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Here is a bulletin from Kennedy's motorcade.

7, 6. We have main engine starts.

Gottage shells of buildings, flames raging out of control.

The devastation is so widespread.

Follow the security alert earlier this morning. It is July 20th, 1969.

Major corruption crackdown going down here.

Time to make up your mind about people.

There's never. So there's only one word to. There's never.

So there's only one word to describe what's happening and that is panic.

The description on one wire service.

Mash script. All right, so welcome on back to Twisted History.

This week is going to be the twisted history of freak shows.

Why would I pick the twisted history of freak shows?

It all started Vibbs the other day.

I didn't see the movie at all.

All I did was see one clip of a movie called The Greatest Showman.

As I was buzzing through the channels, I had caught this very voluptuous bearded lady

singing the song,

This is Me, as she's walking through a town.

They're very, like, animated and angry or, you know, just very,

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