The River That Burned
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In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was so polluted, it caught fire. Supposedly, the revelation that a river could catch fire shocked Americans into realizing the toll they were taking on the environment, and paved the way for the first major environmental legislation - though that widely repeated story is largely based on a myth. The 1969 Cuyahoga fire wasn't even a major news story in Cleveland, and there had been plenty of worse fires on polluted rivers in America before it. So how did the Cuyahoga fire enter the national consciousness? Includes a "hidden track" or "episode-within-the-episode" about the 1960 presidential election, and how the unique, byzantine way the votes were counted in Alabama puts the national winner of the popular vote that year forever in doubt.
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