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Timothy Ryback TAKEOVER: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power

Dr. Timothy W. Ryback, PhD is an historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He previously served as the Deputy-Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

Timothy Ryback has written on European history, politics and culture for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal.

He is the author of numerous books, including Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, which has appeared in more than 25 editions around the world; his book, The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau was a New York Times Notable Book; and Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

His latest book is TAKEOVER: HITLER’S FINAL RISE TO POWER (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). It explores the final days of the Weimar Republic and its incredibly rapid transformation into the Third Reich of Nazis Germany in just a few months. We discuss it and two of his other books, HITLER’S PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED HIS LIFE, and HITLER’S FIRST VICTIMS: THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE.

Although there is some disputing it, Mark Twain is generally credited with observing that “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” In researching that quip, I came across this by humorist, Max Beerbohm from 1896. “History,” it has been said, “does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.” How many rhymes can you find in this interview with historian, Timothy Ryback, from his home in Berlin, Germany, recorded via Skype on Dec. 3, 2024?

Articles pertinent to this interview:

How Hitler Came To Power, with Timothy Ryback and Jim Bittermann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HhfPoavwc

What Will Happen To Everyone Who is Not White, Straight, & Male If We Don’t Speak Out? https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-will-happen-to-everyone-who?utm_source=publication-search

Margaret Atwood: Democracy Under Her Eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hij5MbcICm4

Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/pete-hegseth-book-attacks-nato-alliances

The deep historical forces that explain Trump’s win https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/the-deep-historical-forces-that-explain-trumps-win

Why I’m Not Giving up on American Democracy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/opinion/trump-orban-hungary-journalists-persecution.html

Ex-official exits running for Trump team over Sebastian Gorka appointment https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/sebastian-gorka-michael-anton-trump

Montana supreme court blocks ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/montana-blocks-ban-gender-affirming-care-trans-minors

United States v. Skrmetti: The Trans Medical Care Case Before the Supreme Court Is About Bodily Autonomy for Everyone https://www.americanprogress.org/article/united-states-v-skrmetti-the-trans-medical-care-case-before-the-supreme-court-is-about-bodily-autonomy-for-everyone/

Nikki Giovanni poetry reading at Emory University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr7587oAdpQ

Nikki Giovanni Reads her own Poems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMFP9ZNYCPs

How Nikki Giovanni’s Black American consciousness changed the world https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/14/nikki-giovanni-black-arts-literary-consciousness

How to Kill a Democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKlkETrxCkc

Timothy Ryback – Hitler’s Private Library – Part 1 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKfohBPy7s

Timothy Ryback – Hitler’s Private Library – Part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOIkTr4aVw

The Books He Didn’t Burn | Inside Hitler’s Private Library. Official Trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uj5O8LDB2k

Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States: What the Research Says https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/09/polarization-democracy-and-political-violence-in-the-united-states-what-the-research-says?lang=en

US founder of neo-Nazi network sentenced to two years of time served https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/neo-nazi-founder-robert-rundo-sentencing

Bruce Gourley Americans United for Separation of Church and State

This edition of Forthright Radio marks the 20th anniversary of the first program that day after Thanksgiving in 2004. I am deeply grateful to Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, KZYXfm, and all the listeners who support community radio, for having given me the opportunity to host and produce Forthright Radio.

Bruce Gourely is an historian specializing in American History and the editor of Church & State magazine, the publication of Washington D.C. based Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He is an award winning author and photographer. Among his nine books are Crucible of Faith and Freedom: Baptists and the American Civil War; Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the American Civil War. He also owns and operates the website, Yellowstone.net.

I recently had the opportunity to hear Bruce Gourely speak right after the recent election, and I immediately invited him to share his thoughts as an historian and a person dedicated to to preserving our First Amendment rights to help prepare us for what will surely be challenging times ahead. We spoke with him on November 19th, 2024 in the Beyond the Deep End studio.

