This is a short piece I did for Daniele’s History on Fire podcast. Many of you may have already heard it, but I thought I’d put it on the main feed just in case. It was a fun break from Jim Jones, and nice to be a little less serious for once. Hope you enjoy.

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This was originally intended to be part of the previous episode, but I decided to break them up.

Warning: EXTREME LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENT

The student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party is torn apart by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. Activism devolves into struggle sessions and terrorism, as the movement for civil rights and social justice is left to “drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen.” Treason drives Jim Jones off a cliff.

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This episode begins where the ’60s end, when the radicalism of that decade crash headlong into the diminishing expectations of 1970s America. The Weather Underground veers off toward its explosive climax. As the idealism of the student movement is shunted into self-help fads and therapy sessions, what remaining energy of the radical left is drained into increasingly bizarre and violent channels.

I broke this episode up into two parts, so it ends a bit abruptly. The second segment will be available a few hours after this is released.

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This episode discusses the beginning of Peoples’ Temple’s slide into radicalism after Jim Jones leads his people to California. We also talk about the development of 1960s radical political movements, and Jonestown conspiracy theories.

I had to record this episode in a hotel bathroom while on travel for work. The audio quality has some issues at various points, and I will probably try to redo the whole thing at some point in the future. Hopefully, it’s not too bad.

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In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King, Jr to the militant Black Power soldiers of the northern ghettos.

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This is part 2 of a podcast series on Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple movement. An eccentric loner as a child, Jim Jones finds purpose in the fight for racial and economic justice.

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This is the first episode of a series exploring Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. This episode is only a prologue, a few stories and ideas to serve as a backdrop for everything to come. The next episode will be along in the next few weeks, and every few weeks after that until we figure out why over 900 people committed suicide in a South American jungle in 1978.

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I was honored to have a discussion with two friends and inspirations about issues raised in the two-part series on Sand Creek and My Lai. Daniele’s broad academic perspective and Jocko’s on-the-ground experience leading men in combat helped untie some of the knots I left cinched at the end of the My Lai episode.

Episodes are available on both the History on Fire and Jocko Podcast feeds. If you haven’t, please go check out their podcasts and take a few moments to give them a good review. It’s important to me and it would mean a lot.

If you enjoyed our recent series on the Sand Creek and My Lai atrocities, you’ll love Jocko Podcast. Start with #31 for a different, maybe darker and more harrowing approach to the My Lai Massacre. On the down low, Jocko has the best book review podcast on the internet. Here are some of my favorite episodes:

#115 with Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer

#13 – Chechens vs Russians

#16 on the book Machete Season, about the 1994 Rwandan genocide

#85 on the book Ordinary Men, about a Nazi police battalion on the Eastern Front

It’s one of my top 2-3 favorite podcasts, so there are really too many to list, but those are a good place to start.

If for some silly reason you haven’t listened to Daniele’s History on Fire back catalog (lol wtf, srsly?), my all-time favorites are:

Series on the War for the Black Hills

Series on madman Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio

Epic 4-part series on Crazy Horse