The Killing of Alfalfa

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Carl Switzer was better known as the beloved "Alfalfa" from the "Our Gang" series. In 1959, Switzer was brutually murdered during a dispute over $50.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome once again to History Dweaves.
0:07.1	I'm Tim.
0:08.0	Thank you for joining us.
0:09.8	Our topic today is on the character, is on actually Carl Dean Switzer, who is better known,
0:18.8	a beloved character in American film,
0:21.9	better known as Alfalfa.
0:24.2	Alfa.
0:25.1	From the Arr Gang series in the 20s and 30s.
0:29.8	But before we get into talking about alfalfa,
0:33.9	who had an interesting life and a sad ending,
0:37.5	we're going to let me first introduce our panel with me.
0:42.7	As always.
0:43.3	As always.
0:44.0	I got a question for you.
0:45.8	All right.
0:47.0	Let me do the introduction.
0:48.4	You said he had a sad ending.
0:51.0	Is there ever any happy ending?
0:53.5	You know, you know what? You you know I've been you know I
0:56.6	update the history dweep page because you guys basically are we're useless pieces of show yeah we got it
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