Summary of Sarah Kendzior's They Knew

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#1 A radio host named Norman Baker claimed that evil cabals ruled the US, and that he could expose them. He kept on broadcasting, even after he was arrested for running a criminal radio station.

#2 A radio host named Norman Baker claimed that he could cure cancer, and made a lot of money doing so. He was eventually shut down, but not before he had claimed that the American Medical Association had sent assassins to kill him.

#3 In 2018, I warned that Donald Trump would win the presidential election.

#4 After Trump won the 2016 election, I warned that he would win again in 2018.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031164

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is built into the bedrock, and its buildings are carved into curving cliffs. It is a magical place that attract travelers seeking miracle cures in the town’s waters.

#2

Baker was a fraud who made a lot of money on the road by lying about his cancer treatment, which was basically seeds and water, but he made even more money when he settled in one place and forced his victims to come to him.

#3

In June 2018, I drove with my family from Missouri to Rocky Mountain National Park. We were unconcerned with pandemics, and were only concerned with the usual problems of economic decline, rising autocracy, and rampant gun violence.

#4

I decided to hit the road in 2018, to show my kids what America was really like before it was ruined by Trump. They didn’t see it as any more aberrant than I did as a child of the 1980s.

#5

I wanted to show my kids that America had beauty as well, and that people had sought to preserve it. I wanted them to see mountains and wildlife, and I wanted them to see Americans enjoying these sights too, regardless of where they came from or whom they voted for.

#6

The Crescent Hotel was a funeral parlor where Baker and his staff would store the corpses of patients he had treated. It was a reminder of the cruelty of the con, and the deaths of humiliation