Articles pertinent to this interview:

From the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s ‘Body of Liberties’ to today’s ‘Moms for Liberty’: A brief history of the anti-freedom parental rights movement https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/from-the-massachusetts-bay-colonys-body-of-liberties-to-todays-moms-for-liberty-a-brief-history-of-the-anti-freedom-parental-rights-movement/

Supreme theocrats: The anti-freedom, anti-life, biblical worldview of the Christian Nationalist majority on the nation’s highest court https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/supreme-theocrats-the-anti-freedom-anti-life-biblical-worldview-of-the-christian-nationalist-majority-on-the-nations-highest-court/

Legislating inequality: The Christian Confederate roots of Project 2025 https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/legislating-inequality-the-christian-confederate-roots-of-project-2025/

The passing of Pat Schroeder reminds us how far we’ve come https://gazette.com/politics/pat-schroeder-women-trailblazer/article_a09b6882-c38f-11ed-82ef-833044f03ea3.html

““The women in Congress had to wage virtually every battle alone,” Schroeder wrote in her memoir of those early years, “whether we were fighting for female pages (there were none) or a place where we could pee.”
That’s right. For many years, women didn’t have a bathroom off the House floor like the men did. When Schroeder was there, women were forced to use the restroom inside the women’s reading room far off on another floor. Female members of the House didn’t get a women’s bathroom off the House floor until 2011.”

Education or indoctrination? As public schools go back into session, Americans United fights a rising tide of state-sponsored religion https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/education-or-indoctrination-as-public-schools-go-back-into-session-americans-united-fights-a-rising-tide-of-state-sponsored-religion/

Federal Judge Blocks Louisiana Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Classrooms https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/louisiana-ten-commandments-ruling.html?searchResultPosition=

Thou shalt not bear false witness https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/thou-shalt-not-bear-false-witness/

Texas Education Board Backs Curriculum With Lessons Drawn From Bible https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/texas-bible-curriculum-public-schools.html

Abortion clinics can stay open; judge extends block on license requirement for now https://dailymontanan.com/2024/11/18/abortion-clinics-can-stay-open-judge-extends-block-on-license-requirement-for-now/

Judge strikes down Wyoming’s anti-abortion laws in victory for rights advocates https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/wyoming-anti-abortion-laws-struck-down-pills

As nuns disappear, many Catholic hospitals look more like megacorporations https://dailymontanan.com/2024/11/17/as-nuns-disappear-many-catholic-hospitals-look-more-like-megacorporations/

Judge hears case over Montana rule blocking trans residents from changing sex on birth certificate https://montanafreepress.org/2024/11/15/judge-hears-case-over-montana-rule-blocking-trans-residents-from-changing-sex-on-birth-certificate/

Voters Poised to Reject Private School Vouchers in Three States https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/private-school-funding-election-rejection.html

Trump Wants to Shut Down the Department of Education? Is That Possible? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/us/shut-down-department-of-education-trump.html

Colorado parolee who refused to take part in Christian worship wins settlement https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/colorado-parolee-who-refused-to-take-part-in-christian-worship-wins-settlement/

Supreme Court abortion ruling fails to provide protection, AU says https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/supreme-court-abortion-ruling-fails-to-provide-protection-au-says/

‘Partisan politics’: how efforts to overturn the Johnson amendment could upend campaign finance https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/johnson-amendment-campaign-finance

Christian Nationalist Podcasters Want to Take Over Tennessee County https://www.newsweek.com/christian-nationalists-plans-community-tennessee-county-1987879

Revealed: trans rights case at US supreme court features doctors previously discredited by judges https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/supreme-court-trans-rights-doctors-testimonies-bias

Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book

Republican bathroom bill targets Congress’s first transgender member https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/sarah-mcbride-congress-bathroom-bill-transgender

A lawsuit of biblical proportions: Americans United representing parents, students, teachers and clergy in challenge to Oklahoma state superintendent’s plan to force Bibles into public schools https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/a-lawsuit-of-biblical-proportions-americans-united-representing-parents-students-teachers-and-clergy-in-challenge-to-oklahoma-state-superintendents-plan-to-force-bibles-into-public-schools/

Oklahoma Students Mandated To Watch Video Announcing New Religious Department https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-religious-freedom-office-oklahoma_n_6738e2bae4b0520a467732ca

Louisiana students who were sent to church will be able to pursue legal action https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/louisiana-students-who-were-sent-to-church-will-be-able-to-pursue-legal-action/

Opinion analysis: Court rules that religious schools cannot be excluded from state funding for private schools https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/opinion-analysis-court-rules-that-religious-schools-cannot-be-excluded-from-state-funding-for-private-schools/

