Beyond the Classroom

Reggie Martell & Bill Holiday

A collection of historical events as viewed from betond a classroom. Topics vary from the JFK Assassination to the Troubles in Northern Ireland via the Civil Rights Movement, the Kent State shooting and more

  1. The Woman Who Warned: Rose Cheramie Predicts The Assassination of JFK

    19/12/2025

    The Woman Who Warned: Rose Cheramie Predicts The Assassination of JFK

    DR. MICHAEL MARCADES is the son of Rose Cherami, aka Melba Christine Youngblood Marcades. You have seen an incident in the early stages of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, with a delirious woman in a hospital bed sharing information about the impending assassination attempt on President Kennedy, BEFORE it happened. Dr. Michael Marcades heard of the JFK assassination at school and all students were sent home. For as long as Michael could remember, his mother, often referred to as Crit by family members, was a mysterious, purportedly troubled person, incapable of raising him full-time.  A few years before her young son entered first grade, Crit asked that her mama and papa rescue Michael from her dangerous lifestyle.  Tom and Minnie Youngblood became Michael's legal guardians.  After that, Michael seldom saw his mother.   On September 4, 1965 -- Michael's mother was murdered under cover of darkness.  She breathed her last in a tiny, mob-affiliated East Texas hospital. Hardly anyone noticed. Leading up to her funeral at a secluded cemetery outside Duncanville, adults whispered words of confusion and grief.  Michael was lost in conflicting, blurry thoughts.   Decades would pass before Michael unearthed truths regarding his mother's life and covered-up, murderous death, and her bizarre interconnectedness with the death of President John F. Kennedy. This podcast details the experiences of  Dr. Marcades, former college professor/music educator, ordained minister, who has discovered dozens of documents, many of which have rewritten salient "facts" about Rose Cherami and her undeniable connection to assassins, the drug world, nationwide prostitution, corrupt law enforcement individuals, MKUltra, Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, documented evidence of her foreknowledge of the assassination and her efforts to warn authorities before Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and her well-disguised murder two years later.

    1h 12m
  2. Bluegrass Champions, Oscars & The Legacy of Putney Folk

    30/11/2025

    Bluegrass Champions, Oscars & The Legacy of Putney Folk

    The Green Mountain Boys band from Putney, Vermont had formed in 1969 and performed in Craftsbury Common, Vermont on March 14, 1970. Banjo player, Bruce Stockwell, 14 years old, won the banjo contest that day.   Within a short time, news spread of the Green Mountain Boys and they caught the attention of Windham College students who were part of an early 1970s college funded Student Activities group. They included David W. Gray. We contacted David W. Gray, part of the group coordinating concerts at the college and in the tri-state area. According to Gray, “At Windham and student activities, we really wanted to do a large-scale Folk Festival, both Bruce (Bramson) and I, and a number of other people had gone to the Toronto Folk Festival. We were just absolutely blown away. It was amazing. It was incredible. We thought, we need to do that in Putney, and so we decided to call that Putney Folk, Putney Folk, the organization, was born. They needed a warm-up band. Enter the Green Mountain Boys. This podcast follows the careers of the Green Mountain Boys, today, The Stockwell Brothers Band, and David W. Gray – In 2015 David W. Gray received an Oscar (Gordon Sawyer Award) for his technological contributions to the motion picture industry. Officially – "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." A fabulous career and a long way from Student Activities at Windham College. The podcast puts David W. Gray together with Bruce and Barry Stockwell approximately 50 years after they last saw one another – to reminisce about how it all started and where it is today. The voices in the podcast are David W. Gray, Bruce Stockwell, Barry Stockwell, Bill Holiday, Lyle Holiday and, briefly, podcast producer, Reggie Martell.

    1h 11m
  3. I Killed JFK: The Story of Roscoe White

    26/11/2025

    I Killed JFK: The Story of Roscoe White

    J. Gary Shaw and Brian Edwards recently published, Admitted Assassin: Roscoe White and the Murder of President Kennedy. This podcast discusses the results of their research. Brian Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has interviewed many of the Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police and sheriff’s officers; Parkland doctors and medical personnel who were on duty at Bethesda Medical Center. He has given hundreds of presentations on the assassination and since 2001 was a regular presenter at the JFK Lancer Conference Mr. Edwards has extensive Law Enforcement Experience with the Lawrence Kansas Police Department, as a field training officer, accident investigator, counter-assault team, and instructor in the police academy. Edward’s research has been cited in numerous books, including Assassination Science (1998); Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000); The Zapruder Film (2003) and The Hoax of the Century (2004). He is co-author of Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John Kennedy. In 2018, Mr. Edwards collaborated with and appeared in Oliver Stone’s 4-hour documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. J. Gary Shaw is a first-generation assassination researcher and one of the leading experts on the case. Shaw began studying the case the day after it happened. In high school, Shaw met Jack Ruby who asked Shaw’s group to join the artist’s guild in Dallas. After Ruby shot Lee Oswald in the basement of police headquarters, Shaw began collecting every newspaper, magazine and book on the case. Shaw met Penn Jones, Jr. After reading Penn’s Forgive My Grief, Shaw bought two complete sets of the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission report. Shaw maintained a close relationship with Jones. Shaw began interviewing individuals directly connected to the case; Dallas Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig, Richard Carr, Gerry Hemming, Loran Hall and many others. In 1976, Shaw and Larry Ray Harris (1952-1996) published Cover-Up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy. Shaw is a co-founder/director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas. Shaw was chair of the ASK Conferences in Dallas and acted as a consultant on Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK. In 1992, Shaw co-wrote JFK: The Conspiracy of Silence with Dr. Charles Crenshaw. It was the number one seller on the New York Times list of paperbacks.

    1h 29m
  4. Clandestine America - People Who Don’t Exist Doing Things That Never Happened

    26/11/2025

    Clandestine America - People Who Don’t Exist Doing Things That Never Happened

    How to explain history when the officialdom disavows events and its agents? How do you explain history when history is composed of events that never happened carried out by people who never existed? You talk to their kids. This is the story of Clandestine America, where a German teenager is impregnated by Fidel Castro and subsequently tortured psychologically by the CIA in a successful effort to recruit her as an assassin. Who did they want her to assassinate? The great love of her life, Fidel Castro. It is the story of an assassin’s daughter, the self-appointed guardian of her only parent who likely foiled an attempt on her mother’s life by discharging a pistol on the street in New York City. It is the story of a Connecticut woman whose father left home one day when she was a teenager and was never seen again. He never existed. His job? Doing things that never happened.  But students are always more understanding than adults think. Did they know Fidel Castro had just taken power in Cuba? That JFK would soon be elected president? That the civil rights movement was about to change the United States forever? And that newly enlisted Marines would soon be sent to Vietnam? No, but they would soon learn about their country, their parents' seminal roles in its history, and how the US treats the children of people who never existed. In this episode, they attempt to tell their parents’ stories.

    1h 26m

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A collection of historical events as viewed from betond a classroom. Topics vary from the JFK Assassination to the Troubles in Northern Ireland via the Civil Rights Movement, the Kent State shooting and more