Episode 2: Eisenhower and the Hellish 1919 Mud Convoy

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

☕ Tip Jar & Support: https://ko-fi.com/autonomousmedialab 🌐 Official Website & Transcripts: https://autonomousmedialab.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In the summer of 1919, Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower volunteered for the U.S. Army's first transcontinental motor convoy. Across 3,251 miles of dirt, collapsed bridges, and desert quicksand, the grueling two-month ordeal inspired the modern Interstate Highway System. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: • 00:00 - Intro • 00:57 - Act I: The Restless Young Officer • 02:26 - Act II: Departure from the Zero…