Welcome to Larry Reedy's America.Today, this episode is H73, November 11th, this day in history.Okay, we're on history.com.The headlines today, 1918, Armistice Day, World War I ends. 1921, Dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
That's at Arlington.It's very impressive.1831, Nat Turner executed in Virginia.We have no idea who Nat Turner is.Maybe it's a slave.We'll try and get back to that. 1988, police make a grisly discovery in Dorothea Puente's lawn.
1973, Soviet Union refuses to play Chile in World Cup soccer.1864, the destruction of Atlanta begins civil war. 1978, the Dukes of Hazzard make TV history with a car jump.I remember that.That's pretty cool.
1778, poor leadership leads to Cherry Valley Massacre.That's American Revolution. Germans take Vichy France.That's World War II, obviously.1942, the draft age was lowered to 18 years old.
Let's go back here to, let's see who Nat Turner was to be executed in 1831.Let's see. Nat Turner, the leader of a bloody revolt of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, is hanged in Jerusalem, the county seat, on November 11th, 1831.
Turner, an enslaved man and educated minister, believed that he was chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery. On August 21st, 1831, he initiated his uprising by slaughtering Joseph Travis, his owner, and Travis' family.
With seven followers, Turner set off across the countryside, hoping to rally hundreds of enslaved people to join his insurrection.Turner planned to capture the county
armory at Jerusalem, Virginia, and then marched 30 miles to Dismal Swamp, where his rebels would be able to elude the pursuers.
During the next two days and nights, Turner and 75 followers rampaged through South Hampton County, killing about 60 white people. Locals resisted the rebels, and the state militia, consisting of some 3,000 men, crushed the rebellion.
Turner and all his followers were dispersed, captured, or killed.In the aftermath of the rebellion, scores of American or African-Americans were lynched through many of the
though many of them had not participated in the revolt, so why would they be lynched?Unbelievable.
Turner himself was not captured until the end of October, and after confessing without regret to his role in the bloodshed, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang.On November 11th, he was hanged in Jerusalem. Very interesting.
You know, I can understand the revolt, but killing all those people, the guy deserved to be hung.Let's see what else we can get back to.Let's see what grisly discovery was made in Dorothea Puente's lawn. whoever Dorothea Puente is.
Let's see what it says.Authorities unearthed a corpse buried in the lawn of 59-year-old Dorothea Puente's home in Sacramento, California.Puente operated a residential home for elderly people.
And an investigation led to the discovery of six more bodies buried on her property. Puente struggled with mental illness, oh, you think, and he had already been in trouble with the law.
She had previously served prison time for check forgery as well as drugging and robbing people she met in the bar.There's no sense in going on with this.She was another nutcase in history. It just keeps getting better and better.Somebody's crazy.
Let's see.Anything else?Let's go to the Dukes of Hazzard on the light side.On November 11, 1978, a stuntman on the Georgia set
of the Dukes of Hazzard launches the show's iconic automobile, a 1969 Dodge Charger named the General Lee, off a makeshift dirt ramp and over a police car.That jump, 16 feet high and 82 feet long, its landing totaled the car.
made TV history, I guess it would total the car with the suspension and everything.Although more than 300 different General Leagues appeared in the series, which ran on CBS from 1979 to 1985, the first one was the only
one to play a part in every episode.The jump over the squad car ran every week at the end of the show's opening credits.Interesting.Okay, we're about eight minutes, so let's go out with the National Anthem. Thanks for listening.God bless you.
God bless the United States of America.And I will talk to you on the next podcast.
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