“An Awesometalk With” DR. EDWARD STEERS, JR. – historian & author

For full interview, click link below (running time 46:20)

Dr. Edward Steers Jr Interview 08-Mar-10

or click Part 1 – 4 below for specific sections of the interview.

Part 1 – E. Steers Interview – Intro & Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia 13min30sec

Part 2 – E. Steers Interview – WWII Fiction Novels 6min56sec

Part 3 – E. Steers Interview – Great Historical Hoaxes 16min45sec

Part 4 – E. Steers Interview – Research, Science, History & Writing 9min30sec

INTERVIEW: DR. EDWARD STEERS, JR.

by Barry Cauchon

I am pleased to present my interview with Dr. Edward Steers, Jr., prominent Lincoln Assassination author, historian and researcher. We discuss his two latest books, “The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia” and his first fictional novel, a WWII drama called “We’ll Meet Again: A Story of Love and Intrigue in the Midst of War.” This novel reflects his interest in the subject of WWII, having previously published the non-fiction book “Don’t You Know There’s a War On?”

Our interview also covers another favorite subject of Dr. Steers, that being the great historical hoaxes perpetrated on the world along with some of the ridiculous stories and conspiracy theories put forth over the years. Dr. Steers covers hoaxes such as the Piltdown Man, Mark Hofmann and the Oath of a Freeman, the Hitler Diaries, the faked transcript of a phone call from Churchill to FDR warning of the imminent attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and the hoax of The Man Who Never Was!

The Piltdown Man hoax

Mark Hofmann and the Oath of a Freeman hoax

The Hitler Diaries hoax

The phone call transcript from Churchill to FDR warning him that the Japanese were about to attack Pearl Harbor...hoax

... and the ridiculous!

Finally, we discuss the subject of research, how it has changed over the years and what experts require to take new research seriously.

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Steers and read more about the books he has authored, please follow this link to www.edsteers.com or type in ed steers author into your favorite search engine.

Enjoy.

Best

Barry

outreach@awesometalks.com

WHY IS PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ON THE DIME?

December 19, 2008: Barry Cauchon

The Roosevelt dime was first issued in 1946, the year after FDR's death in 1945.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States who was elected to four consecutive terms in the White House. He became President in 1933 and served until the beginning of his 4th term when he died in office on April 12, 1945. During his entire presidency, Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down due to polio. What many people do not know is that he contracted the disease in August, 1921 (a full 12 years before he became President). Roosevelt, his family and staff did an amazing job to conceal his paralysis from the public and many citizens never even knew that he suffered from the affliction. However, this did not stop him from looking for a cure.

A rare picture of Roosevelt in a wheelchair. Very few were taken of him this way.

After he became President, Roosevelt  regularly spoke on behalf of finding a cure for polio and encouraged people to go out and collect on its behalf. He believed that if every person in the country donated just one dime, a cure could be found for the disease. He founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which would later be called the March of Dimes due to his ‘dime collection’  program).

Roosevelt was conscious of the financial stress that the country had been under due to the Great Depression, so he encouraged the people of the United States to donate just one dime to the cause. He reasoned that if everyone in the country donated just one dime, it would help to find the cure. And his efforts paid off. The funds from the March of Dimes program were used for research that eventually lead to vaccines which completely wiped out polio throughout most of the world.

Alas, Roosevelt did not live to see the success of his campaign as the cure was not be found until 10 years after his death. Interestingly, on April 12, 1955, on the 10th anniversary of FDR’s death, Jonas Salk announced to the world that a cure for polio had been found and they would shortly begin inoculations using the new vaccines. By 1957, inoculations had begun and the fight to eradicate polio was on.

So why is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s image on the face of the US dime (10 cent piece)?

After Roosevelt’s death, the US Mint and US Government decided to commemorate his life on a coin. The reason the dime was chosen was two fold. First, the country wanted to honor the late President by remembering that he had served his country for 12 years and successfully brought them through the Great Depression and World War II. The second reason was to celebrate his efforts to find a cure for polio through the March of Dimes campaign.

Another writer put it this way. 

“And that is the reason Franklin is on the dime. He’s not on the twenty-dollar bill, or something fancy. He’s on the dime. He’d love that, because a dime is something everybody can have in their pocket. It’s not a thousand-dollar bill, it’s the dime. And it connects him to polio and to the March of Dimes, which is still doing all this amazing work for spinal cord injury today all over the world. Franklin created the March of Dimes. And so his legacy is just huge”.

Best

Barry

outreach@awesometalks.com