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In 1938 a bunch of mostly farmers march up to parliament house armed and prepared for a long siege against the Queensland state Government led by Labor Premier William Forgan Smith, their demands for 40 hour work weeks, credit provided publically and electoral reforms were revolutionary for the time, but failed to impress Forgan Smith, who had them all arrested and tried. 80 years on and the names are all but forgotten, but the spirit of wanting to get our government to work for us lives on. This incarnation of the rebellion takes a step back from the barricades, focusing instead on keeping an...

Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious federal time, Howard went on the run and became one of the longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. As an adult, Nina picked up the trail. What ever happened to Howard Mechanic? This eight-part series is the tangled story of her search for answers. Hundreds of Freedom of Information requests. Hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. FBI surveillance and confidential informants. Cold War spies, ...