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Here's a rundown of some of the standouts, so we can see just how far we've come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"The Story of Menstruation,\" 1946\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9o9m0LsbI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some handy period advice from Kotex and Disney's 1946 cartoon: avoid \"very hot water, or very cold water\" when bathing (!), be sure to bathe more often because women sweat more during their periods (\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/does-your-period-make-you-sweat-this-one-phase-of-your-cycle-affects-you-in-this-weird-way-8146725\">not true!\u003c/a>) and anything other than mild exercise, mid-menses, is literally \"wrong.\" In addition, period pain probably isn't going to happen to you (“To most girls, the menstrual period should bring no severe discomfort ... Perhaps an occasional twinge or a touch of nerves”). Should cramps arise, just suck it up and deal with it. 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By the end, Miss Jensen's presentation has descended into a sort of mania: \"You should be more careful than ever about personal cleanliness, and change your underwear more often, and be sure and use a deodorant, and pay more attention to your hair and your nails, and plan to wear your prettiest dress.” (For a film about periods, Miss Jensen sure doesn't like using them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then mom goes and makes it worse by not knowing anything about basic biology. Asked why periods happen every month, she tells her child, \"It's just part of being a woman, I guess.\" Welcome to the 1950s: You're bleeding and no one will tell you why, but, hey, straighten those backs, ladies!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1967\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpI9lknkZq0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This clip begins with the notion that \"All women have periods,\" thereby erasing reproductively challenged and trans women from the picture entirely. Fun! Like the 1953 video, this 1967 PSA is absolutely terrified of biologically specific words. \"Blood from inside my body comes outside,\" a mom tells her daughter in a scarily unspecific manner. What's more, vaginas are referred to by three separate people as an \"opening between my legs.\" Surprisingly, that prudishness doesn't extend to the two close-up visuals of a blood-soaked sanitary towel. Take that, blue liquid from commercials!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1974\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ueRMpM7Mc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, this \"educational\" video includes a 15-year-old girl introducing herself by giving her physical measurements (\"38-25-36\"); Mike from \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> (no, really) suggesting his date is better at bowling because she just got her period; a creepy mustachioed dude eavesdropping on teenagers; rampant heteronormativity; and the trippiest cartoon about reproduction in history. One bright spot? The first mention of tampons so far! Woo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"Growing Up and Liking It,\" 1984\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au72KwfYfvo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, some genius decided the best way to deliver information about puberty and periods was via an actress who had once played Annie on Broadway and some of her costars. There is random singing, mid-sentence; there are tales about the hard life of a Broadway child star (reach a certain height and get fired!); and there are abundant assumptions that interspersing educational clips with these theater actors somehow makes it more interesting (it doesn't, it just goes on for longer). At least it explains sanitary towel and tampon options though; the other videos make it seem like there's only one of each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"Always Changing, Always Growing,\" 1997\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4qHUegNtPg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, this Always Ultra commercial dressed up as a teaching aid is the first to include valuable biological information since the 1946 Disney cartoon. Sadly, this one \u003cem>still\u003c/em> treats normal period-related misery as the exception to the rule. When a girl asks if having a period hurts, her teacher lies: \"Not while you're actually having it. In fact, many women say they hardly notice their period.\" (\u003cem>WHO AND WHERE ARE THESE WOMEN?!) \u003c/em>Then another teacher comes in and, on the subject of PMS, says, \"Personally, I've never experienced mood changes, but some women do.\" Stop lying to the children, Ms. Dominguez. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Aunt Flo. Crimson curse. The Red Baron. There are infinite euphemisms for menstruation, but in 2019, we've never needed them less. Public battles over \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tampon-cost/\">tampon taxes\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABch4VYOJZ0\"> access\u003c/a> to feminine hygiene products have dragged \"girl flu\" out of bathrooms and into the mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't always like this. Last century, periods were something to learn about in health class, then stay quiet about for the rest of your natural life—or at least until menopause hit. Handily, shifting attitudes to menstruation were captured decade-by-decade in the educational videos intended to teach girls what was happening to their bodies. Here's a rundown of some of the standouts, so we can see just how far we've come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"The Story of Menstruation,\" 1946\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vG9o9m0LsbI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vG9o9m0LsbI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Some handy period advice from Kotex and Disney's 1946 cartoon: avoid \"very hot water, or very cold water\" when bathing (!), be sure to bathe more often because women sweat more during their periods (\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/does-your-period-make-you-sweat-this-one-phase-of-your-cycle-affects-you-in-this-weird-way-8146725\">not true!\u003c/a>) and anything other than mild exercise, mid-menses, is literally \"wrong.\" In addition, period pain probably isn't going to happen to you (“To most girls, the menstrual period should bring no severe discomfort ... Perhaps an occasional twinge or a touch of nerves”). Should cramps arise, just suck it up and deal with it. (\"After all, you have to live with people ... Keep smiling!\") Finally, if you \u003cem>are\u003c/em> in pain, it's probably because you're not standing up straight enough or grooming well enough. Eff you, Walt Disney. Eff you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1953\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zsgHlWJ2s18'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zsgHlWJ2s18'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This \"educational\" video winds down with a young girl cheerily telling a friend: \"You know I've got the curse!\" Before that, we get a wealth of terrible advice from Miss Jensen, a health educator who presents menstruation firmly within the confines of gender roles, not biology, describing it as \"the natural, normal process leading up to being a mother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other advice here expands on the Disney/Kotex version of period-living where showering in the wrong temperature, slouching and \"square dancing\" are dangerous. By the end, Miss Jensen's presentation has descended into a sort of mania: \"You should be more careful than ever about personal cleanliness, and change your underwear more often, and be sure and use a deodorant, and pay more attention to your hair and your nails, and plan to wear your prettiest dress.” (For a film about periods, Miss Jensen sure doesn't like using them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then mom goes and makes it worse by not knowing anything about basic biology. Asked why periods happen every month, she tells her child, \"It's just part of being a woman, I guess.\" Welcome to the 1950s: You're bleeding and no one will tell you why, but, hey, straighten those backs, ladies!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1967\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vpI9lknkZq0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vpI9lknkZq0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This clip begins with the notion that \"All women have periods,\" thereby erasing reproductively challenged and trans women from the picture entirely. Fun! Like the 1953 video, this 1967 PSA is absolutely terrified of biologically specific words. \"Blood from inside my body comes outside,\" a mom tells her daughter in a scarily unspecific manner. What's more, vaginas are referred to by three separate people as an \"opening between my legs.\" Surprisingly, that prudishness doesn't extend to the two close-up visuals of a blood-soaked sanitary towel. Take that, blue liquid from commercials!