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Meet the Woman Who Was the Nixon Era’s Alex Jones
Plus Ça Change
Mae Brussell was a Carmel, California housewife living a normal life. Then JFK was shot, and she started…believing things. Then she got a radio show. Sound familiar?
Matt Lewis
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Published
Jan. 20 2018
8:40PM EST
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