Ohio V. The World

Episode 14: “Ohio v. Suffrage” (19th Amendment) We celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage in Ohio, with three amazing women: Lisa Wood, Emily Krichbaum and Megan Wood. Alex tells the entire history of suffrage in Ohio and America as we follow the journey to the eventual adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1919. Lisa and Alex discuss the life of Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio’s most famous suffragette and the ups and downs of the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Association. Emily tells the story of the national struggle for suffrage with appearances by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul. The more conservative Taylor and the more radical Paul work in concert to deliver female suffrage after decades of failure. We’re also joined by Megan Wood of the Ohio History Connection to discuss the creation of the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission (32:00). The Commission which was approved last week and led by the Secretary of State’s office, will hold events and raise awareness about the importance and historical significance of the 19th Amendment. https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190226/ohio-getting-ready-to-celebrate-100-years-of-women-voting Don’t forget to subscribe to Emily Krichbaum’s awesome newsletter Remember the Ladies. Remember The Ladies is an organization dedicated to the teaching of American women’s history and breaks down women’s history and politics every week. Click here to subscribe and get the newsletter direct to your email inbox. https://www.remembertheladieshistory.com/subscribe Only ONE episode left in Season 3! Thanks to our supporters at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for more info on the intracity bus service in Ohio. Rate or review the show on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohio-v-the-world/id1210853919?mt=2 Email Alex with show ideas and comments at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com

Episode 13: “Ohio v. Conspiracy” (Roswell, the WaterCar, JFK) We sit down 3 guests and discuss three of Ohio’s most fascinating conspiracy cases. First we meet with author Ray Szymanski and we talk about the connection between the Roswell UFO incident in 1947 and Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Ray, who worked at Wright Patt for 38 years, has traveled the world investigating the alien phenomenon and talks to us about Ohio’s connection to extraterrestrials. (4:30) Check out Ray’s book ‘Fifty Shades of Greys: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitation to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beyond.” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523383178/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 Columbus Dispatch reporter, Dean Narciso, joins the show to discuss the little known story of Stanley Allen Meyer and his water car. Alex and Dean look at the life and invention of Stan Meyer that could have changed the world until his untimely and suspect death in 1998 in Grove City, Ohio. (23:00) Lastly, we tackled the biggest conspiracy of them all: the JFK Assassination (47:30). JFK scholar, Lane Marcus, joins the show to examine the life and death of Cleveland, Ohio’s, David Ferrie. We analysis the connection between David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald and the killing of our 35th President in Dallas, TX in 1963. Mr. Marcus describes a complex plot involving the Mafia, elements of the CIA and even LBJ himself that contributed to the death of President Kennedy. Special thanks to our guest and Chief Marketing Officer of the Ohio History Connection, Jamison Pack. (41:00) Jamison and I discuss the changing of the name to the OHC from the original name the Ohio Historical Society back in 2014 and the challenges of marketing in the history world. Go see the new Ohio: Champion of Sports exhibit at the Ohio History Center in 2019. Thanks to the support from our friends at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for more info on the intracity bus service in Ohio.

Episode 12: “Ohio v. Pollution” (Cuyahoga River Fire). Alex sits down with author and professor Dr. David Stradling to discuss the infamous Cuyahoga River fire of 1969. We analyze Cleveland’s role in the modern environmental movement by discussing David and Richard Stradling’s book, Where the River Burned. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBWLHKO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 We look at the causes and sources of the absurd pollution of Lake Erie and the entire Northeast Ohio region. We ask Dr. Straddling if the burning river is responsible for the creation of the EPA in 1970 and the Clean Water Act of 1972. Stradling discusses the role of Mayor Carl Stokes in the cleanup efforts in Cleveland and why the burning river had such a profound effect on the world. Alex and David look at the mythology surrounding the river fire and many of the untruths that have permeated the consciousness of Clevelanders and its national perception in light of the fire. On this episodes’ Ohio History Connection Minute we are joined by Jen Aultman of the OHC and John Hancock from World Heritage Ohio. Jen and John lay out the efforts to place the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks on the United Nations’ World Heritage list. (30:00) Ohio v. The World is supported by our friends at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for a list of cheap rates and routes around the Buckeye State. Rate and review the show on iTunes and LIKE US on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ohiovtheworld/.

