Episode 22: Bigfoot, Iwo Jima and the Backstories of Two Iconic Images
Photos or it didn’t happen! In this episode we explain the circumstances that led up to two images most people could sketch from memory: Bigfoot walking across a dry creek bed in the woods of California and a group of American soldiers raising a flag halfway around the world from the United States on the island of Iwo Jima. Are they real? Are they fake? We dig in to find out why they have such staying power.
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Associated Press photo
Photo courtesy Kathy Moskowitz Strain, Stanislaus National Forest
(Top to bottom): Frame 352 of the Patterson-Gimlin film; Bob Gimlin and Robert Patterson; Bigfoot footprint, assumed to have been taken by Jerry Crew; “Hairy Man” pictorgram at Tule River, California
The Patterson-Gimlin Film
The Patterson-Gimlin Film (Wikipedia article)
Interview with Bob Gimlin (KNKX Radio)
Patterson-Gimlin Film stabilized and analyzed in 4K by artist Wayne Dowsent (YouTube video)
History of the Tule River Tribe
The Legend of Hairy Man (PDF download)
(Top to bottom): The iconic flag raising image; The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial; 7th War Loan poster by C.C. Beall; Raising the first flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Wikipedia article)
Dave Severance Obituary (NY Times article)
Iwo Jima Flag Raising (YouTube video)
NBC News story (YouTube video)