What Dominic Sandbrook has said about Mer Rouge murders
1 quote · 1 episode · Mar 29, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on Mer Rouge murders once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on March 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sandbrook recounts the 1922 Mer Rouge killings in Louisiana, in which local officials were among the perpetrators but none were convicted.
“they whipped them, then they tortured, castrated and murdered two of them and threw their bodies into a lake”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:00:21
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656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)The Rest Is History · Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass fraternal, marketing-driven, anti-Catholic movement.
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