Photo, above: Outside of Gaza, the IDF gathers for Operation Protective Edge. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 7 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn, FDD. Monday 7 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn, FDD. Analysis: Islamic State's 'caliph' leads...
Photo, above: Assassination of President Lincoln - The murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the President's box. - From a sketch by our Special Artist, Albert Berghaus. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 6, 1865 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour...
Photo, above: La Amistad (Spanish for "friendship") was a Nineteenth-Century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. While it was transporting Mende captives originally kidnapped in Sierra Leone from Havana, Cuba, in July 1839, the Africans took control of the...
Photo, above: Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Battlefield, Slaughter Pen. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the...
Graphic, above: A world map released by the "Islamic State" on Twitter shows the jihadist organization's 5-year plan to establish the Caliphate across the entire Middle East including Israel, North Africa, Spain, Greece, Pakistan, Georgia, China and parts of Russia. "The legality of all emirates,...
Photo, above: Chinese-North Korean border. See Hour 2, Block B, Bruce Bechtol, professor at Angelo State University, in Texas, and author of North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 2 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, associate...
Photo, above: Pillars of Qohaito, pre-Axumite monolithic columns in Qohaito, Eritrea; nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List. The Kingdom of Aksum, covering much of modern-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, rose somewhere around the first or second centuries and adopted Christianity by the time...
Photo, above: Last to leave Vietnam, April 1975: "US Marines throwing Vietnamese people back over the embassy wall." Extraordinary tale here. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, from WJR, "The Great Voice of the Great Lakes" Hour One Monday 30 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: ...
Photo, above: Young 2-year-old Lian from Gaza, who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, was admitted to Haifa hospital at the age of 7 months because of terminal renal failure. The corridors and treatment rooms of Rambam Medical Center are the only home Lian Barham has ever known. The 2-...
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 28 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro (1 of 8) Saturday 28 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and...