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Ronald Reagan, a loaded gun, and the forgotten hostage crisis at Augusta National
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Ronald Reagan, a loaded gun, and the forgotten hostage crisis at Augusta National
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
On an October day in 1983, Charlie Harris drove his blue Dodge pickup through gate three at Augusta National. His goal? To talk to Ronald Reagan, who at that moment was playing the 16th hole on his first-ever trip to the storied course. What happened over the next two hours is one of the strangest chapters in Augusta history ... and despite the high stakes, it disappeared almost immediately from the news. This is the story of a desperate man, a hostage crisis, and a president trying to defuse a dangerous situation just two years after an assassin had almost killed him in Washington D.C.
Released:
Mar 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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