Tag: Magician
Houdini, a Magician’s Childhood
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Houdini-a-Magicians-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/25/2002 Houdini, a Magician’s Childhood Transcript It was the birthday yesterday of one of the most famous magicians of the last century, Harry Houdini. His real name was Erik Weisz, and he was born on March 24th, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, the son of […]
Conjure Times: Black Magicians in American
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recessmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Conjure-Times-Black-Magicians-in-America.wav Author John Cech and Jim Haskins Air Date 2/5/2002 Black Magicians in American Transcript David Blaine, who has been called the “hip hop Houdini,” a young, and – according to his various descriptions of his ethnic origins, Puerto Rican, Italian, Russian, Jewish, African American – is one of the […]