Cold War Conversations Podcast Transcripts
Ian Sanders · 487 episodes with transcripts
"Listening to even one episode of "Cold War Conversations" will make this sprawling, potentially intimidating period of history feel vivid and compelling." The New York Times Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast.
Spoken has transcripts of 487 Cold War Conversations episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 16, 2026.
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Latest Cold War Conversations transcripts
What did Jacqueline Kennedy privately believe about the JFK Assassination?
October 16, 2026
Ian Sanders (0:00)
Welcome to Cold War Conversations, the home of real stories of the Cold War.
Peter Lamas (0:06)
Most Dallas will share this with you.
People confide in you, they trust you. They will share secrets with you that they won't even tell their best friends. You're like a therapist. So when they sit in that chair and they are comfortable with you, they just open up.
Ian Sanders (0:25)
What did Jacqueline Kennedy privately believe happened in Dallas on the 22nd of November 1963? In the second part of Peter Lamas' extraordinary story, he recalls the trust he developed with the former First Lady while working as a personal hairstylist. During preparations for an event marking the 25th anniversary of…
The stories in this episode are from Peter's book, Jackie Kennedy's Stylist. There will be links in the episode information for you to purchase the book and support the podcast.
- What did Jacqueline Kennedy privately believe about the JFK Assassination?
- My Cuba Encounters with Hemingway, Batista, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
- From Mao's Red Guard to conscription into the Chinese People's Liberation Army
- The Birth of Poland's Free Trade Union Solidarity
- Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast
- If the Soviets Invaded : Sweden's Secret Underground Resistance Plan
- Bandit Country - The IRA and South Armagh
- A Czech Border Guard’s Daring Escape to the West
- Twenty-Six Years Apart: A Family Reunited Behind the Iron Curtain
- Announcing Cold War Conversations History Tours
- Between Two Air Forces: From East German Officer to German Captain
- Nuclear missile launch control and Mission Control for the NASA Apollo Moon Missions (260)
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