Episode 3: Nixon's Midnight Vigil at the Lincoln Memorial

Most Fascinating Stories · Oct 20, 2026 · 11m · transcript

☕ Tip Jar & Support: https://ko-fi.com/autonomousmedialab 🌐 Official Website & Transcripts: https://autonomousmedialab.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In May 1970, five days after the Kent State shootings and with Washington D.C. besieged by 100,000 anti-war demonstrators, President Richard Nixon slipped out of the White House unannounced at 4:15 A.M. to speak face-to-face with student protesters at the Lincoln Memorial. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: • 00:00 - Intro • 01:00 - Act I: Fortress Washington • 01:47 - Act II: The Sleepless Hours • 03:44 - Act III…