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FILE 0431 The Plan to Attack AmericaIn 1962 the Joint Chiefs proposed staging terror attacks on Americans — and blaming an enemy. Government Secrets FILE 0430 They Called It TreatmentEighteen Americans were injected with plutonium. None of them were told. Medical & Experiments FILE 0429 The Government Poisoned the WhiskeyTo stop people drinking, Washington made the alcohol deadlier on purpose. Systemic Government FILE 0428 Gone By DarkThousands of towns forced out their Black residents — and kept them out. Racial Justice FILE 0427 Ten Dead at the GateUnarmed strikers marched on a steel mill. Chicago police opened fire. Labor FILE 0531 Dosed Without ConsentFor twenty years the CIA drugged Americans who never agreed to anything. Medical & Experiments FILE 0532 Left Untreated On PurposeFor forty years the government let hundreds of men die of a curable disease. Medical & Experiments FILE 0533 Painted With PoisonDial painters were told the radium was safe. Their employers knew better. Labor FILE 0534 The Bureau's Secret WarThe FBI spent fifteen years trying to discredit and break lawful activists. Government Secrets FILE 0535 They Burned Greenwood DownA white mob destroyed Black Wall Street — then it was erased from the record. Racial Justice FILE 0536 Murdered for the OilThe Osage were the richest people on earth — then they began turning up dead. Racial Justice FILE 0537 The Town That BurnsA mine fire lit in 1962 still burns — and erased a Pennsylvania town. Disasters & Cover-Ups FILE 0538 Imprisoned For Their Blood120,000 Japanese Americans locked in camps — most of them citizens. Systemic Government FILE 0539 Purged In SecretThe government fired thousands for being gay — and called it security. Government Secrets FILE 0540 The Rich Men's DamA private club's dam broke and drowned 2,000 — no one paid. Disasters & Cover-Ups FILE 0541 The Doors Were Locked146 garment workers died in a fire — the factory doors were locked from outside. Labor FILE 0542 They Overthrew the VoteA white mob toppled an elected government — the only coup on U.S. soil. Racial Justice FILE 0543 Kill the Indian, Save the ManNative children taken from their families to erase their culture — many never came home. Racial Justice FILE 0544 They Knew, and LiedA secret study proved leaders had lied about Vietnam for years. Government Secrets FILE 0545 Built on PoisonA neighborhood and school built on 20,000 tons of buried chemical waste. Nuclear & Environmental

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