John Brown Today

Louis DeCaro Jr.

John Brown Today is a podcast devoted to historical and contemporary themes relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59), the controversial antislavery and antiracist freedom fighter. John Brown Today is hosted by Louis A. DeCaro Jr., a Brown biographer and researcher, the most prolific author on the John Brown theme since the abolitionist's death in 1859. John Brown Today engages a range of themes from history and biography to popular culture and other contemporary themes.

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John Brown Today

Episodes (57)

Jun 14th Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 2
Jun 14th Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 1
May 4th Experiment: "John Brown Speaks" Meets Google's Notebook LM

John Brown Today

Jun 14, 2026
15 minutes
10 MB

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of this gripping exploration into John Brown and his Jewish associates in Kansas, Lou revisits the infamous Pottawatomie Creek killings. Grounding the narrative in the vital testimony of August Bondi alongside other primary and secondary sources, the episode reframes the violence not as random slaughter but as a preemptive strike. Lou demonstrates how Theodore Wiener became a crucial actor in this lethal counter-offensive, as Brown, his sons, and his son-in-law moved to thwart a hostile, pro-slavery plot by executing five local pro-slavery collaborators: the Doyles, William Wilkinson, and William Sherman. <...

John Brown Today

Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 2

Louis DeCaro Jr.

00:00 -15:00