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Zz: Podiobooks.com PromosConsider The Elephant by Aram SchefrinThe common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were disgruntled, disturbed loners. That wisdom includes John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, called a failed actor and a madman.
But the truth is that Wilkes was the matinee idol of his time; and the attack on Lincoln was not the act of a maniac, but a part of a plan developed at the highest levels of the Confederacy.
In "Consider the Elephant," by Aram Schefrin, the story of Wilkes'
life and death is told by his...
2008-07-0702 minZz: Podiobooks.com PromosThe Tenth Cow by Aram SchefrinWhen Teddy Kagan finds a pure red heifer (heifer: a young, virgin cow) on the Florida ranch of a TV evangelist, he knows - because he knows Scripture and biblical prophesy - that he has discovered the first step in a plot to speed up the bloody End of Days and the Second Coming of Christ - a plot which could lead to a nuclear Holy War.
And it's Teddy's job to stop it from happening.
Fantasy? Not exactly. The plot is actually under way.
"The Tenth Cow", the third podcast novel by Aram Schefrin, takes the story to its...
2008-07-0700 min
GloriousChapter 39 - Glorious-In this episode: The Battle of the Little Big Horn - Part III. And The End.
2007-07-0923 min2007-07-0818 min2007-07-0717 min2007-07-0625 min2007-07-0513 min2007-07-0420 minGloriousChapter 33 - Glorious-In this episode: On the Yellowstone River, three cavalry columns converge on the Sioux - Colonel John Gibbon from the west, General George Crook from the south, and Terry and Custer from the east. Terry expected to find the Sioux on the Little Missouri River - but th
2007-07-0319 minGloriousChapter 32 - Glorious-In this episode: At Terry's St. Paul headquarters, Custer learns that Terry, not Belknap had ordered him to receive the suspicious Indian corn. Custer writes to Clymer, explaining that he was wrong and that there was no longer any reason for him to return to testify.
2007-07-0221 minGloriousChapter 31 - Glorious-In this episode: But the Democrats decide to impeach Secretary Belknap, even though he has resigned, and Custer is summoned to Washington. Though warned against it by Sheridan's aide, Custer testifies against Belknap before the House. Terry's column will march agains
2007-07-0118 minGloriousChapter 30 - Glorious-In this episode: James Gordon Bennett convinces Custer to testify at the hearing on Belknap's corruption, by promising to support Custer for President if Tilden's nomination is stalled. Belknap orders Custer to report to General Terry in St. Paul, Minnesota, to get h
2007-06-3021 minGloriousChapter 29 - Glorious-In this episode: The government tries to buy the Black Hills, but they won't meet the Indians' price. So they order all Sioux to confine themselves to their reservation, promising to attack any who stay out. Sitting Bull refuses to come in. Broke in New York, Custer
2007-06-2920 minGloriousChapter 28 - Glorious-In this episode: The Black Hills expedition finds gold. Custer and the press send the word back to the world. Custer's Galaxy Magazine articles are published as a book. And August Belmont starts him thinking about running for president.
2007-06-2819 minGloriousChapter 27 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer has his first skirmishes with Sitting Bull. Although Custer holds the Sioux off and the railroad survey is completed, the Panic of '73 shuts the Northern Pacific down. Custer is assigned to Fort Lincoln in Dakota Territory. Custer thinks it's
2007-06-2722 minGloriousChapter 26 - Glorious-In this episode: After Custer's sister's wedding, Custer and Libbie reunite. The 7th Cavalry is sent to guard Northern Pacific surveyors in Sioux country, what is now the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana, and Libbie goes along.
2007-06-2620 minGloriousChapter 25 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer goes to Kentucky and is bored to tears. But Sheridan calls him to Chicago to deal with the great fire, and sends him out with a Russian grand duke on a hunting expedition. When the duke's party continues to New Orleans, an angry Libbie joins C
2007-06-2521 min2007-06-2412 minGloriousChapter 23 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer dines with the New York press, and finds out whom Jay Cooke has bought.
2007-06-2316 minGloriousChapter 22 - Glorious-In this episode: A beautiful soprano seduces him, too. Libbie asks him with whom he has slept since their marriage. He tells her. She banishes him.
2007-06-2220 minGloriousChapter 21 - Glorious-In this episode: The Cheyenne are finished, and Libbie sends Custer to New York again to find another career. There, Wall Street begins to seduce him.
2007-06-2117 minGloriousChapter 20 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer returns the squaws to the Cheyenne, says goodbye to Meyotzi and learns that she is pregnant with his child.
