S2 E03: The Fat Man and the Field Marshall

Crimetown

Gimlet

Government, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Eddie Jackson and Courtney Brown are childhood friends from a poor neighborhood. Eddie is the troublemaker, drawn to Detroit’s seamier side; Courtney is his quiet, serious sidekick. As they grow older in a city with dwindling job options, they go their separate ways. But when Eddie dives into the heroin trade, Courtney faces a choice: play it safe and stay broke, or join his friend’s burgeoning empire and get rich. For bonus content from this episode, check out crimetownshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I issue open warning now to all dope places, all rip off art.
0:13.8	It's January 2nd, 1974, inauguration day, and Detroit's newly elected mayor, Coleman
0:20.3	Young, has something to say to the city's crooks.
0:22.9	Time to leave Detroit, hit eight mile roads.
0:28.9	And I don't give a damn if they're black or white, if they wear super-flights boots or blue uniforms
0:38.2	or silver badges.
0:40.2	Hit the road.
0:46.6	After Coleman Young became Detroit's first black mayor, a lot of people did hit eight mile
0:50.6	road.
0:51.9	White people.
0:52.9	White flight has already begun here.
0:54.9	White's flipped to the suburbs with some bitterness.
0:58.9	Most of the people in the neighborhood are prejudiced in the sense that they don't like
1:02.8	black people on the surface, but as far as actual practice of any discrimination, they don't.
1:08.1	The only thing they do is leave.
1:11.1	As white people abandoned Detroit, jobs left too.
1:14.9	They started lining up at midnight to get job applications that were due to be handed
1:19.4	about at 8 a.m.
1:21.2	And job seekers far outnumbered the 200 or so jobs that are available.
1:26.2	The crowd was unruly at times, pushing and shoving, occasionally temperous player to the point
1:30.9	that punches were thrown and some got hurt.
1:34.8	Rose Graves is one of a lucky few who was able to get a Cadillac job application.
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