91: Pruitt Igo
from Cock and Bull
In 1952, construction began on a public housing project in North St. Louis, Missouri. 33 apartment buildings--a herculean spending project in the name of urban renewal. By 1972, they would famously be demolished on television. There’s much more to the story. Pruitt-Igoe was not proof of a Cold War logic; it did not display the “inevitable” failures of planned housing. It was an organized sabotage—and a clandestine site for radiological weapons experimentation. These studies were conducted on innocent and unconsenting civilians, who were mostly poor, mostly Black, and mostly women and children. All credit for this week's episode goes to Devin Tomas O'Shea's article in Proteanmag. Cock and Bull is a somewhat-weekly history podcast about unbelievable characters and shockingly true stories, brought to you by Spencer Foust and Nathan: a sophisticated text-to-speech program. You can find our other shows at: www.one-shot-one-quill.pinecast.co www.marxmadness.pinecast.co www.blunderphonics.pinecast.co www.cooperative-effort.pinecast.co Cock and Bull is a labor of love, and has neither sponsors nor a network to monetize it. Donations go towards purchasing research materials like memoirs, letters, and research papers from a time when people thought "some idiot's gonna buy this in 2023, and he's gotta work for it." Support Cock and Bull by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/cockandbull This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
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