{"id":8306,"date":"2023-01-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:19:55","slug":"227-this-week-lincoln-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-and-the-buddy-holly-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/227-this-week-lincoln-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-and-the-buddy-holly-story\/","title":{"rendered":"227: This Week: Lincoln, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Buddy Holly Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8306\" class=\"elementor elementor-8306\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-619397a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"619397a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a2032ba\" data-id=\"a2032ba\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d49511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d49511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For the week between January 30th to February 5th, we&#8217;ll be learning about historical events that were depicted in <em>Lincoln<\/em>, <em>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> and <em>The Buddy Holly Story<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6ee3a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"d6ee3a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=LEFE2266535215\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2af3c22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"2af3c22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-008e93b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"008e93b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Did you enjoy this episode? 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There will be mistakes, so please don&#8217;t use them for quotes. It is provided for reference use to find things better in the audio.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d66e2a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d66e2a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>January 31, 1865. Washington DC<\/h2><p>Our first movie gives us some text on screen to tell us it\u2019s the morning of the vote.<\/p><p>Tommy Lee Jones\u2019 character, Thaddeus Stevens, sits down in the empty room. It\u2019s quiet. The calm before the storm.<\/p><p>The camera cuts to the upper balcony. There are more people in the room now. It\u2019s filled with people. Two rows of Black men and women enter the upper balcony and find their seats. All the men below are quiet as they watch them enter. One of the men greets them, \u201cWelcome, ladies and gentlemen, first in the history of this people\u2019s chamber\u2026to your House.\u201d<\/p><p>A round of applause.<\/p><p>David Costabile\u2019s version of James Ashley starts to speak and we learn why this occasion is so important.<\/p><p>Today we are here for regarding the matter of adding a 13<sup>th<\/sup> amendment to the constitution. This amendment was passed by the Senate last year, says Mr. Ashley. We\u2019ve debated for the past several weeks. Today we vote.<\/p><p>They are to have final statements before the vote.<\/p><p>The first causes a ruckus as Peter McRobbie\u2019s version of George Pendleton from Ohio says he\u2019s received confirmation that there is a delegation from the Confederacy in Washington DC bearing an offer of immediate cessation of the war. He proposes they postpone the vote until they hear from the President himself.<\/p><p>Seeing this, James Spader\u2019s version of W.N. Bilbo and a couple others rush a note from the Capitol building to the White House where President Lincoln is waiting to hear the result of the vote. After Lincoln reads the note, he writes something down and hands it to Joseph Cross\u2019 character, John Hay, to give to Mr. Ashley. At first, Hay questions this saying there is a delegation and making a false representation to Congress is impeachable. Lincoln says he hasn\u2019t made a false representation, then he hands the note to Bilbo and tells him to deliver it to Mr. Ashley.<\/p><p>Bilbo does.<\/p><p>Mr. Ashley reads the note aloud to the House: \u201cSo far as I know there are no peace commissioners in the city nor are there likely to be.\u201d<\/p><p>Despite some ongoing disagreements, the motion to postpone is tabled. They\u2019re going to vote.<\/p><p>And, they do. Representatives are called by name and each one gives their \u201cYea\u201d or \u201cNay\u201d on the amendment. People are tallying the votes, counting down how many it will take to win. 15. 8. 6.<\/p><p>Finally, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax wishes to cast an \u201cAye\u201d vote because, as he puts it, this isn\u2019t usual\u2014it\u2019s history.<\/p><p>Speaker Colfax reads the final vote:<\/p><p>8 absent or not voting.<\/p><p>56 votes against.<\/p><p>119 votes for.<\/p><p>With a margin of two votes\u2026<\/p><p>The camera cuts to President Lincoln in the White House. Church bells can be heard in the distance. Cannons are blasting. In the House of Representatives, there\u2019s cheering and celebrating. Outside, throngs of people are cheering and singing. The 13<sup>th<\/sup> amendment passed!<\/p><p>The depiction of this week\u2019s event comes from the 2012 movie simply called <em>Lincoln<\/em>.<\/p><p>While we don\u2019t know the specifics of things like that note the movie shows from President Lincoln, it is true that on January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment of the Constitution, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.<\/p><p>This was a momentous event in history because even though President Lincoln had passed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 1863, that proclamation made all the slaves in Confederate states free. Since the Civil War was still raging, though, it\u2019s not like the Union could uphold the proclamation the Confederate states. It was not the end of slavery in the United States, but it can be considered the beginning of the end.