela in the 1950s, and Marita Lorentz, one-time girlfriend of Fidel Castro who later became a CIA spy. This recording is a conversation between Bill Holiday and Monica at the JFK Lancer Convention in Dallas, Texas in November of 2023. Monica tells the story of growing up the daughter of a CIA assassin and South American dictator.
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Clandestine America: People Who Don't Exist Doing Things That Never Happened
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
Bill Holiday taught history beyond a classroom. He spent his career traveling to the places where history happened and spoke with people who had first-hand knowledge of events, compiling materials for his students. But how to explain history when the officialdom disavows events and its agents? How do you explain history when history is comprised of events that never happened carried out by people who never existed? You talk to their kids. This is the story of Clandestine America, where a German teenager is impregnated by Fidel Castro and subsequently tortured psychologically by the CIA...
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"The Most Important 26 Seconds of Film in the History of Mankind": Robert Groden and Abraham Zapruder's Home Movie of the JFK Assassination
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
On his 18th birthday Robert Groden was playing hooky from high school when a blockbuster news story hit NBC TV News: President John F. Kennedy had been shot from a hill along the parade route during a campaign stop in Dallas, Texas. In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, Robert Groden tells Bill the unlikely story of a New York teenager who, some 12 years after the events of November 22, 1963, revealed the definitive visual account of the assassination of President Kennedy on the Jeraldo Revera show. Robert Groden has been researching the assassination of President John F.Kennedy since...
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JFK Assassination: What They Told Me - Excerpts & Antecedents
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
Hello gentle listener, in this edition of Beyond the Classroom we talk about how an announcemtne from the Junior High middle school intercom and a sans-textbook curriculum led to a lifelong search for truth that spurred Bill to Dallas’ Dealy Plaza by way of the Putney School. Along the way, he spoke with witnesses to a seminal moment in American history and chronicled those stories in a new book: The JFK Assassination: What They Told Me.
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Beyond the Classroom at Kent State
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
In May of 1970 Bill Holiday was finishing his sophomore at Windham College, a liberal arts college in Putney Vermont. One day everything changed when the Army National Guard enforced Marshal Law on the campus of an Ohio university by using military weapons to kill 4 students at random. Twenty years later Mr. Holiday, a teacher at Brattleboro Union High School, in Brattleboro, Vermont, invited activists, officials, and participants of those tragic events to his high school for a symposium about the Vietnam war era. As people often do, when asked to tell their story, many of them said,...
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Beyond the Classroom in Northern Ireland
Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday
In this inaugural edition of Beyond the Classroom, Bill and G discuss Bill’s book, Beyond the Classroom, and the life-changing opportunities found when learners step outside the confines of their school building and go to where history happens. They also discuss the history of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles” and the challenge of readying students for travel in one of the world’s most politically contentious areas. Show Notes: Bill Holiday's The Troubles in Northern Ireland trip itinerary: Ian Paisley at Dumcree, July 1995: Ian Paisley declares, "Never!": ...
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