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Prof. Greg Jackson · 235 episodes with transcripts

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Spoken has transcripts of 235 History That Doesn't Suck episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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214: D-Day, Part I: From the First Quebec Conference to June 5, 1944

October 19, 2026

Greg Jackson (0:10)

It's a little after 3 in the afternoon, November 28th, 1943, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his entourage are just getting settled in at the gorgeous Yellow Mansion currently serving as the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Now, FDR had planned to stay elsewhere, but after a vague warning from Soviet…

Stalin gives a hearty laugh as the two men quickly jump to talking shop. Everything from the struggles on the Russian front, to Generalissimo, Shung Kai Shek, and General Charles de Gaulle. Yeah, if anything beyond defeating the Axis can bond these strange bedfellows, in many ways, the living embodiments of liberal…

SPEAKER_2 (3:09)

We represent here a concentration of great worldly power.

In our hands we have perhaps the responsibility for the shortening of this war. In our hands we have, too, the future of mankind. I pray that we may be worthy of this God-given opportunity.

Greg Jackson (3:32)

Franklin turns to Stalin. Perhaps our host would like to say a few words.

I take pleasure in welcoming those present. I think that history will show that this opportunity has been of tremendous import. Now let us get down to business. Down to business indeed. And Paramount among this business is one particular invasion. The very same invasion that George Marshall has fought tooth and nail…

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