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Criminal

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Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Helen James grew up in a military family — her great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when she enlisted in 1952, she felt like she belonged. Shortly after, she realized she was being watched. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. My name is Helen Grace James.

0:35.0

I was born in 1927 in Scranton, Pennsylvania,

0:40.0

and I was raised on a dairy farm.

0:47.0

I was a very busy kid.

0:50.0

I worked on a farm. I loved the animals. I was dependent upon to do certain chores. When I was old enough, I was

1:00.0

milking cows, I was driving the tractor, I was helping with the harvests.

1:04.6

When she was old enough to drive, she delivered orders from her father's butcher shop every

1:09.0

Saturday.

1:10.4

It was a military family.

1:12.2

Her great-great-grandfather was a Union soldier. Her father was in

1:16.3

World War I, her uncles in World War II. Her cousins were in the Army and Navy.

1:22.1

So I... Her cousins were in the Army and Navy.

1:22.6

So I liked the military because I would talk to them and it just seemed like a wonderful place to be to be helping our country as I thought of it. They were

1:39.4

there to help fight the wars or be engaged in taking care of us as civilians.

1:49.2

She wanted to enlist, but she was too young, so she went to college and got a degree in physical education

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