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Booknotes + Beverley Eddy, "Ritchie Boy Secrets"

Booknotes + Beverley Eddy, "Ritchie Boy Secrets"

FromQ&A


Booknotes + Beverley Eddy, "Ritchie Boy Secrets"

FromQ&A

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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Aug 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

With Q&A on a short break, we're sampling a few of C-SPAN's other podcasts...this week Booknotes+...According to Beverley Driver Eddy, little has been written about Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Dickinson College retired professor Eddy says in her book "Ritchie Boy Secrets" that on June 19, 1942, the U.S. Army opened a secret military intelligence training center. Over the next four years, it produced some 20,000 graduates, intelligence and language specialists, for service in World War Two. Some of the famous names of men who were Ritchie Boys include J.D. Salinger, former senators John Chafee and Frank Church, David Rockefeller, and Reverend William Sloan Coffin.  
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Released:
Aug 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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C-SPAN's Susan Swain hosts intriguing hour-long conversations with people who are making things happen. New episodes every Sunday evening. From the network that brings you "Washington Today" and "Lectures in History" podcasts.