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S1, Ep6 | How a Standard Oil PR Guy Shaped Post-War America

Rigged • Season 1 Episode 6

S1, Ep6 | How a Standard Oil PR Guy Shaped Post-War America

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In 1944 the greatest threat to American industry wasn't World War II, it was convincing Americans to fall back in love with free-market capitalism after having experienced government systems that actually worked for the greater good. In the season finale of Rigged, we lay out the strategy contained in a never-before-published confidential document from the archive of Earl Newsom, Standard Oil of New Jersey's (today ExxonMobil) top PR guy from the late '30s to the late '60s.

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