Episode 11: “Ohio v. Wealth” (John D. Rockefeller). We travel to Cleveland to tell the story of the richest man in the world, John D. Rockefeller and the infamous Standard Oil. Alex meets with Kevin Callahan of the Western Reserve Historical Society to discuss Rockefeller’s youth and building of the oil empire, Stndard Oil on the shores of Lake Erie. We also sit down with Cleveland attorney, Ben Wiborg, to discuss Rockefeller’s taking control of the oil industry and the muckraking journalist, Ida Tarbell, and her crusade to take down Rockefeller. As Rockefeller’s bank account grows so does the country’s hatred towards him and his Standard Oil monopoly. The Roosevelt and Taft Administrations and the Justice Dept. take Standard and Rockefeller to the Supreme Court. We chat with Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Professor, Christopher Sagers, about the US. v. Standard Oil case and the era of trustbusting. We analyze how Tarbell and the government’s takedown of Standard Oil makes John D. Rockefeller the richest man in the world. We are excited to talk with Jamison Pack, Chief Marketing Officer from the Ohio History Connection, about the new exhibit Ohio: Champion of Sports opening on March 16, 2019 at the Ohio History Center. (23:00) We talk about the future of the OHC and the future Museum of Ohio. https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/ohio-champion-of-sports Ohio v. The World is supported by our friends at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for a list of cheap rates and routes around the Buckeye State.

Episode 10: “Ohio v. Murder 3.0” (Eliot Ness/Cleveland Torso Murders). It’s our annual true crime episode…Alex travels to Cleveland to meet with author Dr. James Badal and historian Becky McFarland about the career of famous Cleveland lawman Eliot Ness and the notorious Cleveland Torso Murders in the 1930s. Alex and Becky discuss Ness, the leader of the Untouchables, and his years in CLE as the Public Safety Director. We talk about Ness cleaning up Cleveland, then known as the most dangerous city in the country. Dr. Badal tells the parallel story of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury and the trail of partial bodies left across Cleveland. At least a dozen Clevelanders are murdered in gruesome fashion by an unknown serial killer. We discuss Ness’ investigation and Badal’s 2014 book In the Wake of the Butcher (https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Butcher-Clevelands-Torso-Murders/dp/160635213X/ref=pd_cp_14_1?pd_rd_w=cGkGY&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=412P8G52AKXJ1V6PAET2&pd_rd_r=25ca1906-3268-11e9-ade1-d126a5984129&pd_rd_wg=2aInh&pd_rd_i=160635213X&psc=1&refRID=412P8G52AKXJ1V6PAET2) Our guests discuss Cleveland during the Great Depression and the possible suspects of the officially unsolved murders. We learn of Ness’ secret suspect and the investigation by Eliot and his team. Did Eliot Ness solve the biggest mystery in 1930s Cleveland: who is the Cleveland Torso Murderer? You be the judge in Season 3’s true crime episode. We also sit down the Stacey Halfmoon, the Director of American Indian Relations at the Ohio History Connection, to discuss the annual Tribal Nations Conference. Stacey discusses the important outreach efforts in this episode’s Ohio History Connection Minute (https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/american-indian-relations).

