Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 1
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08/28/24 • 54 min
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Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side character in major historical events for decades.
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Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side character in major historical events for decades.
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Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 2
In part two of the life of the Forrest Gump of fascism, Frank Sweeney leads the CIA on an international goose chase, befriends and then betrays a serial killer, and just can't stop committing crimes by mail.
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Weird Little Guys - Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 1
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Speaker 2This is a story that begins and ends in bank parking lots, more or less in the way that stories can really begin or end.
Speaker 1Our subject today was alive.
Speaker 2Before the story begins, and as I'm writing this, he's still alive. But for the purposes of this telling, we'll start outs
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