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Shadow Kingdom

Coal Survivor I 1. The Invisible Crown

Shadow Kingdom

Crooked Media

Documentary, History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It’s the mid-1960s and there is a succession crisis in America’s most powerful union - the United Mine Workers. Jock Yablonski and Tony Boyle - princes of the UMW - clash for their boss’ throne. Meanwhile, a killer hunts Jock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy!

0:09.0

Oh God!

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for Sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

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0:19.0

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0:24.3

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0:27.8

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0:33.3

season of Shadow Kingdom right now. Join Friends of the Pod at crooked.com slash friends.

0:43.8

Campside Media. It had been a long year for Jock Yablonsky, maybe the longest year of his life.

0:56.0

And it had come at the end of a long and tumultuous decade.

1:00.3

It was November of 1969.

1:04.3

Jock was tired, so he did what he always did at 11 p.m.

1:09.0

He sat back in his recliner, closed most of the curtains in his

1:12.9

Pennsylvania farmhouse, and he turned on the evening news.

1:16.6

This is Barry Burns in the KDKA television news role.

1:22.6

Jock was so immersed in the news that he didn't notice the man lurking outside his house, the man

1:30.3

who had been sent to kill him, a man named Paul Gilly. He'd been hunting Jock Yablonski

1:38.3

for weeks by then. And now he'd made his way to Jock's home, isolated in rural Clarksville, Pennsylvania.

1:47.5

This is from an interview I did a few years ago with Paul.

1:50.6

I drove into Clarksville, a little town there where he lived.

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