{"id":7457,"date":"2019-12-11T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2019-12-11T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:15:42","slug":"smithsonian-channeltm-revisits-the-legendary-event-that-triggered-the-birth-of-tabloid-headlines-in-battle-of-little-big-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/11\/smithsonian-channeltm-revisits-the-legendary-event-that-triggered-the-birth-of-tabloid-headlines-in-battle-of-little-big-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Channel(TM) Revisits the Legendary Event That Triggered the Birth of Tabloid Headlines in “Battle of Little Big Horn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Battle of the Little Big Horn<\/strong><\/em>. Custer’s Last Stand. The Battle of the Greasy Grass. An infamous conflict known by many names is one that has been edited, embellished and sensationalized for over a century. On June 25, 1876, Hunkpapa Lakota Chief Sitting Bull and thousands of American Indians were attacked by General George Custer’s 7th Cavalry as they camped on the banks of Montana’s Little Bighorn River. Vastly outnumbered, Custer’s entire regiment was wiped out. What was to follow was a nationwide media storm – but what led to this deadly encounter, and how did history books get it so wrong? BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN premieres Monday, January 13 at 8PM ET\/PT on Smithsonian Channel.<\/p>\n

BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN explores how the proliferation of the telegraph and burgeoning newspaper industry led to a simultaneous news break across the country. The inaccurate and dramatized reporting resulted in an American public both outraged and captivated; with no white survivors left to tell the tale, a decisive 19th-century conspiracy theory was born. BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN draws inspiration from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibition Americans, which highlights the ways in which American Indians have been part of the nation’s identity since before the country began, and features interviews with three of the museum’s curators – David Penney, Emil Her Man Horses and C\u00e9cile Ganteaume. The special also visits the National Museum of Natural History’s National Anthropological Archives to examine rare original drawings created by Lakota Chief Red Horse – a pictorial version of his testimony of the events at Bighorn – and notes the obvious absence of the fabled “Custer’s Last Stand” image depicted on the battle field.<\/p>