JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 7 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: U.S. Payrolls Rise 175,000; Jobless Rate Climbs to 7.6% Employers added 175,000 jobs in May, in a sign that the economy continues to grow at a moderate pace despite higher taxes, federal...
Photo, above: Second Infantry Division landing at St-Laurent-sur-Mer, 7 June 1944 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, WSJ; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Hour One Thursday 6 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Patrick K. O’Donnell, Back to the Front Wounded Warriors visit Belleau...
Photo, above: Filipinos protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, as part of a global protest over an escalating territorial row in the South China Sea. The territorial row centres on Scarborough Shoal, a tiny rocky outcrop in the South China Sea which the Philippines says is part...
Photo, above: A longtime companion of reputed mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger will be buried Tuesday. Teresa Stanley was the woman who started out, in the mid 1990s, on Bulger’s run as a fugitive, but soon returned home. In her place, Bulger picked up a younger companion, the now-jailed Catherine...
Photo, above: Japan woos Vietnam amid shared China concerns Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and his wife Akie, second from left, pose with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his wife Tran Thanh Kiem for a group photo at the Government Office in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday,...
Photo, above: The aftermath of the infamous Malmedy Massacre. See: Hour 3, Block A: Fatal Crossroads: The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge by Danny S. Parker. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 2 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Blood of Free Men: The...
Photo, above: Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, wearing his trademark Indiana Jones hat, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamen from the stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. (Reuters) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 1 June ...
Photo, above: PLA 2049? JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 31 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague Barron’s Poll: Voters want special prosecutor for IRS caseUSA TODAY - 1 day ago Most Americans want a special prosecutor to investigate possible abuses at the Internal Revenue Service,...
Photo, above: Bedouin men getting out of the searing sun, Sinai (Leanne Logan, © Copyright Lonely Planet Images 2011) See: Hour 2, Block B: Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 30...
Photo, above: Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone (Mùbēi), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and was graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency,...