Episode 37 - The Story of Raymond Byrd and the Last Lynching in Virginia

In this episode we tell the story of Raymond Byrd who was murdered by a lynch mob on August 15th, 1926 and how his death led to Virginia's Anti-Lynching Law.

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Raymond Byrd and his Wife, Tennessee Hawkins

Minnie Grubb

Newspaper Headline

Raymond Byrd’s Grave

SOURCES

https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2016/05/16/shameful-chapter-virginia-history-lynchings/84470508/

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lynching_in_Virginia#start_entry

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Vagrancy_Act_of_1866

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Raymond_Byrd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_F._Byrd

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/williams-virginia-has-a-dark-history-of-lynching-efforts-are-underway-to-bring-it-to/article_d1f629d3-4a5f-5aa7-9e6b-07e963c624fe.html

https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/memories-of-1925-lynching-linger-in-waverly/article_fdd4a998-fee4-5339-8b4c-7790f0ce7e49.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-keeper-of-the-secret/2019/03/30/bc1294aa-4fe4-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

Episode 36 - The Story of Loving vs. Virginia

In this episode we talk about the arrest and prosecution of Mildred and Richard Loving who commited the crime of interracial marriage in 1958.

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SOURCES

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/50-years-after-loving-v-virginia.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia#In_popular_culture

https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/loving-v-virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause

https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/gay-marriage

https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/loving

https://time.com/4362508/loving-v-virginia-personas/

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/12/532123349/illicit-cohabitation-listen-to-6-stunning-moments-from-loving-v-virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Point,_Virginia

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/lovings-at-home

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Resources_for_Virginia

https://www.biography.com/activist/mildred-loving

https://demographics.coopercenter.org/sites/demographics/files/NC_Blacks-in-Virginia_4_30_12_r_0.pdf

http://www.jamestowne.org/qualifying-ancestors.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Families_of_Virginia

Episode 35 - The Story of Ota Benga

In this episode we tell the story of Ota Benga, an African man who was featured in a zoo exhibit in New York in 1906.

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Ota Benga

Newspaper Coverage

Ota Benga is second from left

Samuel Phillips Vernor

Reverend James Gordon

SOURCES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Benga#cite_note-33

https://wset.com/news/local/man-caged-in-nyc-zoo-to-receive-historical-marker-in-lynchburg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/benga-ota-1883-1916/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/thecity/06zoo.html

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Benga_Ota_ca_1883-1916#start_entry

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30399/1906-bronx-zoo-put-black-man-display-monkey-house

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6225825

https://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/remembering-ota-benga-congolese-pygmy-ended-tragic-life-in-lynchburg-100-years-ago/article_0c533363-5348-5618-9671-97d7f6392d19.html

Field Trip - D.B. Cooper

In this episode we tell the story of the 1971 hijacking and disappearance of the man known as D.B. Cooper.

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Suspect Composite

Cooper’s Tie

Money Recovered Along Columbia River in 1980

SOURCES

https://www.amazon.com/Skies-Belong-Us-Hijacking-Notable-ebook/dp/B00ATLA9YM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15PBWSKZ4S4DB&dchild=1&keywords=the+skies+belong+to+us&qid=1588640206&s=digital-text&sprefix=the+skies+belong%2Cdigital-text%2C143&sr=1-1

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking

https://komonews.com/news/local/man-closest-to-db-cooper-boeing-aircraft-hijacking-mystery-breaks-silence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/12/the-d-b-cooper-case-has-baffled-the-fbi-for-45-years-now-it-may-never-be-solved/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/middleeast/airline-hijacking-history.html

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326472/hijacking-airplanes-egyptair

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/us-airline-hijackings-1970s-declassified/index.html

Field Trip - The Mystery of The Mary Celeste

In this episode we tell the story of the mysterious disappearance of the passengers and crew of the ship The Mary Celeste in 1872.

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The Mary Celeste

Captain Benjamin Briggs

Sarah and Sophia Briggs

Arthur Briggs

1861 Painting of The Mary Celeste, at the time Amazon

SOURCES

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/#WrKko6kjd7kHVuLQ.99

https://museumhack.com/mary-celeste/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/the-true-story-of-the-mary-celeste/0/130102

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-celeste

Episode 34 - The Story of Beale's Treasure

This week we tell the story of the mysterious Beale's Treasure which is purported to be buried in the mountains near Bedford, Virginia. Is it real or is it just a clever hoax? You decide!

