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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Our first season connects the dots on 10 incredible tales of unintended consequences that changed history, from Henry Ford’s role in the Oklahoma City bombing to the home appliance that changed the landscape of American politics.
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0:00.0 | Receive information regarding a massive car bomb exploded outside of a large federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, |
0:15.0 | shattering that building, killing children, killing federal... |
0:19.0 | Twenty-five years ago, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people, including 19 children with a homemade |
0:25.2 | fertilizer bomb in Oklahoma City. |
0:27.9 | McVeigh, who received the death penalty in 2001, was not alone responsible for the worst |
0:32.8 | domestic terror attack in U.S. history. |
0:35.4 | His co-conspirator Terry Nichols received 161 life sentences for his |
0:39.8 | part. But it goes deeper than that, much deeper. There's another famous figure from history |
0:45.8 | whose fingerprints are all over the Oklahoma City bombing, one whose name we usually associate |
0:50.6 | with mass production, not mass murder, Henry Ford. In 1920, Ford set out to change |
0:57.6 | American culture. Ford was king. Ford was the most wealthy American ever. And nobody |
1:04.4 | says no to that person. Nobody. And the poisonous ideas Ford spread would start a ticking |
1:10.6 | time bomb that would blow up 75 |
1:12.8 | years later. I'm Sean Braswell, and welcome to Flashback, a new podcast about history's |
1:22.2 | unintended consequences from Ozzy, the creators of the thread, that aims to bring the past |
1:27.1 | back to life like never |
1:28.3 | before. I'll be your visiting professor, taking you on a journey through history that will |
1:32.8 | change the way you look at the world today. Stories about disastrous turning points, dangerous |
1:38.2 | ideas, crazy coincidences, unsung heroes, and forgotten villains. This is George Lincoln Rockwell here on behalf of the white Christian majority of Americans. |
1:48.0 | I think if you had a policeman under every bed in the state of Connecticut, they still could not prove anything. |
1:54.0 | Flashback unveils the hidden connections and forces underlying history that your teachers and professors never told you about, |
2:00.0 | and without the |
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