429: What if you didn't see the signs? [Rebroadcast #247]

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What is Bill Mitchell’s family background and how did his daughter’s graduation set the stage for the tragedy?

Whit Missildine 0:00
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Whit Missildine 0:20
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Whit Missildine 1:06
So please become a paid subscriber to the Substack called The End of the Known for just $5 a month during this rebroadcast series at witmissledine.substack dot com. And join the Substack Conversation live on Tuesday, september twenty second at eleven AM Pacific Time, two PM Eastern. And now the seventh of our ten episode summer rebroadcast series, originally airing as episode two hundred forty seven on september twentieth, twenty twenty two. What if you didn't see the signs?
Bill Mitchell 1:38
You spend a lot of time like why did this happen? You think that if you think about it long enough or talk with enough people that you can make sense out of it and it's really I think impossible.
Whit Missildine 1:57
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Bill Mitchell 2:54
My parents met during World War Two in Florida. My father was a fighter pilot, training people to go off to war as he would eventually. love at first sight. They were married. That was nineteen forty six. I came along in nineteen fifty, but Very stable upbringing, nuclear family, very positive environment, about fifteen miles outside of Baltimore, we lived out in the country. I got good grades, probably not as good as my brother who was a year ahead of me in school, but I did just fine and I always felt like I could lead a successful life and even then looked ahead and thought probably would have a family of my own one day. From a very early age, I love the idea of creating things, whether you pick up a pencil and get a piece of paper and draw something.
Bill Mitchell 3:49
My father was a fighter pilot. and I loved how he could pick up a pencil and he could draw an airplane. It it was fabulous. And my brother was a fairly good artist. So I was very fortunate that I had people around me who were making things, these wonderful creations that came to life on the page somehow. At some point in time, my father had this eight millimeter camera and My brother and I would take the eight millimeter camera and we would go off and do stop action stuff in the backyard and we would create our own version of James Bond movies and westerns and so that kind of very naturally led me to thinking that creativity was a direction I wanted to go into. I with some help decided to go to the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore.
Bill Mitchell 4:39
I was very fortunate to take a job with the graphic design shop. Then I met some people who were in the advertising business, and the idea of creating ads and especially TV spots was something that I just thought I just have to do that. I just wanted so badly to do that.

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