<\/p><p>That process started in the same year when James Ashley from Ohio introduced an amendment to ban slavery on December 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 1863.<\/p><p>As battles raged across the United States during the American Civil War, political battles raged in Washington DC as lawmakers on either of the aisle debated the amendment that would end slavery.<\/p><p>On April 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 1864, the Senate passed the amendment by a vote of 38-6. That\u2019s eight votes over the required amount to pass.<\/p><p>Then the amendment went to the House of Representatives. It was first debated there on June 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 1864 and failed to pass in a vote on the following day. That vote was 93 in favor, 65 against and 23 not voting. Since a two-thirds majority is needed to pass an amendment to the Constitution, the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment failed.<\/p><p>The 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment was brought back up by President Lincoln on December 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 1864, who urged a reconsideration of it.<\/p><p>More debates followed at the beginning of 1865.<\/p><p>January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 28<sup>th<\/sup> were filled with debates in the House of Representatives about the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment.<\/p><p>Then, just like the movie shows, on January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 1865, the House of Representatives voted on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment again. This is a quote from <em>The Congressional Globe, <\/em>a document in the Library of Congress about that event:<\/p><p><em>Mr. DAWSON called for the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The question was taken, and it was decided in the affirmative\u2014yeas 119, nays 56, not voting 8; as follows<\/em><\/p><p>\u2026and then the document lists each of the members of the House of Representatives who voted \u201cyea\u201d, who voted \u201cnay\u201d and who decided not to vote. I won\u2019t read each name here. It then continues\u2026<\/p><p><em>So, the two thirds required by the Constitution of the United States having voted in favor thereof, the joint resolution was passed.<\/em><\/p><p><em>During the roll-call, on Mr. English and Mr. Ganson voting \u201cay,\u201d there was considerable applause by members on the Republican side of the House.<\/em><\/p><p><em>The SPEAKER called repeatedly to order, and asked that members should set a better example to spectators in the gallery.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Mr. KALBFLEISCH and other Democratic members remarked that the applause came, not from the spectators in the gallery, but from members on the floor.<\/em><\/p><p><em>The SPEAKER. Members will take their seats and observe order.<\/em><\/p><p><em>The SPEAKER directed the Clerk to call his name as a member of the House.<\/em><\/p><p><em>The Clerk called the name of SCHUYLER COLFAX, of Indiana, and Mr. Colfax voted \u201cay.\u201d [This incident was greeted with renewed applause.]<\/em><\/p><p><em>The SPEAKER. The constitutional majority of two thirds having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution is passed. <\/em><\/p><p><em>[The announcement was received by the House and by the spectators with an outburst of enthusiasm. The members on the Republican side of the House instantly sprung to their feet, and, regardless of parliamentary rules, applauded with cheers and clapping of hands. The example was followed by the male spectators in the galleries, which were croweded to excess, who waved their hats and cheered loud and long, while the ladies, hundreds of whom were present, rose in their seats and waved their handkerchiefs, participating in and adding to the general excitement and intense interest of the scene. This lasted for several minutes.]<\/em><\/p><p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p>You\u2019ll notice that event we saw in the movie where the Speaker asked for his own name to be called mentioned\u2014it really did happen. After this, the House voted on a motion to adjourn, which also passed, so at 4:20 PM the House adjourned for the day.<\/p><p>If you want to read more about that event, you can find the document on the Library of Congress\u2019 website. Look for <em>A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 \u2013 1875<\/em> and the events of January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 1865 are on page 531.<\/p><p>If you want to watch this event in the 2012 movie <em>Lincoln, <\/em>you\u2019ll find the morning of the vote starting at 1h 47m and 23s.<\/p><p>And if you want to take a deeper dive into the true story behind the movie, including about that delegation from the Confederacy in DC at the time of the vote, check out episode number #170 of Based on a True Story to learn about the historical accuracy of the movie from Lincoln scholar Dr. Brian Dirck.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2>January 31, 1929. Germany.<\/h2><p>It\u2019s quiet. A fox sleeps, the baby sniffing around busily\u2026From overhead, we can see dead soldiers lying on the frozen ground.<\/p><p>A spattering of gunshots sound, followed by dirt being kicked up as they hit around the soldiers. But everyone is dead already, so there\u2019s no movement. The camera dollies in closer to the ground. Still no movement other than random gunshots, explosions here and there.