The Archive That Couldn't Be Buried: Minnesota's Paper Weapon
カートのアイテムが多すぎます
ご購入は五十タイトルがカートに入っている場合のみです。
カートに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
The Archive That Couldn't Be Buried: Minnesota's Paper Weapon
-
ナレーター：
-
著者：
(00:01:15) The Paper Trail They Built Against Themselves
(00:02:29) The Leak That Broke the Wall
(00:04:17) Minnesota and the Weaponization of Archives
(00:06:27) What the Documents Actually Showed
(00:08:03) The Settlement That Left the Industry Standing
(00:09:46) What Minnesota Left Behind
For decades, the tobacco industry's most effective legal weapon was destruction. Internal research confirming that nicotine was addictive and smoking caused cancer was buried, suppressed, and systematically shredded under a policy designed to ensure the documents could never be used against them. Then Minnesota changed everything.
This episode traces the chain of events that finally broke the industry's wall of silence — from paralegal Merrell Williams copying internal Brown and Williamson records in 1995, to Jeffrey Wigand's bombshell appearance on 60 Minutes, to the Minnesota trial's unprecedented demand for full, sweeping discovery. Where other state lawsuits had been buried in paper or quietly settled, Minnesota's legal team processed millions of documents and built a case so airtight the industry chose a $6.5 billion settlement over the alternative.
But the money wasn't the story. The story was the archive. As a condition of the Minnesota settlement, the tobacco companies were required to make their internal documents permanently and publicly accessible — creating a searchable record of fifty years of corporate deception that researchers, journalists, and lawyers have used ever since.
This episode examines how the industry built systems to destroy its own evidence, why Minnesota succeeded where others failed, and what it means when a corporation's private language is exposed to permanent public light. The archive didn't just end a lawsuit. It rewrote the terms on which Big Tobacco could ever again claim ignorance.
This episode includes AI-generated content.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません