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A formidable fortress linked to a royal power play.

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A young man has to walk like a king, talk like a king, look like a king.

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An aging tomb that harbors a strange secret.

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This mystery spans two continents and extends over two centuries.

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And a weathered statue that celebrates a forgotten heroine.

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Hell has no fury like a woman with a cannon.

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Sometimes the greatest secrets lie in plain sight.

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These are the mysteries of the monument.

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London, England.

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On the north bank of the River Thames is the borough of Tower Hamlets.

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From its busy streets, visitors can gaze up at the European Union's tallest building.

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Or admire the world-famous Tower Bridge.

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But long before any of these landmarks existed,

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one imposing structure loomed over the skyline.

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These walls are 90-foot high inside their chapels, military barracks.

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And it's one great giant prison.

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This is the Tower of London.

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Established by William the Conqueror in 1078,

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this iconic fortress has witnessed nearly a thousand years of English history.

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And according to historian Dr. Kate Williams,

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it was once linked to a stunning tale of power and deceit that threatened to topple the monarchy.

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This monument became the theatre for a fight for the country's future.

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England, the 1400s.

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For decades, two rival branches of the royal family have been locked in a fierce struggle for the throne.

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On one side of the conflict is Margaret of York.

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Margaret's two young nephews, Edward and Richard, were both heirs to the kingdom.

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But in 1483, just as the older boy Edward was about to assume the royal crown,

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the pair were suddenly imprisoned in the Tower of London.

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At the age of just 12, Prince Edward and his younger brother Richard,

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just nine, were whisked off to the tower and never seen again.

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To Margaret's frustration, her family's arch-rival, Henry Tudor,

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soon seized power and has ruled the land ever since.

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Margaret of York sees with anger over her family's loss of control of the throne.

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And she plots every day to take back the power she's lost.

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And it seems she may soon have a chance to restore the crown to the House of York.

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In 1492, Margaret receives a visit from a strange young man who makes a bizarre claim.

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The young man's hand-sewn wife, Margaret,

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makes a bizarre claim.

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The young man's hand-sewn with long blonde hair is dressed in silk.

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And out of the blue, he says,

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It's me and nephew Richard.

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My nephew? I am Prince Richard, your long lost nephew.

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The man tells Margaret that after he and his brother were imprisoned,

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his older brother was murdered.

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But he eventually managed to escape.

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And since then, he has been living in Europe under the protection of those loyal to the House of York.

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But there's something amiss about this supposedly royal prince.

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His clothes are all wrong. They're excessively gaudy.

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Do you like he's found some kind of dressing up outfit and worn it?

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Margaret isn't sure what to make of this strange young man's credentials.

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But if he is the prince, it could be very advantageous for her family.

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If she can convince the whole world that this is Prince Richard,

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he could then launch an attack on Henry Tudor and get thrown back.

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Margaret welcomes the young man into her home and publicly recognizes him as her nephew Richard.

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She then gets to work grooming him as a prince.

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Margaret sets about training him about the family tree, about history, about etiquette.

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For this plan to work, the young man has to walk like a king, talk like a king, look like a king.

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After months of practice, her protege becomes an impressively regal figure.

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So she takes him out to the courts of Europe and everyone is charmed by him.

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Evie Modicky Meats thinks he's marvelous, a true prince with a lot of kingly dignity.

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But the real challenge is yet to come.

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In order for him to overthrow King Henry, he's got to raise a rebel army.

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So he's got to convince the English people that he's a true prince

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and they've got to be so convinced that they're willing to die in battle for him.

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And so in 1495, the young man finally heads out to rally his troops.

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This is it. Margaret is waiting to see if her amazing training is going to work

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and this young man's going to take the throne of England.

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When the so-called prince arrives in Cornwall, he is greeted by peasants

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who are in open rebellion against King Henry over taxes.

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The prince implores the people to join in his fight for the crown.

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We're taking back the throne!

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And throngs of commoners answer his call.

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The locals see this young man and they're enchanted by him.

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He's handsome. He's got these marvelous, rousing speeches about how he'll fight for justice.