2007-06-2020 min2007-06-1918 minGloriousChapter 18 - Glorious-In this episode: The Cheyenne do not come in. Custer goes out to look for them, taking Meyotzi. But the Cheyenne have slipped into Texas; Custer does not have enough supplies to follow them. He releases Little Robe who promises to bring them in. After Sheridan goes t
2007-06-1819 minGloriousChapter 17 - Glorious-In this episode: Sheridan sends the captured squaws to Fort Hays, but keeps Mahwissa and Meotzi on hand in case their help is needed with the other Cheyenne. He insists Custer show him the Washita battlefield. There they find Elliott and his men, massacred. Grant is
2007-06-1717 minGloriousChapter 16 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer consummates his "marriage" to the captured daughter of a chief
2007-06-1616 min2007-06-1533 minGloriousChapter 14 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer is convicted and suspended from rank and pay. The Peace Commission signs a treaty with the Cheyenne; the Indians give up Kansas and agree to move to the Red River near Texas. But they go back to the Smoky Hill to hunt buffalo, and while there
2007-06-1420 minGloriousChapter 13 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer is arrested and courtmartialed for abandoning his mission and rushing to see Libbie. The Hancock mission has been a failure, and Hancock intends to make Custer the goat. While Custer awaits trial, President Andrew Johnson, in response to publi
2007-06-1319 minGloriousChapter 12 - Glorious-In this episode: At Fort Wallace Custer finds a letter written by a soldier at the request of Custer's illiterate cook, telling him that Libbie and Captain Weir looked to be a little too intimate when she was at Hays. Enraged, Custer takes a small party and rushes to
2007-06-1219 minGloriousChapter 11 - Glorious-In this episode: Desperate to be with Libbie, Custer disobeys General Sherman's orders. Instead of heading north after Pawnee Killer, Custer turns south toward Fort Wallace, where he has asked Libbie to meet him. Pawnee Killer finds Custer, and attacks him. After dri
2007-06-1122 minGloriousChapter 10 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer rides out toward the Platte River to rescue the Union Pacific's workers. Meanwhile, huge rains flood the country around Fort Hays, and to escape the floods Libbie and Anna flee east to Fort Riley. Out on the Platte, Custer meets Pawnee Killer
2007-06-1023 minGloriousChapter 9 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer's men follow the fleeing Cheyenne, but lose their trail. Reaching the Smoky Hill River, they find the crew of the Lookout stage station murdered. Custer concludes the Indians he has been tracking had committed the killings. Later he realizes t
2007-06-0918 minGloriousChapter 8 - Glorious-In this episode: General Hancock orders the Cheyenne to parley at Fort Larned. But the Cheyenne don't appear, so Hancock moves out towards their village on the Pawnee Fork. Sioux and Cheyenne chiefs try to dissuade him from approaching the village; after Sand Creek,
2007-06-0826 minGloriousChapter 7 - Glorious-In this episode: While Custer and Benteen languish at Fort Riley, Captain William Fetterman leads a contingent out of Fort Phil Kearny, a post built to protect the main road to the Montana gold fields, to respond to an Indian attack on a wood train out of the fort. D
2007-06-0716 minGloriousChapter 6 - Glorious-In this episode: Colonel Smith, who commands at Fort Riley, explains what's happened out here up to now.
2007-06-0625 minGloriousChapter 5 - Glorious-In this episode: General Sherman tells Custer how Indians fight. Custer's brother, Tom, joins the 7th. Custer throws a dinner for his officers, which ends in a poker game in which Benteen wipes Custer out. Benteen describes the hard life of the soldier on the plains.
2007-06-0521 minGloriousChapter 4 - Glorious-In this episode: Custer is feted at the New York Broker's Board and in the salon of the financier Levi Morton. He meets the actress Maggie Mitchell, and sees the great singer Clara Kellogg. In his hotel lobby, he is accosted by Porfirio Diaz, who invites him to put t
2007-06-0419 minGloriousChapter 3 - Glorious-In this episode: Arriving the next day at Fort Riley, they are met by Major Alfred Gibbs, who commands the post. And waiting for Custer in Gibbs' dining room is General William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman asks Custer if he misses the War. As Benteen tells it, Custer ha
2007-06-0319 minGloriousChapter 2 - Glorious-In this episode: Benteen blames Custer's wife Libbie for spreading the story that Benteen had set Custer up to die. Thus begins the tale: After the end of the Civil War, General Custer is assigned to Fort Riley in Kansas. Libbie insists that her friend Anna come alon
2007-06-0213 minGloriousChapter 1 - Glorious-In this episode: At Fort Duchesne in Utah in 1887, Captain Frederick Benteen, an old man now, is finishing out his soldiering career fighting Mormons who are disobeying Federal Law. The Indian Wars are over, ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Benteen, now
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Consider The ElephantChapter 37 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Ned writes a letter to Wilkes. Finis.
2006-08-2011 minConsider The ElephantChapter 36 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Bainbridge, Ruggles and Jett
2006-08-1923 minConsider The ElephantChapter 35 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Escape: Thomas Jones gets Wilkes to the Potomac.