Episode 9: “James Traficant v. the World” Alex interviews LA filmmaker Eric Murphy about Rep. Jim Traficant of Youngstown, Ohio, the subject of his excellent 2016 documentary, “Traficant: Congressman of Crimetown”. Buy or rent it on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/traficant). Stop what you’re doing and watch this movie. We follow the rise and fall of Youngstown’s hero, Jim Traficant, from his high school days at Cardinal Mooney, his controversial years as Sheriff of Mahoning County through his 9 terms and eventual expulsion from the U.S. House of Representatives. Traficant’s journey takes us from the crime-ridden 1970s and 80s in Ytown into the 21st Century. We discuss the Traficant’s relationship with the Cleveland and Pittsburgh maifa, his unfiltered style on the floor of the US Capitol and when he beat the federal government’s case against him for bribery and racketeering in 1983…when he represented himself in his RICO case in federal court. Eric takes us on Traficant’s wild ride from folk hero of the Mahoning Valley to Capitol Hill maverick to federal prison inmate. Alex is also joined by Youngstown native and owner of the official Food Truck of Ohio v. The World, Robert Delliquadri, as we discuss his food truck, the Meatball Mafia (www.themeatballmafia.com) and growing up in Traficant’s Youngstown in the ‘80s and ‘90s. (38;00) Editor Bill Eichenberger of the Echoes Magazine stops by to talk about Ohio’s only Ohio History magazine. Echoes is only available to members of the Ohio History Connection JOIN TODAY (www.ohiohistory.org/join). (27:30) Rate and review the show. Check us out NOW on SPOTIFY. And seriously, click here to rent Eric Murphy’s critically-acclaimed documentary “Traficant: Congressman of Crimetown” for ONLY $1.99. (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/traficant). Ohio v the World is supported by GoBus go to www.ridegobus.com for more info.

Episode 8: “Ohio v. Discrimination” (Colonel Charles Young) Alex travels to Wilberforce, Ohio and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center to learn about the life of Colonel Charles Young. (https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/museum-and-site-locator/national-afro-american-museum) We talk about history’s highest-ranking African American military officer until 1940 with author Brian Shellum and NAAMCC Executive Director Dr. Charles Wash. Young’s struggle to serve his nation in the face of unrelenting racism and discrimination that reaches all the way to the White House is explored. We follow Young’s life from being born into slavery to his youth in Ripley, OH. His fascinating career takes us to the Frontier West, the Philippines, Africa, the Caribbean and a war in Mexico in 1916. Author Brian Shellum talks about his biography of Col. Young, “Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment”. (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Officer-Buffalo-Soldier-Regiment/dp/0803213859/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0803213859&pd_rd_r=STC85RBHJVGF8DN752TF&pd_rd_w=vM0A7&pd_rd_wg=jejfl&psc=1&refRID=STC85RBHJVGF8DN752TF) Chuck Wash takes us on a tour of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center and Col. Young’s life in the progressive town of Wilberforce, Ohio. Go see this amazing hidden gem of a museum in Western Ohio. Appearances by W.E.B Dubois, George Patton, Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Also, learn about the Spanish American War, the Phillipine-American War, The Punitive Expedition in Mexico and WWI all through Col. Young's experience. Ohio v. The World is sponsored by GoBus. Check out the cheap rates multiple city by city routes throughout Ohio. (www.ridegobus.com)

Episode 7: “Ohio v. Unemployment” (Coxey’s Army) Alex sits down with author Jerry Prout, political science professor at Marquette University, to discuss the first march on Washington by Coxey’s Army in 1894. Sparked by the economic depression, the Panic of 1893, Jacob Coxey and his army of unemployed men march from Massillon, Ohio to DC. We analyze why Coxey’s March for Jobs catches the nation’s imagination and serves to humanize a downtrodden group of Americans, the unemployed. We use Jerry Prout’s book, Coxey’s Cruade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age (https://www.amazon.com/Coxeys-Crusade-Jobs-Unemployment-Gilded/dp/0875804985) as a guide to this historic walk and its violent end on the US Capitol lawn. Learn about the famous World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and why Coxey’s Army is considered by some to be the basis for the Wizard of Oz. Welcome to our new sponsor: goBus! The all-Ohio bus company serves all corners of the Buckeye State with a fleet of busses with wifi, comfy seats and cheap rates. Check them out at https://ridegobus.com and catch a ride today. RATE and REVIEW the show, it’s easy to do on your phone. Email us at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com with show ideas. Happy New Year!

