Hope, Through History: Death At Sea

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Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As World War erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson follows public opinion and stays out of the international conflict. But when a merchant ship carrying American passengers is attacked by a German U-boat, the United States begins to emerge from isolation and establishes itself as a source of possibility in the world. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sports Media is filled with an endless stream of personalities, stories, and gossip, and I'm here to cover it all.
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0:50.4	a presentation of Odyssey in partnership with Puck, wherever you get your podcasts. The torpedo came from U-boat 20 a German submarine. It was 210 on the afternoon of Friday, May 7, 1915, and the sub's
1:16.8	captain recorded the moment in his log. Torpedo hit starboard side close behind the bridge, an unusually great detonation follows with a very strong explosive cloud.
1:30.0	The 20 foot long missile armed with 350 pounds of TNT had struck its target.
1:37.0	The Kunard's Lusitania, a British-owned luxury ship.
1:41.0	The resulting tragedy, the Lusitania went down in just 18 minutes,
1:45.8	would claim 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans.
1:57.3	In the terror and the death, the chaos and the fire,
2:00.8	the United States had just come closer to World War I and to everything that came after. and this is Hope through History, episode four, death at sea.
2:15.0	Wilson sort of stayed back, tried not to allow it to violate our neutrality.
2:21.0	One step at a time these things happened and it was getting harder
2:24.8	and harder for Wilson to do that. And it was this constant need to test your
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