Not Your Century show

Not Your Century

Summary: On hiatus as of March 2020 because of the coronavirus crisis. Get unlimited access to the Chronicle. | A daily celebration of the news — and the news media — of years gone by. King Kaufman takes you on a quick tour of the Bay Area and the world as it used to be, which often colors the world of your century.

Podcasts:

 1940: Lascaux Cave Paintings Discovered | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 349

Some teenage boys out for a walk in the woods stumble upon a living museum of prehistoric times, "a cavalcade of animals larger than life," the stunning colors of the drawings preserved by the cave's geology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1998: The Starr Report | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 330

The case for impeachment against Bill Clinton is also a salacious page turner outlining the president's White House affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. The independent counsel says the titillating details are necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1963: Integration War in Alabama | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 316

President John F. Kennedy federalizes the National Guard in response to Gov. George Wallace using guardsmen to block black students from enrolling in schools after he'd pledged "Segregation forever." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1986: The First National Oprah Show! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 359

She hadn't worked out as a TV reporter in Baltimore, but when Oprah Winfrey turned a low-rated local talk show in Chicago into a hit, she was on her way to building an empire. Going national was the next big step. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1978: The Top Female Cop in the World | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 305

SFPD Officer Dorothy Jorgensen has some wild stories from the mean streets of the Tenderloin after she's named Officer of the Year by an international women's police organization for her work as a decoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1975: Squeaky Fromme, Would-be Assassin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 397

The Charles Manson follower has a clear shot at President Gerald Ford as he walks through a park in Sacramento, but her gun doesn't fire. It's the first of two Northern California attempts on the president's life in three weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1977: The Golden Dragon Massacre | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 399

Three gang members walk into a crowded Chinatown restaurant in the wee hours with long guns. The worst mass shooting in San Francisco history to date kills 5 and wounds 11 — none of them the intended targets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1976: Crisis on the Viking 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 338

The spacecraft has lost radio contact with earth and it's plunging through 1,000 miles of the martian atmosphere. This is not how the mission was planned. Will NASA's Hail Mary work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Best of NYC: Labor | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1422

A collection of episodes with stories about work, workers and organized labor for your Labor Day listening. From the original March on Washington to Jimmy Hoffa's last lunch meeting.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Live! San Francisco History Trivia, Part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1686

It’s the rest of the story as King Kaufman regales a live audience at the Betabrand Podcast Theatre in San Francisco with tales of a murderous editor and an animal activist on a moral crusade.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 The “Vertigo” Mansion — Live! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 980

That strange rooming house that Kim Novak slips into and disappears from in the movie? It had a strange story in real life. “Cool Gray City of Love” author and Portals of the Past columnist Gary Kamiya tells it to a San Francisco audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Reliving the Dotcom ’90s — Live! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 916

Return to those VC-fueled days of yesteryear with Owen Thomas, who pestered his way onto the staff at Suck.com and then became a chronicler of Silicon Valley at Valleywag, Red Herring and, now, the San Francisco Chronicle. Recorded live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Live! San Francisco History Trivia, Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 976

Join King Kaufman and a living, breathing audience at the Betabrand Podcast Theatre in San Francisco for strange tales of murderous editors and naked mayors. First of four live episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1920: The 19th Amendment | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 402

The women's suffrage amendment is quietly certified, a week after the deciding vote was cast in Tennessee by a young legislator who listened to his mom.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 1879: San Francisco's Political Gunfight | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 461

S.F. Chronicle founder and editor Charles de Young's political beef with Baptist minister and mayoral candidate Isaac Smith Kalloch culminates in a shooting. But that's not where it ends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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