South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down school voucher plan https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/south-carolina-supreme-court-strikes-down-school-voucher-plan/

Arlie Russell Hochschild STOLEN PRIDE: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild is University of California Berkeley Professor Emerita of Sociology. She is the author of many groundbreaking books, including THE SECOND SHIFT, WORKING FAMILIES AND THE REVOLUTION AT HOME; THE TIME BIND, WHEN WORK BECOMES HOME AND HOME BECOMES WORK; and her best selling book, STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND, ANGER AND MOURNING ON THE AMERICAN RIGHT, was a National Book Award finalist. In addition to her many honorary degrees from Harvard, and European universities, She also received the Ulysses medal from University College, Dublin, and the Helmholtz Medal from the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. And if that weren’t enough, she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2022.

Her most recent book is STOLEN PRIDE: LOSS, SHAME, AND THE RISE OF THE RIGHT, published by The New Press in September, 2024. In it she explores the question, what happens when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffers the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel “stolen?” Dr. Hochschild, prompted by CA Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who was working with KY-5th District Republican Congressman, Hal Rodgers, went to Pikeville in the heart of Appalachia in his district, which is the whitest and second poorest in the United States. 30 years ago, it was in the political center, but in 2016 and 2020, Trump received 80% of the district’s vote.

26 year old Neo-Nazi, Matthew Heimbach, sought a permit for a white supremacist march to be held there on April 30, 2017. It turned out to be a trial run for the August Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, for which he was a core organizer. He is just one of the people she interviewed and followed, and whose character actually evolved in surprising ways. We spoke with Arlie Russell Hochschild from her home in Berkeley, CA via Skype on October 22, 2024.

In honoring the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, hero for Dodgers and Mexican baseball fans, who died on October 22, at age of 63, and whose team, the LA Dodgers face the New York Yankees in the first game of the World Series that evening, we ended this edition with beloved poet/publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s ode to Latino baseball, “Baseball Canto.”

David Daley ANTIDEMOCRATIC: INSIDE THE FAR RIGHT’S 50 YEAR PLOT TO CONTROL AMERICAN ELECTIONS

David Daley is the author of the national bestseller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count, which has been credited for kick-starting the national drive to end gerrymandering; and Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy.

He returned to discuss his assiduously researched, well written and important latest book, ANTIDEMOCRATIC: INSIDE THE FAR RIGHT’S 50 YEAR PLOT TO CONTROL AMERICAN ELECTIONS, published by Mariner Books. It follows on the themes of those earlier books, and it couldn’t be coming at a more crucial time in our nation’s history’s, as we reel towards this tumultuous 2024 election, as democracy itself seems to be on the brink.

In addition to his books, David’s journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, and The Guardian, and he is the former editor in chief of Salon.com, as well as a senior fellow at FairVote. He has taught journalism and political science at Wesleyan University, Boston College, Smith College and the University of Georgia. We spoke with him via Skype on September 26, 2024.

Links to some articles pertinent to this interview:

There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/17/us-supreme-court-republican-judges-next-president Millions of Americans will vote this fall – but six Republican justices might have the final say, in a Bush v Gore redux

There’s a fair way to ensure third-party candidates don’t ‘spoil’ the US election https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/presidential-election-ranked-choice-voting Two states have already adopted ranked-choice voting, a nonpartisan fix to our outdated electoral system

The election deniers with a chokehold on Georgia’s state election board https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/georgia-board-of-elections-election-deniers

An ‘Utterly Bonkers’ Miscarriage of Justice in Texas https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/opinion/texas-erma-wilson-marcellus-williams.html

David S. Tatel VISION: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice

In this edition of Forthright Radio our guest is retired Federal Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, David S. Tatel. After many years as a civil rights attorney in private practice and public service, he was nominated by President Bill Clinton in June of 1994 to the seat vacated by Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when she ascended to the Supreme Court. After only a one hour hearing and unanimous vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was confirmed by the full Senate in a voice vote. In the 1970s, he was the founding Director of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and then director of the national Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. During the Carter Administration, he served as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. By that time, he was fully blind, after the gradually progressing deterioration of his vision due to the genetic condition, retinitis pigmentosa.