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James Ward’s 1885 Pamphlet

Mental Floss Image

Mental Floss Image

Mental Floss Image

SOURCES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers#Existence_of_Thomas_J._Beale

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/540277/beale-ciphers-buried-treasure

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/beale-papers/doc656779.pdf

https://curiosity.com/topics/the-beale-ciphers-allegedly-lead-to-treasure-in-the-virginia-wilderness-curiosity/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028133-600-unbreakable-beales-buried-treasure/

Episode 33 - The Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

On this episode we journey into the heart of The Great Dismal Swamp for a history lesson on the escaped enslaved community of people called Maroons.

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Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, David Cronin 1888

Swamp Bear

Slave Hunt in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1862

Archaeologist at Work

SOURCES

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Drummond

https://www.virginia.org/listings/HistoricSites/GreatDismalSwampNationalWildlifeRefuge/

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-dismal-swamp/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_maroons

https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2016/08/22/suffolk-man-plumbs-slave-history/

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/paradise-of-serpents-runaway-slaves-lived-in-the-great-dismal-swamp-before-escape-to-canada

https://swampscapes.wordpress.com/

Field Trip - Oyster Bay, New York

In this episode we learn about Mary Mallon who was imprisoned on an island for 26 years for spreading Typhoid Fever.

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Mary Mallon

Newspaper Article

Public Service Poster

SOURCES

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-typhoid-mary

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/typhoid-mary-tragic-tale-exposed-health-impacts-super-spreaders/#close

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-frightening-legacy-of-typhoid-mary-180954324/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/620785/typhoid-mary-history



Episode 32 - The Story of the Driveway Murders - EXTRA CONTENT - The Disappearance of Christopher Douthat

In this episode we tell the story of James Bryant Hudson, murderer of Stanley, Wesley, and Patsy Cole.

EXTRA CONTENT - The Disappearance of Chrisotpher Douthat from Vinton on October 25th, 2013

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHRISTOPHER DOUTHAT PLEASE CONTACT VIRGINIA STATE POLICE AT 1-540-375-9589 AND ASK FOR SPECIAL AGENT DOUGLAS HUBERT.

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James Bryant Hudson

SOURCES

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h1/hudson-james-bryant.htm

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-73736.html

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/WDBJ-7/script_archives/02/0702/070502/070502.a.htm

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/hudson924.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Boston,_Virginia

CHRISTOPHER DOUTHAT LINKS:

https://www.facebook.com/missingchristopherdouthat/

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/without-a-trace-the-disappearance-of-christopher-douthat/?fbclid=IwAR1AsUaRkx5W9VOjLdUwHWYvRjantKEu40LArbKuBH4eeiNj8prqBeYzvp4

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Open-Case-Virginia-Search-for-Christopher-Douthat-speeds-up-563812011.html

Episode 31 - The Story of Teresa Lewis and the Walmart Hitmen

In this episode we tell the story of Teresa Lewis who along with Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller had her husband and stepson murdered in 2002.

To listen please click below or listen wherever you get podcasts.

Teresa Lewis

Rodney Fuller and Matthew Shallenberger

C.J. Lewis and Julian Lewis

Kathy Lewis Clifton

Anti-Death Penalty Vigil

SOURCES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Lewis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danville,_Virginia#Businesses

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/teresa-lewis-looked-frightened-entered-death-chamber/story?id=11718082

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091002673.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/profile-and-crimes-of-teresa-lewis-973490

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/21/teresa-lewis-death-row

https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lewis-teresa.htm

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/dan_river_mills#start_entry

https://books.google.com/books?id=QpKKDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT694&lpg=PT694&dq=matthew+jessee+shallenberger&source=bl&ots=s_5o5MyGL-&sig=ACfU3U30EMXeZ8UcGfwJa5sAnjZBEBqaEg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFiOrA_YnoAhU1mHIEHdnoAiIQ6AEwFXoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=matthew%20jessee%20shallenberger&f=false

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11401164

Episode 30 - The Story of Virginia Christian - The Girl in the Electric Chair

In this episode we tell the story of the murder of Ida Belote and the execution of Virginia Christian.

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Virginia Christian

Ida Belote

Electric Chair

SOURCES

https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/christian-virginia.htm

https://morbidology.com/the-execution-of-virginia-christian/

http://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/forsaken/orphangirls

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/08/15/souls-of-the-departed-ida-v-belote/

https://sites.jmu.edu/valynchings/virginias-rocket-docket/

https://books.google.com/books?id=Yj4iTQ6t8EsC&lpg=PA70&ots=peS0YmDQfY&dq=Grant%20Me%20to%20Live%3A%20The%20Execution%20of%20Virginia%20Christian&pg=PP1#v=snippet&q=thirteen&f=false

https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/timeline/jimcrow.htm

https://www.virginiahistory.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/jim-crow-civil-rights-virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_by_state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1877

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution