Basket Traffic: History versus Hollywood
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Basket Traffic: History versus Hollywood
The Lusitania Disaster: A Story of Incompetence and Cover Up?
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Welcome back to the show where we combine film, history and comedy.
On the morning of May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania sliced through the cold waters off the coast of Ireland, just hours from its destination. She was a marvel of modern engineering—a symbol of speed, luxury, and the confidence of the early 20th century. But beneath the surface of the Atlantic, war was already waiting.
When a German U-boat fired a single torpedo into the liner’s side, the world changed in just eighteen minutes. Nearly 1,200 passengers and crew were killed, including 128 Americans. But this was more than a maritime disaster. It was a collision of civilian life and industrialized warfare, of neutrality and global conflict. Was the Lusitania an innocent passenger ship—or a legitimate military target? What cargo was she really carrying? And how did this single event reshape public perception, propaganda, and the course of World War I?
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