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WGN-TV’s Larry Potash on the new triple season premiere of ‘Backstory’ on Sunday, September 7th
Update: 2025-09-01
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The leather jacket is back! WGN-TV’s Larry Potash talks to WGN Radio’s Dave Plier about his upcoming triple season premiere of ‘Backstory’ on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at 11pm with stories including:
- Larry digs into his own family tree and ancestral DNA
- The controversy involving a Nazi janitor hiding in plain sight that divided a Chicago suburb
- A history professor using a video game to teach college students
- The army doctor’s secret, trapping him between two worlds
- The backstory of the game of golf, and Chicago’s starring role
- The psychology of collecting
- What a prolific collector of Lincoln assassination memorabilia has learned about our 16th President
- Rarely seen footage from the Chicago Film Archive
- A profile of a man building his very own Viking ship
- A man searching for his brother’s killer may have found him
- The pioneers of science fiction, including Ray Bradbury
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