It Was Said
It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the orator, and the context of the times each speech was given, and they reflect on why it?s important to never forget them.
It Was Said is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, in association with The HISTORY® Channel.
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Theodore Roosevelt, Man In The Arena
Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris, outlines the vital role and responsibility of the ordinary citizen in a republic.
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2022-10-05Link to episode
John F. Kennedy, We Choose To Go To The Moon
John F. Kennedy delivers a historic speech at Rice University on his daring and uncertain mission to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
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2022-09-28Link to episode
Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour
Confronted with the impending threat of Nazi invasion, Winston Churchill outlines the stakes of the war and rallies the British people to fight on against seemingly insurmountable odds.
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2022-09-28Link to episode
Welcome to It Was Said, Season 2, with Jon Meacham
Welcome to Season Two of It Was Said, a documentary podcast series that looks back on 10 of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author-historian, Jon Meacham, created, directed and produced by C13Originals Studios, in association with HISTORY Channel.
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2022-09-22Link to episode
John F. Kennedy, A Summons To Service
Ep 10: On a bright and snowy morning a young president summons a nation and a generation to the work of history with his enduring inaugural address.
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2020-10-28Link to episode
John Lewis, We Want Our Freedom Now
Ep 9: A twenty three year old John Lewis, speaking at the March On Washington, calls a nation to moral account. He didn?t want to be patient, he said. He wanted freedom now.
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2020-10-21Link to episode
Hillary Clinton, Women?s Rights Are Human Rights
Ep 8: In the tradition of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Beijing to argue that women?s rights are human rights, setting new global priorities.
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2020-10-14Link to episode
Barbara Jordan, Your Keynote Speaker
Ep 7: A daughter of the segregated south, Barbara Jordan, keynotes the Democratic National Convention of 1976. It was America?s bicentennial, and Jordan was a voice born in one nation speaking to the hopes of a better nation to come.
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2020-10-07Link to episode
Edward R. Murrow Fights for Free Press
Ep 6: A demagogic politician, exaggerated claims, an insatiable thirst for attention and controversy, and a national climate of fear and anxiety. How Edward R. Murrow took on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Special thanks to The Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University Libraries
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2020-09-30Link to episode
Ronald Reagan?s Farewell Address
Ep 5: Ronald Reagan brings his long American odyssey to a close in his presidential farewell address, an evocation of America as a shining city on a hill. A nation that builds not walls but bridges.
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2020-09-23Link to episode
Meghan McCain, and Her Father?s America
Ep 4: Meghan McCain delivers a provocative eulogy for her father, the war hero and senator, John McCain, at Washington National Cathedral. It was a speech at once elegiac and resonant in the age of Trump.
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2020-09-16Link to episode
President Obama's Charleston Sermon
Ep 3: Barack Obama goes to Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of a white supremacist?s massacre of innocents at Emanuel AME Church. In word and in song the 44th President contemplates tragedy and grace.
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2020-09-09Link to episode
RFK, A Eulogy for King
Ep 2: Robert Kennedy learns of the MLK Jr.?s assassination while in route to a campaign event in inner city Indianapolis. He breaks the news to an unsuspecting crowd, delivering a spontaneous and empathetic eulogy for the apostle of nonviolence.
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2020-09-02Link to episode
MLK Jr., The Last Speech
Ep 1: In one of the most tumultuous moments in American history, Martin Luther King Jr. travels to Memphis to address the issue of racial and economic injustice. With eloquent language and brilliant rhetoric, he creates a mosaic of the ongoing Civil Rights struggle, culminating with a fearless and defiant premonition.
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2020-09-02Link to episode
Welcome to It Was Said, with Jon Meacham
Welcome to Season One of It Was Said, a documentary podcast series that looks back on 10 of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author-historian, Jon Meacham, created, directed and produced by C13Originals Studios, in association with HISTORY Channel.
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2020-08-11Link to episode