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🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
0:07.0 | If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you. |
0:12.0 | I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American |
0:16.0 | I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public |
0:21.2 | Radio, part of the NPR Network. |
0:24.0 | It's Dawn in Okima, Oklahoma. |
0:31.0 | Two cars, a Plymouth and a Ford, wind down the sleepy dusty streets. |
0:39.2 | In each car sit men with stockings and handkerchiefs over their faces, pistols and machine guns in their hands. |
0:48.6 | For most people, 1934, five years into the Great Depression, was a hard year. |
0:55.0 | But the men in these cars, the O'Malley Gang, they are not most people. |
1:01.0 | They stop in front of two banks across the street from each other. |
1:06.6 | The Depression is the golden era of bank robbery in the |
1:13.0 | O'Malley's |
1:15.0 | few successful double heists in American history. |
1:19.0 | As the first rays of light bounce off the bank windows, the O'Malley gang strikes, taking two separate |
1:26.1 | banks at once. |
1:28.0 | Inside they tie and gag employees, force a bank officer to open the safe. |
1:33.0 | Word of the robberies splashes across local newspapers. |
1:37.0 | Two institutions held up and it's leaving 15 tied. |
1:41.0 | Okima's two national banks were robbed simultaneously of $19,000 Saturday. |
1:46.2 | The robberies were staged with clock-like precision and the gang fled. |
1:50.3 | Eventually the bandits get caught. |
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