Clara Barton
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Sep 15, 2026
Torsten SummersbeeVOICE_ACTOR
Hmm.
Torsten SummersbeeVOICE_ACTOR
A decade ago, a physician thought the same and deeded all his property to a medium supposedly channeling instructions from his late colleague, Nurse Clara Barton.
Torsten SummersbeeVOICE_ACTOR
The Maryland Court of Appeals hesitated to invalidate the conveyance solely based on the physician's spiritual experience.
Torsten SummersbeeVOICE_ACTOR
Ultimately, he had to prove her a fraud who didn't even hold herself out to be a medium.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
It was further voted that they should confine all their energies to civic, educational, and humanitarian channels, and things pertaining to home.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
This was a most happy and wise decision, for the world at large needs mothers who will beget and nurse a Florence Nightingale, a Clara Barton, a Washington, or a Lincoln, rather than mothers who would become a Jezebel, a Delilah, or a Cleopatra.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
1919.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
The Tornado.
KimberlyHOST
We open with Ada and Marion attending a talk at their cousin Aurora Flame's
CindyHOST
home, given by Clara Barton, who
KimberlyHOST
is the founder of the American Red Cross.
KimberlyHOST
And ironically, the National Historic Site for Clara Barton and the Red Cross is about four miles from where I sit here.
KimberlyHOST
So we might have to take a field trip there sometime because she becomes
CindyHOST
a major part of the stories as we progress.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
but equally able leaders of the opposition benefited by the warning of the sages succeeded in counterbalancing the efforts of their fair antagonists after a heated symposium the question was put to a vote which resulted decisively in a victory for those who opposed the movement It was further voted that they should confine all their energies to civic, educational, and humanitarian channels, and things pertaining to home.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
This was a most happy and wise decision, for the world at large needs mothers who will beget and nurse a Florence Nightingale, a Clara Barton, a Washington, or a Lincoln, rather than mothers who would become a Jezebel.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
a Delilah or a Cleopatra.
Chuck WilliamsonNARRATOR
1919.
Alexandra PetriGUEST
And they say, hey, yeah, you know, she started the Red Cross.
Alexandra PetriGUEST
I'm going to put Clara Barton's name on that building.
Alexandra PetriGUEST
And if you can't do anything that makes people want to remember you lovingly, just put your name on everything and bully
Jonathan CapehartHOST
the maps.
Jonathan CapehartHOST
And the key thing is Clara Barton.
Jonathan CapehartHOST
The names are put on buildings long after the person's gone.
Alexandra PetriGUEST
That's also, which makes the Kennedy Center so confusing.
John LienhardHOST
Historian Herbert Collins tells us that the Red Cross didn't provide its own ambulances until the Spanish-American War.
John LienhardHOST
When Cubans revolted against the Spanish in 1897, Clara Barton, head of the American Red Cross, asked President McKinley to help her raise public money for Red Cross relief to Cuba.
John LienhardHOST
The government finally did join the effort, but only after the conflict had widened into the Spanish-American War a year later.
John LienhardHOST
The Red Cross raised $36,000, and Barton directed most of that money into building 11 mule-drawn ambulances.
John LienhardHOST
The ambulances were made by the Studebaker Company.
John LienhardHOST
That was shortly before it began making automobiles.
John LienhardHOST
six of the eleven ambulances went to cuba where barton later found that the army hadn't even bothered to unload them two were used in new york city and one at camp thomas georgia only two of the eleven saw action they had been sent not to cuba but to puerto rico and they were very useful there The one in Georgia was sent back to Clara Barton in Washington after the war.
John LienhardHOST
A vegetable peddler eventually bought it, and the Smithsonian didn't find it until 1962.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
You were having a terrible war at home, the one in which your grandfather fought.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
All this time, Clara Barton was with the soldiers on their bloodiest battlefields.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
When you go home, ask your grandfather about the battles of Bull Run and Antietam, Fredericksburg and the Wilderness.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
She was there.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
This second long siege against suffering made her an invalid for many years.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
The other nations wondered why American refused to join them in their humane work.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
All other civilized countries were willing to lend a hand, but Clara Barton knew that it was because the people were ignorant of its real purpose that they did not join the alliance, and she promised that she would devote the remainder of her life, if need be, to showing America that as long as she refused to sign that treaty, she was standing on a level with barbarous and heathen countries.
Lars RolanderNARRATOR
For years she was too ill to push the work she had set for herself.
Jackson BeckNARRATOR
Florence Nightingale in slacks.
Jackson BeckNARRATOR
Clara Barton in a slit trench.
Jackson BeckNARRATOR
You've got a big assignment, sister.
Jackson BeckNARRATOR
A big assignment.
Wendy BellHOST
And before the day was done, there was carnage and blood Men from opposing families literally standing point blank and shooting each other dead.
Wendy BellHOST
From the cornfield, Miller's cornfield, where Clara Barton, by the way, would come out a Civil War hero, and after her service as a 40-year-old school teacher taking care of the wounded and helping address the dead, would begin the American Red Cross.
Wendy BellHOST
And it's interesting because at that particular farmhouse, there is a monument to Clara Barton, and there's a Red Cross the red represented by bricks taken from her childhood home where she was born 200 years ago in Massachusetts.
Wendy BellHOST
I touched it with my fingers.
Wendy BellHOST
And we walked along Bloody Lane.
Chandra ManningGUEST
Oh, that is absolutely true.
Chandra ManningGUEST
One of my other heroes is an American woman from the 19th century named Clara Barton, who would say, Whenever you see a need, you must never ask yourself, do you like to do it? You must simply see the need and meet it.
Ricky WhelanGUEST
And
Chandra ManningGUEST
that is exactly how Lena operated.
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