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Marching towards London, the peasant army grows.

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Incredibly, Margaret's training has worked.

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The prince gathers together 8,000 Cornish men who are determined to die for him.

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King Henry Tudor looks on in alarm.

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This novice leader who has won the support of several foreign heads of state is now advancing.

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It seems like Henry's days are numbered.

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Desperate to protect the city, the king dispatches his troops.

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A brutal battle ensues.

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Richard's peasant army may just be a rabble of farmers and fishermen, but they fight so hard.

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The fighting lasts for several bloody days.

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But finally, the rebels are forced to relent.

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In the end, they are no match for King Henry's most highly trained men.

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They're no match for the hardware, for the cannons.

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Within a few days, 500 men are dead or injured.

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In the aftermath, Margaret's protégé is arrested.

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Under interrogation, he confesses he is no more royal than the peasants who fought for him.

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He is actually a Flemish laborer named Perkin Warbeck,

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who took advantage of his good looks to pose as royalty.

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King Henry is shocked by how close his con artist came to the throne.

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He knows his own way of stopping future challenges is by making an example of him.

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In 1499, Henry orders the hanging of Perkin Warbeck, the pretender.

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Margaret of York is never punished, living out the rest of her life abroad, beyond the king's breach.

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And King Henry VII's victory helps to establish England's most powerful royal line, the Tudor dynasty.

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Today, the Tower of London endures as a symbol of this struggle for power,

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leaving some to wonder how close England really came to being ruled by an imposter.

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Wichita, Kansas.

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Known as the air capital of the world, the largest city in the Sunflower State

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has produced more aircraft than anywhere else on the planet.

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But tucked away in a downtown park is a life-sized sculpture

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that proudly celebrates a very different distinction.

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The monument is the largest city in the world,

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the monument is about 20 feet long, it's made of bronze,

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and depicts a lunch counter from the 1950s,

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with a waitress behind the counter and three patrons.

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Although it looks quite ordinary, according to Professor Gretchen Eich,

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this soda fountain scene tells an extraordinary tale of tenacity, bravery, and rebellion.

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These young people put their own safety on the line.

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Get out of this restaurant.

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To fight for justice.

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Summer, 1958, Wichita.

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Segregation is prohibited by law in most public establishments.

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But in practice, African Americans are still treated as second-class citizens.

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You had segregated restaurants, hotels, and movie theaters.

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In 1958, Wichita was one of the most segregated cities in the country.

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There was a law against this, but it was not being enforced.

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Frustrated by this injustice is a 20-year-old college student named Ron Walters.

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Ron Walters grew up in an activist family and was beginning to get restless

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with the way things are in Wichita.

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But the budding firebrand will soon have an opportunity to change the racist system.

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Walters is working at his summer job downtown

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when he notices a troubling sight at the lunch counter of a Dockham's drugstore,

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which is part of a regional chain.

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You could see how African American people had to stand in the 100-degree temperatures

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eating their lunch outside under no shelter, not able to sit at the lunch counters.

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In fact, this shameful situation is replayed at every Dockham's in town.

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But Walters thinks he can force the eateries to end their discriminatory treatment.

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His plan is simple.

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Organize a peaceful sit-in that will drive away white customers

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and impact the store's bottom line.

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If there was a way to make it costly to the owners, to make them lose business,

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perhaps they would change their policies.

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Convinced his plan will work, Walters reaches out to his community.

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Ron was able to recruit high school students and college students, 15 to 21-year-olds.

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This must be a peaceful protest.

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Walters warns his recruits that their biggest challenge won't come from the business itself,

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but from furious white customers.

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I don't want to see anybody getting mad. I don't want to see anybody engaging with this.

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To ensure their protest remains peaceful, he organizes strategic training sessions,

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during which the students practice taunting each other and staying calm.

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If you got mad, you would just leave, walk off that anger and then come back.

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This was really a huge undertaking by a lot of kids, finding the courage.

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July 19th, wearing their Sunday best, Walters and the group head into a Dockham's drugstore.

