Part One: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantatio...

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State - Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy and the Spectre of Left-Wing Violence - Parasitism with Andrew - The Return of Jim Crow - Executive Disorder: ...  Show more

Robert explains how H.L. Hunt became the richest man alive through simple hard work and also gambling and pimping.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

At the tender age of 23, Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, was sent to interview a convicted murderer inside a Mexican prison. What happened that day lived rent free in his mind for the rest of his life.

Anthony tells Maddy this story of mur ...

The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit preferably to the life available to him elsewhere. Yet alongside darkness there is lig ...

This is the remarkable story of Robert Smalls. In 1862, he was a young slave who managed to commandeer a rebel warship in Charleston, South Carolina’s heavily fortified harbor, turn it over to the North and go on to have a spectacular business and political career.  Follow Clay & ...  Show more

Steve Herr sits down with investigative journalist Linda Sawyer as they discuss their shared odyssey to connect the pieces of an intricate puzzle. Together Sawyer and Herr form an impenetrable bond in order to seek the truth and expose the murdeous contingent, who plotted and pla ...  Show more