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🗓️ 4 October 2025
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This 2016 episode covers a haunting story from the early 1800s. Many narratives have blossomed from the Bell Witch story, but when you really try to look at the facts, they're few and far between.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:05.9 | This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama, |
| 0:11.8 | where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control. |
| 0:15.6 | And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. |
| 0:18.3 | That's probably not long enough. |
| 0:20.3 | I didn't kill them. |
| 0:22.1 | From Revisionist History, this is The Alabama Murders. |
| 0:26.4 | Listen to Revisionous History, The Alabama Murders on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:32.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.1 | Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa once promised to break both of Bobby Kennedy's arms. |
| 0:39.9 | Bobby, JFK's attorney general, wanted to take down the mob, starting with Hoffa. |
| 0:44.1 | Like, no one gives a shit about Bobby, right? So this is Bobby trying to get the world to care |
| 0:49.0 | about him, which I think explains all this passion and anger going into this, |
| 0:54.9 | even though it's all kind of ineptly handled. |
| 0:57.6 | On United States of Kennedy, we dive into the hidden stories |
| 1:00.5 | fueling our cultural fascination with the Kennedy dynasty. |
| 1:03.7 | Listen on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:07.6 | When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, |
| 1:11.3 | had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment, |
| 1:15.1 | it represented a milestone for both researchers and patients. But there's a gripping tale of |
| 1:19.6 | discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators. I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer |
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