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cover of episode 33: The 1920s PR Team That Reinvented & Swindled the Ku Klux Klan w/ Dale W. Laackman

33: The 1920s PR Team That Reinvented & Swindled the Ku Klux Klan w/ Dale W. Laackman

2016/7/9
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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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Dale W. Laackman, author of "For the Kingdom and the Power: The Big Money Swindle That Spread Hate Across America", tells the story of con artists Edward Young Clarke and Bessie Tyler, who through a brilliant public relations campaign turned the Ku Klux Klan from shadowed obscurity to a structured and powerful organization of millions in late 1910s and early 1920s America, and made a fortune in the process.

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