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  • 7/17/2025
When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed you | dG1fTmlVUmpETl96ZzQ
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00:00It was the height of the Great Depression.
00:05I was hired as a reporter by Albion Munson,
00:08publisher of the only newspaper in the safest,
00:10most beautiful and prosperous valley in California.
00:13The people speak.
00:15It's my job to keep it that way, Jack.
00:17Those who really knew what happened that night
00:20only talked about it behind closed doors.
00:22I hope to live up to all of the confidences
00:25my father has shown him.
00:26Tell Dad I'll have the car in front of the hotel.
00:28Let's go for a ride, pretty boy.
00:30What are you doing?
00:31Shut up.
00:32Drive.
00:33Hello?
00:34They have Blake.
00:35They're what?
00:36A desperate kidnapping.
00:38No one don't know he jumped.
00:40We found Blake Studebaker abandoned near Cinnabar Ranch.
00:43Special Agent in Charge, Tucker, FBI.
00:45A deadly political intrigue.
00:48It's a federal offense to use the mails for extortion.
00:52It's our case.
00:53It will always be our case.
00:55And a firestorm of suspicion.
00:57Why did you make the mistake of your life
00:59when you kidnapped Blake Walsh?
01:01That enraged of peaceful community.
01:03That this valley is being poisoned by the same evil
01:07that is poisoning the rest of our great nation.
01:10He's religion!
01:11Now, one man's relentless search for the truth.
01:15I interviewed an eyewitness who described Blake Walsh before he got in the car with five men. Five.
01:21Against those who appear all-powerful.
01:23This kidnapping is personal.
01:25Stay out of it.
01:27Leads him to the truth.
01:29Got inside dope.
01:31The Walsh kidnapping.
01:32Your story is the spark in the forest.
01:35Don't we hate?
01:36I'm the fire, Munson!
01:38I'm the fire!
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01:41Once the feds get their hands on him, you'll never get him back.
01:44I bring him back here.
01:46I get tagged for the lynching.
01:47Give me an excuse!
01:49The shocking homegrown conspiracy that silenced the valley.
01:53Jack Donay wrote a blazing piece on the lynching you and Governor Brody got left.
01:57Gabriel Madden.
01:58How did Walsh get away?
01:59Pete Postotwe.
02:01They found the body.
02:02Bruce McGill.
02:04Emily Harrison and Tom Bauer.
02:07Go lynch the bastards!
02:09Valley of the Heart's Delight.
02:11The people speak.

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