<\/p><p>Then the camera cuts to the German trenches. A machine gun spits out shots while soldiers run this way and that in the trench.<\/p><p>Soldiers go to the ladders at the order of their commanding officer.<\/p><p>\u201cHeinrich! Get out there!\u201d is the order we hear when we see someone climb the ladder to the top of the trench.<\/p><p>The moment he\u2019s at the top, a bullet hits him in the head and he falls back into the trench. Dead. Orders continue, \u201cAll of you, go!\u201d Heinrich goes to tend to his fallen colleague, but the officer stops him. \u201cHeinrich, get out there! Attack!\u201d and Heinrich climbs the ladder his now-deceased friend just took to his death. Heinrich and plenty of other Germans make it up, though. And the camera follows them as they rush forward\u2026charging toward an enemy we can\u2019t see.<\/p><p>None of the soldiers shoot, they just run. They\u2019re being shot at all the time. Men fall. Heinrich keeps going, panting as he drops down behind a fallen tree for some cover. Another soldier calls his name, \u201cHeinrich!\u201d but just as Heinrich gets to him\u2026the soldier is shot and killed. Heinrich goes back to behind the log. Explosions kick dirt onto him. Another soldier falls next to him\u2014blood covering his face as he lies there dead. Heinrich pants as he cocks his rifle and points it rather shakily over the cover. He shoots. Cock again. Fire. He\u2019s not looking at where he\u2019s shooting. He leaves the rifle now and pulls out his ax and runs straight ahead. Seeing an enemy soldier, he screams as he sticks the blade of the ax in the man\u2019s chest.<\/p><p>Halfway through the scream, the scene cuts to black with the title of the movie: <em>All Quiet on the Western Front.<\/em><\/p><p>Okay, so here I\u2019m cheating a little when it comes to the historical event because if you listened to the Based on a True Story episode #218 where we covered the movie <em>All Quiet on the Western Front <\/em>we learned the movie is based on a novel. So, it\u2019s not really supposed to be based on a true story in the sense of the term we\u2019re used to.<\/p><p>But, the event this week that is of significance was on January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 1929, and that is when Erich Maria Remarque first published the novel in Germany.<\/p><p>Well, sort of.<\/p><p>You see, the story was published from November 10<sup>th<\/sup> to December 9<sup>th<\/sup> in 1928 in a serial form. The book form was published on January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 1929 though.<\/p><p>The reception wasn\u2019t entirely great at first. While plenty of readers loved the realism of the story and how eloquent Remarque\u2019s words were, there were a lot of people in Germany who looked at his book as slandering a German war effort.<\/p><p>Because even though World War I was over, a new war was about to begin.<\/p><p>The book was banned by many countries because of its anti-war message. Austria banned their soldiers from reading it the same year it was published, 1929. Czechoslovakia the same and in 1933, Italy joined the ban. That year, 1933, <em>All Quiet on the Western Front <\/em>was one of the first books to be denounced and publicly burned by the Nazi Party.<\/p><p>However, many anti-war movements used the book as a way of helping to spread their own message against the evils of war. So, its popularity continued to spread.<\/p><p>In April of 1930, the book was adapted into a movie for the first time. That only helped spread the popularity of the book.\u00a0 Then, of course, in 2022 there was the latest on-screen adaptation of the book.<\/p><p>If you want to learn more about the historical accuracy of the 2022 movie, check out episode #218 of Based on a True Story with Dr. Christopher Warren from The National World War I Museum and Memorial.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2>February 2, 1959. Clear Lake, Iowa.<\/h2><p>There are little drifts of snow piled up along the street corners.<\/p><p>A tow truck drives by pulling a big bus with a sign on it that says \u201cWinter Party \u201959.\u201d<\/p><p>As it passes by a big building, the camera shifts angles to show a better look at the large, stone building. People are bundled up in warm coats as they make their way out of the cold night air and up the steps to the front doors. Above the steps in the entryway reads a big sign that says: \u201cWIOA Radio Presents Winter Party, \u201859\u201d<\/p><p>Then, above that obviously temporary sign is the name of the building: \u201cClearlake Auditorium.\u201d<\/p><p>The marquee on the auditorium mentions the date: \u201cFebruary 3.\u201d<\/p><p>Also mentioned are the musicians playing tonight\u2019s concert: \u201cDion &amp; the Belmonts, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens\u201d and at the top of the marquee is the headliner: \u201cBuddy Holly.\u201d<\/p><p>Inside, we see Big Bopper performing.<\/p><p>Backstage, Gary Busey\u2019s version of Buddy Holly makes a long-distance call to New York City. A woman in bed answers the phone. She gets excited to hear Buddy\u2019s voice. He addresses her as Maria. Buddy mentions something about how they just got there because their bus broke down so they\u2019re going to have to rent a plane tonight.<\/p><p>That must be the bus we saw a moment ago with the \u201cWinter Party \u201859\u201d sign on it as it was being towed away.<\/p><p>Maria tells Buddy they\u2019re both doing fine. She kicked me this morning, and Buddy gets excited to hear it. She must be pregnant with their child.<\/p><p>As Big Bopper wraps up, Buddy tells Maria he has to go. He\u2019ll call tomorrow. Love you, bye!