It should have made front page headlines all over the country and the world. After years of planning Philippe Petit pulled off what Time magazine would call the "Artistic Crime of the Century". Instead of being in the news for weeks, it was barely noticed outside of New York City. What history changing event was being discussed by everyone all over the nation? Find out in this episode of Top Fold!
Top Fold is dedicated to, "All the news that would have been". What does that mean? That means that on 9/11, or when the Hindenburg exploded, or Elvis Presley died, 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? 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 S2 Ep 3 High Rise and Fall
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/30/archives/aerialist-a-hit-in-central-park.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF9l5RNsNWo (Man on Wire, 2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zZVQPaKKQ (TED Talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BouCsOqMzEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJWSQlEzrY CBS news August 8, 1974
https://ny.curbed.com/2015/9/30/9916096/world-trade-center-philippe-petit-the-walk
https://allthatsinteresting.com/philippe-petit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwbil5puqng news story about Petit
https://france-amerique.com/en/philippe-petit-the-last-sky-poet/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/newyork-tightrope/
https://gothamist.com/news/why-new-yorkers-couldnt-stand-the-twin-towers
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/30/archives/aerialist-a-hit-in-central-park.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/080974-3.htm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
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