Mer Rouge murders
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Mer Rouge murders has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Dominic SandbrookBritish historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History
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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- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
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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.