Life in Terrible Terrell | S4 E1

Buried Truths

WABE

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Terrell County was like a lot of rural communities in Georgia. But in some ways, it was like no other place on earth.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Emory University's Goiseweta Business School.
0:04.3	Emory delivers top-ranked programs for working professionals including a part-time MBA,
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0:14.8	It started as a normal day. What if the truth about the greatest tragedy of your life
0:20.2	was kept secret from you? Huge explosion occurred. This is the story of a scandal,
0:25.1	deliberately buried in the chaos of the Iraq War. What really just happened?
0:30.2	Listen to NPR's embedded podcast and its latest series, Taking Cover.
0:34.8	The following podcast contains moments of violence, profanity, and uncensored racism.
0:40.8	It may not be suitable for all audiences.
0:43.6	The
0:53.6	Post-war America, a nation full of swagger and muscle.
0:58.5	All we had big ideas, big dreams, big cars with big fans.
1:03.9	The past was a minefield of privation and war, but America was looking forward now.
1:11.2	Ike was building the interstate system and those new highways? Well, they were a metaphor,
1:17.6	on ramps for a nation on the moon.
1:26.0	Detroit was turning at the machines that would get us there. General Motors hired TV stars like
1:32.0	Dima Shore to sing jingles about the road ahead, see the world today in a shareful day,
1:39.8	and those cars, big like America. In 1958, Chevrolet rolled at its latest and most
1:48.7	popular expression of freedom on the highways. The Empower, 17 feet of pressed steel and blinding
1:57.6	crew.
2:10.0	The soundtrack of our lives now could follow us wherever we went.
2:22.0	Switch on the cars radio when you were likely to hear the platters singing twilight time.
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