Ouija Board

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Press Democrat article about the murder of Ernest Turley

Georgia:

The Ouija Board inspired murder of Ernest Turley

Episode sources:

1. “10 Chilling Crimes Involving Ouija Boards” by Lauren Cahn (Reader’s Digest)

2. “DOROTHEA TURLEY” by Meghan Barrett Cousino (The National Registry of Exonerations)

3. “Ideomotor phenomenon” (Wikipedia)

4.  “’Kill Your Daddy’ Said the Ouija Board–So I Did!” (The San Francisco Examiner)

5. “Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Boards Part 9)” by Chris Amandier (Buried Secrets Podcast)

6. “Mattie Turley to Take Stand” (Arizona Republic)

7. “Mattie Turley Wins Freedom” (The Arizona Daily Star)

8. “Mrs. Turley to Get New Trial” (The Arizona Daily Star)

9. “Ouida” (Wikipedia)

10.  “Ouija” (Wikipedia)

11. “Ouija Girl Sentence Due Today” (Arizona Republic)

12. “Patents” (World Intellectual Property Organization)

13. “Tap! Tap! New Echoes of the Weird Ouija Mystery” by Jack Martin (The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune)

14. “THE HISTORY BEHIND THE OUIJA BOARD IS BOTH PURE AND EVIL” by Tai Gooden (Nerdist)

15. “The Ouija board's mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death” by Baynard Woods (The Guardian)

16. “The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board” by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (Smithsonian Magazine)

17. “Turley v. State of Arizona, 59 P.2d 312 (Ariz. 1936)” by Alfred C. Lockwood (Arizona Supreme Court through Free Law Project)

Karen:

Paul Ohtaki and the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

Episode sources:

1. “Pre WWII – First Japanese Immigrants on Bainbridge Island” (Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community)

2. Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (BIJAC) website

3. “In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story” by Mary Woodward

4. “Bainbridge Island: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in WWII” by Podcasts with Park Rangers: A National Parks Podcast (2018)

5. “Remembering Paul Ohtaki” (Bainbridge Island Review) 2008

6. “Nidoto Nai Yoni (Let It Not Happen Again)”  (PBS)

7. “First Island Baby at Manzanar Born” by Paul Ohtaki (Bainbridge Review) 1942

8. “Allen, Seized in Raid, Released to Manzanar” by Paul Ohtaki (Bainbridge Review) 1942

9. “Only What We Can Carry Project” (Bainbridge Island School District)

10. “Behind the Wire” Library of Congress 

11. “Evacuation” (BIJAC)

12. “Paul Ohtaki” (Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project) 2008

13. “Walt and Milly Woodward” (Densho Encyclopedia)

14. “Walt and Milly Woodward” (BIJAC)

15. “The Friendship That Made Island History” (Bainbridge Island Review) 2004

16. “Manzanar” (Read the Plaque)

17. “The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial” (National Park Service)

18. “Manzanar National Historic Site” (CIPDH)

19. “Federal Bureau of Investigation (Densho Encylopedia)

20. “Natural Beauty” (Bainbridge Island)

21. “Homicide in camp” (Densho Encyclopedia)

22. “Perhaps It Was the Sun, But Spartans Looked Lazy” (Bainbridge Review) 1942

23. “Japanese American internment” (Britannica) 2023

24. “Teaching Japanese-American Internment Using Primary Resources” by Marjorie Backman and Michael Gonchar (New York Times) 2017

25. Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942)

26. “Bainbridge Island” (University of Washington Libraries)

27. “Walt Woodward Interview” (Densho Digital Archive) 1998

28. “Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps” (Digital Public Library of America)

29. “Manzanar riot/uprising” (Densho Encyclopedia)

30. “Remarks on Signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians” (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum) 1988

31. “From Wrong To Right: A U.S. Apology For Japanese Internment” by Bilal Queresh (NPR) 2013

32. “Why Dr. Seuss got away with anti-Asian racism for so long” by Taylor Weik (NBC News)  2021

33. “5 Examples of Anti-Japanese Propaganda During World War Two” by Lucy Davidson (HistoryHit) 2021

Lightless skyline of New York City during the 1977 blackout (Copy)

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People walking during the New York City blackout, July 13, 1977 (Copy)

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