2006-08-1840 minConsider The ElephantChapter 34 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Escape: Dr. Samuel Mudd treats Wilkes' broken leg
2006-08-1721 min2006-08-1633 minConsider The ElephantChapter 32 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes learns that Lincoln is going to the theater. He makes his preparations.
2006-08-1523 minConsider The ElephantChapter 31 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes urges the managers of two Washington theaters to invite Lincoln to a performance on Good Friday night. Surratt tells Wilkes he will have to escape to Canada.
2006-08-1425 minConsider The ElephantChapter 30 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: As their cause becomes more desperate, the Confederates decide to kill Lincoln - but without involving Wilkes. Richmond falls, and Wilkes - despondent - disbands his crew. But the Rebel plan is thwarted, and Mary Surratt asks Wilkes to assassinate th
2006-08-1327 minConsider The ElephantChapter 29 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Now Richmond doesn't want Lincoln snatched. Wilkes is devastated.
2006-08-1214 minConsider The ElephantChapter 28 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes takes his crew to a play at Ford's Theater. An attempt to snatch the President on the Seventh Street Road fails when Lincoln doesn't show.
2006-08-1129 minConsider The ElephantChapter 27 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes goes to the inaugural ball but, out of concern for Lucy Hale, decides not to snatch the President there.
2006-08-1020 minConsider The ElephantChapter 26 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes and Surratt decide to snatch Lincoln at his inaugural ball, and Wilkes concocts a clever way to get into the event.
2006-08-1024 minConsider The ElephantChapter 25 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes gets a tour of John Ford's new theater in Washington, then meets a new conspirator - Lewis Thornton Powell.
2006-08-0929 minConsider The ElephantChapter 24 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes leaves an envelope with Asia in Philadelphia, then meets the conspirators in Washington.
2006-08-0820 minConsider The ElephantChapter 23 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: While the three Booths perform "Julius Caesar", Confederates raid New York City, setting fires on Broadway in the hotels and theaters.
2006-08-0722 minConsider The ElephantChapter 22 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Lincoln is re-elected, and Wilkes meets Dr. Samuel Mudd.
2006-08-0620 minConsider The ElephantChapter 21 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes tells Asia of the Lincoln kidnap plot.Wilkes meets Patrick Martin in Montreal, makes his first contacts on the route he plans to use to take the kidnapped President to Richmond, and gets details on Lincoln's routine.
2006-08-0523 minConsider The ElephantChapter 20 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: In Boston, Wilkes meets with Confederate agents from Canada and signs on to a plot to kidnap President Lincoln.
2006-08-0419 minConsider The ElephantChapter 19 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Lincoln is nominated for a second term, and Wilkes prospects for oil in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
2006-08-0311 minConsider The ElephantChapter 18 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Sick and exhausted, Wilkes tours Southern towns under Union occupation while General Grant cuts a swath through Virginia. In New Orleans, Wilkes hears the story of how his father died.
2006-08-0210 minConsider The ElephantChapter 17 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Trying to get to St. Louis, Wilkes spends Christmas in Leavenworth, is stranded in a blizzard and fights off a wolf.
2006-07-3019 minConsider The ElephantChapter 16 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes, Edwin and Adam survive the New York City draft riots.
2006-07-2922 minConsider The ElephantChapter 15 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: John Surratt, a Confederate spy, contacts Wilkes and shows him the courier route from Washington to the Northern Neck of Virginia through T.B., Surrattsville and the Maryland countryside, and across the Potomac at Port Tobacco.
2006-07-2727 minConsider The ElephantChapter 14 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Since Mollie's death, Edwin has been seeing and hearing her. With Adam's help, he arranges a seance to try to contact her.
2006-07-2615 minConsider The ElephantChapter 13 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: McClellan invades Virginia, up the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The Yankees win the battles; still McClellan retreats, believing the Rebels too strong. Wilkes returns to smuggling contraband. Edwin returns to the stage, afraid he wil
2006-07-2519 minConsider The ElephantChapter 12 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Following Adam's advice, Ned and Mollie go to Europe. But since Mollie is four months pregnant, they go to England, where they trust the doctors, rather than France or Italy. Ned searches the places where his father hsd been, but finds little trace o
2006-07-2411 minConsider The ElephantChapter 11 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes triumphs in New York. He and Maggie go to Pfaff's Cafe to wait for the reviews.
