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Bill Kurtis

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  1. “Well, at that time, which was the early sixties when I started. CBS News, the networks were still using radio personality. The Murrow boys had just come back from World War II and they were establishing Fred-friendly claims that he established some of the techniques that we are still using, a reverse shot in an interview like this.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “You know, the greatest beginning to his story is once upon a time. And from there, as Don Hewitt of sixty minutes used to say, just tell me a story. Right. And suddenly you're captivated and drawn in, you forget about the world around you, and you're able to, and you know, some of the leading defense attorneys will say that in their closing arguments they try to be like a six o'clock anchor in which you condense. And tell it either chronologically or really interesting, so that the jury remembers, I don't remember six weeks of evidence, but here's our story. Remember this.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “He did. He said you have the ability to make these things interesting. And it's the voice, yes, but it's also telling a story. So here he was, you would think these guys are knee deep, you know, in the opinions that they are ready to write. But even they, sitting on a bench, probably are so bored. All day”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Dramatically than yours, I suspect. But I went down when I was on my 16th birthday, got a work permit, and I went to work at the radio station, the only one in town, Independence, Kansas population 10,000. And I was able to work two three years in the most formative period of probably any job just soaked up everything, had a very good boss who became a mentor. And I was doing everything from announcing preachers who came across the Oklahoma border and just stood and let the word pass through them, stood in front of a microphone to Little League baseball and basketball. And I wanted to do it all touch on it all. So by the time I got to college, University of Kansas and then on to law school, I had enough experience that I could go to the commercial station instead of the student station.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “When I turned 16, I know exactly the time. And at that period in your life, your voice is changing. And it wasn't deep as it is today.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yes, it's now called the Little House in the Prairie Museum. And when we say we emphasize little. I wouldn't drive out of my way to go down.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “They headed to Kansas. Almost Almanzo head south to ranch or farm where they knew he had some stored wheat and talked him into giving them some wheat, took it back in the blizzard, and saved the town, and they would mix the wheat with water, and then fry these little things on whatever they could, but they didn't even have firewood. It was so difficult. And then they ultimately said, got to get out of here and took the wagon down to Kansas. They only stayed a year, but boy did she ultimately benefit from that.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “250 people and they had their little ramshackle houses clinging to the frontier. That was the frontier and all trying to grow and make it. They were dying. They were being frozen out and starving.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Was the most difficult thing I have ever heard, and most of them, the frontier people who were promised free land, and got it when they went out their hundred and sixty acres or paid a dollar and a quarter, the railroads needed farmers to grow produce that they could then make money on by shipping them back to the east. But there are incidents in other grasshoppers really did come in and can wipe out a crop. And there were no tractors in the day, so you had a mule. And a plough horse, and you could maybe handle a couple acres. There was one story, Laura Ingolds, Wilder, Almanzo, Wilder was her husband, they were young and in dismet, which is sort of the old home place in South Dakota and a blizzard hit, and it was minus forty two degrees. And the whole town, which was like Chicago.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “In Livy on the Frontier. There's a new book out called Prairie Fires, and it's sort of the other chapter which is telling the truth. Laura's book is fiction, and it was a collection of her anecdotes. But Prairie Fires is really nailed down. And together you get a field. It's not the romantic crawling through the tunnels of the tall grasses trying to find rabbits. And they're the kindly Indians that are dancing down by the...”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Caldelhaus in the prairie. It is the historical site of when Laura, the Charlie Engels family, came from Dismet, South Dakota down the border of Missouri, and then across. To the south it was Indian territory at the time eighteen seventy two. Built himself a log cabin on what was Osage Indian Reservation and the true story is that he got in there before he should have and ultimately was kicked off the reservation because he knew that the railroads were pushing let's open up and move these Indians south. And it now has good research, and it was nailed down by the state historians. We have built a replica cabin, moved my grandmother's one-room schoolhouse on it. And Laura, it was most popular of about eight books in the series. It has become the iconic story of the frontier.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Well, I was ten, and whether it was, you know, hard to spell K-U-R-E-T-I-C-H or too much associated with an Eastern Nazi. They were not They had joined, I think, there in the Slavic country, Yugoslavia. So I don't know. I know my mother wanted to change it.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “So one by one the fighter planes came in. And as the last one came around, released the 500-pound bomb, it skipped, and landed right in the headquarters tent of the American unit there. And it was the only one among the 15 that was a dud. And with that, you talk about the great events that will determine success or failure. He would have been gone if that had gone off. But instead, he was seen as something of a hero attached to a general in charge, and then stayed in the Marines.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “He sent 15 squadron units in a squadron, and they ran into weather and they couldn't drop the bombs, so instead of dropping them into the sea, he called the guys at 27th Corps and he said, well, do you have secondary targets? You know, have 500-pound bombs on 15 fighter planes. Could you use them? And they said, as a matter of fact, yes, it's a little risky, but we're going to take the chance. Maybe you will. And the Japanese had mortars on sort of on the other side of a mountain that we couldn't hit with our artillery. And they had pinned down our forces for about four days. They said we just can't break it. Now, if you can send your planes Against our lines, that's what's tricky about it. You usually don't do that because you're taking a big chance. We'll take the chance.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “It was a great ladder out of a very small town in Kansas. He did go to college, and then decided because it was in the middle of the depression around thirty six to join. He wanted to fly and had a great talent for flying and became an instructor. So when World War II broke out, he was in Pensacola and Quantico and instructing young men how to fly. About 1944, he finally shipped off to Okinawa and was Heading up a unit attached to the 27th Corps for close air support. They were developing actually the use of fighter planes flying over our front lines against the troops, which was another tool. You had artillery, and now you had aerial bombardment.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “And so those who wanted a future jumped on the boat and came over. And they, interesting, they found a part of America that looked like home. The Germans went to Wisconsin for the beer. And the Croatians and others and Germans and Poles went west to find the wheatland. Like the Ukraine. And my grandmother was Ukrainian, married the Croatian, and flat as a pancake. I went over there and I went to Chernobyl. I was the first guy back in from the US TV crowd.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “I'm not sure that I know for sure, but most of that eastern wave, especially of young men, came around World War I. And before that, the Tsar was conscripting, you know, folks for his army. I think around 1912, a little before the war broke out.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “You do. It's divided not so much now. I mean now it's Hispanic black white, if you will. But in the old days when the port of entry... I was on North Avenue in the polls, you can still see the Polish newspaper signs up on the buildings, and then they would move. I remember Saul, who worked here. Yes. You know, used to bemoan the fact of the Russian baths. That he was fond of were finally had passed on off Armitage, I think.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Well, he was. I laugh a little bit because everybody's talking about immigration and we're a nation of immigrants. And it never dawned on me that, oh my God, I'm like one generation away from immigrants from Croatia. And I was so green coming from the Midwest in Kansas, where everybody just is in the melting pot, truly, that I had to call him. When I got to Chicago, I called my dad and I said, what am I? Everybody here, you know, has a nationality.”

    2019-02-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source