Big Tobacco | The Whistleblowers | 2
American Scandal
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🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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A group of ambitious lawyers builds a case against Big Tobacco. But first, they'll need to convince the whistleblowers to speak up.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to American Scandal add-free on Amazon Music, download |
| 0:05.8 | the app today. |
| 0:09.7 | It's Spring 1993 and an early morning in Berkeley, California. |
| 0:23.9 | Lowell Bergman quickly walks through his house. |
| 0:26.4 | He's wearing pajama bottoms and a faded sweatshirt. |
| 0:29.0 | He's carrying a folder that's stuffed with documents. |
| 0:32.2 | Bergman enters his study, pulls the door close behind him. |
| 0:35.8 | Sunlight's pouring through the windows there. |
| 0:38.4 | It reflects off the many awards Bergman has received during his career as an investigative |
| 0:42.4 | journalist. |
| 0:43.4 | He closes the blinds and sits at his desk. |
| 0:46.6 | Bergman is 47 and he's been working as a journalist for decades. |
| 0:50.7 | But the buzz of excitement he feels right now, never gets old. |
| 0:54.4 | It's the tingle a reporter gets when he senses the potential for an explosive story. |
| 0:59.8 | Bergman begins flipping through his role at X. Names and numbers whiz by. |
| 1:04.0 | They belong to experts, informants, spies. |
| 1:06.8 | They're the sources that Bergman taps for his work as a producer for 60 minutes. |
| 1:11.8 | He reaches the M's and stops. |
| 1:14.2 | He's found the name. |
| 1:15.6 | McGuire. |
| 1:16.6 | Andrew McGuire. |
| 1:18.2 | He's an old friend and just the expert Bergman needs. |
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