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As planned, they march up to the counter and each take a seat.

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And the waitress looked at them, and then she became very cold.

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And then she said, we can't serve you.

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We're not going to serve you here.

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It's an ugly situation, yet the students quietly exercise their right to remain seated.

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And you can imagine these teenagers looking straight ahead, being very polite,

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and just not moving, just asking for service.

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Soon, white customers also begin to line up at the lunch counter and tensions skyrocket.

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There's nowhere for white customers to sit, and they said nasty words, but got really ugly.

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As the situation escalates, the protesters struggle to keep their cool.

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Get out of this restaurant.

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It's July 1958 in Wichita, Kansas.

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To protest segregation, activist Ron Walters and a group of students are carrying out a peaceful sit-in at a popular lunch counter.

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But as white patrons file in, tensions quickly rise.

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So will this heated situation boil over?

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I'm speaking to you.

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Get out.

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Infuriated by this show of African-American defiance, white customers try to intimidate Walters and the activists.

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They were yelling, making obscene remarks, calling names in a very threatening manner.

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And when police arrive on the scene, they do nothing to defuse the situation.

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The police are not protecting the students. They just simply observe.

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Yet Walters and the others refuse to be provoked.

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Hello?

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They were very determined that this was not going to degenerate into violence.

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Day after day, the demonstrators reappear at the counter, taking up seats, but never able to order a thing.

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And Docums is losing business.

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Confrontation like this makes people uncomfortable.

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So people began to take their lunch business elsewhere.

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More than three weeks after the protest began, the owner of the Docums gives in.

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He threw up his hands and said,

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Serve them, I'm losing too much money.

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And with that, the young protesters are finally served.

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Walters has made history with his campaign.

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From that day forward, the lunch counter at every Docums in Kansas serves all of its customers, white and black.

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This is a phenomenal thing.

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This was the first successful student-led sit-in in the United States.

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Inspired by Ron Walters' courageous act, other civil rights leaders adopt his tactics as they continue the campaign to desegregate businesses across the South.

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This was the first domino in what would become a nationwide movement that would desegregate public accommodations.

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This was an extremely successful strategy.

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And today, this sculpture stands near the spot where a Docums lunch counter once served its first black customers.

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A tribute to those groundbreaking pioneers who, with quiet determination, brought about revolutionary change.

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Incorporated in 1854, the one-time fishing village and shipbuilding center of Rockland, Maine, is now a tourist haven known for the wind jammers bobbing in its harbor.

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And overlooking the port is a visible reminder of its seafaring heritage.

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It's about 30 feet tall, conical in shape, made of brick, and it's up on this high bluff overlooking the water that I think makes it so beautiful and unique.

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Constructed in 1825, this is the Owl's Headlight, one of the region's oldest and most famous lighthouses.

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But according to historian Jeremy Dantremont, this iconic beacon was once the site of a bizarre disaster that baffled the medical community.

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This monument was the scene of a strange and harrowing tale that's really captured imaginations of people on the New England coast.

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December 23, 1850.

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The residents of Rockland Harbor are recovering from a huge blizzard that swept through the town the previous night.

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This was one of the worst storms people remembered seeing in many years in that region.

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Henry Acorn, the keeper of Owl's Headlight, is inspecting the tower when a strange, disheveled man suddenly bursts through the door and collapses on the floor.

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This man was a staggering looking half dead and much to Acorn's surprise, the man just fell.

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Shocked, Acorn rushes over and carries the stranger to a chair.

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Acorn wrapped blankets around the man. He forced him to drink some hot rum.

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The man came too enough that he was able to speak just a little bit in a very weak voice.

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He said, others on the wreck.

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Acorn realizes that the battered man is the survivor of a shipwreck.

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He quickly rounds up a search party to rescue the other passengers.

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And before long, they find a small schooner stranded on the rocks nearby.

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A rescue party managed to climb over the side of the schooner and there in front of them they found these two people.

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A man and a woman locked in an embrace.

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But as they draw closer to the seemingly loving couple, the rescuers realize something is very wrong.

