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    One Year: Elvis, the Pledge, and Extraterrestrials

    One Year: Elvis, the Pledge, and Extraterrestrials

    FromSlow Burn

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    One Year: Elvis, the Pledge, and Extraterrestrials

    FromSlow Burn

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    Length:
    60 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 5, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Three stories from one day in August 1977. Elvis Presley dies, and the National Enquirer goes after the ultimate tabloid scoop: a photo of the King in his coffin. A New Jersey high schooler becomes a pariah when she refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Astronomers in Ohio get a mysterious signal from outer space—could it be a message from aliens?
    One Year is produced by Josh Levin, Evan Chung, and Madeline Ducharme. Mixing by Merritt Jacob.
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    Released:
    Aug 5, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.