Operation LAC: That Time Uncle Sam Sprayed Poison Across St. Louis
07/07/22 • 39 min
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As the US government became increasingly concerned about the possibility of large-scale biological weapons, they decided something must be done: they needed to test— in secret. In today’s episode, the guys explore how the US Army conspired to spray an entire impoverished part of St. Louis with potentially dangerous chemicals... basically, to see what happened.
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As the US government became increasingly concerned about the possibility of large-scale biological weapons, they decided something must be done: they needed to test— in secret. In today’s episode, the guys explore how the US Army conspired to spray an entire impoverished part of St. Louis with potentially dangerous chemicals... basically, to see what happened.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ridiculous History - Operation LAC: That Time Uncle Sam Sprayed Poison Across St. Louis
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Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. Let's give it up for our one and only the Man, the Myth, the Legend super producer, Mr Max Williams, who they called me Ben and Noel. You and Max and I were having an interesting conversation. I just wanted a gut check before we rolled today. Where I was asking, I was asking all of us is it St. Louis or
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