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They appear to be frozen solid.

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It's 1850 in Rockland, Maine.

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Light housekeeper Henry Acorn is at the site of a recent shipwreck searching for survivors when he makes a chilling discovery.

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Two ice-covered passengers frozen in a lover's embrace.

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Acorn suspects the rescue party is too late.

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They appear to be dead.

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Before they can bury the victims, the man must extract them from their icy cocoon.

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So using the knives they had in their pockets or whatever they had with them, they started chipping away at the ice.

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Then the townsfolk move the bodies to Acorn's house to thaw them out and prepare them for burial.

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But within a few hours, Acorn and his men witness something astonishing.

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The woman woke up.

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She opened her eyes.

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Soon the man's eyes opened too.

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And a moment later, the pair is smiling at each other.

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He said, what is all this? Where are we?

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The rescuers' jaws drop in amazement.

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This frozen couple has returned from the dead.

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And as they recover from their harrowing ordeal, they share the story of their fateful voyage.

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The vessel was a packet schooner which carried passengers up and down the coast.

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And these three people were on board the couple that was engaged to be married plus another sailor.

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During the previous night's fierce winter storm, the ship's anchor line snapped, causing the vessel to crash onto the shoreline.

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When the cabin began to fill with frigid water, they huddled together under layers of blankets in a futile attempt to stay warm.

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Spray from the ocean, gradually ice encased these blankets.

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But the question remains, how did the frozen lovers survive such a seemingly fatal ordeal?

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Modern medical research may provide an answer.

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It has been learned in relatively recent years by doctors that when people experience hypothermia, all the processes slow down.

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But by doing that, they're actually preserving the tissue of the body from dying.

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Such a phenomenon could explain how the couple survived the icy nightmare.

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It's also believed that Acorn's careful treatment helped save them.

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By leaving their bodies to warm up slowly, the lighthouse keeper unknowingly ensured that the couple's defrosting hearts maintained a steady blood pressure and avoided any sudden shocks.

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With their health restored, the lucky pair wedged the following June.

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Today, the Owls Headlight is maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, continuing to light the way for vessels traveling along Maine's rocky and romantic coast.

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The skyline of downtown Austin, Texas is proof that everything really is bigger in a Lone Star State.

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The football stadium here is the state's biggest, and the imposing capital building is the second largest in the nation.

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And in the capital, shadow is an equally oversized effigy.

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Well, it's a large statue made out of bronze. It stands about seven feet high and weighs over 2,000 pounds.

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There's a frontier woman standing over a cannon, and she's about to fire that cannon.

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As author Jeffrey Kerr can attest, the woman depicted by this sculpture changed the course of this great state's history with one heroic act.

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This is the tale of a prototypical tough frontier woman. If it wasn't for her, Texas could be a very different place today.

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1842. The Republic of Texas is an independent sovereign nation, and its capital is located in the frontier town of Austin.

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Austin was the farthest extent of Anglo-civilization in Texas in those days. People dreamed that one day the country of Texas would extend all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

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And Austin was intended to be the seat of a vast empire.

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As such, the town is where the archives of the General Land Office are located.

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Aside from Congress, it's the most important department of the young republic's government.

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The General Land Office is where all the records were stored, showing who owned what piece of land in Texas.

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And that was hugely important because that is the reason that most people came to Texas in those days to get free or cheap land.

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But the recently re-elected President of Texas, 48-year-old war hero Sam Houston, vehemently opposes Austin's status as the seat of government.

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Rather, he wants to shift the power to the heavily populated towns on the Gulf Coast.

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Sam Houston was a very divisive figure. He was accused of having said that he intended to desolate the city of Austin.

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And the wily politician soon gets an opportunity.

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In the spring of 1842, Mexican forces capture San Antonio, only 80 miles west of Austin.

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This was just the excuse Sam Houston might have been looking for.

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Houston seizes on this threat to pull the government back from the frontier.

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He proclaims that Austin is no longer the capital and orders it to be moved to a town 100 miles to the east, Washington on the Brazos.

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He said, as president, I have the authority to take action.

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To make the change official, Houston announces his intent to remove the government archives from Austin's possession.

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The archives were crucial to everybody in Texas because they contained records of all land ownership.

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Without the archives, you didn't know who owned what and utter chaos would prevail.

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But the people of Austin are determined to prevent the move.

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That man is a stone truck.

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And refused to give up the archives.

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The people of Austin were concerned that without government, the city would eventually die.

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After months of political back and forth, Houston reaches his boiling point.

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Houston was very angry and accused the populace of being traitors.

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So on December 31st, the president recruits 20 Texas Rangers to go in and steal the archives.

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The Rangers slip into town with wagons, ready to load up the files at the general land office.

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Everything was going perfectly, but the Rangers have no idea something bad is about to happen.

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It's 1842.

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The Republic of Texas, at this time an independent sovereign nation, is in a fierce debate over the permanent location of its national capital.

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To settle the issue once and for all, the president of Texas, Samuel Houston, is in a fierce debate over the permanent location of its national capital.

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All the president of Texas, Samuel Houston, has dispatched a team of Texas Rangers to seize the National Archives from the city of Austin.

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As the Rangers are loading these records onto the wagons, all of a sudden, boom, a round of grapes shot came flying right at them.

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The Rangers were all about in surprise and come face to face with a culprit.

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They looked down the street and there's a cannon pointed at them.

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With a very angry woman standing behind it.

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The woman behind the cannon is a 44-year-old innkeeper named Angelina Everly.

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Angelina Everly is a tough Texas frontier one.

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From her inn, Everly had noticed the Rangers stealing the archives.

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So she decided to take matters into her own hands.

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Hell hath no fury. I feel like a woman with a cannon.

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But while the grapes shot misses the soldiers, the resounding blast of the cannon has succeeded in raising the alarm to Austin's fighting men.

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They're stealing from us!

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Oh hell, no right gonna do it!

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A posse of Austin vigilantes forces the Rangers to surrender at gunpoint.

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The Rangers tried to negotiate their way out of this by claiming that they had presidential authority.

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The Austin mob said, you may have a letter, but we've got a cannon.

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Victoria's, the townsmen haul the records back to Austin.

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They buried them for safekeeping in Angelina Everly's backyard.

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Probably because she wouldn't have taken a gun from anybody.

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For the remainder of Sam Houston's presidency, the National Archives remain safeguarded in Austin.

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And in 1850, residents of the Lone Star State vote by a large majority to make Austin the permanent state capital.

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The fact that the archives stayed in Austin, I think played a major role in the government eventually returning.

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In 2004, over 160 years after the Texas Archive War, renowned sculptor and cartoonist Pat O'Leary,

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creates the statue, a testament to the fact that one woman and a cannon can truly have a lasting impact.

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And today it stands in the very spot where the fearless heroine forever changed Austin's destiny.

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Nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains is the city of Monrovia, California.

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Established in 1887, this tranquil suburb began as a scattered group of orange farms.

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But one of its most renowned early residents was far removed from the agricultural community.

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In fact, some of his greatest achievements were realized at a gracious home on the outskirts of town.

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It is too small to be a home.

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It's done in the style of Spanish colonial and it is surrounded by a wrought iron fence.

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Now privately owned, this residence once belonged to Upton Sinclair, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.

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But according to author Lauren Kudley, the popular writer was also at the center of a campaign.

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The Pulitzer Prize winner was Lauren Kudley, a famous writer and writer.

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The Pulitzer Prize winner was Lauren Kudley.

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The popular writer was also at the center of a campaign that forever changed the face of electioneering.

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This was one of the nastiest fights in the history of U.S. politics.

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August 1934.

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The Golden State is in the throes of the Great Depression.

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Abandoned factories, withered farms and droves of homeless families dot the California landscape.

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With the situation so desperate, all eyes are focused on the upcoming election for governor.

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The incumbent is a Republican named Frank Merriam.

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Frank Merriam spoke for the class of Californians who owned banks, who owned major industries, the wealthy and influential people of California.

