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Fellow Slate Podcast One Year. Their newest season looks at the most captivating stories

from 1955, including a strange tale about the threat of communist brainwashing.

Decades before Moms for Liberty took aim at the so-called indoctrination of children,

a group of far-right housewives spread the conspiracy theory

that the government was building a concentration camp for conservatives in Alaska.

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1955. Here is host Josh Levine.

I hope you're enjoying our season on 1955. This week, we have another story from senior producer

Evan Chung. Growing up in Fairbanks in the 1950s, Karen Perdue says every Alaskan kid

learned the same phrase. There's only three places for you to go, inside, outside, or morning

side. Inside meant they'd keep living at home in Alaska. Outside, midd places for you to go, inside, outside, or morningside.

Inside meant they'd keep living at home in Alaska.

Outside meant they'd move to the continental United States.

And Morningside meant Morningside Hospital, a mental institution, more than 2,000 miles away in Portland, Oregon.

If you were a child and your mother or father wanted you to do something, sometimes they

would say to you, you know, if you don't get your act together, you might be going to

Morningside.

So it was a scary place.

Because if you ever needed mental health care, Morningside is where you would be shipped

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