Beyond the Classroom

The Woman Who Warned: Rose Cheramie Predicts The Assassination of JFK

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 years before her young son entered first grade, Crit asked that her mama and papa rescue Michael from her dangerous lifestyle.  Tom and Minnie Youngblood became Michael's legal guardians.  After that, Michael seldom saw his mother.   On September 4, 1965 -- Michael's mother was murdered under cover of darkness.  She breathed her last in a tiny, mob-affiliated East Texas hospital. Hardly anyone noticed. Leading up to her funeral at a secluded cemetery outside Duncanville, adults whispered words of confusion and grief.  Michael was lost in conflicting, blurry thoughts.   Decades would pass before Michael unearthed truths regarding his mother's life and covered-up, murderous death, and her bizarre interconnectedness with the death of President John F. Kennedy. This podcast details the experiences of  Dr. Marcades, former college professor/music educator, ordained minister, who has discovered dozens of documents, many of which have rewritten salient "facts" about Rose Cherami and her undeniable connection to assassins, the drug world, nationwide prostitution, corrupt law enforcement individuals, MKUltra, Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, documented evidence of her foreknowledge of the assassination and her efforts to warn authorities before Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and her well-disguised murder two years later.

Beyond the Classroom with Here We Are

Bluegrass Champions, Oscars & The Legacy of Putney Folk

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 activities, we really wanted to do a large-scale Folk Festival, both Bruce (Bramson) and I, and a number of other people had gone to the Toronto Folk Festival. We were just absolutely blown away. It was amazing. It was incredible. We thought, we need to do that in Putney, and so we decided to call that Putney Folk, Putney Folk, the organization, was born. They needed a warm-up band. Enter the Green Mountain Boys. This podcast follows the careers of the Green Mountain Boys, today, The Stockwell Brothers Band, and David W. Gray – In 2015 David W. Gray received an Oscar (Gordon Sawyer Award) for his technological contributions to the motion picture industry. Officially – "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." A fabulous career and a long way from Student Activities at Windham College. The podcast puts David W. Gray together with Bruce and Barry Stockwell approximately 50 years after they last saw one another – to reminisce about how it all started and where it is today. The voices in the podcast are David W. Gray, Bruce Stockwell, Barry Stockwell, Bill Holiday, Lyle Holiday and, briefly, podcast producer, Reggie Martell.

Kent State & Vietnam

Thirteen seconds of gunfire on the campus of Kent State University in northeastern Ohio ended the lives of four young people, and permanently altered the lives of countless others. The victims' families, injured survivors, guardsmen, eyewitnesses, and politicians were immediately and directly affected. Many Americans, shocked by the shooting, began to see domestic turmoil in a different light. American society, deeply divided before the Kent State incident, was in its aftermath completely polarized.

Troubles in Northern Ireland

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.