United States of Florida: The Secret History of the Evil, Racist, Homophobic Johns Committee (with Robert W. Fieseler)

Prevail with Greg Olear

Greg Olear & MSW Media

Politics, News, News Commentary

5.0 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

As Florida goes, so goes the country. The indefatigable investigative journalist Robert W. Fieseler talks to Greg Olear about a state-sponsored persecution of Black and gay Floridians in the 1950s and 60s that was almost lost to history–and his riveting new book on the subject, “American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives.”

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0:00.0	MSW Media.
0:04.8	They'd spent the people's money to create gay pornography, objectively.
0:11.0	It's good stuff.
0:13.4	Preveal.
0:14.4	It's a short of Geneva program for politics.
0:17.8	History, the security national.
0:20.1	Crime, organized, money, soo. Global, the security national. Crime organized, money socio. Global corruption. Tabro to democracy. And now A. T.P. And now? With you, your ambition reg. Regoner. Regoer. Greg Oliar.
0:52.0	I'm Greg Oliar. This is Prevail.
0:53.5	Welcome to the program. We've got a great show. Robert Fisler is here.
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1:03.9	years worth of work in the archives on Donald Trump, Russia, Putin, Jared Kushner, Leonard Leo, Brett Kavanaugh, the dark enlightenment,
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1:30.6	Robert W. Feistler is a National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association Journalist of the Year
1:35.8	and the acclaimed author of Tinderbox, the untold story of the upstairs lounge fire and the rise
1:42.4	of gay liberation, a Tulane Mellon fellow,
1:45.9	Fiesler graduated co-valedictorian from the Columbia J School and is a board member of the
1:51.1	LGBT Plus Archives Project of Louisiana. His latest book is called American Scare, Florida's Hidden
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