Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968, ending his presidential run. Had he been shot today, would he have lived? A what-if story about homicides and medical care and the moral consequences of a world where trauma surgeons have gotten really, really good at what they do.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:09.2	Are you curious about the hidden side of everything that I have the podcast for you?
0:14.1	I'm Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio.
0:16.9	Every week we hear from some of the world's most fascinating scholars and thinkers as we
0:21.6	tackle a variety of topics like why the best employees can make the worst bosses, why the
0:28.2	banana is the most interesting fruit in the world and why we dread air travel even though
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0:39.3	Hey revisionist history listeners, before we get to our six episode series about America's
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1:18.5	Midnight June 5th 1968 Robert F. Kennedy is running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1:26.5	He's just been declared the winner of the California primary.
1:29.8	He's now the front runner.
1:31.5	The White House is in his sights.
1:34.1	I want to express my gratitude to my dog Freckles has been the line.
1:43.3	I don't care what they say about me, but when they start to attack my dog, I'm not doing
1:49.9	this in the order of importance, but I also want to thank my wife, Ethel.
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