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Hashtag History

Hashtag History

The ultimate History podcast for History Nerds and History Haters alike! Here at Hashtag History, we dive into History"s greatest stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption.

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01:10:37

EP 80: The Disappearance of Etan Patz and the Legacy...

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2021/10/08

This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Caitlin and Sarah of Luminol Podcast as we discuss the disappearance of Etan Patz and the legacy of the Missing Children Milk Carton Campaign. Etan Patz was a six-year-old boy who went missing in 1979 as he was walking to his school bus. It wouldn’t be until several decades later that his murderer would be apprehended and tried for his crimes. What many people don’t realize is that it was this case - the disappearance of Etan Patz - that launched the

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00:54:46

EP 79: The Murder of Gianni Versace

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2021/09/28

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the murder of Gianni Versace, a world-renowned fashion designer that would go on to quite literally revolutionize the fashion industry. He was shot and killed on the steps of his mansion in Miami Beach when he was only fifty years old by what is known as a spree killer, Andrew Cunanan. In the spring and summer of 1997, Cunanan, who had never had a criminal record before, would go on a killing spree, killing five people over the course of only three

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00:48:38

EP 78: The Rise and Fall of Lance Armstrong, Part Two

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2021/09/21

This week on Hashtag History, we are wrapping up our two-part series on Lance Armstrong, the only professional cyclist to win seven Tour de France titles...all before it was revealed more than a dozen years after his first win that he had been using performance-enhancing drugs in every single one of his Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005. We are starting this week in 1999 and going all the way through his seven Tour de France wins until we reach his eventual demise as his doping scandals would be

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00:42:34

EP 77: The Rise and Fall of Lance Armstrong, Part One

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2021/09/14

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Lance Armstrong, the only professional cyclist to win seven Tour de France titles...all before it was revealed more than a dozen years after his first win that he had been using performance-enhancing drugs in every single one of his Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005. This news was particularly devastating to those that had admired and supported Armstrong through his 1996 cancer diagnosis when he learned, at only twenty-five years old, that he had

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00:36:17

EP 76: Rudy Kurniawan: Wine Connoisseur? Or Total...

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2021/09/07

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rudy Kurniawan, a world famous wine connoisseur, collector, seller...and total fraudster. In 2012 when the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided Kurniawan’s Arcadia, California home, they found the place littered with empty wine bottles, detached labels, corking tools, wax for sealing bottles, and extensive wine tasting notes. It would appear that Kurniawan was mixing cheaper wines, studying his tasting notes to blend the tastes as seamlessly as

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00:29:14

EP 75: Rodney King

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2021/08/31

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rodney King, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who was captured on video camera on March 3, 1991 as he was being beaten viciously by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. The review would find that he had been struck over fifty times with a baton leaving him with fractures to the skull, a broken leg and teeth, bruises, lacerations to the face, a burn wound on his chest from a stun gun, and permanent brain damage. The officers were charged with

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00:39:19

EP 74: Benedict Arnold

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2021/08/24

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Benedict Arnold, the OG traitor, who was a major general of the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War...all before selling out and switching sides to join the British Army. And this wasn’t any old betrayal; Arnold had been given command of West Point under George Washington (who trusted him completely) and then, when his plans to surrender West Point to the British were foiled, he fled to British lines and would end up leading their

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00:42:27

EP 73: The 1967 Bigfoot Film

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2021/08/17

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing that infamous 1967 Bigfoot film. Five decades later and - despite all the analysis and scrutiny that the film has received - it still, to this day, has never officially been debunked. And it really was that film that ingrained Bigfoot in American folklore. Stay tuned as we talk about a brief History of Bigfoot, that infamous film, the hoaxes and conspiracies, and the possibility of this thing being real. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram

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00:37:53

EP 72: Typhoid Mary

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2021/08/10

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Mary Mallon - more infamously known as Typhoid Mary (or, as she has also been called, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America”) - who was the first person in the United States to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. By the time it was discovered that she was a carrier of the disease, she had spread typhoid fever to over fifty people; three of which would die of the disease. Even after she was arrested for being a public health threat, she

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00:55:53

EP 71: Operation Mincemeat

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2021/08/03

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the weird and wondrous World War II tactical deception that was Operation Mincemeat. This was a 1943 British deception operation in which the corpse of a deceased British homeless man (dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines and carrying fabricated correspondence about fictitious military plans to invade Sicily) was purposefully planted in Nazi-friendly Southern Spain in order to convince the Nazis of an impending British invasion and throw them off

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00:01:42

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!

