Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he believed, as did others, that up in the upper atmosphere, there was supposed to be this consistent west to east wind.
This is not necessarily even close to true, but it was the theory at the time.
Cincinnati became sort of the balloon beginning center.
I mean, a lot of balloonists would come there and try out their balloons.
The Cincinnati Gazette actually had hired a Mr. J.C.
Bellman as their first official, quote, balloon editor.
There were several days of festivities, like Lowe gave an address at the opera house, and there were parties and so on.
But finally, this big night comes.
He shows up in classic sort of American style.
He's in a stovepipe hat, the kind of Lincoln wore.
He's in a broadcloth coat, which we would recognize it as like tuxedo tails.
And late toward the end of the evening, his assistants come in and say, the winds are moving east.
It's time to go.
So he gets in there with like, you know, bottles of water and food and brand new wet inky copies of the Cincinnati paper so that when he arrives, he can prove that he was in Cincinnati that morning.
Yeah.
And he cuts loose and then poof, he just disappears into the night.
It's even sort of a mystery to him as to what he would find when he went up this high at night.
Of course, remember, this is before the invention of the electric bulb.
So when night fell, it was a night.
So he could look down a mile or two or three, and of course, he saw nothing.
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