EPISODE · Sep 13, 2015 · 1H 16M
#3 Electrocuting an Elephant in 1903
from Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) · host Yesteryears News Today
It's January 16th, 1903, and racial tensions are high in Mississippi after the unfair firing of Minnie M. Cox, Thomas A. Edison's film "Electrocuting an Elephant was released on the 12th, and Houdini has been demonstrating his prison escapes in Amsterdam.We also discuss some more cannibalism, a brief history of the Cony Island amusement parks and Senator Tillman shooting his political rival Narcisco Gener Gonzales
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It's January 16th, 1903, and racial tensions are high in Mississippi after the unfair firing of Minnie M. Cox, Thomas A. Edison's film "Electrocuting an Elephant was released on the 12th, and Houdini has been demonstrating his prison escapes in Amsterdam.We also discuss some more cannibalism, a brief history of the Cony Island amusement parks and Senator Tillman shooting his political rival Narcisco Gener Gonzales
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