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The Lieutenant Governor Who Shot a Journalist: The Narciso Gonzalez Assassination

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2026 34:11

In 1903, South Carolina's most powerful journalist is gunned down in broad daylight, and the shooter is the lieutenant governor. Narciso Gonzalez, editor of The State newspaper in Columbia, spent years attacking the Tillman machine: “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman, the architect of South Carolina's post-Reconstruction political order, and Ben's volatile nephew James Tillman, a rising politician with a reputation for drinking, gambling, and vendettas. On January 19, 1903, that feud turns into a street-corner assassination outside the State House. From Red Shirts intimidation and the Hamburg massacre, to Ben Tillman's state-run liquor “dispensary” system and the riots it sparked, to a murder trial engineered to let the shooter walk, we trace the bloodline politics and raw violence behind the killing with writer Jack Hitt (This American Life, Uncivil). It's a story about press power, political revenge, and how a state's myths, and its laws, get written when the loudest voice in the room can be silenced with a gun. Subscribe to our newsletter:⁠https://jedlipinski.substack.com/⁠ Connect with Jed Lipinski: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/ Listen to Jack Hitt on This American Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/archive?contributor=8770Read some of Jack Hitt's best magazine stories on Longform.orghttps://longform.org/archive/writers/jack-hitt To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Episode 96 - BEST OF 2018

American Wannabes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2018 62:41

The Wannabes celebrate New Year's Eve with a compilation of this year's best stories, revelations and arguments! Jerry remembers looting during the L.A. Riots The Wannabes compare jail time Jerry claims to have slept with over 100 women Jerry revisits his 100-women claim in front of a live audience The fabulous Narciso Gonzalez takes over the podcast A Wannabe is having a baby! Jesus narcs out his friends Raul Reyes shares scary stories The infamous Big Dick Talk segment Thanks to all the fans who kept laughing with us through 2018. Bigger and better things to come in the New Year! Love to you all! --- GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF AN AMERICAN WANNABES STANDUP SHOW! Click the links for tickets: Jan. 2-6, Jerry Garcia @ LOL Comedy Club in San Antonio, TX Jan. 18, American Wannabes @ Ricochet in Imperial, CA --- Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or your favorite podcast app! American Wannabes is a weekly Latino comedy podcast featuring comics Jerry Garcia, Jesus Sepulveda and Christian Zaragoza.