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EP 90: The Osage Nation Murders (with Amber Hunt) Jan 18, 2022

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This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Amber Hunt of the Crimes of the Centuries podcast as we discuss the Osage Nation Murders. The Osage Nation Murders were a series of murders that occurred over the course of decades in the early 1900s. Also know as the Reign of Terror, the Osage Nation Murders marks the murders of approximately sixty Osage Native Americans by those that wanted to take over their land and headrights to the lucrative oil it produced. The subsequent investigation was conducted by the still-evolving Federal Bureau of Investigation and would mark one of the most devastating massacres and conspiracies in American History.

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EP 89: The Forced Sterilization of Latina Women Jan 11, 2022

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the forced sterilization of thousands of Latinas here in California throughout the 20th century. In 1909, California passed a eugenics law that allowed for the sterilization of people considered to be “unfit or feeble-minded” unquote. Of the 20,000 people forcibly sterilized in California between the years of 1909 and 1979, it was found that Latinas carried a nearly 60% higher risk of forced sterilization than any other racial group. Perhaps one of the most devastating things about this dark chapter in History are the heartbreaking stories of numerous women attempting to get pregnant; not realizing that they had been sterilized. In particular, there was a groundbreaking class action lawsuit in the 1970s that ten Latina women would bring forward, proving that they had been coerced into signing what many of them did not realize was a sterilization consent form. Due to a language barrier and the fact that some of these women were forced to sign this form while they were literally in labor, many of them did not realize that they had been sterilized until weeks and months later; some of them didn’t realize it until they were attempting to get pregnant again.

This episode does have a specific focus on the sterilization of Latina women in California throughout the 20th century. But that isn’t to ignore the horrendous stories of Black and Indigenous women - as well as women with disabilities - that were also forcibly sterilized. Additionally, this episode does have a narrow focus on California as California made up 80% of sterilizations throughout the United States during this time period! We do, however, want to acknowledge that harmful eugenics laws were passed throughout the United States and affected tens of thousands of people nationwide.

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EP 88: Papillion Jan 04, 2022

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Henri Charriere - or, as he was nicknamed, Papillon - a condemned prisoner that was sent to one of the most infamous prisons in History in French Guiana known as Devil’s Island. After eight escape attempts, Charriere finally successfully escaped the notoriously impossible-to-escape prison, living the latter part of his life as a free man when he was pardoned by the French Justice System for his alleged crime.

In 1968, when Charriere was sixty-two years old, he published an autobiography titled Papillon in which he detailed the wild stories of his incarceration and escape from Devil’s Island. This book was an immediate success and is nowadays considered a modern classic. By the time Charriere passed away in 1973, more than five million copies of the book had been sold. To this day, there are more than 200 editions of the book and it has been sold in 21 different languages. This book was adapted into a film in 1973 starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and another movie adaptation was made in 2017 starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.

The validity of the Papillon book continues to be called into question, however, as it is believed that this book can’t possibly be a true autobiography of Charriere’s experiences. In fact, it is more often than not believed that many of the experiences he wrote about in Papillon were either total works of fiction or were indeed real…but had actually occurred to other inmates and not to him.

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EP 87: The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case Dec 28, 2021

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Liebeck vs. McDonald’s Restaurants, more commonly known as the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case. In 1992, a seventy-nine-year old woman named Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee from a McDonald’s drive thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While in her car, she spilled the coffee in her lap and suffered severe burns. She took this matter to court and would be awarded close to $3 million dollars. When the story first came out, the general public was told the Liebeck was lawsuit-happy; if someone can get nearly $3 million dollars for spilling coffee on themselves - coffee that she had to have known was hot - while she was driving and not paying attention, that just goes to show that now anyone can sue anyone for anything! In fact, we nowadays give away a Stella Awards (named after Stella Liebeck) for each year’s most frivolous, ridiculous lawsuits.

Over the course of this episode though, we will learn that nearly every single one of those - quote unquote - “facts” of the case were, in fact, false. Nearly every detail you think you know about this case is about to get debunked.

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EP 86: Olga of Kiev Dec 21, 2021

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Olga of Kiev, the first recorded female ruler of Russia who, in an effort to avenge her husband’s murder by the Drevilian, quite literally slaughtered the Drevlian people and burned their capital to the ground. Later in life, she would convert to Christianity and, some 600 years after her death, the Russian Orthodox Church would formally ordain her as a Saint.