His book, VISION: A MEMOIR OF BLINDNESS AND JUSTICE, was published by Little, Brown and Company in June of 2024. It’s the story of one individual’s journey in the service of justice through many historical moments – from John F. Kennedy, who inspired him to the nobility of public service, through the Donald J. Trump’s administration’s harangues against “The Deep State” and the mockery of the very idea of service, to his decision to retire from the bench during the Biden administration, so as not to repeat the strategically tragic decision of his friend, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, not to retire. As you will hear in this interview, the lack of judicial restraint by the Republican appointees of the current Supreme Court, and their ideological overturning of well established precedents in civil rights and environmental cases contributed to his decision to retire when he did from that position he loved.

But it’s not just a memoir of his legal experiences or philosophy. It’s a very human love story – for his wife of almost 60 years, his four children, and most recently, his guide dog, Vixen, as well as a memoir of his blindness, vulnerability, and rising above disability to his decades of public service.

We spoke with Judge Tatel via Skype from his home in rural Virginia on August 19, 2024.

Hamilton Nolan THE HAMMER: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

Hamilton Nolan is a labor journalist, author, and organizer, who has been writing about labor issues for over 2 decades. As well as writing for In These Times, the Guardian and elsewhere, he organized the first on-line writers union In 2015, while working at the Gawker site. He has a substack blog under the tag, How Things Work.

His book, THE HAMMER: POWER, INEQUALITY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF LABOR, was published by Hachette in February, 2024. We spoke with him on August 5, 2024 via Skype.

Articles pertinent to this interview:

Unions and Antitrust Are Peanut Butter and Jelly https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unions-and-antitrust-are-peanut-butter

How the “Working Class Republican” Scam Works https://substack.com/home/post/p-146882549

Capitalism’s Washing Machine https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capitalisms-washing-machine

You Patsy https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

‘Stand your butt up’: Republican senator challenges Teamsters chief to fight during hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWN0zbjdDVA

A Transcript of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ Speech About Our “Second American Revolution” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-transcript-of-heritage-foundation

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War! https://inthesetimes.com/article/national-conservatism-conference-2024-trump-gop

Housing Is The Economy https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is-the-economy

Dissident Group Wins Amazon Union Leadership Vote https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/business/economy/amazon-labor-union-election.html

Trump claims he’s pro-worker. Project 2025 will gut labor rights https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/project-2025-trump-unions-overtime-pay

US chip factory workers say it’s a ‘struggle to survive’ on their wages as industry booms https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/05/chip-factory-workers-wages

13,500 US hotel workers hold strike votes over pay and conditions https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/06/hotel-workers-strike-vote

Randy Kehler, 80, Dies; Peace Activist Inspired Release of Pentagon Papers https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/us/politics/randy-kehler-dead.html

High School Project on Genocide Was a Portent of Real-Life Events https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/education/23education.html

Timothy Winegard THE HORSE: A GALLOPING HISTORY OF HUMANITY

In this episode we share our interview with best selling author and Colorado Mesa University History Professor, Timothy Winegard. His latest book, THE HORSE: A GALLOPING HISTORY OF HUMANITY, is being published by Dutton on July 30, 2024. His five earlier books include THE MOSQUITO: A HUMAN HISTORY OF OUR DEADLIEST PREDATOR; THE FIRST WORLD OIL WAR; and FOR KING AND KANATA: CANADIAN INDIANS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

We spoke with Professor Winegard about his fascinating book, THE HORSE: A GALLOPING HISTORY OF HUMANITY, on July 24, 2024, but a warning: the past two weeks since our most recent Forthright Radio had been characterized by technical breakdowns on several fronts. Without going into too many details, our Forthright Radio email address of many years became completely inaccessible on July 10th. Since July 12th, the computer had been elsewhere being worked on in the hope of retrieving the email information from it, but without success. Mere hours before our interview was scheduled,we got the computer back, but software we had been using for years, and which had been working when the computer was relinquished, no longer worked.

The reason we’re sharing this is because the audio software with which we record interviews was malfunctioning. We could hear and record Professor Winegard, but he couldn’t hear us, nor would the equipment record us. So, we had to do the interview recording him via Skype, and his listening to our questions via our ancient, failing land line phone. Bad as the audio quality of our questions is, Professor Winegard’s voice is of the quality you have come to expect. We are especially grateful to him for his patience and willingness to engage under such conditions.

