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Nov 2024
1h 22m

For the Sake of American Youth

VOX MEDIA PODCAST NETWORK
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“Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store is that we're going to rob, and this is where we're going to hide, and this is how we get away.” In the 1950s, U.S. senators were worrying about “the fifth horseman of doom.” And they started an unusual investigation. The recordings of the Senate hearings in this episode are cour ... Show More
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