Episode 11: The Corporate Architects

Asbestos: A Conspiracy 4,500 Years in the Making

In 1898, a British government inspector described asbestos particles as "sharp, glass-like, jagged" and documented workers dying from lung disease. That same year, Henry Ward Johns—founder of America's largest asbestos company—died of his own product at age 40. Three years later, the Johns-Manville merger created an empire while public health warnings sat on file, ignored.

In Episode 11 of Asbestos: A Conspiracy 4,500 Years in the Making, hosts trace how corporations built global empires while evidence of worker deaths accumulated in government reports, medical testimony, and insurance actuarial tables.

What this episode covers:

• Lucy Deane's 1898 British Factory Inspectors' Report—the first government documentation that asbestos dust caused "evil effects" and "injury to bronchial tubes and lungs"

• Henry Ward Johns dies of asbestosis at age 40—three years before his company merges to create Johns-Manville

• Dr. H. Montague Murray's 1906 Parliamentary testimony: a patient who reported 10 coworkers dead, all in their thirties

• Denis Auribault's 1906 French report: approximately 50 worker deaths in a single Normandy factory over five years

• Frederick Hoffman's 1918 finding that insurance companies refused to cover asbestos workers "on account of the assumed health-injurious conditions"

• The 1921 Bureau of Mines propaganda film promoting Johns-Manville—still streamable today from the Library of Congress

Who this episode is for:

Families researching asbestos exposure history, mesothelioma patients seeking to understand corporate suppression, historians examining early industrial health documentation, and anyone following the evidence trail from ancient history to modern conspiracy.

Expert perspective:

"Companies kept meticulous production records—shipping manifests, insurance policies, inventory logs. They just didn't track what happened to the workers. After 30 years in mesothelioma litigation, we've learned that the paper trail always exists. Someone just has to know where to look." — Paul Danziger, Founding Partner, Danziger & De Llano (https://dandell.com/paul-danziger/)

Resources:

→ Asbestos exposure sources: https://dandell.com/asbestos-exposure/

→ Mesothelioma compensation options: https://dandell.com/mesothelioma-compensation/

→ Attorney profile — Rod De Llano: https://dandell.com/rod-de-llano/

→ Free consultation: https://dandell.com/contact-us/

Asbestos: A Conspiracy 4,500 Years in the Making is sponsored by Danziger & De Llano Mesothelioma Law Firm, a nationwide practice with over 30 years of experience and nearly $2 billion recovered for asbestos victims. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, the exposure happened somewhere—and Paul Danziger and Rod De Llano know how to trace it back. For a free consultation, visit https://dandell.com.

Resources:

→ Mesothelioma legal rights: https://dandell.com/mesothelioma/

→ Asbestos exposure sources: https://dandell.com/asbestos-exposure/

→ Asbestos trust funds ($30B+ available): https://dandell.com/asbestos-trust-funds/

→ Free case evaluation: https://dandell.com/contact/

Sister Podcast - MESO: The Mesothelioma Podcast:

http://mesotheliomapodcast.com/