High Rise and Fall - Season 2 Episode 3

01/20/21 • 16 min

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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.htmlhttps://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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes#The_%22smoking_gun%22_tape

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/071773-1.htm

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes#The_%22smoking_gun%22_tape

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/071773-1.htm

Previous Episode

Out of Nowhere - Season 2 Episode 2

What if you heard that Martians were invading the world? Within hours New York City was gone, death and devastation coming across the radio airways. And that still wasn't the biggest story of the week?

When the 23 year-old phenom Orson Welles broadcast across the radio airways his adaptation of War of the Worlds - many feared for their lives, and the entire newspaper industry aimed to end his career. It didn’t look good. Then, EVERYTHING changed in a minute. What took the headlines away from Welles and quite possibly saved not only his program, but his entire profession?

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 2 Out of Nowhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles_filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism#Copernican_heliocentrism
https://faculty.virginia.edu/rwoclass/astr121/mars-in-popular-culture.html
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/milwaukee-history/milwaukee-didnt-panic-over-orson-welles/#/questions
http://www.jimramsburg.com/the-1938-39-season.html
http://tbgreats.com/seabiscuit/rr.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Admiral
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Seabiscuit
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/nov/01/seabiscuit-war-admiral-horse-race-1938-pimlico
https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2016-seabiscuit-true-rags-riches-story
https://www.liveabout.com/seabiscuit-vs-war-admiral-3862278
http://tbgreats.com/seabiscuit/rr.html
https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/SANTA-ANITA-HANDICAP-Seabiscuit

Next Episode

Skating The Law - Season 2 Episode 4

Would you believe the arrest of a CIA double agent who spied for Russia and had at least ten foreign agents killed wasn't the headline story? What possibly could have had everyone's attention so that nothing else mattered? 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 4 Skating the Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames#:~:text=Aldrich%20Hazen%20Ames%20was%20arrested,for%20the%20Russians%20since%201985.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/02/24/even-a-mailbox-has-its-15-minutes-of-fame/4f3daacd-317d-4d15-b6ab-77f5ec68fbb4/

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/March-April-08/On-this-Day--Aldrich-Ames-Sentenced-for-Role-as-Double-Agent.html

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames#:~:text=Aldrich%20Hazen%20Ames%20was%20arrested,for%20the%20Russians%20since%201985

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/skater-nancy-kerrigan-attacked

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a15172746/tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan-timeline-scandal-hit/

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

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

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

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-10-23-9410230405-story.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2014/02/gif-guide-figure-skaters-jumps-olympics/357723/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA32W9t8YOU