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1974\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/W0ueRMpM7Mc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/W0ueRMpM7Mc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Amazingly, this \"educational\" video includes a 15-year-old girl introducing herself by giving her physical measurements (\"38-25-36\"); Mike from \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> (no, really) suggesting his date is better at bowling because she just got her period; a creepy mustachioed dude eavesdropping on teenagers; rampant heteronormativity; and the trippiest cartoon about reproduction in history. One bright spot? The first mention of tampons so far! Woo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"Growing Up and Liking It,\" 1984\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Au72KwfYfvo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Au72KwfYfvo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>At some point, some genius decided the best way to deliver information about puberty and periods was via an actress who had once played Annie on Broadway and some of her costars. There is random singing, mid-sentence; there are tales about the hard life of a Broadway child star (reach a certain height and get fired!); and there are abundant assumptions that interspersing educational clips with these theater actors somehow makes it more interesting (it doesn't, it just goes on for longer). At least it explains sanitary towel and tampon options though; the other videos make it seem like there's only one of each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"Always Changing, Always Growing,\" 1997\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/r4qHUegNtPg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/r4qHUegNtPg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Remarkably, this Always Ultra commercial dressed up as a teaching aid is the first to include valuable biological information since the 1946 Disney cartoon. Sadly, this one \u003cem>still\u003c/em> treats normal period-related misery as the exception to the rule. When a girl asks if having a period hurts, her teacher lies: \"Not while you're actually having it. In fact, many women say they hardly notice their period.\" (\u003cem>WHO AND WHERE ARE THESE WOMEN?!) \u003c/em>Then another teacher comes in and, on the subject of PMS, says, \"Personally, I've never experienced mood changes, but some women do.\" Stop lying to the children, Ms. Dominguez. Just stop lying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, thanks to the wonders of the internet, reliance on the old, clunky educational videos of yore has gone down to such a significant degree, we're now firmly within the realms of both surreality:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZvPVyas68jE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZvPVyas68jE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And excellent (mostly Florida-based) humor:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/NEcZmT0fiNM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/NEcZmT0fiNM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've come a long way, ladies.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This article was originally intended to be a fun, warm and fuzzy retrospective about the most popular Christmas toys of the 20th century, decade-by-decade. The problem is, part way into the research process, it became abundantly clear that all but one of the most popular toys of the 1900s have backstories that are surprisingly dark. We wanted to give you festive fun but this is America, so here, have the horrifying history of last century’s holiday toys instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1910s: Teddy Bears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, the basis for the most popular children’s toy in the land was, to say the very least, alarming. According to Wikipedia, Teddy Bears were invented after \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear#cite_note-Clay-7\">a hunting trip\u003c/a> involving President Theodore Roosevelt, during which a black bear was “cornered, clubbed, and tied to a willow tree after a long, exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, Teddy Bears are the ultimate symbol of man’s cruel and destructive attitude toward nature, and one President’s very specific requirements for slaughtering unsuspecting wild animals for fun. Build-A-Bear Workshop will never look the same again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1920s: Yo-Yos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107723 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/IMG_3457.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1920s, the yo-yo was the hottest thing since the spinning top. Yo-yo invention was — and still often is — attributed to Pedro Flores, who started manufacturing the toys in 1928. However, the truth of the matter is that evidence of yo-yo-use goes all the way back \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo#/media/File:Yo-yo_player_Antikensammlung_Berlin_F2549.jpg\">to 440 BC \u003c/a>and, in the 18th century, yo-yos were known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bandalore\">bandalores\u003c/a>.” Pedro Flores simply did a re-brand and took all the credit. Naughty!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1930s: Shirley Temple Doll\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 438px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM.png\" alt=\"A 1930s Shirley Temple doll, currently for sale on eBay, for $119.\" width=\"438\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM.png 438w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM-160x208.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM-240x312.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM-375x487.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1930s Shirley Temple doll, currently for sale on eBay, for $119. \u003ccite>(eBay/nyclem)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3425664/can-watch-livestream-real-annabelle-doll-tonight/\">Annabelle\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_(doll)\">Robert The Doll\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1988_film)\">Chucky\u003c/a>. Pop culture history is awash with haunted dolls. Picture any of them doing their dark and evil deeds, then imagine how much scarier it would be if this 1930s Shirley Temple doll was doing them instead. Remarkably, this was the most popular toy of the 1930s, despite the fact that its resemblance to the actual Shirley Temple was, to put it politely, negligible. Claims have since emerged on both \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/WTFgaragesale/comments/8ovhun/possessed_shirley_temple_doll_found_at_an_antique/\">Reddit\u003c/a> and eBay that some of these dolls are possessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend of mine found this doll at an estate sale securely packed in a box,” \u003ca href=\"http://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=201440633551&t=1441829861000&tid=10&category=158448&seller=littlemarz&excSoj=1&excTrk=1&lsite=0&ittenable=false&domain=ebay.com&descgauge=1&cspheader=1&oneClk=1&secureDesc=0\">one eBay post\u003c/a> claims. “The box had lots of tape and said Beware! Do not open! Inside she found this Shirley Temple Doll with the bizarre eyes! She kept it for a few weeks and strange things started happening around her house. Cabinets opening and closing, missing items, and she got several bad colds in a row. She wanted it out of her house and asked me to sell the doll for her!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107725 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/IXqY.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1940s: Slinky\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107726 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/TdjUIkDQ6Dfv.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally a cylinder made of flexible wire, the Slinky is rendered utterly useless the second it’s removed from stairs. But in the 1940s, this thing was as close to magic as anyone could get into their homes, so it sold like proverbial hotcakes. The dark part is, in 1960, the guy who invented the Slinky, Richard James, abandoned his business, his wife and their six children to join a Bolivian religious sect. He remained in Bolivia until his death in 1974.