Michael Beschloss

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13 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read

“Rocky the Flying Squirrel & His Friends: TV’s Original Cast Album” (1961):

Bullwinkle is alum of Wossamotta U:

Boris and Natasha:

Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the Wayback Machine:

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Michael Beschloss

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9 May

Harry Truman visits his proud mother, Martha Ellen Young Truman, on her front porch, Grandview, Missouri, summer 1944: #Wilkes

As ex-President, Harry Truman sold family farmland in Grandview, Mo., which became late 1950s Truman Corners Shopping Center:

Truman’s old family farmland in Grandview, Mo., is now site of “Truman’s Marketplace,” including a liquor store called Harry’s Liquor:

Michael Beschloss

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8 May

American Seventh Army soldiers cheer Allied victory atop platform where Hitler used to orate in Nuremberg, today 1945: #Abrahams

Old site of Hitler’s rallies at Nuremberg, as it looks, in deteriorated condition, today:

Seven years before VE-Day, Nazi rally in Nuremberg, 1938: #Jaeger

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

3 May

Alf Landon is available for weddings, birthday parties and car wash openings to tell you how he really won the election of 1936 against FDR.

I won the ’36 election against FDR. By a lot. They’re finding new lost ballots in New York State all the time. It was fraud. A rigged election, and everybody knows it.

Opening acts for the former President at his early-bird-dinner performance tonight should be Joey Heatherton, Tiny Tim and Charo.

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

1 May

“It’s About Time” (1966) lasted only one season but had a catchy theme song:

"Will they ever get away? Watch each week and see! Will they be returning to — the twentieth century?"

Later in its only season (1966), “It’s About Time” followed cave people transported through time to modern Los Angeles:

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

26 Apr

American paratrooper drinks Hitler’s cognac on patio of his Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden, spring 1945: #NARA

In Leipzig, when American soldiers arrive, high-ranking Nazi general has chosen to depart this life next to his beloved photograph of Hitler, this week 1945:

Photographer Lee Miller poses in Hitler's Munich bathtub as Allies are on verge of Victory in Europe, this month 1945: #Getty

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

21 Apr

Library in Hartford, Connecticut, house of Mark Twain, who died today 1910:

Mark Twain might have felt at home in the upstairs Treaty Room at the White House. as restored by Jacqueline Kennedy, 1962: #JFKL

This is what the Treaty Room at the White House looked like under Eisenhower, before Jacqueline Kennedy transformed it: #JFKL

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