The last leaf: voices of history's last-known survivors
When we read about famous historical events, we may wonder about the firsthand experiences of the people directly involved. What insights could be gained if we could talk to someone who remembered the Civil War, or the battle to win the vote for women, or Thomas Edison's struggles to create the...
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| Summary: | When we read about famous historical events, we may wonder about the firsthand experiences of the people directly involved. What insights could be gained if we could talk to someone who remembered the Civil War, or the battle to win the vote for women, or Thomas Edison's struggles to create the first electric light bulb? Amazingly, many of these experiences are still preserved in living memory by the final survivors of important, world-changing events. Historic document specialist Stuart Lutz records the stories told to him personally by people who witnessed many of history's most famous events. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | 370 p. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781616141622 |
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| adam_text | Foreword
11
Bernard
Edelman
A
Letter
of Thanks
15
The Last Leaf
17
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Introduction
21
PART
1 :
WITNESSES TO GREAT HISTORY
Civil War Widows
29
Gertrude Grubb Janeway: The Last Union Widow
30
Maudie
Celia
Hopkins:
The Final Confederate Widow
39
Alberta Martin: The Next-to-Last
Confederate Widow
45
Thomas Brewer: The Last Participant in the
Scopes Monkey Trial of
1925 51
8
Frank
Buckles: The Last American World War I Soldier
59
John Coolidge: The Last Person Alive to Live
in the White House in the
1920s 70
Ruth
Dyk:
The Final Suffragette to March for
Women s Rights before the Nineteenth Amendment
77
John Finn: The Last Medal of Honor Recipient
for Heroic Actions on Pearl Harbor Day
84
Robert Myers: The Final Man from the Committee
That Created Social Security
94
George Putnam Jr.: The Last Person Still Alive
to Have Flown with Amelia Earhart
101
Boyce Price: One of the Final Two Officers to Work
in President Franklin D. Roosevelt s
Secret White House Map Room
109
Budd
Schulberg:
The Last Man to Write
with
E
Scott Fitzgerald
119
Norman Vaughan: The Final Explorer to Accompany
Admiral Byrd to the Antarctic in
1929 127
McKinley
Wooden: The Last Living Soldier to Serve with
Harry S. Truman in Battery
D
during World War I
135
PART
2:
SURVIVORS
Rose Freedman: The Final Survivor of the
1911
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
143
John Fulton: One of the Last-Surviving Ground Crew
from the Hindenburg Explosion
151
Frank Holmgren: The Final Survivor of the USS Juneau
159
Charles
Lindberg:
The Last Iwo Jima Flag Raiser
167
Cora Luchetti: One of the Final People to Remember
the
1906
San Francisco Earthquake
178
Barbara Anderson McDermott: The Last Passenger
of the Sunken
Lusitânia
183
Contents 9
Robie
Mortin: The Final
Witness to the Infamous
1923
Rosewood Race Riots in Florida
194
Esther
Raab:
One of the Last Escapees of the
Nazi Death Camp Sobibor
204
David Stoliar: The Only Survivor of the
Struma
Sinking
219
Thomas
Torresson
Jr.: One of the Last Survivors of the
Morro
Castle Passenger Ship, Which Burned in
1934 226
Adelia Wotherspoon:
The Final Survivor of the
1904
General Slocum Fire on the East River
236
PART
3:
WITNESSES TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Arthur Burks: The Last Major Designer of the ENIAC,
the First Electronic General-Purpose Computer
249
Pern
Farns
worth: The Final Witness to the
First Electronic Television Broadcast in
1927 259
Robert Halgrim: The Last Man Alive to
Work with Thomas Edison
268
Harry Mills: The Final Person to Hear the
First Commercial Radio Broadcast
279
Jerry Minter: One of the Last People to Have Known
Edwin Armstrong, the Creator of
FM
Radio
288
Albert
Wattenberg:
One of the Final Physicists Present
at the First Controlled Nuclear Reaction
295
PART
4:
ATHLETES AND ENTERTAINERS
Slim Bryant: The Final Musician to Play with
Country Music Star Jimmie Rodgers
305
George R. Gibson: The Final Player on an NFL Team
That Folded during the Great Depression
312
IO
Kitty Carlisle Hart: The Last Starring Actress
from a Marx Brothers Movie
319
Paul Hopkins: The Last Living Pitcher to Give Up
a Home Run to Babe Ruth in His
Historic
1927
Season
325
Robert
Lockwood
Jr.: The Final Musician to
Play with Blues Legend Robert Johnson
331
Hal
Prieşte:
The Last Participant in the
1920
Antwerp Olympics
341
Doris Eaton Travis: The Last of the Original
Ziegfeld
Follies Performers
348
Dorothy Young: Harry Houdini s Final Stage Assistant
361
Afterword
369
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