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September 11, 2024 56 mins

Our sixth episode is all about gossip columnist and radio news commentator Walter Winchell.

Created by: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes

Hosts: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes

Producers: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes

Editors: Krys Melo, Madison Reyes

Researchers: Krys Melo, Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes

Writer: Krys Melo, Madison Reyes

Music Supervisor: Krys Melo

Recorded at: The Invisible Studios

Theme Song: Typewriter Song - Mac Taboel


 

Music:


 

Epidemic Sound:

The Hipcat Swagger-Ritchie Everett

With a Light Heart-Ofelia Moore

Bring the Bagels-Ofelia MooreIn

Other Words-Ofelia Moore

Wicked Man-Martin Landstrom

Kill Your Darlings-Martin Landstrom

Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone-Franz Gordon

All Good Things Come in Threes-Ritchie Everett

Trenchcoats-Roosier


 

Research Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/walter-winchell-biographical-timeline/15619/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/walter-winchell-documentary/16953/

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Walter_Winchell

https://www.jewage.org/wiki/ru/Article:Walter_Winchell_-_Biography

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86h4kj8/

https://www.wearebroadcasters.com/radio100/moments/49.asp

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/10/walter-winchell-he-snooped-to-conquer/

https://www.americanheritage.com/walter-winchell

https://archives.nypl.org/the/21480

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/18/arts/he-turned-gossip-into-tawdry-power-walter-winchell-who-climbed-high-fell-far.html

https://www.amazon.com/Winchell-Gossip-Power-Culture-Celebrity/

https://people.howstuffworks.com/15-terms-popularized-by-walter-winchell.htm

https://publicism.info/biography/impresario/8.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gallop

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-german-american-bund-confessions-of-a-nazi-spy/

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/18/books/books-of-the-times-of-winchell-and-the-power-of-gossip.html

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775927,00.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20081113142947/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802020,00.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/21/archives/walter-winchell-is-dead-on-coast-at-742.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/b


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