Saturday, July 9, 2011

Episode 1: Dames with a Heater and a Dream

Fanya Kaplan & Lolita Lebron: Armed insurrectionists.


*Credit where credit's due* 

Now, you've heard of the Black Hand gang and John Wilkes Booth, but when it comes to ladies....




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For Further Reading:

Fanya Kaplan:
www.j-grit.com/radicals-fanya-kaplan.php
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSkaplan.htm

Lolita Lebron:
The Ladies Gallery by Irene Vilar
La Prisoneria by Federico Ribes Tovar
News Coverage of incident, and trial
Remembering Lolita Lebron - NPR
"Lolita Lebron Would Rather Die in Prison" by Anne Nelson, The Nation 8/11/1979
"The National Security Council during the Carter Administration and the liberation of the Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1979." by Francisco Ortiz Santini, Centro Journal, Fall 2007.

Music: Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit

For clarification on what we're about with this idea, check out the intro:
http://dameisa4letterword.blogspot.com/2011/07/intro-tiiiiime.html

**I'd like to add that the idea of 'subjunctive history' that I mention in the podcast is unoriginal. Its an idea which has been made in various forms by historians but is one which I was fortunate to be introduced to by the character of Dacon in Alan Bennett's play "The History Boys."**

***Pics of the ladies are done up fancy by LP***

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