'Killers Of The Flower Moon' Author David Grann

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Martin Scorsese's film, based on David Grann's 2017 book, tells the true story of white men in the 1920s who married into and systematically murdered Osage families to gain claims to their oil-rich land. Grann spoke with Dave Davies about this story when the book came out.

Also, Justin Chang shares his review of the movie.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Robin Young from MPRs here and now.
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0:24.5	This is Fresh Air, I'm Dave Davies.
0:27.3	David Grand's 2017 book Killers of the Flower Moon
0:31.6	and the new Martin Scorsese film based on the book
0:34.3	tell a disturbing and true murder mystery.
0:37.6	It's the story of how the Osage Native American nation
0:40.4	in the 1920s gained enormous wealth
0:43.3	when oil deposits were found on their reservation.
0:46.4	It's also a story about how the Osage,
0:49.0	then the world's richest people per capita,
0:52.0	became the most murdered.
0:54.2	The Osage were being shot and poisoned in staggering numbers,
0:58.3	and the murderers it turned out were local whites
1:01.0	who had befriended and in many cases married their victims.
1:05.1	It's an absorbing murder mystery
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