Ep#10: The Lynching of Willie Earle & 1947 Zodiac Back

1/31/2024: On today’s episode Valerie tells the devastating story of the “last racially motivated lynching in South Carolina” and the disappointing but noteworthy result. Amy Jo’s Zodiac Back covers the astrology of UFOs, nuclear technology, the occult, and the Pluto and Neptune cycle.

Cover Photo: Mug shots of the defendants

1. Thomas Watson Brown

2. Willie Earle's mother

3. Willie Earle mug shot

4. Shitbags/Asshats celebrating the aquittal

5. Willie Earle Historical Marker

6. Willie Earle Historical Marker (side 2)

7. Alleged "Flying Saucer", 1950

8. 1947 Outer Planets

9. 1947 Chart

10. Flying saucer article

11. Aleister Crowley

12. Sharon and Ozzy Ozbourne, 1982

Sources/Photo Sources

The Lynching of Willie Earle Sources:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1947/06/14/opera-in-greenville

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Willie_Earle

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/earle-willie-lynching-of/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gya9v3/the-horrific-story-of-a-mob-of-white-cab-drivers-getting-away-with-murder

https://www.jbsimonslaw.com/practice-areas/federal-charges/deprivation-of-rights-under-color-of-law/#:~:text=Deprivation%20of%20rights%20under%20color%20of%20law%20is%20a%20federal,under%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=40503

The Lynching of Willie Earle Photo Sources:

https://flashbak.com/lynching-usa-photos-and-tales-of-when-blacks-were-always-the-usual-suspects-27972/mother-of-lynch-victim/

https://www.hmdb.org/Photos1/145/Photo145422o.jpg?225201162500PM

https://www.hmdb.org/Photos1/145/Photo145432o.jpg?511201174200PM

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1947/06/14/opera-in-greenville

https://greenvillejournal.com/black-history-month/75-years-later-willie-earles-lynching-still-looms-large-in-greenvilles-painful-past/

1947 Zodiac Back Sources:

https://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/1900/ae_1947.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_flying_disc_craze

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/1947

https://reason.com/1978/03/01/experience-the-cia-and-the-occ/

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/The_Unnatural

https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polemically 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_UFO_photographs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Falls_saucer_hoax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_hoax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_105_UFO_sighting

https://www.britannica.com/event/Roswell-incident

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roswell-ufo-incident-1947-headline-dispatch/

https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Central_Intelligence_Agency_(CIA)#google_vignette

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spy/spies-had-an-astrologer-idUSL0320338020080304/

https://www.cia.gov/static/4c28451b90165b446ac948e3dd47c972/The-Founding-Fathers-of-American-Intelligence-.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf

https://reason.com/1978/03/01/experience-the-cia-and-the-occ/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims

https://mysticmedusa.com/planets-in-astrology/pluto-in-aquarius-the-ufos/

https://nypost.com/2023/06/13/pentagon-whistleblower-claims-vatican-helped-us-retrive-ufo-from-mussolini/

https://www.trtworld.com/video/nexus/president-to-reveal-aliens-and-ufos-this-summer-heres-why-13642346

https://www.today.com/life/astrology/pluto-aquarius-2024-meaning-rcna134477

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/ufo-history4.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-2556,00.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/10/29/at-the-ufo-capital-of-kansas-a-celebration-of-the-weird-and-wonderful/

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:46130842

https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/calculate-astrology-aspects-online-search-engine_100/?narozeni_rok=2022&kalendar_planeta_1=pluto&kalendar_planeta_2=neptun&kalendar_aspekt=&narozeni_rok_od=1800&narozeni_rok_do=2200&barva=s

https://danwaitesastrology.com/

1947 Zodiac Back Photo Sources:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sharon-ozzy-osbourne-celebrate-38-22305255

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/aleister-crowley-was-even-more-beastly-than-we-d-imagined/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_saucer#/media/File:1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_saucer#/media/File:Supposed_UFO,_Passaic,_New_Jersey.jpg