Teapot Dome | An Extraordinary Transaction | 3

American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After months of chasing his tail, Teapot Dome investigator Thomas Walsh finally gets a lead when Denver Post reporter D.F. Stackelbeck reveals evidence that Albert Fall accepted bribes. Fall and his benefactors, Edward Doheny and Harry Sinclair, remain defiant, but their continued attempts to mislead the investigation backfire.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American scandal early and ad free right now.
0:05.7	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's November 1923 in Washington, D.C. Senator Thomas Walsh is sitting in his office on
0:29.5	Capitol Hill, reviewing case files as he waits for his afternoon meeting to start.
0:34.0	Walsh has a reputation as the most skilled constitutional lawyer in the Senate.
0:39.0	He sits on more committees than any of his colleagues, but for the last few months all of his energy has been consumed
0:45.0	by the thankless assignment he's working on now, leading the Senate's investigation into
0:49.8	former Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall.
0:53.2	Walsh's colleagues in the Senate convinced him to take on the case about a year and a half ago.
0:58.5	They believe that Fall had been paid off by two of the country's biggest oil tycoons in exchange for lucrative drilling rights to federally
1:05.1	controlled oil reserves.
1:07.1	The senators insisted on a full-scale investigation, and they left Walsh to do the work.
1:13.9	So far that work has not been going well.
1:16.5	The press doesn't seem to care about the case.
1:19.0	Walsh's fellow committee members are sleeping through the hearings, and Walsh still hasn't been able to find any
1:24.1	proof that Fall took a bribe in exchange for the oil leases. But today for the first time
1:29.6	in a long while Walsh is feeling hopeful that he's going to find the evidence he needs.
1:34.7	Recently he subpoenaed a reporter for the Denver Post named D.F. Stackelbeck might have information
1:41.0	about fall in his relationship with one of the oil
1:43.4	tycoons in question Harry Sinclair. So Walsh is eager to meet with Stackelbeck
1:48.3	today to find out what he knows.
1:52.0	Walsh looks up and sees Stackelbeck entering his office in a rumpled brown suit with a
1:58.7	file folder tucked under his arm.
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