Episode 12.2: The Most Dangerous Man
This is the second episode of a special four-part miniseries on Imagine Air Theater.
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A controversial political figure is accused of violating the Espionage Act. His backers want him to run for president again... even if he\u2019s convicted and sent to prison. A look into the future? No. It happened a century ago.
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In the early twentieth century, U.S. public opinion was decidedly isolationist. Most Americans were in favor of global neutrality. Then came World War One. After the United States entered that conflict, Congress passed strict laws forbidding any interference with the war effort. But one popular labor leader, Eugene V. Debs, opposed the war. Will he take a chance... go to Canton, Ohio, and speak out against the war? Or will he take his wife\u2019s advice... avoid trouble and stay home with her?
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The series features\xa0Paul Rogan\xa0as Eugene Debs and Louis Brandeis,\xa0Tim McCaffrey\xa0as Clyde Miller,\xa0Stella Valente\xa0as Kate Debs,\xa0Hayes Dunlap\xa0as Edwin Wertz,\xa0Collin Hughes\xa0as Francis Kavanagh,\xa0Teg Gray\xa0as Seymore Stedman, the Bailiff and the Jailer,\xa0David Pinion\xa0as Oliver Wendell Holmes,\xa0Pilar Uribe\xa0as Janet and the Emcee, with\xa0William Jones\xa0as Judge D.C. Westenhaver.
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Script consultant: Mark Boyce
Casting director: Stella Valente