Episode 6: Bedlam

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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4.8 • 31.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The most high-profile sedition trial in American history kicks off inside a Washington, DC federal courtroom. The members of Congress who attempted to quash the investigation are now faced with a super-charged indictment and a brand new Justice Department prosecutor who is battle tested and up for the challenge. What he finds as the curtain rises on the trial, though, is something that he is wholly unprepared for: pre-planned, unmitigated chaos.

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0:00.0	The note was written in black pencil on cheap white paper.
0:10.8	It said, you will die before Wednesday if you don't get out of this city.
0:16.1	We just paid $18,000 for your death.
0:19.7	You must die.
0:22.6	And then the note was signed.
0:23.5	It was signed the bullet gang.
0:26.6	And tucked inside the envelope with the note were two 38 caliber bullets.
0:33.0	That death threat was addressed to a lawyer, a man named O. John Ruggie.
0:39.0	John Ruggie was a young man, but he was a big deal in the Justice Department already.
0:43.7	He'd risen fast at DOJ.
0:45.1	He'd become the head of the criminal division at main justice before he was even out of
0:48.4	his thirties.
0:50.4	But the night those two bullets rolled out of that envelope with his name on it and
0:54.8	into the palm of his hand.
0:57.0	John Ruggie was on assignment for the Justice Department far away from his impressive
1:01.4	office in Washington, D.C.
1:03.9	He'd been sent down to Louisiana to work on a big and dangerous case.
1:10.2	The National Broadcasting Company brings you an address by the Honorable Huey P. Long,
1:14.2	United States Senator from Louisiana.
1:16.2	United States Senator Huey Long, the former governor of Louisiana.
1:21.4	He was a godlike figure in Louisiana politics.
1:25.0	I think you're the material, but get out, organize your friends.
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