To Make A Cold War Documentary, NBC Funded An Escape Tunnel Under The Berlin Wall

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1962, NBC broadcast a documentary showing a daring and dramatic effort to rescue people from Communist East Berlin. What was unusual was that NBC had essentially funded that rescue project. Plus: a raccoon breaks into a store in Virginia, gets drunk, passes out and gets in trouble with the law. Escape From East Berlin (New York Times)Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia store bathroom after ransacking it: officials (WJLA)Join our Patreon backers and keep building this show

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