<\/p><p>He hangs up the phone.<\/p><p>Just then, two guys enter Maria\u2019s apartment. They seem to be friends of Buddy\u2019s and they tell her they weren\u2019t sure if he\u2019d want to get back together. She says he\u2019d love to, they say they were going to fly to Iowa to surprise Buddy and they want to know where the show goes next. Maria looks it up. Tomorrow he\u2019ll be in Moorhead, Minnesota, 8 PM.<\/p><p>Back on stage, the crowd goes crazy as Big Bopper introduces who he calls a fellow Texan, Mr. Buddy Holly.<\/p><p>We see a decent amount of the set in the movie. It starts off with a slow song called <em>True Love Ways<\/em> before getting more upbeat with a medley of Buddy Holly\u2019s classic rock songs like <em>That\u2019ll Be the Day<\/em>, <em>Oh Boy<\/em> and <em>Peggy Sue<\/em> among others. Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens joining Buddy Holly on stage to perform the big finale at the concert.<\/p><p>Then, just as Buddy says \u201cWe love you, Clearlake! We\u2019ll see you next year!\u201d to end the concert, the music and roaring crowd fade away.<\/p><p>Text on the screen tells us that Buddy Holly died later that night along with J.P. \u201cThe Big Bopper\u201d Richardson and Ritchie Valens in a crash of a private airplane just outside of Clearlake\u2026and the rest is rock \u2018n roll.<\/p><p>This depiction comes from the 1978 movie called <em>The Buddy Holly Story<\/em>.<\/p><p>Right away you might\u2019ve noticed a discrepancy. When we started this event, I gave the date of February 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 1959 while the date on the marquee sign of the Clearlake Auditorium said February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p><p>The true story is that the final performance for Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper and Buddy Holly was at the Surf Ballroom in Clearlake, Iowa on the evening of February 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 1959. The plane crash that took the lives of all three musicians was in the early morning hours of February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p>While the movie is correct to mention the tour bus breaking down as the reason why the musicians took a plane, there\u2019s more to the story that we don\u2019t see in the movie.<\/p><p>On February 1<sup>st<\/sup>, J.P. \u201cThe Big Bopper\u201d Richardson, Dion DiMucci from Dion &amp; the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and other musicians on the tour were driving from their last concert in Duluth, Minnesota. It was in the early morning hours of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> when, near Hurley, Wisconsin, the tour bus threw a piston.<\/p><p>Without heat on the bus, the musicians had to burn newspapers in the aisle of the bus for hours to battle the freezing cold. Temperatures that night were around -30\u00b0 Fahrenheit, or about -34\u00b0 Celsius.<\/p><p>They managed to find another bus which they boarded near Green Bay, Wisconsin. They were headed to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, where their next show was. That\u2019s about 350 miles, or 560 kilometers away.<\/p><p>That bus didn\u2019t have much luck against the frigid temperatures, either. Just before they made it to Clear Lake, the heaters on the bus failed. From my research, I couldn\u2019t find anything to suggest the bus itself was broken down, but the heater not working was enough. The bus had to be repaired.<\/p><p>But, they managed to make it to the Surf Ballroom in time for their 8 PM concert.<\/p><p>But, because of their bad luck with buses, Buddy Holly had decided he didn\u2019t want to get on a bus for the next stretch of the road. The bus breaking down and just barely making it to Clear Lake in time for the show meant they were all tired and dirty\u2014not like they\u2019d done laundry in a while.<\/p><p>The movie was correct to mention their next show was in Moorhead, Minnesota. And if you remember I just mentioned they were in Minnesota before going to Iowa, so you\u2019re probably wondering why they were doing that\u2026well, you\u2019re not alone. The whole tour was rather poorly planned out so the musicians had to crisscross a lot, and added on the bus breakdowns, Buddy was looking forward to a few extra hours of relaxation time that flying would give him before everyone else arrived on the bus.<\/p><p>Buddy asked the manager at the Surf Ballroom to look into getting a flight to their next show. They were flying into Fargo, North Dakota, which is right along the state border and about a mile away from their next show in Moorhead, Minnesota.<\/p><p>While the manager found a flight, the musicians had a show to do.<\/p><p>Tickets that night were $1.25 and over 1,200 people showed up\u2014pretty good numbers considering the town of Clear Lake had a population of around 8,000. Lots of people coming in from out of town, no doubt.<\/p><p>Oh, and that $1.25 ticket in 1959 is about the same as $12.75 today.<\/p><p>The concert itself went off without a hitch.<\/p><p>And the manager was able to find a plane. It was a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane, which seats four people. One of those seats was for the pilot, a man named Roger Peterson. So that left three for the musicians\u2026but there were more musicians than that, which means they had to figure out who would fly and who would end up taking a bus anyway.<\/p><p>Buddy was the one who wanted to fly, so he was one of them. Ritchie Valens and another in the band, Tommy Allsup, both wanted one of the seats. They flipped a coin for it. Valens called heads and it came down heads, so he won the seat. 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