Episode 8: Mystery Man

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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4.8 • 31.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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With the backing of an eccentric billionaire and powerful voices on the American far-right, a high-stakes effort to make Sen. Joseph McCarthy president surfaces at the Republican convention, as the years-long manhunt for American fascist Francis Yockey finally reaches its strange and dramatic end. Francis Yockey and Joe McCarthy become martyr figures for an ascendant and aggressive ultra-right intent on reshaping American life and politics for decades to come. This story/episode contains descriptions that reference self-harm. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or chat live at 988lifeline.org. You can also visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional support.

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0:00.0	This episode contains descriptions that reference self-harm.
0:04.0	If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the suicide and crisis lifeline.
0:11.2	We're chat live at 988 Lifeline.org.
0:17.0	He was the richest man in America.
0:26.8	Everyone was pretty sure of that,
0:28.7	even if no one was exactly sure,
0:30.9	just how much money he had.
0:33.0	Estimates of the value of this empire range two and a half to three billion dollars.
0:39.0	Figures difficult for ordinary mortals to comprehend.
0:43.0	He was a Texas oil man,
0:45.0	and his oil holdings were huge,
0:47.5	not just in Texas terms,
0:49.2	but on an international scale.
0:52.0	Texas Monthly calculated that during World War II, his
0:56.3	holdings alone produced more oil than Germany and Italy and Japan.
1:04.0	Not the United States altogether, just his oil fields alone.
1:09.5	He was also what you might call eccentric.
1:12.2	He has it appears only three abiding. what you've heard
1:12.6	have it appears only three abiding interests making money
1:17.4	combating communism in his own way and enjoying his large family.
1:22.6	You've heard stories about men who somehow found the time to have a second secret family
1:27.4	in addition to the one everyone knew about.
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