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Merriam's challenger on the Democratic ticket is his polar opposite.

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56-year-old writer and social reformer, Upton Sinclair.

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Upton Sinclair was one of the biggest celebrities of his time. Everywhere he went, people wanted to know his opinion.

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Sinclair fervently believes in supporting and elevating the working class.

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Translated into today's term, we would say jobs for everybody and a chicken in every pot.

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I have been asked to stand as candidate for governor.

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The progressive Sinclair embarks on an intense campaign, and it's not long before his populist ideals strike a chord with the voters.

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Let's bring jobs back to the jobless.

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The public was thrilled. They thronged to see him. They participated in parades, quilting bees, newspapers. It was a very grassroots campaign.

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With the election only two months away and Sinclair skyrocketing up the polls, it seems clear which way the pendulum of politics will swing.

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Sinclair was like a shooting star. There was nothing to stop him. This is what people were excited about.

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We are going to show how the whole people can end poverty in civilization.

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But then there's a shocking reversal.

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His campaign is about to be rocked by something that no one saw coming.

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Nothing like this had ever been done before.

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The opposition has entered the ring.

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Suddenly, with the election just three weeks away, Sinclair's numbers in the polls plummet.

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And behind it all is a series of inflammatory newsreels that have just started playing in movie theaters throughout California.

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When you went to the movies in the 30s, there'd be a newsreel about 10 minutes before the feature film, summing up what's going on in the world.

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But rather than report on current events, the latest newsreels malign Upton Sinclair himself.

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We have something like a million and a quarter people dependent on public charity.

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The newsreels said that these were homeless men on trains saying that as soon as Sinclair was elected, they would flock to California.

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Thirty stated that they were on their way to California to spend winter and to remain there permanently.

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Seen by millions of moviegoers, the newsreels feature what purport to be actual man on the street interviews.

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But what viewers don't know is that the interview subjects are actors.

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Criminal, homeless, and vagabond. We need to scare them out.

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I heard that if Upton Sinclair gets elected, he's going to give homeless people jobs.

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What they did was really ramp up the anti-Sinclair movement and get people out to vote against him.

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What's up?

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On November 6th, 1934, Sinclair is defeated at the ballot box by nearly a quarter of a million votes.

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The newsreels were a game changer in terms of politics.

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After his devastating loss, Sinclair publishes a series of articles in which he claims he was the victim of what he terms the lie factory.

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A secret campaign to spread misinformation about him.

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And his complaints are vindicated when MGM film executive and staunch Republican Irving Fahlberg admits that he funded the fake newsreels.

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What are you doing out here, bud?

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There had never been any lies in campaigns until this one.

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This is really the first example in our political history of smear campaigns.

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Everybody gets things but not...

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This was enormously controversial and sadly very effective.

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In the aftermath of his crushing defeat, Sinclair retires from politics and returns to writing.

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And in 1942, he settles into this Spanish colonial style residence in Monrovia.

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Now on the National Registry of Historic Places.

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This home is where Upton Sinclair produced some of his greatest fictional works.

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Solidifying his place in history as one of America's most influential authors.

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In the heart of North Carolina's hilly Piedmont region is the quaint farming village of Cleveland.

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And amid the rustic barns and historic houses is a centuries old graveyard that is home to a rather unconventional site.

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It's an enclosure made of glass and brick.

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It has a window that you can see through it.

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Inside is a wafer thin headstone.

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There's no monument like it in any cemetery in this part of North Carolina.

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This peculiar tombstone is the century old grave site of a distinguished Cleveland resident.

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And according to history professor Gary Fries, there is more to the man memorialized here than meets the eye.

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This tomb is tied to a mystery that spans two continents and extends over two centuries.

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It's the 1820s in South Carolina.

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The small rural town of Brownsville has just hired a new school teacher.

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A brilliant but mysterious Frenchman named Peter Stuart Ney.

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Ney was a phenomenon. He seemed to have an incredible breadth of knowledge.

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He was also the strictest of instructors and the gentlest of teachers.