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1950s: Hula Hoop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zovbmm8lX8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they became a staple of Burning Man, Sundays in Dolores Park, and adults who think they look sexy using them, hula hoops were far and away the most popular toy of the 1950s. California’s own \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham-O\">Wham-O toy company\u003c/a> started manufacturing them in 1957, and by 1958, they were so popular, 25 million sold in the space of just four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What almost nobody talks about is the fact that these hoops are yet another thing white people have \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Hoop_Dance\">stolen from Native Americans\u003c/a>; many tribes traditionally used these kinds of hoops during a special form of dance-based storytelling. Now people just stick tassels on them and gyrate around listening to EDM. For shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1960s: G.I.Joe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107728 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"340\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the very obvious darkness inherent in glamorizing war to children as America’s involvement in Vietnam was escalating, rumors have persisted for years that the original 1964 G.I. Joe had a face that was modeled on the recently-assassinated John F. Kennedy. In a nod to this, decades later, Hasbro released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Year-Joe-Action-Figure/dp/B002B1NVMA\">G.I. Joe John F. Kennedy PT Boat Commander\u003c/a> figure. In G.I. Joe’s first year on the market, $16.9 million worth of dolls and accessories were sold. Popularity only waned in the late 1970s, when, thanks to the seemingly endless Vietnam War, many Americans realized war was not to be toyed with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1970s: Star Wars Figures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107729 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/HOp2DvO.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> figures are the only toys on this list with zero dark side! Kids loved them (by 1985, 300 million toys from the first trilogy had been sold) and everyone lived happily ever after. Sweet Skywalker-lovin’ relief! (Here’s a question though. Why is Luke Skywalker holding Obi-Wan Kenobi hostage in the toy commercial above? Makes no sense!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1980s: Cabbage Patch Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZ–bHDe0c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, a sweet lady from Kentucky named Martha Nelson started designing and hand-making what she called “Doll Babies.” She lovingly dressed them, attached documents about each of the dolls’ likes and dislikes, came up with personalized adoption certificates for each of them and sold them at craft fairs. One customer by the name of Xavier Roberts began buying the dolls, marking up the prices and re-selling them. Because she was so personally attached to each and every doll, when Martha realized what was happening, she refused to sell Xavier any more. So he went on to copy Martha’s entire concept, from design to details, and mass produced the dolls as Cabbage Patch Kids. In the end, after years of legal wrangling, Martha received a small legal settlement (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSk84zU1RuM\">enough to put her kids through college\u003c/a>). Xavier, on the other hand, made tens of millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1990s – Tickle Me Elmo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTXsS0vQhI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, Tickle Me Elmo was \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/eight-biggest-elmo-scandals-kevin-clash-katy-perry-and-more-video\">so in demand\u003c/a>, one Walmart employee in Canada received broken ribs and a concussion after 300 customers rushed him in an attempt to get the Elmos he was holding. Two women in Chicago were arrested that December after fighting over the giggling muppet. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This article was originally intended to be a fun, warm and fuzzy retrospective about the most popular Christmas toys of the 20th century, decade-by-decade. The problem is, part way into the research process, it became abundantly clear that all but one of the most popular toys of the 1900s have backstories that are surprisingly dark. We wanted to give you festive fun but this is America, so here, have the horrifying history of last century’s holiday toys instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1910s: Teddy Bears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/GettyImages-615651114-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, the basis for the most popular children’s toy in the land was, to say the very least, alarming. According to Wikipedia, Teddy Bears were invented after \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear#cite_note-Clay-7\">a hunting trip\u003c/a> involving President Theodore Roosevelt, during which a black bear was “cornered, clubbed, and tied to a willow tree after a long, exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, Teddy Bears are the ultimate symbol of man’s cruel and destructive attitude toward nature, and one President’s very specific requirements for slaughtering unsuspecting wild animals for fun. Build-A-Bear Workshop will never look the same again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Naughty!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1930s: Shirley Temple Doll\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 438px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM.png\" alt=\"A 1930s Shirley Temple doll, currently for sale on eBay, for $119.\" width=\"438\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM.png 438w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM-160x208.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM-240x312.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-27-at-3.01.34-PM-375x487.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1930s Shirley Temple doll, currently for sale on eBay, for $119. \u003ccite>(eBay/nyclem)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3425664/can-watch-livestream-real-annabelle-doll-tonight/\">Annabelle\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_(doll)\">Robert The Doll\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1988_film)\">Chucky\u003c/a>. Pop culture history is awash with haunted dolls. Picture any of them doing their dark and evil deeds, then imagine how much scarier it would be if this 1930s Shirley Temple doll was doing them instead. Remarkably, this was the most popular toy of the 1930s, despite the fact that its resemblance to the actual Shirley Temple was, to put it politely, negligible. Claims have since emerged on both \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/WTFgaragesale/comments/8ovhun/possessed_shirley_temple_doll_found_at_an_antique/\">Reddit\u003c/a> and eBay that some of these dolls are possessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend of mine found this doll at an estate sale securely packed in a box,” \u003ca href=\"http://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=201440633551&t=1441829861000&tid=10&category=158448&seller=littlemarz&excSoj=1&excTrk=1&lsite=0&ittenable=false&domain=ebay.com&descgauge=1&cspheader=1&oneClk=1&secureDesc=0\">one eBay post\u003c/a> claims. “The box had lots of tape and said Beware! Do not open! Inside she found this Shirley Temple Doll with the bizarre eyes! She kept it for a few weeks and strange things started happening around her house. Cabinets opening and closing, missing items, and she got several bad colds in a row. She wanted it out of her house and asked me to sell the doll for her!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107725 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/IXqY.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1940s: Slinky\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107726 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/TdjUIkDQ6Dfv.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally a cylinder made of flexible wire, the Slinky is rendered utterly useless the second it’s removed from stairs. But in the 1940s, this thing was as close to magic as anyone could get into their homes, so it sold like proverbial hotcakes. The dark part is, in 1960, the guy who invented the Slinky, Richard James, abandoned his business, his wife and their six children to join a Bolivian religious sect. He remained in Bolivia until his death in 1974.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1950s: Hula Hoop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-zovbmm8lX8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-zovbmm8lX8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Before they became a staple of Burning Man, Sundays in Dolores Park, and adults who think they look sexy using them, hula hoops were far and away the most popular toy of the 1950s. California’s own \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham-O\">Wham-O toy company\u003c/a> started manufacturing them in 1957, and by 1958, they were so popular, 25 million sold in the space of just four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What almost nobody talks about is the fact that these hoops are yet another thing white people have \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Hoop_Dance\">stolen from Native Americans\u003c/a>; many tribes traditionally used these kinds of hoops during a special form of dance-based storytelling. Now people just stick tassels on them and gyrate around listening to EDM. For shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1960s: G.I.Joe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107728 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"340\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the very obvious darkness inherent in glamorizing war to children as America’s involvement in Vietnam was escalating, rumors have persisted for years that the original 1964 G.I. Joe had a face that was modeled on the recently-assassinated John F. Kennedy. In a nod to this, decades later, Hasbro released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Year-Joe-Action-Figure/dp/B002B1NVMA\">G.I. Joe John F. Kennedy PT Boat Commander\u003c/a> figure. In G.I. Joe’s first year on the market, $16.9 million worth of dolls and accessories were sold. Popularity only waned in the late 1970s, when, thanks to the seemingly endless Vietnam War, many Americans realized war was not to be toyed with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1970s: Star Wars Figures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107729 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/HOp2DvO.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> figures are the only toys on this list with zero dark side! Kids loved them (by 1985, 300 million toys from the first trilogy had been sold) and everyone lived happily ever after. Sweet Skywalker-lovin’ relief! (Here’s a question though. Why is Luke Skywalker holding Obi-Wan Kenobi hostage in the toy commercial above? Makes no sense!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1980s: Cabbage Patch Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LvZ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LvZ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the 1970s, a sweet lady from Kentucky named Martha Nelson started designing and hand-making what she called “Doll Babies.” She lovingly dressed them, attached documents about each of the dolls’ likes and dislikes, came up with personalized adoption certificates for each of them and sold them at craft fairs. 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"content": "\u003cp>We all have our favorite pastimes. Mine happens to be falling down internet k-holes. One minute, I'm investigating the whereabouts of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia#False_reports_of_survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia\u003c/a> and, two hours and many mouse clicks later, I'm somehow reading all about how Henry VIII had his butt wiped by people called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Groom-of-the-Stool/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grooms of Stool\u003c/a>.\" That's around the time I ask myself, \u003cem>Wait, how did I get here? What day is it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13906656']Recently, my cyber explorations took a creepy turn. Did you know there's an American serial killer known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Butcher of Plainfield\u003c/a>, who crafted a belt made out of his victims’ nipples?! Or that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied feet keep washing ashore\u003c/a> in one area of the Pacific Northwest?? I sure didn't, and now I have to live with that knowledge for years to come. But there's one story that will stick with me forevermore, and it goes a little something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there was a German dude named Carl von Cosel. In his early childhood, he said he would regularly be visited by one of his dead ancestors, who kept showing him the face of his one true love, an exotic dark-haired woman. Somehow, that’s the most mundane detail of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106931\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-160x264.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-800x1320.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-768x1267.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-727x1200.jpg 727w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-240x396.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-375x619.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-520x858.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena in happier times.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to adulthood. It’s the 1930s, and Carl is working as a doctor in Key West, Florida. One day at the hospital, a Cuban-American woman named Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos walks in. He immediately recognizes her as the girl from his dead ancestor visions! But, before you get too excited about this meet-cute, this story is less of a Julia Roberts rom-com and more Mandy Moore’s \u003cem>A Walk to Remember\u003c/em>. Instead of saying \"I have leukemia!\" like Mandy Moore does in that movie, Elena says, \"I have tuberculosis!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl isn't sweating it though. He believes that he can cure her by bringing weird x-ray machines to her house and basically winging it from there. In addition to his medical(-ish) help, he also gives Elena jewelry and the latest fashions, and professes his love to her. Look up \"Doing the absolute most\" in the nearest dictionary and you'll find a handsome little photo of our friend, Carl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no record of what Elena thought of all this, but my guess is that it was something in the neighborhood of: \u003cem>Can you not? I’m trying to calmly die here.\u003c/em> Carl is essentially that guy who won't stop hitting on you at the bar, but instead of the bar, the venue is a deathbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Elena dies at the age of 22. (R.I.P. baby girl. Say hi to Aaliyah for me!) Carl, who's in his 50s by the way, is distraught. He immediately makes a death mask of her face (hello, red flag!). With permission from Elena's family, he pays for the funeral and constructs an above-ground mausoleum in the Key West Cemetery for his #1 crush (see previous \"Doing the absolute most\" dictionary entry). And he insists on an airtight casket with an incubator tank full of formaldehyde to prevent decay (hello, red flag #2!). Carl visits the mausoleum every night, where he says her spirit routinely pops up to say what's up and sing to him. Weird, right? Well, buckle up 'cause things are about to get even weirder!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous mausoleum.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One night in 1933, two years after Elena’s death, Carl sneaks into the cemetery with a toy wagon, removes her corpse from the mausoleum and wheels it on home. (Commuting sucks and long-distance relationships are hard, you guys! It makes total sense to rob the grave of a woman you barely know!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this point, our girl Elena’s body isn’t holding up too well, so Carl uses piano wire to keep her together, fits her face with glass eyes, replaces her decomposing skin with silk cloth soaked in wax, gets rid of all the maggots and uses perfumes and preserving agents to mask the smell and stop the rotting. He keeps her body in his bed. I won’t go into the ugly details, but yes, he does more than just sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881990']\u003cstrong>SEVEN LONG ASS YEARS LATER\u003c/strong>, in 1940, rumors are swirling around his odd behavior. Those who remember his frequent visits to the mausoleum wonder why he suddenly stopped coming. His neighbors find it curious that he routinely buys women's clothes and lots of perfume. And a boy claims to have seen Carl in the window dancing with what looked like a super-sized doll. Elena’s sister eventually becomes suspicious too. She marches over to his house and Carl willingly shows off Elena’s body—or what's left of it—in his bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl is quickly arrested for “wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization.” (That’s it?!) Psychiatrists examine him and declare him sane. (For real?!) 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Cool decomposing, violated corpse, huh?\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this craziness makes the headlines in Florida and—again because nothing makes any damn sense—the public is generally sympathetic to Carl and considers him a hopeless romantic who's just a wee bit eccentric. For some weird reason, a public viewing of Elena's body is held. 8,500 people line up to get a look. Local schools even let out early so kids can be scarred for life. Oh, Florida, you never disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by the public support (and maybe a loose screw or two), Carl asks if he can have Elena's body back. Thankfully, common sense prevails and his request is denied. Elena is re-buried in a secret, unmarked grave so as to avoid another toy wagon field trip. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recently, my cyber explorations took a creepy turn. Did you know there's an American serial killer known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Butcher of Plainfield\u003c/a>, who crafted a belt made out of his victims’ nipples?! Or that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied feet keep washing ashore\u003c/a> in one area of the Pacific Northwest?? I sure didn't, and now I have to live with that knowledge for years to come. But there's one story that will stick with me forevermore, and it goes a little something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there was a German dude named Carl von Cosel. In his early childhood, he said he would regularly be visited by one of his dead ancestors, who kept showing him the face of his one true love, an exotic dark-haired woman. Somehow, that’s the most mundane detail of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106931\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-160x264.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-800x1320.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-768x1267.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-727x1200.jpg 727w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-240x396.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-375x619.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/IMG_20170112_0001copy2-520x858.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena in happier times.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to adulthood. It’s the 1930s, and Carl is working as a doctor in Key West, Florida. One day at the hospital, a Cuban-American woman named Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos walks in. He immediately recognizes her as the girl from his dead ancestor visions! But, before you get too excited about this meet-cute, this story is less of a Julia Roberts rom-com and more Mandy Moore’s \u003cem>A Walk to Remember\u003c/em>. Instead of saying \"I have leukemia!\" like Mandy Moore does in that movie, Elena says, \"I have tuberculosis!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl isn't sweating it though. He believes that he can cure her by bringing weird x-ray machines to her house and basically winging it from there. In addition to his medical(-ish) help, he also gives Elena jewelry and the latest fashions, and professes his love to her. Look up \"Doing the absolute most\" in the nearest dictionary and you'll find a handsome little photo of our friend, Carl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no record of what Elena thought of all this, but my guess is that it was something in the neighborhood of: \u003cem>Can you not? I’m trying to calmly die here.\u003c/em> Carl is essentially that guy who won't stop hitting on you at the bar, but instead of the bar, the venue is a deathbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Elena dies at the age of 22. (R.I.P. baby girl. Say hi to Aaliyah for me!) Carl, who's in his 50s by the way, is distraught. He immediately makes a death mask of her face (hello, red flag!). With permission from Elena's family, he pays for the funeral and constructs an above-ground mausoleum in the Key West Cemetery for his #1 crush (see previous \"Doing the absolute most\" dictionary entry). And he insists on an airtight casket with an incubator tank full of formaldehyde to prevent decay (hello, red flag #2!). Carl visits the mausoleum every night, where he says her spirit routinely pops up to say what's up and sing to him. Weird, right? Well, buckle up 'cause things are about to get even weirder!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-106930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Tanzler_03-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous mausoleum.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One night in 1933, two years after Elena’s death, Carl sneaks into the cemetery with a toy wagon, removes her corpse from the mausoleum and wheels it on home. (Commuting sucks and long-distance relationships are hard, you guys! It makes total sense to rob the grave of a woman you barely know!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this point, our girl Elena’s body isn’t holding up too well, so Carl uses piano wire to keep her together, fits her face with glass eyes, replaces her decomposing skin with silk cloth soaked in wax, gets rid of all the maggots and uses perfumes and preserving agents to mask the smell and stop the rotting. He keeps her body in his bed. I won’t go into the ugly details, but yes, he does more than just sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\"Advice columnist\" is not a role that's usually listed under Eleanor Roosevelt's long list of achievements, but for over 20 years she wrote a popular write-in column, first for \u003cem>Ladies Home Journal\u003c/em> and then \u003cem>McCall's \u003c/em>magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roosevelt wasn't especially witty or psychologically acute in the role; unlike many of today's inspirational \"life coaches,\" Roosevelt didn't invite her readers to accompany her on extended journeys of introspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, when a questioner wrote in 1944 asking what the president said to her when he proposed, Roosevelt firmly drew the curtains over that intimate subject by replying: \"There are some things in life which one should be allowed to keep to oneself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106563\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/ap_5710160283_enl-44910fa56ee60eee5152387abbe86aec3221ee78-800x1003.jpg\" alt=\"Eleanor Roosevelt's advice column—"If You Ask Me"—ran from 1941, when she was still first lady, to her death in 1962. 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"content": "\u003cp>You've mostly likely heard it. And it's what most people think of when they hear her name:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Lizzie Borden took an axe\u003cbr>\nAnd gave her mother forty whacks.\u003cbr>\nWhen she saw what she had done,\u003cbr>\nShe gave her father forty-one.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lizzie Borden has been a perennial cult figure since her parents were murdered in 1892. The most enduring image of her is that of a maniacal young woman, hellbent on viciously murdering her father and step-mother, reveling in a premeditated bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-98684 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-800x444.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-768x426.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1200x666.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1920x1065.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1180x655.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-960x533.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-672x372.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-375x208.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-520x289.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some representations of Lizzie, pulled from pop culture\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The reality of Lizzie Borden couldn't be more different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie was born July 19, 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her mother, Sarah, died when Lizzie was only 2-years-old, and her father, Andrew—apparently a miserly, unpopular man—remarried when she was 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie never grew close to her step-mother, Abby, and referred to her only as \"Mrs. Borden.\" From a young age though, Lizzie and her big sister, Emma, were extremely close. Not only was Lizzie an avid church-goer, she was a Sunday School teacher and was also involved in the temperance movement, which campaigned in favor of prohibition. Hardly a hell-raiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of her father and step-mother's deaths, Lizzie was 32-years-old, and still living with her parents (as was the standard for single women at the time). Her step-mom was found face down in an upstairs bedroom, her head smashed. And her father died in the living room downstairs, struck in the face to the point that he was almost unrecognizable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murders were undoubtedly savage, and Lizzie came under immediate suspicion, thanks to the fact that police officers considered her demeanor too calm and collected the day the bodies were found. This, despite the fact that, at her trial, police admitted they had not searched her bedroom thoroughly that day, because she was feeling so unwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police suspicions were further exacerbated by the fact that Lizzie's story was riddled with contradictions and unlikely scenarios. For example, she told police that she had removed her father's shoes and helped him into slippers when he came home from his daily walk that morning. Andrew's body was found still wearing boots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days following the murders, Lizzie was seen cutting up and burning one of her dresses. She claimed it was ruined by a paint stain and several witnesses corroborated this. On another occasion, police were unnerved by the sight of Lizzie gazing at the bloody clothes of her father and step-mother, which had been placed in buckets in the basement by police. Officers also found a broken hatchet in the house and decided it was likely the murder weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the inquest, where Lizzie was denied the presence of the Borden family attorney, suspicions around her guilt increased, as she refused to answer certain questions. Her confused, incomplete testimony was, in all likelihood, not aided by the fact that she was under the influence of morphine, which had been given to her by a doctor to calm her nerves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98699\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 349px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM.png 349w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM-160x242.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM-240x363.