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Nov 2024
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Interview - Toby Ball/Rip Current

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Tracy speaks with Toby Ball, creator and host of the podcast Rip Current, which explores the story of the two assassination attempts against President Gerald Ford that were carried out less than three weeks apart in 1975. 

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