President Reagan could communicate like no other. It would take skills that even he didn't know he had to assure the country that everything would be alright. What happened that made him totally change his prepared remarks just hours before he was to go before Congress and the nation?
Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on the day JFK was assassinated, the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died other news events were on peoples’ minds, in the headlines and on the evening news, but after this event, headlines were replaced and stories fell below the fold.
What event happened that was huge but wasn’t talked about because something else monumental took the headlines or top story? The name of the podcast comes from a combination of "TOP Story" and "Above the FOLD" - TOP FOLD.
Original music by David "Beezer" Wagler.
Sources for Episode 6 I'm Speechless
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_television_programs_of_1956%E2%80%9357
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_filmography
https://history.house.gov/Institution/SOTU/State-of-the-Union/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_State_of_the_Union_Address
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/06/us/white-house-introducingthe-ghostly-speechwriters.html
https://www.history.com/news/state-of-the-union-explained
https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-challenger-shuttle-disaster
https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster