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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Cut one open to show them that there's just ice inside.
But, of course, he later realized that was the worst thing he could have done because one of them immediately said, how could anyone but a devil put so large a piece of ice through so small a place as that nozzle?
That's an excellent point.
Got to give it to him.
He was not convincing anybody that he was a normal human.
So, of course, they all thought he was some kind of Yankee spy.
So at this point, he's been arrested by these planters and these foremen out in the field.
And he's being taken into Unionville to go to jail because he's a spy.
And when he gets there, they can't put him in it because it's already packed with, quote, abolitionists.
Wow.
Okay.
So they take him to the hotel where they're going to put him in a room under armed guard.
Now, they do recognize, because he's on a top hat and tails, that he might be a man of some means or someone of importance.
And somebody does finally find some, like, local sort of erudite person who has heard of Thaddeus Lowe.
And so he vouches for him and keeps him out of jail for the day.
But word has spread.
And there's like a lynch mob there.
And they're out to get it.
And so his balloon is put on a train.
And then he separately has to go back to first Kentucky and then Cincinnati and then back east.
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