Episode 6: Ohio v. the Patriarchy (Madeline Pollard) Alex sits down with author Patricia Miller to discuss her hit new book, Bringing Down the Colonel. Miller’s novel tells the story of a sex scandal involving a young Cincinnati college student, Madeline Pollard, and a powerful Congressman, William Breckinridge that would grip the nation’s attention in the spring of 1894. The landmark case of Pollard v. Breckinridge is analyzed for its groundbreaking verdict and how this story still resonates today in the midst of the #MeToo Movement. We strongly encourage you to purchase Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington. (https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-Colonel-Powerless-Washington/dp/0374252661) We also finish our chat with the Ohio History Connection’s Megan Wood. Megan shares how the OHC and its extensive archives can assist in any persons’ genealogy research for free. It’s our last show of 2018 and Patti Miller helps us go out with a bang. Check out her book Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington. (https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-Colonel-Powerless-Washington/dp/0374252661). Rate and review the show and SUBSCRIBE already! Send us show ideas or buy an Ohio v the World t-shirt by emailing the show at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com.

Episode 5: “Ohio v. the Cold War” (Curtis Lemay) Alex welcomes back Bruce Carlson, podcast host of “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” (https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/). Alex and Bruce travel through the first 25 years of the Cold War by chronicling the life of General Curtis E. Lemay from Columbus, Ohio. Lemay’s career was in the front row for Pearl Harbor, WWII in Europe, the firebombing of Tokyo, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, the Berlin Airlift, the formation of the Air Force and Strategic Air Command, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the infamous U.S. election of 1968. We look at why “Bombs Away” Lemay’s celebrated life of service and militarism was overshadowed by the unforgivable decision to be the VP candidate for Gov. George Wallace’s ’68 presidential run. Alex sits down with Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services at the Ohio History Connection, to discuss the unveiling of the original Ohio Constitution at the Ohio Statehouse this week. (36:20) http://www.dispatch.com/news/20181128/history-lesson-ohio-constitution-now-on-display-at-statehouse?rssfeed=true Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher, etc. and go listen to Bruce Carlson’s show “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” it’s one of our absolute favorites. https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/

Episode 4: Ohio v. Civil War (Edwin Stanton). Alex speaks with author Walter Stahr (www.walterstahr.com) about his acclaimed 2017 book Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary and the life of Stubenville, Ohio’s Edwin Stanton. Stanton, was the Secretary of War during the U.S. Civil War and a member of President Abraham Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals.” Stahr walks us through Stanton’s rise from a poor teen in Eastern Ohio to the savior of the Union Army. We look at his rapid rise as a lawyer in the Buckeye State to become Attorney General of the US under President Buchanan. Cliff Eckle from the Ohio History Connection joins us to talk about the extensive collections at the Ohio History Center and Stanton’s transformative years at the War Department. (28:00) Don’t forget to donate to the Ohio History Connection on Giving Tuesday, November 27th, click on www.ohiohistory.org to give! Join us as we see the Civil War through the eyes of the workaholic Stanton and we’re bedside for the tragic death of President Lincoln. Walter Stahr guides us through the famous manhunt for Lincoln’s killer and his co-conspirators and why Secretary Stanton was the cause of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Buy Walter Stahr’s book for the holidays (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQFGW3M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 ). Rate/Review the show, email us at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com

Episode 3: Ohio v. Black Power (Carl Stokes/Glenville Shootout). Alex travels to the Land to meet with historian/author Jim Robenalt about his awesome book Ballots and Bullets (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075TH4YNT/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1). We discuss Jim's book and how Cleveland became the center of the civil rights movement in the North. We journey through the 1960s in Cleveland, including: the Hough Rebellion, Martin Luther King, Jr., the election of Carl Stokes and the deadly Glenville Shootout in July 1968. We see the impact of Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Carl Stokes on black power politics. Alex and Jim discuss the historic election of Carl Stokes as Mayor of Cleveland in 1967, the first African American mayor of a major American city as an example of the ballot. And Fred Ahmed Evans and his fellow black nationalists as they opened fire on police in Glenville as an example of the bullet. We journey through 50 years of race relations and “progress” towards solving the issue of race and poverty in the United States,. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it...

