es i have a secret birth certificates of the twins are fathered by william randolph hearst and williamavies. there was no birth certificate. there weree no twins. there were no children. he was acquitted. so, because of the sort of people we are dealing with. and last but not least in the early 1930s theirs as a judge judge joseph forrest crater who goes to dinner at billy's chophouse on times square and then steps into a taxicab after words and disappears. and is never seen again. forces of one of the many, many many corrupt judges new york city a product of tammany hall. but connected to some pretty respectable names. he hadna been the secretary to senator robert wagoner and wagoner labor relations act. they moved on from that to being a supreme court judge. i pointed to that position by governor franklin delano roosevelt. there are some theories as to what happened to crater. nonene of them stand up to absolute proof. he may have been propositioned by a legs at diamond who had a garage with him and taken to coney island to have some sense beaten intoo him. had they beat a bit too mu

maybe franklin roosevelt doesn't, but william randolph hearst certainly does. his first wife and then his second wife, marion davies. so you see this over and over again, you off. you also see that often the plot lines of early 1930s movies which seem sort of fanciful and hackneyed, really are based on today's headlines or yesterday's headlines in that case. so with politics, the coroner stone of the story is tammany hall that the democratic organizer nation which runs everything really in new york city at that time and for a very long time and which franklin roosevelt makes his early reputation in the new york state senate as being a forceful opponent of and with the most prominent type in to the violence. and gore, in this era area and in this era, is the tammany boss of the lower east side, a guy named big ten. sullivan. sullivan, again, intersectionality, overlap. sullivan aside from running the lower east side and being a state senator and a congressman was also a partner in a west coast vaudeville chain, of all things. so he had an office for his chain at

maybe franklin roosevelt does, but william randolph hearst certainly does. his first wife and that his second wife marion davies. so youal see this over and over again. you also see that often a thet lines of early 1930s movie which seem sort of fanciful and hackneyed really are based on today's headlines or yesterdays headlines in that case. so with politics the cornerstone of the story is tammany hall. the democratic organization which runs everything really in new york city at the time and for very long time in which franklin roosevelt's makes his early reputation in the new york state senate as being a forceful opponent of. and with the most prominent tie-in to the violence in this era, area and in this era is the tammany boss of the lower east side, a guy named big ten sullivan. sullivan, again intersectionality overlap, sullivan aside from wanting lower east side and being a state senator and the congressman was also a partner in the west coast vaudeville chain come of all things. so we had an office for his gene at 1440 broadway. and so sullivan also

conservative william randolph editorialized that the movie was in and communist specific objecting to air as prolog other conservative followed suit in slammed both mother and son for their lack of neutrality in chicago, though the film was initially banned, it would quote wield undesirable influence with subject matter that creates tension between races. even though the censorship board had previously approved pro-nazi movies like blitzkrieg in poland. but at the end of the year, box office barometer called the film one of 1940s, biggest successes and the production received honorable mention in the film daily critics poll for the year's ten best pictures. the senate subcommittee was disbanded after the december 1941 attack on pearl harbor. but these efforts at film industry set the stage for the un-american activities committee to come. director bolting and his twin brother, john be put under investigation by who as british agents in communists whose film was said to be designed to drag the united states war with germany in 1940, pasteur hall was just one small piece in the coordina

henry ford essentially a billionaire industrialist, william randolph hearst was the owner of the largest in the media mogul at his own right. robert mccormick with the tribune jeb bg and radiant which reads huge swaths of the country pay particular in the midwest. they all opposed fdr's business and supporting england. many of them had business interests in germany henry ford had multiple factories in germany and receive the german cross from adolph, hitler. lindbergh had powerful allies on capitol hill. this was not a purely partisan issue. w democratic senator burton wheelerr from montana was one of the biggest spokespeople opposing fdr's policy pro isolationist but republican senator robert taft and in many of you don't hamilton fish the third who represented this district right here. fdr's congressman and let's just say they hated each other. [laughter] with a passion that goes back many years. so many wanted lindbergh to be the candidate opposing roosevelt in 1940 election. they lindbergh did not want to hold public office. he wanted to maintain his independence. and even the other

william randolph hearst, the owner of the largest newspaper chain and a media mogul in his own right.nd colonel robert mccormack who owned the chicago tribune and wgn radio which reached huge swaths of the country particularly in the midwest. if they all opposed fdr's business in supporting england because many of them had business interests in germany. henry ford had multiple factories in germany and had also received the german cross fromle adolf hitler. lindbergh had powerful allies on capitol hill. and and this was not a purely partisan issue. democratic senator burton wheeler from montana was one of the biggest spokespeople opposing fdr's policy, a pro- isolationist. republican senator robert taft. and many of you know hamilton fish iii who represented this district right here. he was fdr ooh -- fdr's congressman and let's just say they hated each other. [laughter] with a passion that goes back many years. so many wanted lindbergh to be the republican candidate opposing roosevelt in the 1940 election.. but lindbergh really did not want to hold public office, he wanted to the main

my book getting it wrong i lay out. 10 or 12 different media myths including this one about william randolph hearst the publisher of theew york journal the late th century who supposedly vowed to furnish the war with spain at the end of the th century. th a newspaper mogul was powerful enough to bring the country into a war that it otherwise would not have fought. that is a media myth. another medium myth has to do with walter cronkite of cbs news and on-air assessment about at the end of february 1968 he said the that the us military effort in vietnam was mired in stalem and that negotia might prove to be theay the us could extricate itself. from the quaof vietnam supposedly cronkite's interpretation his assessment was so powerful and so moving that it swung public opinion dramatically against the war. in fact public opinion had been swinging against the war for months before the cronkite program. at the end of february 19 that too is a media driven myth. and then the heroic journalist myth of watergate. the country's gravest political scandal certainly of the 20th century. another example

turn of the 19th, 20th century and the rivalry or the relationship between teddy roosevelt and william randolphearst. [laughter] >> guest: that would be a case -- i wrote about this. hearst made a lot of money by selling two things, sex and crime. and he realized he could make even more money by selling a third thing, war. so he actively wanted to get the united states into a war. the spanish-american war. and he claimed like a journal's war. that's not really true, but he claimed it. teddy roosevelt also wanted to get us into war for different reasons, because he thought the american empire needed to grow. they had a confluence, but they hated each other. they -- i think roosevelt looked down on hearst, hearst felt patronized by roosevelt a little bit like richard nixon, actually,s if you think about it. and so they didn't have a cozy relationship, to pit mildly. but, youou know -- to put it mildly. but this is a great country, and the press uses politicians, and politicians use the press, and i suppose roosevelt and hearst used each other. >> host: next call for evan thomas, janice in new yor

randolph on there. i believe they had her having an affair with her prohibition agent, which the real mabel wilson brand probably never would have done. god forbid. and when president warren harding, william brandt to be the assistant attorney general of the united states, she other women in this country had only the right to vote for nine months and suddenly she's the most powerful woman in the country. just to back up a little bit with her background during her last semester at school at the university of southern california, she worked pro-bono in the courts and she had an exclusively female client. and she had a particular focus on prostitution. you know it really bothered her that these women would get arrested for prostitution and they would have to be dragged in court. it would be embarrassing and mortifying. and the men the johns had to show up in court. so she utilized a little known provision that required the men to show up in court, and she made sure that they had to be there just as often as the actual women who are being arrested. she also would advise her clients, madams, on how to g mat out of the business. one of my favorite stories was a madam told her she wanted to go s