01: The Fire

Our story begins in St. Louis, where host Nina Gilden Seavey recounts how the FBI surveilled her family in the 1970s to keep an eye on her father, Louis Gilden, a civil rights attorney at the time. We also learn about Howard Mechanic, one of Gilden’s clients, who was a student at Washington University. After an ROTC building was burned to the ground during a campus protest, Mechanic becomes a prime target of the investigation. What made St. Louis such a hotspot for FBI activity? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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01: The Fire is an episode from My Fugitive by Pineapple Street Studios.

This episode is 30:07 long.

This episode was published on Mar 30, 2021.

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