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2021/06/17

We are SO EXCITED to announce that, in honor of the Two Year Anniversary of the Hashtag History podcast, we will be hosting our first ever LIVE show via ZOOM! It will take place on Saturday, July 24th at 4:00 PM PST. We will have a LIVE cocktail segment that all registered attendees can participate in, lots of raffles and prizes and giveaways, AND a handful of special guests that will join us in telling stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption from the 1920s. Registration will open next

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01:06:58

EP 70: Criminal Abortion History (Featuring Special...

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2021/06/01

This week on Hashtag History, we are so honored and so excited to have the amazing Alicia Gutierrez-Romine on the podcast! Alicia is an author, historian, and professor that recently published her book titled "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969". In this episode, we get to ask Alicia all of the questions about the history of criminal abortions. This conversation included how eugenics and California's movie industry played a role in abortion history, the

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00:26:40

EP 69: The Freakiest Founding Father

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2021/05/25

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Gouverneur Morris who - in addition to being the Forgotten Founding Father - was also maybe the weirdest, wildest, and (dare I say it?) freakiest Founding Father of them all. This guy liked to have sex in public (one of those public places being the Louvre), he had a peg leg which was maybe from a carriage accident but also maybe from when he jumped from a balcony to escape from a mistress’ husband, he got married for the first time when he was 57

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00:41:12

EP 68: Lee Miller

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2021/05/18

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Lee Miller. Miller was a model and photographer, most well-known for being a war correspondent for Vogue during World War II, capturing over 60,000 images (images that many of the male photographers wouldn’t dare to take of the liberated concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. But most iconic of all was when, on April 30, 1945, while Adolf Hitler was committing suicide in a bunker in Berlin, Lee Miller got into his apartment in Munich, took of

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00:44:28

BONUS EPISODE | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre...

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2021/05/14

In a special, bonus episode, we had the honor of having Ian from Necronomipod on the podcast to discuss the St. Valentine's Day Massacre! On February 14, 1929, Chicago's North Side Gang (well known to be a rival of infamous Mob Boss, Al Capone) was gunned down in a garage in Chicago, Illinois. Although Capone has been linked to the incident and many believe him to be directly responsible for the murders, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre technically remains unsolved to this day. Join Rachel, Leah,

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00:43:30

EP 67: Alan Turing

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2021/05/11

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Alan Turing. Turing was an English Mathematician responsible for the early development of algorithms, computer science, and artificial intelligence. He was also responsible for assisting in cracking coded messages during World War II which quite literally resulted in the Allies winning the war. Jack Copeland - professor and author - has said that, because of Turing’s work, the war was shortened by more than two years resulting in millions of lives

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00:41:50

EP 66: MK Ultra

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2021/05/04

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing MK Ultra. MK Ultra was a project operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency in which they performed illegal experiments on oftentimes unknowing human subjects by using drugs like LSD, electroshock, hypnosis, abuse, food and sleep deprivation, AND MORE to determine if these techniques would be useful in order to force confessions, brainwash, and overall, just inflict horrendous psychological torture. These experiments would lead to

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00:44:02

EP 65: The 1916 Shark Attacks

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2021/04/27

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the 1916 shark attacks. These were a series of attacks over the course of two weeks in the summer of 1916 in New Jersey which resulted in the deaths of four people and one other injured. This series of shark attacks is what really initiated American fear of sharks and the misconstrued belief that they are these evil “man-eaters”. And, although the writer denies it, many believe that it was these tragic incidents in 1916 that would inspire Peter

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00:41:35

EP 64: Japanese Detention Camps

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2021/04/20

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Japanese Detention Camps, camps that were established here in the United States during World War II following the attack of Pearl Harbor. Under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, it became policy for the U.S. Government to place HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Japanese in detention camps here on American soil. Of the more than 120,000 people placed in these detention camps, more than 60% of them were American citizens. It was said that

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00:32:09

EP 63: Sacramento Good Guys Hostage Situation

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2021/04/13

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Sacramento Good Guys Hostage situation, an incident that occurred on April 4, 1991, in Sacramento, California where 39 employees and customers of the Good Guys electronics store were held hostage for more than eight hours by four hostage takers. By the time this event ended, more than a dozen of the hostages would be injured and three of the hostages would be killed...as well as three of the four hostage-takers. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram

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