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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Flag Week: Bob Heft Designed The 50-Star U.S. Flag In High School
Description: This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about flags and those who fly them. In this episode from January 2022, the story of Bob Heft, who, as a high school student in Ohio, designed the first flag representing 50 states. Plus: there was once an effort to make a biopic about Edgar Allan Poe starring none other than Sylvester Stallone.
A Boy Scout designed the 50-star American flag (Scouting Magazine)
Robert G. Heft (Ohio History Central)
Stallone Shows Why He Was Wrong for Edgar Allan Poe, But Vows to Finish Script (Movieweb)
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