The Awful April Podcast

Join host Craig Wall as we explore what is generally considered the worst foreign policy failure in U.S. history--The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Join host Craig Wall as we hear the story of one of the worst disasters in American history through the eyes of those who witnessed it--April 18, 1906: The Great San Francisco Earthquake.

Two Awful April dates joined together by history and tragedy.  Join host Craig Wall as we look at the events of April 19, 1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord and April 15, 2013:  The Boston Marathon Bombing.

Shootings, hangings, conspiracies, curses, ghosts and TV game shows!  It's a jam packed edition as we wrap up our series on April 14, 1865:  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

A single gunshot would change the course of American History.  But that moment in Ford's Theater was only the beginning.  Find out what happened next.
Join host Craig Wall as the story of April 14, 1865 continues.

What should have been a joyous, relaxing night at the theater instead turned tragic and would change the course of American History.
Relive the final day of Abraham Lincoln's life in Part 1 of April 14, 1865:  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

It is unquestionably one of the most important documents in American History and an argument could be made that it is one of the most important documents in World History.  The Declaration of Independence.  You might be familiar with some of it, but have you heard all of it?  Let's celebrate 250 by doing just that!

The first shots have been fired, what happens next?  Find out as we wrap up our first series on April 12, 1861:  The Attack on Fort Sumter.

"Somehow, our men had got the idea that South Carolina was the cause of all our troubles; her people were the first to fire on Fort Sumter, had been in a great hurry to precipitate the country into civil war..."
William Tecumseh Sherman
At 4:30am on April 12, 1861 Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter beginning what would become the deadliest conflict in American History.   How had the country reached that point?
Join host Craig Wall as he examines the origins of the rift that eventually exploded into war and meet the men who stood on the precipice of disaster.

Host Craig Wall tells the stories that have, historically, made April what T.S. Eliot called "the cruelest month."
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