The good news is that after our interview, the problems were located and remediated, so with any luck, this won’t happen again.

As for the Forthright Radio email address, that is sadly gone, never to return. However, we can still be contacted via the program’s website forthright.media contact page.

The Return of the Ojibwe Pony, the Midwest’s Native Horse https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/return-of-the-ojibwe-pony-the-midwests-native-horse?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Elaine McMillion Sheldon: KING COAL & Josh Margolin: THELMA

This is our final Radio Goes to the Movies series before the 2024 Mendocino Film Festival, in which we feature two films that are screening today in the Matheson. First we speak with Elaine McMillion Sheldon about her film, KING COAL, and in the 2nd segment, we speak with Josh Margolin about his film, THELMA, which begins at 25:16.

You might think, oh I don’t want to see a film about coal, but this is a very artistic, lyrical tapestry of a place and people. KING COAL meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. This is a spectacularly beautiful and deeply moving immersion into Central Appalachia, where coal is not just a resource, but a way of life.While deeply situated in the communities under the reign of King Coal, where Elaine McMillion Sheldon has lived and worked her entire life, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected through an immersive mosaic of belonging, ritual, myth, and imagination. Emerging from the long shadows of the coal mines, KING COAL untangles the pain from the beauty, and illuminates the innately human capacity for change.We spoke with her via Skype on May 28th, 2024.

Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin on movies like MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. With infectious humor, Margolin employs the familiar tropes of the action genre in hilarious, age-appropriate ways to tackle aging with agency. In the first leading film role of her 70-year career, Squibb portrays the strong-willed Thelma with grit and determination, demonstrating that she is more than capable of taking care of business — despite what her daughter Gail (Parker Posey), son-in-law Alan (Clark Gregg), or grandson Danny might believe.

This edition ends with excerpts from Congressman Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) New York Times piece from Nay 29, 2024 headlined, How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html

The Supreme Court Is Going Off the Rails. It’s About to Get So Much Worse. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/supreme-court-going-off-the-rails-amicus-end-of-term-june.html

Yael Bridge THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD & Lois Lipman FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO

This edition of Radio Goes to the Movies features two films that are screening at the Mendocino Film Festival, THE BIG SCARY ‘S’ WORD and FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO.

In our first segment, we spoke with Yael Bridge, who produced the award winning, Left on Purpose, and Saving Capitalism, starring former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in Business and Economics. She was also the director of productions at Inequality Media, making viral videos that tackle complex political issues and gained over 100 million views in 2016. She lives in Oakland, where she works as a filmmaker and film educator. Her film, THE BIG SCARY ‘S’ WORD, which she directed and produced is screening on Sunday June 2nd, at the Matheson.

In our second segment, we spoke with Lois Lipman about her film, FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO, which tells the story that the blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, leaves out – about the nuclear victims of the first nuclear detonation in history, who lived in the villages around the Trinity test site. They were not warned, evacuated, nor informed after the explosion of any danger, much less protected from the fallout. The interview with Lois begins at 27:30.

For many years Lois Lipman researched, developed, and field produced films for 60 Minutes worldwide —from India, Gaza, Guantanamo Bay to Paris and Saint Petersburg. Her films won numerous awards including an Emmy and a Peabody. Til Death Do Us Part: Dowry Deaths in India won Best Documentary of the Year from American Women in Television and Radio, and lead to the first arrests and convictions for this crime against women in India.
After Lois left 60 Minutes, she worked internationally for the BBC, Channel 4 – UK, and PBS. After teaching at the University of Maryland, Lois returned to her home in New Mexico, where she committed to making FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO, a film that exposes the injustices suffered, and continuing to be suffered, for almost 8 decades by New Mexican Downwinders. It screens on Sunday, June 2, at 10:30a.m. at The Coast Cinemas.

Special thanks to Paul Pino for permission to include his anthem, “It Ain’t Over Til We Win,” from FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO.

Mike Johnson Urged to Advance Bipartisan Bill For Nuclear Test Victims https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-nuclear-test-victims_n_66462dcee4b098d9bd48f148