Have you ever thought something and have everyone say that you were crazy?

Have you ever been called crazy and then have the thing you were called crazy for turn out to be absolutely true?

This not only happened to one woman, but she was

discredited in the media, had a psychological condition named after her, and had a

hand in bringing down a president of the United States.

Learn more about Martha Mitchell on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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com or click on the link in the show notes. Martha Elizabeth Beal was born in 1918 in the town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

She was an only child who grew up in a rural area and by all accounts had a normal upbringing.

She liked to sing and wanted to become an opera singer and also studied piano.

She attended college hoping to become a nurse, but ended up transferring colleges twice before winding up at the University of Miami with a degree in history.

She took on a teaching position in Mobile, Alabama, which she hated, and then got a job as a secretary back home in Pine Bluff at the Pine Bluff

Arsenal, a military facility that made bombs and grenades.

Her boss was a Brigadier General.

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