The Curious Murder of A Young Hollywood Actor - September 12 2025

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.0	A cup of murder...
0:15.0	Amongst the glitz and glamour of Old World Hollywood, there's a dark side that holds a lot of secrets.
0:22.4	On September 12, 1943, a dark side that holds a lot of secrets. On September 12th,
0:29.7	1943, a man was killed in broad daylight, a rising star of the silver screen whose death remains unsolved. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start
0:35.9	your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:39.0	Gaspar Griswold Bacon Jr. was born on March 24, 1914.
0:44.5	The set of a Massachusetts politician and member of the Board of Harvard University,
0:49.7	the grandson of a U.S. Secretary of State under Teddy Roosevelt,
0:56.3	a U.S. ambassador to France,
1:02.6	and a prominent financier at J.P. Morgan, Gaspar spent a lot of his time as a kid at the White House and was family friends with President Franklin Roosevelt. Basically, he came from one of the most
1:09.1	prominent politically active families in the area.
1:12.2	Though he was primed to become a politics man like so many in his family,
1:17.6	Gaspar desperately wanted to be an actor.
1:21.5	After attending Deerfield Academy and graduating from Harvard in 1937,
1:26.8	and eventually changing his name to David Bacon,
1:30.3	he started his acting career doing Somerstock in Cape Cod.
1:34.6	David made friends with fellow struggling actors, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda,
1:40.2	and after a few years of just kind of drifting, he headed to New York City where he was
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