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coverage of Borden's murder trial\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three days after the inquest, Lizzie was arrested and held in jail for ten months, as she awaited her much-publicized trial. Evidence in the case was patchy, as no bloody clothes were ever located in the house, and doubts were raised about whether the found hatchet was actually the murder weapon. In addition, Lizzie claimed to be in the family's barn at the time of the killing, and a witness confirmed seeing her there. Also working in her favor? The sketchy testimony Lizzie had given at the inquest was deemed inadmissible, and she appeared a much more sympathetic figure during her trial. At one stage, she fainted at the sight of her parents' damaged skulls, which had been removed during autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, after just an hour of deliberation, a jury found Lizzie not guilty. (A mock trial conducted at Stanford University in 1997 seconded the verdict.) Not that it helped—rumors of her guilt persisted, and she remained ostracized in her community for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once released, Lizzie changed her name to Lizbeth. She and her sister Emma moved out of the family home, and they lived together for 13 years. The arrangement ended after an argument over some parties Lizzie had thrown, which drove Emma out of the house. After Emma moved out, the sisters remained estranged for the rest of their lives. Strangely though, the two died just 9 days apart: Lizzie first, at the age of 66, from a bout of pneumonia; Emma, at the age of 76, from kidney disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lifelong spinsters were buried side by side in Oak Grove Cemetery, next to their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzie Borden's grave\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In stark contradiction to her reputation, Lizzie left most of her fortune—$567,000 in 2018 money, to be exact—to an animal charity, the\u003ca href=\"http://arlfr.com/\"> Fall River Animal Rescue League\u003c/a>, which still operates today. Across town, the \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Borden_House_Present.jpg/1200px-Borden_House_Present.jpg\">original Borden family home\u003c/a> also remains standing, almost entirely unchanged. It currently operates as a \u003ca href=\"https://lizzie-borden.com/\">purportedly haunted tourist attraction and bed and breakfast.\u003c/a> Thanks to Lizzie's persisting legend, during the hotel's summer peak season, parties of 10 can rent the entire house at a rate of around $1,645 a night. Rooms go for between $200 and $700. The house also offers ghost tours and psychic readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years have passed, theories about what really happened on Thursday, August 4, 1892, have been offered at regular intervals. Suggestions include: Lizzie did it in the nude (hence no bloody clothes); Emma did it; Lizzie did it in a fugue state; Andrew's illegitimate son did it; Lizzie and the maid, a secret lesbian couple, did it together; Lizzie did it to make sexual abuse at the hands of her father stop; the maid did it to make sexual abuse in the household stop. In addition, a nurse who treated Lizzie at the end of her life claimed that Lizzie had told her she had a boyfriend that her father hated, and that he was the one that committed the murders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, we'll never know if Lizzie Borden really did it. The truth about who killed Andrew and Abby was buried in the Borden family plot in 1927, the same day that Lizbeth was.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You've mostly likely heard it. And it's what most people think of when they hear her name:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Lizzie Borden took an axe\u003cbr>\nAnd gave her mother forty whacks.\u003cbr>\nWhen she saw what she had done,\u003cbr>\nShe gave her father forty-one.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lizzie Borden has been a perennial cult figure since her parents were murdered in 1892. The most enduring image of her is that of a maniacal young woman, hellbent on viciously murdering her father and step-mother, reveling in a premeditated bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-98684 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-800x444.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-768x426.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1200x666.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1920x1065.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1180x655.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-960x533.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-672x372.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-375x208.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/lizzie-borden-520x289.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some representations of Lizzie, pulled from pop culture\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The reality of Lizzie Borden couldn't be more different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie was born July 19, 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her mother, Sarah, died when Lizzie was only 2-years-old, and her father, Andrew—apparently a miserly, unpopular man—remarried when she was 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie never grew close to her step-mother, Abby, and referred to her only as \"Mrs. Borden.\" From a young age though, Lizzie and her big sister, Emma, were extremely close. Not only was Lizzie an avid church-goer, she was a Sunday School teacher and was also involved in the temperance movement, which campaigned in favor of prohibition. Hardly a hell-raiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of her father and step-mother's deaths, Lizzie was 32-years-old, and still living with her parents (as was the standard for single women at the time). Her step-mom was found face down in an upstairs bedroom, her head smashed. And her father died in the living room downstairs, struck in the face to the point that he was almost unrecognizable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murders were undoubtedly savage, and Lizzie came under immediate suspicion, thanks to the fact that police officers considered her demeanor too calm and collected the day the bodies were found. This, despite the fact that, at her trial, police admitted they had not searched her bedroom thoroughly that day, because she was feeling so unwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police suspicions were further exacerbated by the fact that Lizzie's story was riddled with contradictions and unlikely scenarios. For example, she told police that she had removed her father's shoes and helped him into slippers when he came home from his daily walk that morning. Andrew's body was found still wearing boots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days following the murders, Lizzie was seen cutting up and burning one of her dresses. She claimed it was ruined by a paint stain and several witnesses corroborated this. On another occasion, police were unnerved by the sight of Lizzie gazing at the bloody clothes of her father and step-mother, which had been placed in buckets in the basement by police. Officers also found a broken hatchet in the house and decided it was likely the murder weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the inquest, where Lizzie was denied the presence of the Borden family attorney, suspicions around her guilt increased, as she refused to answer certain questions. Her confused, incomplete testimony was, in all likelihood, not aided by the fact that she was under the influence of morphine, which had been given to her by a doctor to calm her nerves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98699\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 349px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM.png 349w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM-160x242.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-23-at-3.25.27-PM-240x363.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coverage of Borden's murder trial\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three days after the inquest, Lizzie was arrested and held in jail for ten months, as she awaited her much-publicized trial. Evidence in the case was patchy, as no bloody clothes were ever located in the house, and doubts were raised about whether the found hatchet was actually the murder weapon. In addition, Lizzie claimed to be in the family's barn at the time of the killing, and a witness confirmed seeing her there. Also working in her favor? The sketchy testimony Lizzie had given at the inquest was deemed inadmissible, and she appeared a much more sympathetic figure during her trial. At one stage, she fainted at the sight of her parents' damaged skulls, which had been removed during autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, after just an hour of deliberation, a jury found Lizzie not guilty. (A mock trial conducted at Stanford University in 1997 seconded the verdict.) Not that it helped—rumors of her guilt persisted, and she remained ostracized in her community for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once released, Lizzie changed her name to Lizbeth. She and her sister Emma moved out of the family home, and they lived together for 13 years. The arrangement ended after an argument over some parties Lizzie had thrown, which drove Emma out of the house. After Emma moved out, the sisters remained estranged for the rest of their lives. Strangely though, the two died just 9 days apart: Lizzie first, at the age of 66, from a bout of pneumonia; Emma, at the age of 76, from kidney disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lifelong spinsters were buried side by side in Oak Grove Cemetery, next to their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/062-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzie Borden's grave\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In stark contradiction to her reputation, Lizzie left most of her fortune—$567,000 in 2018 money, to be exact—to an animal charity, the\u003ca href=\"http://arlfr.com/\"> Fall River Animal Rescue League\u003c/a>, which still operates today. Across town, the \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Borden_House_Present.jpg/1200px-Borden_House_Present.jpg\">original Borden family home\u003c/a> also remains standing, almost entirely unchanged. It currently operates as a \u003ca href=\"https://lizzie-borden.com/\">purportedly haunted tourist attraction and bed and breakfast.