LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY

LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY

Episode 117 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the two seconds on June 11th, 1955 in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes became airborne at the Le Mans circuit and disintegrated into the packed main grandstand, killing 84 people in the deadliest accident in motorsport history — a disaster that prompted multiple countries to ban circuit racing and Switzerland to maintain that ban for 67 years. In 1955, 300,000 spectators stood within reach of cars doing 150 miles per hour, separated by a mound of earth. #HistoryMystery #LeMans1955 #Motorsport #RacingHistory #HistoryPodcast

OPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT THE SPACE PROGRAM

Episode 116 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Operation Paperclip — the classified US program that brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II, altered their files to conceal Nazi Party and SS affiliations, and built Wernher von Braun — an SS officer who personally recruited concentration camp prisoners for the Mittelwerk factory — into the public face of American space exploration. The rocket that put Neil Armstrong on the Moon was designed by a man who used slave labor to build the weapon that bombed London. #HistoryMystery #OperationPaperclip #NASA #WernherVonBraun #HistoryPodcast --- LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY Episode 117 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the two seconds on June 11th, 1955 in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes became airborne at the Le Mans circuit and disintegrated into the packed main grandstand, killing 84 people in the deadliest accident in motorsport history — a disaster that prompted multiple countries to ban circuit racing and Switzerland to maintain that ban for 67 years. In 1955, 300,000 spectators stood within reach of cars doing 150 miles per hour, separated by a mound of earth. #HistoryMystery #LeMans1955 #Motorsport #RacingHistory #HistoryPodcast

ROSEMARY KENNEDY: THE SISTER NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW

Episode 115 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Rosemary Kennedy — the eldest Kennedy daughter, born with an intellectual disability, lobotomized at 23 without her mother's knowledge in a procedure secretly arranged by her father, and then institutionalized in rural Wisconsin for 56 years while her brothers became president, attorney general, and senator. Her father was never held accountable. He never visited her at St. Coletta. #HistoryMystery #RosemaryKennedy #KennedyFamily #WomensHistory #HistoryPodcast

THE DAEGU SUBWAY FIRE: 192 DEAD FROM TWO MILK CARTONS

Episode 114 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on February 18th, 2003 — the morning a 56-year-old man with two milk cartons of flammable liquid set fire to a subway car in Daegu, South Korea, killing 192 people as the smoke from burning synthetic interiors trapped passengers in a second train whose doors had locked shut in an underground station with no ventilation. 192 people went to work on a Tuesday morning. The fire took two minutes. #HistoryMystery #DaeguSubwayFire #SouthKorea #Disaster #HistoryPodcast

THE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON

Episode 113 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 10th and 11th, 1996 — the single deadliest 24 hours in Everest history, when a turnaround time wasn't enforced, a storm arrived ahead of schedule, and eight climbers died including both expedition leaders, among them Rob Hall who made his last call to his pregnant wife by satellite phone from just below the summit. "Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much." #HistoryMystery #Everest1996 #MountEverest #Adventure #HistoryPodcast