2006-07-2322 minConsider The ElephantChapter 10 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: New York City considers seceding, since its economic fortunes are tied to the South. But the Union buildup brings new money into the city, and New York decides to stay in the fold. Adam enlists in the Union Army, as an aide to General Grant. His last
2006-07-2215 minConsider The ElephantChapter 9 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes looks up a school friend, Michael O'Laughlen. He asks O'Laughlen to hook him up with Rebels in Maryland. O'Laughlen tells him that the attempt on Lincoln's life has failed and that Maryland is under Federal martial law and is not going to sece
2006-07-2118 minConsider The ElephantChapter 8 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: The family gathers at Asia's for Christmas in Philadelphia. Asia is rabid against Abraham Lincoln; she tells the others what she has heard: that Lincoln will be murdered in Baltimore on his way to Washington. Wilkes announces he is going to join the
2006-07-2028 minConsider The ElephantChapter 7 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Desperately missing Mollie, Ned goes back on the booze. Adam Badeau gets Wilkes to intervene with Mollie, who quits Cushman's troop immediately and rushes back to New York. Ned asks her to marry him. She says "yes." After the wedding, Wilke
2006-07-1932 minConsider The ElephantChapter 6 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Asia objects violently to Ned's marriage to Mary. Out of respect for his family, Ned gives her up. Before he leaves Richmond, he gives Wilkes the lead role in Othello, and Wilkes makes his first appearance in his own name. During Wilkes' second seas
2006-07-1841 minConsider The ElephantChapter 5 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Ned comes to Richmond to star at the Old Marshall, and falls in love with an actress named Mary Devlin. Wilkes can't understand why Ned would want to marry when he could have any woman he wants. Ned reveals his awful past, and that Mary is his salvat
2006-07-1731 minConsider The ElephantChapter 4 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes joins a company in Richmond, Virginia. While the local men talk secession, the women fawn on Wilkes.
2006-07-1620 minConsider The ElephantChapter 3 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Wilkes begins his acting career in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
2006-07-1528 minConsider The ElephantChapter 2 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Edwin goes to Washington to talk to the Federal police, and to visit June in the Old Capitol Prison. Jack is finally cleared of the crime, and Asia wangles June's release through Philadelphia friends. Edwin goes to Philadelphia. June goes home to San
2006-07-1447 minConsider The ElephantChapter 1 - Consider The Elephant-In this episode: Edwin Booth, while acting Shakespeare in Boston, hears the news that his brother Wilkes has assassinated President Lincoln. The rest of his run is cancelled. He believes he will never work again. His sister Asia, in Philadelphia, collapses in grief.
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2006-01-0108 min2005-12-3104 minMarwan30. 29 Boston: September 10, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: But there's no time for love. It's too late.
2005-12-3009 minMarwan29. 28 Boston: September 9, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan arrives in Boston, checks on the Saudis, reads Atta's instructions and falls in love.
2005-12-2915 min2005-12-2819 minMarwan27. 26 Deerfield Beach, Florida: August, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan and Atta buy their tickets. Jarrah has second thoughts.
2005-12-2710 minMarwan26. 25 Delray Beach, Florida: August, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Moussaoui is arrested. Atta picks The Day.
2005-12-2605 minMarwan25. 24 Las Vegas: August, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan and Atta go to Las Vegas to learn the "niceties"
2005-12-2508 minMarwan24. 23 Belle Glade, Florida: July, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan and Atta check out a crop duster
2005-12-2403 min2005-12-2310 min2005-12-2203 minMarwan21. 20 Paterson, New Jersey: July, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan and Atta go to Paterson, New Jersey
2005-12-2106 min2005-12-2002 minMarwan19. 18 Boston: July, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan and Atta check out Logan Airport, then fly to Las Vegas for another meeting with the West Coast cell.
2005-12-1908 minMarwan18. 17 Munich: January, 2000 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan, Atta and Jarrah go to Munich for a bit of business.
2005-12-1805 minMarwan17. 16 Delray Beach, Florida: June, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: The Saudi "muscle" arrive in Florida.
2005-12-1715 min2005-12-1607 minMarwan15. 14 Hollywood, Florida: March, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan, Atta and Jarrah move to the east coast of Florida. Marwan and Atta travel to Las Vegas to meet the West Coast cell.
2005-12-1520 minMarwan14. 13 Kandahar: December, 1999 - Marwan-In this episode: Marwan takes an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden, then returns to Hamburg on the eve of the Millenium.
2005-12-1414 minMarwan13. 12 Spain: January, 2001 - Marwan-In this episode: The conspirators to go to Spain to arrange financing. Marwan talks to Jarrah in a restaurant in Dubai.
2005-12-1312 minMarwan12. 11 Kandahar: November, 1999 - Marwan-In this episode: Atta tells Marwan about the World Trade Center plot. The Doctor begs Marwan to fly one of the planes.
2005-12-1219 minMarwan11. 10 Venice, Florida: December, 2000 - Marwan-In this episode: Al-Shibh can't get a visa. Moussaoui will take his place. Marwan and Atta finish flying school.
2005-12-1112 min