\u003c/a> Thanks to Lizzie's persisting legend, during the hotel's summer peak season, parties of 10 can rent the entire house at a rate of around $1,645 a night. Rooms go for between $200 and $700. The house also offers ghost tours and psychic readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years have passed, theories about what really happened on Thursday, August 4, 1892, have been offered at regular intervals. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1978, a movie named \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001007/?ref_=tt_cl_t1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Lady of the House\u003c/em>\u003c/a> hit American televisions, carrying with it a story that would be preposterous if it weren’t, in fact, true: hard-bitten brothel madam works her way up to become popular mayor of a small town. This was the life story of the legendary Ms. Sally Stanford, who conquered hardship and a third-grade education with a winning combination of sass and street smarts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1903 (with the name Mabel Busby) in Baker County, Oregon, the second of five children, Stanford’s wild spirit showed itself early. She eloped at the age of 16 and ran straight into a life of crime, immediately landing herself in prison for cashing checks that her husband had stolen. During her two-year sentence, she learned the art of bootlegging from fellow prisoners. After her release, she headed to Ventura to open a speakeasy. Once she’d saved enough money, a 21-year-old Stanford made the move to San Francisco, and immediately opened a brothel at 693 O’Farrell St. in the Tenderloin. “Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you,” Stanford wrote in her 1966 autobiography, \u003cem>The Lady of the House\u003c/em>. “Like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.” [aside postid=arts_13902628]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s dazzling confidence, wit, and steadfast ability to keep secrets quickly made her an infamous figure in the city. She was arrested repeatedly, but charges against her rarely stuck — in part because of her friends in high places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The politics of the town were dominated by Mayor Jimmy Rolph,” she wrote in her memoir. “He was a doll, a political dreamboat … Not only did Jimmy do OK, but the rest of us did pretty well too. For if there ever was a live-and-let-live type, it was Mayor Rolph.” She continued: “At this point [in the 1920s], it was easier to come by professional female company in San Francisco than it was to catch a rash in a leper colony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the early 1930s, Stanford had opened a second bordello in the Tenderloin, this one at 610 Leavenworth. She made such a success of her first two establishments that, by the end of the decade, she had opened four more: 837 Geary, 1526 Franklin, 929 Bush and 1224 Stockton in Chinatown. The madam had no problem finding women who wanted to work for her either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starving jobless dames? Forget it,” she wrote in her autobiography. “They wanted to have intercourse with men for money … Some were just plain lazy. Others had the strange idea that any activity illicit in nature was glamorous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4088px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4088\" height=\"4088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg 4088w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4088px) 100vw, 4088px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Stanford’s bordello sites.\u003cbr>Top line: 1144 Pine Street (this original house was torn down in 1961), and 693 O’Farrell Street. Bottom line: 610 Leavenworth Street, and the building that once housed the Valhalla Inn.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1941, Stanford added what would become one of her favorite business locations to her roster. Housed inside a mansion built by a prominent businessman for his fourth wife, Stanford’s high-end Nob Hill bordello at 1144 Pine was legendary for the eight years its doors remained open. (Stanford once called it, “the finest and most distinguished pleasure house in the world. Maybe the universe.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word was, the Pine house and its marble pool were frequented by the most respected politicians and businessmen in the region, as well as visiting dignitaries and celebrities from around the country. Stanford listed the likes of Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart as regulars. Stanford eventually 86’d the latter, however, for being in her own words, “a foul-mouthed, pugnacious drunk who came around to badger, belittle and insult the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banning Bogart was one of the many ways in which Stanford worked to keep her employees happy. “I did my conniving, scheming, defensive best for them,” she later stated. “They did their enticing, seductive, coquettish best for me and the house prospered. For their efforts I gave them 60 percent of the take … They were a lovely set of girls and they contributed quite a bit to the success of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 201px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png 201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM-160x298.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A matchbook from Sally Stanford’s Valhalla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1949, increasingly harassed by local police and then-\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District Attorney, Pat Brown\u003c/a>, Stanford moved to Sausalito and opened a restaurant, appropriately titled Valhalla. While the venue attracted celebrity customers including Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, and Lucille Ball, and advertised itself as a venue strictly for wining and dining, local rumor and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">red light at the back of the building\u003c/a> suggested otherwise. Thanks to the Bohemian nature of the Bay Area enclave, neighbors adored and supported the inn, regardless. \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018, a local man told KPIX News\u003c/a>: “She did provide a useful service and a good place to eat, and people appreciate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s good standing in the community, as well as the fact that the local council wouldn’t allow her to install an electric sign on her restaurant, eventually led to Stanford’s political ambitions. A momentous \u003ca href=\"https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse47823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1970 press photo\u003c/a> captures just how far her reputation had come in two decades in Sausalito. The caption reads: “Sally Stanford, nails up sign boosting her candidacy… in this upper middle class… suburb. Lamenting ‘a general breakdown in morals,’ the retired madam of San Francisco’s best known bordello is running for city council — with the support of local women’s clubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/02/obituaries/sally-stanford-madam-who-became-a-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six attempts\u003c/a> to win a seat, but she was dogged in her determination to win, once noting, “We sinners never give up.” Once in office, she successfully held onto her position, and her ongoing popularity led to her being elected mayor in 1976. After her decision to retire in 1980, in a beautiful gesture, the council insisted on naming her “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/02/obituaries/sally-stanford-madam-who-became-a-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vice Mayor For Life.