The John Batchelor Show

Sunday 5 January 2014

Air Date: 
January 05, 2014

Photo, above:  Deluxe engraved Tiffany gripped Colt 1860. See Hour 2, Blocks A & B: Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel by Joanna Hershon (1 of 2)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 1, Block B: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel by Joanna Hershon (2 of 2)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Benjamin Busch (1 of 2)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Benjamin Busch (2 of 2)

Hour Two

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 2, Block A: Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler (1 of 2)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 2, Block B: Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler (2 of 2)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 2, Block C: Michael Phillips, WSJ, in re:  (1 of 2)

                  The Lobotomy Files: Family Scars 
To this day, families remain torn over their role, a  half-century ago, in setting the fate of brothers, fathers, loved ones;...

                  

Video: The Lobotomy Files: The Story of Emil Kauzalarich 
In an excerpt from a WSJ special report, Frances Malzahn, niece of WWII veteran Emil Kauzlarich, talks about how her uncle...

                  

Video: The Lobotomy Files: The Story of Melbert Peters 
In an excerpt from a WSJ special report, Bea Cooper, niece of WWII veteran Melbert Peters, talks about how her uncle was...

                  

Video: The Lobotomy Files: The Story of Harvey Bailey 
In an excerpt from a WSJ special project, David Nigro, son of WWII veteran Harvey Bailey talks about how his father was given...

                  

Video: The Lobotomy Files: The Story of Eugene Kainulainen 
In an excerpt from a WSJ special project, Edna Schauer, sister of WWII veteran Eugene Kainulainen talks about how her brother...

                  The Lobotomy Files: One Doctor's Legacy 
How one of the most divisive figures in American medical history, Walter Freeman, steered the VA toward his view on lobotomies;...

                  The Lobotomy Files: A Descent Into Madness 
Wealth of forgotten papers detail Leonard Kingcade's journey from railroadman, to soldier, to Japanese POW, to lobotomized...

                  The Lobotomy Files: Forgotten Soldiers 
A cache of musty documents lost to memory exposes a time when the U.S. lobotomized some 2,000 veterans. The nation forgot...

                  

Video: Inside WSJ's 'The Lobotomy Files' Special Project 
WSJ reporter Michael Phillips discusses how he uncovered the nearly forgotten story of hundreds of WWII veterans that were...

                  

Video: The Lobotomy Files: Inside the Mind of Roman Tritz, Veteran Lobotomized by the VA. 
Roman Tritz was one of thousands of WWll veterans who were lobotomized by the Veterans Administration. The nation forgot...

Friday  13 December  2013 / Hour 3, Block D: Michael Phillips, WSJ, in re: Family Scars To this day, the families of lobotomized U.S. veterans remain torn over their role, a half-century ago, in setting the fate of brothers, fathers, loved ones. "I loved him so," one sister says.

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Michael Phillips, WSJ, in re:  Lobotomy file (2 of 2)

Hour Three

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia by RADM Terry McKnight USN (Ret.) and Michael Hirsh (1  of  4)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 3, Block B: Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia by RADM Terry McKnight USN (Ret.) and Michael Hirsh (2  of  4)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia by RADM Terry McKnight USN (Ret.) and Michael Hirsh (3  of  4)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia by RADM Terry McKnight USN (Ret.) and Michael Hirsh (4  of  4)

Hour Four

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns by John P. Avlon, Jesse Angelo and Errol Louis (1 of 4)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns by John P. Avlon, Jesse Angelo and Errol Louis (2 of 4)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 4, Block A: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel by Joanna Hershon (1 of 2)

Sunday 5  January  2014 / Hour 4, Block B: A Dual Inheritance: A Novel by Joanna Hershon (2 of 2)