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Inside Jobs: Killing Hitler

After a rough childhood and adolescence, which involved losing his father and then mother, living on the streets of Vienna, and serving through World War I, Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party and rose to become the undisputed master of that party, and then Germany itself. Hitler’s racist, militaristic Germany started World War II in Europe and devoted itself to wiping out various social and ethnic groups, including Communists and Jews. Although Hitler was wildly popular with certain European groups, he made many enemies, and found himself the target of various assassination plots. On this episode of Inside Jobs, we investigate The Plot to Kill Hitler.

Inside Jobs: Oklahoma Bombing

Did Timothy McVeigh act alone?

Inside Jobs: Jonestown

The infamous Jonestown episode from 2013ish.

Inside Jobs: Lindbergh Kidnapping

On March 1, 1932, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh heard a noise on the upper floor of his East Amwell, New Jersey, home, and climbed the stairs to investigate. He found a makeshift ladder, an envelope and an open window. What he did not find was his 20-month old son, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., whose kidnapping ignited the beginning of a three-year, nationwide manhunt for the person or persons who had taken the child. Local police, federal authorities and private citizens joined the search until eventually German immigrant worker Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and tried on evidence many think was invented or altered to ensure a swift conviction and subsequent execution. Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping on Inside Jobs.

Inside Jobs: The Assassination of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was a defiant, dominating speaker, activist and leader whose controversial views and actions made him enemies in many quarters. After a hardscrabble youth and time spent in prison, he abandoned his former hustling partners to pursue a righteous path in the Nation of Islam under the leader Elijah Muhammad. His often stark rhetoric attracted followers to the Nation and made many whites as well as blacks uncomfortable, especially those working in the New York Police Department, the FBI and the CIA. After feuding with Muhammad and other Nation leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm left the organization and began his own, welcoming those of different races and damning the isolationist and rejectionist rhetoric of his past. It was while speaking on these topics on February 21, 1965, that an unknown number of gunmen opened fire on Malcolm X, ending his life at 39. With so many enemies, can we ever know who killed Malcolm X? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Assassination of Malcolm X on Inside Jobs. 

Inside Jobs: The Treason of Aaron Burr

Many are familiar with the first chapter in the downfall of Aaron Burr, when the third vice-president of the United States met former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in the forests of Weehawken, New Jersey for a duel. Burr shot Hamilton down on July 11th, 1804, and though charged in both New York and New Jersey for murder, he was never brought to trial. However, the rest of Burr’s life, though much more adventurous and populated by a motley crew of characters, is far less well-known. Following this unsavory incident, Burr relinquished the office of the vice-president to his successor and began traveling through the Southern and Western territories of what are now Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky, making military connections, spending heavily and — if recopied letters and hearsay are to be believed — plotting a war against Spain and secession of the Western territories from the Union. Although a subsequent treason trial acquitted Burr, questions remain about his intentions and plans. Did Burr kill Hamilton to disguise his secessionist plans? Did Burr hope to assassinate that prick Thomas Jefferson? Can Brian, who is jetlagged out of his mind, keep control of the show before it devolves into infinite Duke Nukem quotes? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate The Treason of Aaron Burr.

Inside Jobs: Jack the Ripper

During the autumn of 1888, London’s impoverished Whitechapel district was haunted by an unseen, unheard and unknown killer dubbed “Jack the Ripper,” who violently attacked prostitutes in the early morning hours. Ultimately, the murders went unsolved. In the intervening 124 years, investigators around the world have proposed theories about the killer’s identity, from outlandish Masonic plots to Royal Family intrigue. Did Lewis Carroll embed secret codes into Alice in Wonderland confessing to the crimes? Did members of the Royal Family stage the murders in order to take our guns away? And at what point into this episode did we realize that it’s maybe difficult to make jokes about a series of violent, psychosexual murders? Join Brian, Gene and Lee as they investigate Jack the Ripper.

Inside Jobs: Nixon and Watergate

Brian, Gene and Lee reveal what was really behind the Watergate break-in in this classic episode of Inside Jobs.