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S1, Ep2 | Ye Olde Crisis Actor Myth

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S1, Ep2 | Ye Olde Crisis Actor Myth

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You could be forgiven for thinking the crisis actor myth was cooked up by Alex Jones to sell people on school shooting conspiracies, but in fact it's more than a century old. In this episode we meet the world's first publicist, the legendary Ivy Ledbetter Lee, and learn about his work crushing mine strikes for the Rockefellers.

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