Received information regarding a massive car bomb exploded outside of a large federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, shattering that building, killing children. Twenty five years ago, Timothy McVeigh killed one hundred and sixty eight people, including nineteen children, with a homemade fertilizer bomb in Oklahoma City. McVeigh, who received the death penalty in two thousand and one, was not alone responsible for the worst domestic terror attack in US history.
His co conspirator, Terry Nichols, received one hundred and sixty one life sentences for his part. But it goes deeper than that, much deeper. There's another famous figure from history whose fingerprints are all over the Oklahoma City bombing, one whose name we usually associate with mass production, not mass murder. Henry Ford. In Ford set out to change American culture. Ford was King Board, was the most wealthy American ever,
and nobody says no to that person. Nobody and the poisonous ideas Ford spread would start a ticking time bomb that would blow up seventy five years later. I'm Sean Braswell and welcome to Flashback, a new podcast about history's unintended consequences From Ozzy. The creators of the thread that aims to bring the pass back to life like never before. I'll be your visiting professor, taking you on a journey through history that will change the way you look at
the world today. Stories about disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coincidences, unsung heroes, and forgotten villains. This is George Lincoln Rockwell here on behalf of the white Christian majority of American I think if you had a policeman under every bed in the state of Connecticut, they still could not prove anything. Flashback unveils the hidden connections and forces underlying history that your teachers and professors never told you about.
And without the textbooks, exams are note taking, just the most compelling and surprising tales about history and human psychology told by those who know the most about them. Opiate sedatives, laxatives, barbiturates, morphine, I mean, you name it. He was pumping the fear of foot of this stuff. In the first season of Flashback, we will connect the dots and some of the most incredible,
unintended consequences that history has ever unleashed. We'll learn how the y m c A inadvertently helped fund global terrorism when there's a lot of profits to be had, illegally questionable curacters will get involved in it, and how a bold effort to address the dust bowl of the Great Depression created an even longer lasting environmental problem. Biological science has no good way to predict how these things happen, and you'll hear how these unintended outcomes continue to impact
our world today. The transmission of ideas is being faciltated at speeds and volumes that are were previous were unthinkable, and what we can do about things. Essentially, we just need to be wary of quick fixes and silver bullets. They rarely work out like we think they will. Learn about history's unintended consequences on Flashback, a new podcast from Aussie and I Heart Radio podcast network, find out how some of the best laid plans can go horribly wrong
or prove unexpectedly magnificent. On May six, Listen to Flashback on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.