Podcasts History BackStory 328: The Clue of the Blue Bottle from "The Last Archive"

328: The Clue of the Blue Bottle from "The Last Archive"

Published: June 12, 2020, 4:01 p.m.

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The Last Archive is a show from Pushkin Industries about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment.
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\\nIt\\u2019s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don\\u2019t know anything at all anymore. The show is driven by host Jill Lepore\\u2019s work as a historian, uncovering the secrets of the past the way a detective might.
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\\nOn this episode, The Clue of the Blue Bottle, Jill tells the story of a Spring day in 1919, when a woman\\u2019s body was found bound, gagged, and strangled in a garden in Barre, Vermont. Who was she? Who killed her? Jill tries to solve the cold case\\u2014reopening a century-old murder investigation\\u2014as a way to uncover the history of evidence itself.
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\\nFind out more about The Last Archive at their website.\\xa0
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