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But at the same time, no one really knew who he was. No one is sure where he got the knowledge that he had.

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He kept his story to himself.

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The secretive instructor also exhibits some unusual behavior in the classroom.

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Ney was lined up with students along the wall then inspect them as if they were in the military.

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And if they were out of line, he would take measures to make sure they measured up.

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He always ensured that fencing was part of this curriculum, using sticks or corn stalks in his demonstrations.

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Despite his eccentricities, Ney is an effective teacher and continues instructing the area's school children for years.

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Then in 1846, the gentile educator falls gravely ill.

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And on his deathbed, he makes a stunning declaration.

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As Ney lay dying, he seemed together the last of his physical strength.

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And he set up in bed with great force and he declared,

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I am martial Ney, a France.

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And then collapsed back into the bed.

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Soon after, Peter Stuart Ney passes away,

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leaving those in attendance to puzzle over his parting words.

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The man he claimed to be, Marshal Michel Ney,

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was a well-known commander under the legendary French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Michel Ney was one of Napoleon Bonaparte's most trusted generals.

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Napoleon called him the bravest of the brave.

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Yet something doesn't add up.

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Marshal Michel Ney was killed by a firing squad decades earlier.

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After the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled and Ney was declared a traitor and ordered to be executed.

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The execution was then performed in the middle of a Paris street.

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It was witnessed by hundreds.

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So could Marshal Ney have cheated death and end up in the American South?

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It's 1846 in North Carolina.

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Southern school teacher Peter Ney has just made a stunning declaration on his deathbed.

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He claims to be one of Napoleon Bonaparte's most trusted commanders, Marshal Michel Ney.

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But there's a problem.

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Michel Ney was apparently executed decades earlier in France.

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So was the educator telling the truth?

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Following his death, friends of Peter Ney remarked that the school teacher did in fact bear a great resemblance to the legendary Marshal.

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And while preparing his corpse for burial, workers at the funeral home make a surprising observation.

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Ney's body was covered in scars.

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The scars seemed to represent the same places which Marshal Ney had been wounded during Napoleonic battles.

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But while these similarities are striking, the late instructor's claims seem hollow, since Marshal Ney's demise in the early 19th century was a well-documented event.

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The execution is witnessed by hundreds.

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People also knew that Marshal Ney was buried in Paris and there was a grave.

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So Peter Ney's friends dismiss his claim as merely the delirious rantings of a dying man.

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But that's not the end of the story.

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Fifty years later, scholars uncover stunning new evidence about Marshal Ney's demise.

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It seems the legendary French figure may not have been executed after all.

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Records suggest Marshal Ney belonged to the Freemasons, the secretive and powerful fraternity that prides itself in faithfully protecting its members.

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They say that Freemasons, they are bound by their oaths to help one another live.

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According to the theory, upon his sentence of death in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat, Ney arranged for the soldiers to fire blanks at his execution.

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And the clever Marshal also prepared some theatrics to fool the crowd.

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They say that Ney brought the execution a bladder of blood.

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At the moment of execution, he fell forward and the blood splattered all across the ground to make sure it looked like he was dead.

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But he wasn't.

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Fellow Masons then supposedly helped smuggle Ney out of France and sent him to America.

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The theory seems outlandish. However, there is one final twist that makes it hard to dismiss.

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When Marshal Ney's coffin in France was being transferred in 1903, the Gravedigger reportedly made a stunning discovery.

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It did not find the body. They don't know what happened to it.

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So were Peter Ney the schoolteacher and Marshal Ney the Napoleonic hero really one and the same?

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To this day, opinions are split. But the locals of rural North Carolina have made their position clear.

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In my heart of hearts, the consistency of the evidence convinces me this truly was Marshal Michel Ney.

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And so at the grave site of Peter Stuart Ney in Cleveland, North Carolina, the plaque bearing his name proudly declares him a soldier of the French Revolution under Napoleon Bonaparte.

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From a pretender prince to a campaign of lies, a chilling rescue to a missing Marshal.

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I'm Don Wildman and these are the Mysteries at the Monument.