541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo
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Thank you for listening to The Rest Is History. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to series, and membership of our much-loved chat community, go to therestishistory.com and join the club. That is therestishistory.com. Hi, everybody. Dominic Sandbrook from The Rest Is History here. Now, as you can probably tell from the noise of the pool, I am joined by a friend of the show, Anthony Scaramucci, who is on his island, surrounded by the luxurious trappings of wealth. He is, of course, the host of The Rest Is Politics US. And Anthony and I have a very special announcement. on Sunday the 30th of March. Anthony is over in the UK and we have decided to do a live show together at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London. Haven't we, Anthony?
We have, you know, and thank God I'm not British because the Brits actually admire my American attitude about life. OK, but in any event, OK, it'd be the first time on stage with Dominic. I am very excited. We're going to be doing a show on U.S. political history called The Rest is Assassinations. From Lincoln to JFK, but Dominic and I both know on the 30th of March, 2025, it's the 44th anniversary of the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan. So there's not only assassinations here, which are terrible, but there's an attempted assassination, several of them, Dominic, right, throughout U.S. history. And so we're excited to go through this and what the impacts were on American history and global history.
Right. And there's so many great stories. So, obviously, JFK, you and I disagree about JFK because I, of course, think it was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and you think differently. But there are other stories. You mentioned attempted assassinations. So, for example, FDR. FDR was almost shot before his inauguration in 1933. And that's an attempted assassination that really could have changed the course of history because no FDR. Does the United States still enter the Second World War? Does the story of the 20th century play out completely differently? So... There is so much to talk about, and I'm really, really looking forward to doing it. What are you looking forward to most, Anthony?
Well, I mean, all of that, but I want to delve into a little bit of the Secret Service and some of the men in that service. Clint Hill is still alive. He was riding alongside of Jackie and John Kennedy on the 22nd of November of 1963. And we'll talk about what he saw. We'll talk about what other events. agents have written about recently. And of course, now that Donald Trump is releasing the JFK assassination files, I think there'll be a lot to talk about there. I think people coming to the show are going to learn things that have never been said or heard before.
To the listeners, if you're not excited by that, I don't know what would excite you, frankly. So the good news is pre-sale tickets are available this Friday, the 21st of February from 10 o'clock in the morning, exclusively for our Rest Is History Club members. You will get an email with the link before the sale begins. And if you're not a member of the Rest Is History Club, just go to therestishistory.com to sign up and to get your email with the link.
General sale for this event will be open to the public on Monday, the 24th of February at 10 a.m. U.K. time. We'll send out the link to our mailing list in the morning, as well as posting it on the Rest Is History and the Rest Is Politics U.S. 's social media feeds.
So if you're a patriotic Brit who loves the special relationship, if you're an American living in London, or if you're an American who just loves getting on planes across the Atlantic to see the very highest quality entertainment, we absolutely expect to see you there in the West End on Sunday, the 30th of March. And to tell you the truth, what I'm really hoping is that on the night, Anthony will finally reveal the truth about behind the JFK assassination.
Well, I'm probably going to Guantanamo for many reasons, Dominic, but that would be probably the top one. But anyway, we hope to see you there. I think you'll learn a lot. There'll be a lot of insight we'll provide and also provide great context on American and British and global history.
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