We will find in this episode a lot of Girl Power and badassery. But also the internal conflict of not glorifying murder and destruction.

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- Rachel and Leah

EP 85: The Satanic Panic Dec 14, 2021

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CONTENT WARNING: This week's episode contains mentions of child abuse, animal mutilation, suicide, and more.

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Satanic Panic, which spanned the 1980s and into the 1990s here in the United States. It was a phenomenon that alleged that mass child abuse across the United States all had ties back to satanic cults. This phenomenon originated with the 1980 publication of a book titled Michelle Remembers in which a woman wrote of her journey of undergoing memory therapy and alleging that she had discovered repressed memories of years of satanic ritualistic abuse. This moral panic was exacerbated a few years later in 1983 when a woman here in California accused her son’s preschool, the McMartin Preschool, of abusing him. The McMartin Preschool trial would become the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American History.

Over the course of the Satanic Panic, these satanic ritual abuse theories would extend to alleging that teachers were engaging in human sacrifices, that McDonald’s was funding the Church of Satan, that listening to rock music was a sure sign that you were a devil worshipper, and so much more.

People would serve time behind bars for the unsubstantiated, alleged crimes, and families would be torn apart forever. At the end of the day, there would be more than 12,000 accusations made across the country with not a single one of them containing verifiable, supporting evidence.

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- Rachel and Leah

EP 84: The Ford Pinto's Explosive History Dec 07, 2021

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Ford Pinto’s Explosive History. The 1971 Ford Pinto was rushed into production for a myriad of reasons that we will be getting into in this episode. Because of this rushed turnaround time, Ford had to cut a lot of corners. And these corners included selling a car with a fuel tank that Ford KNEW carried a high risk of setting on fire during rear-end collisions. When Ford conducted a cost-benefit analysis, they found that it would cost them more to fix the car than it would to just pay off all the legal fees that came along with all of the wrongful death suits they received. Ford would continue to manufacture this same, dangerous model for years, leading to the deaths of approximately twenty-seven people.

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EP 83: Patty Hearst Nov 30, 2021

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Patty Hearst who -- in 1974 at only nineteen-years-old -- was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. A few days after her kidnapping, a tape was received by a Berkeley radio station from the Symbionese Liberation Army that stated that they were holding Hearst as a prisoner of war and demanded that the Hearst family give millions of dollars worth of food to needy Californians in exchange for their daughter. Dissatisfied with the family’s response to this demand, the group continued to hold Hearst, seemingly against her will. Everything changed though when, two months after her kidnapping, surveillance footage at a San Francisco bank captured Hearst participating in an armed robbery alongside the group and later personally declared in tape recordings that she had officially joined the Symbionese Liberation Army of her own free will.

Patty Hearst instantly became one of the most hated people in America. When she was eventually arrested nearly two years after her capture, the country stood divided on their beliefs about her involvement. Was she a traitor? Had she really joined the SLA of her own volition? Or had she been brainwashed? Does Patty Hearst represent one of the most classic cases of Stockholm Syndrome in History?

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EP 82: Selena Quintanilla Perez Nov 23, 2021

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Selena Quintanilla Perez, an American singer, businesswoman, and fashion designer that would be credited as one of the most influential Latin artists of all time at a time when the Tejano music industry was largely dominated by male artists. She would break through this glass ceiling and become by far one of the most well-known Mexican-American entertainers to ever exist. Tragically, on March 31, 1995, when Selena was only twenty-three years old, she would be shot and murdered by a friend of hers’ that had managed her fan club.

Following her tragic death, her English crossover record, titled Dreaming of You, would reach the top of the Billboard 200, the first Latin artist to ever do so. Since then, nearly 18 million Selena records have been sold and several movies and shows have been made to document Selena’s life, namely the 1997 film that starred Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla that would propel Lopez, also a Latin American artist, into the spotlight in a major way.

This episode touches on all of our favorite things: A badass woman in History shrouded in controversy and corruption and tragedy.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

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- Rachel and Leah

EP 81: Andree de Jongh and The Comet Line Nov 16, 2021

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Welcome back for Season Nine!

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Andree de Jongh, a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II. She organized and led the Comet Line (or Le Réseau Comète, as it was called by it’s French-speaking members) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium.

Between August 1941 and December 1942, she escorted an estimated 118 people, including more than 80 airmen, from Belgium to “neutral” Spain, where they were transported to the United Kingdom.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

- Rachel and Leah

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