Episode 2: “Ohio v. Bootlegging” (George Remus) Alex travels to Cincinnati to meet with 3 historians from the Price Hill Historical Society about the “King of the Bootleggers”, George Remus. We follow his rise from a German immigrant to a high-powered lawyer in Chicago to becoming the most successful bootlegger of the Prohibition Era in the United States. We discuss 1920s Cincinnati, Remus’ business, life, love and ultimate fall with Joyce Meyer, Julie Hotchkiss and Mark Plageman. We also travel to Municipal Brew Works in downtown Hamilton, Ohio to try some great beers with owner Jim Goodman and we discuss not just their brewery but also the effect of prohibition on Hamilton, OH. (22:00) https://www.facebook.com/municipalbrewworks/ Our Ohio History Connection Minute features Stephen George, Special Advisor to the CEO. Mr. George talks about his central role in the bicentennial barn project in all 88 Ohio counties and his admiration for the Harding Administration. Join the OHC and support Ohio’s awesome history. https://www.ohiohistory.org/join. (40:00) Step back into the Roaring Twenties with us to discuss Remus’ rise to power and later incarceration. We detail Cincinnati’s “trial of the century” when Remus goes on trial for the murder of his wife, Imogene Holmes in 1927. We also confirm that George Remus was the motivation for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, Jay Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby.

Season 3, Episode 1: “Ohio v. the Moon” (Neil Armstrong). 3…2…1…liftoff to Season 3 of Ohio v. the World. We’re going on mankind’s greatest adventure from the Earth to the Moon with Wapakoneta, Ohio’s own, Neil Armstrong. Alex travels to Wapak to the Armstrong Air&Space Museum and hosts a roundtable discussion with 3 Armstrong experts. We discuss his early life in NW Ohio, his many near death experiences as an aviator/astronaut and the epic journey of Apollo 11. Kraig Noble, Brittany Venturella and Greg Brown weigh in on Neil’s amazing life from Wapakoneta’s Armstrong Air & Space Museum (www.armstrongmuseum.org). In this week’s Ohio History Connection Minute we talk with Brittany, the Interim Director at the museum about the exciting new happenings at Armstrong Air and Space and a visit from Ryan Gosling while he was researching his role as Armstrong for the new movie, First Man. (32:00) Also, we talk with Samantha Martin from Airstream trailers in Jackson Center, OH about the Apollo 11 astronauts quarantine after the moon landing in 1969. (52:00) Rate/review the show on iTunes, Stitcher, etc. and check out our new Twitter page @ohiovtheworld (https://twitter.com/ohiovtheworld). Come celebrate the new season of Ohio v. The World at our Season 3 Launch Party on Friday Oct. 19th at the Columbus Italian Club in Columbus, OH.

Episode 15: “Ohio v. Punishment” (The Caning of Michael Fay) LIVE!!! It’s the Season Two finale and it’s our 1st live show. We chat with comedian Mark Lucas at the Columbus Podcast Festival live from the historic Garden Theatre. We’ll discuss the May 1994 caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for his alleged vandalism crimes. We analyze how this barbaric punishment of the 18 year-old Ohioan becomes an international diplomatic crisis. We try to figure out why the American public supported the extreme punishment of the Kettering, OH teen and why President Clinton attempted and failed to get clemency for Fay. Follow us on our new Twitter page @ohiovtheworld and stay in touch this summer by email ohiovtheworld@gmail.com, on Facebook and Instagram and we’ll see you all in October 2017 for Season 3!!!!!