#3 Electrocuting an Elephant in 1903

An episode of the Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) podcast, hosted by Yesteryears News Today, titled "#3 Electrocuting an Elephant in 1903" was published on September 13, 2015 and runs 76 minutes.

September 13, 2015 ·76m · Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC)

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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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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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