Found Objects - a history podcast Katy Bellotte

At the peak of their existence, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was *the* crime fighting machine in the United States. They hired the first female detective, notoriously saved Abraham Lincoln from being killed on a train by dressing him in a disguise, among other feats. But, they admittedly had their flaws as well. However, without the Pinkertons' contributions to the industry, we would not have the CIA, FBI, and law enforcement as we know it today. 
SOURCES:
www.legendsofamerica.com/pinkertons/
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/james-agency/#:~:text=Scottish%20emigrant%20and%20abolitionist%20Allan,James%20brothers%2C%20and%20he%20failed
www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons. 
www.britannica.com/biography/Allan-Pinkerton.
www.britannica.com/event/Chartism-British-history.
www.intelligence.gov/evolution-of-espionage/civil-war/union-espionage/allan-pinkerton. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024. 

TW: mentions of su*cide
At the age of eight, Barbara Newhall Follett wrote her first novel, inventing her own mythical world and language. She was a published author by age 12. But, child prodigy Barbara Follett would go on to vanish without a trace. When she was 25, after a fight with her husband, she grabbed her coat, a notebook, and $30 in cash, and left their Boston home, never to be seen again. Today on Found Objects, I tell her story.
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SOURCES --
www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act.
blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20speople-investigating-the-strange-disappearance-of-mrs-agatha-christie/.
crimereads.com/what-happened-to-barbara-newhall-follett/.
www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf.
www.mentalfloss.com/posts/barbara-newhall-follett-author-mystery.
www.biography.com/authors-writers/virginia-woolf. 

During World War II, tens of thousands of priceless paintings, sculptures + other art mediums (think: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt…) were stolen by Nazi forces. Plucked off of walls, ripped out of the hands of private collectors, discarded in rubble, burned in bonfires.. and yet, today, many of the stolen works are safely and legally hanging on the walls of museums. How were these priceless artworks rescued? Enter: “Protect what’s left. Find what’s missing.” — That was the motto of the Monuments Men, a group of men and women who risked their lives during wartime to recover the stolen artwork. And today on Found Objects, I share their heroic, often unknown, story. 

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SOURCES:
allthatsinteresting.com/looted-okinawa-artifacts.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/degenerate-art-1.
www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/02/07/the-true-story-behind-the-monuments-men.
www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/provenance-research-resources/monuments-men. Accessed 12 Apr. 2024.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-monuments-men-180949569/.
www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/nazi-looted-art-1.
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/monuments-men.
historycollection.com/10-pieces-art-stolen-nazis-still-missing-today/.
www.dailyartmagazine.com/the-story-of-the-lost-raphaels-portrait-of-a-young-man/.
www.britannica.com/topic/Volk

Today on Found Objects, we explore one of the most famous (and most complicated) pair of sisters in history. Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill. Find out why Jackie left Lee out of her Will. TLDR; It’s an all-too-familiar tale of: she loves me… she loves me not.
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SOURCES:
www.vogue.com/article/weddings-jackie-kennedy-aristotle-onassis-katie-holmes.
www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/04/jackie-kennedy-lee-radziwill-sisterhood.
www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-jacqueline-b-kennedy. Accessed 6 Apr. 2024.
www.vogue.com/article/jackie-kennedy-wedding-to-john-f-kennedy.
www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a46587141/lee-radziwill-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-true-story/.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjT-WcZBpsc.

The strange tale of Patty Hearst is one fraught with a stealthy kidnapping, a supposed change of heart, a girl gone wild, and one of the longest FBI manhunts in recent history. Today on Found Objects, we will unpack the events of Patty’s life from 1974 to 1975, from the kidnapping of a helpless college student to a criminal capture. Did this heiress go from good girl to terrorist? Tune in to find out.
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SOURCES:
apnews.com/article/patty-hearst-kidnapping-anniversary-stockholm-syndrome-1e155ada27b2b0ab8940c2fc70d9b7d1
www.britannica.com/biography/Patty-Hearst
www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome
www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/patty-hearst#:~:text=They’d%20already%20shot%20two,newspaper%20magnate%20William%20Randolph%20Hearst.
people.com/archive/cover-story-the-california-heiress-turned-hostage-vol-17-no-4/.
content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,913456-7,00.html.
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/02/04/patty-hearst-kidnapping-50-years/.
www.npr.org/2016/08/03/488373982/whose-side-was-she-on-american-heiress-revisits-patty-hearst-s-kidnapping.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to the 1970’s and consider where some experts think obsessive consumerism really began. Who remembers Cabbage Patch Kids? Cabbage Patch dolls? The story behind these dolls and their rise to popularity is wild. Things got.. dangerous. There’s magic, intrigue and lawsuits involved in today’s episode of Found Objects. 

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SOURCES:
Bird, David. “‘Adoptable’ Dolls Aren’t Having Any Trouble Finding Homes.” New York Times, 29 Nov. 1983, p. 17.
cabbagepatchkids.com/pages/our-history
www.usatoday.com/story/life/shopping/2024/01/04/winter-pink-starbucks-x-stanley-cups-are-selling-out-at-target-where-to-buy-in-delaware/72105916007/
wpde.com/news/nation-world/reliving-the-cabbage-patch-doll-craze-of-1983-zayre-walmart-dolls-mob-coleco-christmas-new-york
www.fastcompany.com/90981007/cabbage-patch-kids-billion-dollar-babies-andrew-jenks
www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2024/01/13/stanley-cup-obsession-explained/72176008007/
www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/23/billion-dollar-babies-cabbage-patch-kids-documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSk84zU1RuM
www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/04/whats-up-with-the-stanley-cups/72108927007/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-12-mn-5746-story.html