\u003c/a>” [aside postid=arts_13894842]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, there was nothing dull about the life of Sally Stanford. She was married five times and adopted two children, John Owen and Hara “Sharon” Owen, along the way. Stanford had multiple different aliases, lived according to her own moral and social codes and wrote daringly and openly about the secret lives of men. Despite it all, she successfully endeared herself to almost everyone she ever encountered. “Morality,” she once wrote, “is just a word that describes the current fashion of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her 78 years on the planet, Stanford survived multiple robberies at gunpoint in her establishments, one bout of colon cancer and 11 heart attacks. The one that arrived in 1982 finally took her down for good. After news spread of her death, flags around Sausalito, as well as on the local ferries, were flown at half-mast in her honor. Today, a water fountain at the town’s ferry landing still instructs visitors to “Have a drink on Sally.” A second fountain sits lower to the ground, in honor of Stanford’s beloved dog, Leland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is best remembered for her indomitable spirit and seemingly invincible ability to always come out on top. “If you are being run out of town,” she once said, “get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For stories on other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starving jobless dames? Forget it,” she wrote in her autobiography. “They wanted to have intercourse with men for money … Some were just plain lazy. Others had the strange idea that any activity illicit in nature was glamorous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4088px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4088\" height=\"4088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house.jpg 4088w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/stanford-house-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4088px) 100vw, 4088px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Stanford’s bordello sites.\u003cbr>Top line: 1144 Pine Street (this original house was torn down in 1961), and 693 O’Farrell Street. Bottom line: 610 Leavenworth Street, and the building that once housed the Valhalla Inn.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1941, Stanford added what would become one of her favorite business locations to her roster. Housed inside a mansion built by a prominent businessman for his fourth wife, Stanford’s high-end Nob Hill bordello at 1144 Pine was legendary for the eight years its doors remained open. (Stanford once called it, “the finest and most distinguished pleasure house in the world. Maybe the universe.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word was, the Pine house and its marble pool were frequented by the most respected politicians and businessmen in the region, as well as visiting dignitaries and celebrities from around the country. Stanford listed the likes of Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart as regulars. Stanford eventually 86’d the latter, however, for being in her own words, “a foul-mouthed, pugnacious drunk who came around to badger, belittle and insult the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banning Bogart was one of the many ways in which Stanford worked to keep her employees happy. “I did my conniving, scheming, defensive best for them,” she later stated. “They did their enticing, seductive, coquettish best for me and the house prospered. For their efforts I gave them 60 percent of the take … They were a lovely set of girls and they contributed quite a bit to the success of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103910\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 201px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM.png 201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-30-at-2.06.39-PM-160x298.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A matchbook from Sally Stanford’s Valhalla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n 1949, increasingly harassed by local police and then-\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District Attorney, Pat Brown\u003c/a>, Stanford moved to Sausalito and opened a restaurant, appropriately titled Valhalla. While the venue attracted celebrity customers including Marlon Brando, Bing Crosby, and Lucille Ball, and advertised itself as a venue strictly for wining and dining, local rumor and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">red light at the back of the building\u003c/a> suggested otherwise. Thanks to the Bohemian nature of the Bay Area enclave, neighbors adored and supported the inn, regardless. \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3787722-former-valhalla-inn-run-by-sausalito-madame-gets-a-new-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2018, a local man told KPIX News\u003c/a>: “She did provide a useful service and a good place to eat, and people appreciate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s good standing in the community, as well as the fact that the local council wouldn’t allow her to install an electric sign on her restaurant, eventually led to Stanford’s political ambitions. A momentous \u003ca href=\"https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse47823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1970 press photo\u003c/a> captures just how far her reputation had come in two decades in Sausalito. The caption reads: “Sally Stanford, nails up sign boosting her candidacy… in this upper middle class… suburb. Lamenting ‘a general breakdown in morals,’ the retired madam of San Francisco’s best known bordello is running for city council — with the support of local women’s clubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/02/obituaries/sally-stanford-madam-who-became-a-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six attempts\u003c/a> to win a seat, but she was dogged in her determination to win, once noting, “We sinners never give up.” Once in office, she successfully held onto her position, and her ongoing popularity led to her being elected mayor in 1976. After her decision to retire in 1980, in a beautiful gesture, the council insisted on naming her “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/02/obituaries/sally-stanford-madam-who-became-a-mayor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vice Mayor For Life.\u003c/a>” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to this post on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2018/06/Gyno.mp3\" title=\"The Profumo Affair\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/141/590x/Profumo-514838.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">55 years ago, it was one of the most explosive, far-reaching public scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started -- as most government sex scandals do -- with a middle-aged male politician being involved with a woman decades his junior. It ended with Russian collusion, perjury, jail, death, disgrace, and the ultimate downfall of an administration. And over half a century later, a number of elements might seem oddly… familiar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ‘Profumo Affair,’ as it would come to be known, was set in a '60s Britain that was definitely not yet “swinging.” When events began in 1961, the food rationing instigated during World War II had only finally ended seven years prior. The contraceptive pill wasn’t yet available to women around the country, and the Beatles were relative unknowns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Profumo in question was a 46-year-old married politician named John Profumo, the government’s Secretary of State for War. Despite frequent rumors about his infidelities, Profumo was an uncontroversial figure -- rich, successful -- at the very top of UK politics. Until he attended a high-class party in July 1961 at the country estate of his political pal Lord Astor -- and saw a young woman called Christine Keeler swimming naked in the pool.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103997\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103997 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2033\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1020x829.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1200x976.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1920x1561.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-520x423.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former British War State Secretary John Profumo and his wife Valerie Hobson, taken at the time when he was at the centre of a Cold War sex and spying scandal that cost him his political career. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler, who was 19 at the time, was an aspiring model, then working as a topless showgirl in a London cabaret club. The working-class Keeler was mingling with the rich and famous at Astor’s party because of her connection to another much older man there: Stephen Ward. He was a trained osteopath whose charm -- and ceaseless social-climbing -- had resulted in an impressive list of connections and clients that ranged from socialites and aristocrats to members of the UK royal family. One of his friendships in particular -- with a Russian official \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and London-based spy named Yevgeny Ivanov -- had even attracted the attention of British intelligence agency MI5.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Ward wasn’t cracking the backs of the rich and famous, or playing Russian and British spies off each other, he was hanging out in London’s club scene, where he’d first met Christine Keeler. Sensing that having a gorgeous young showgirl close to him might come in handy in his multiple endeavors of varying legality, Ward took Keeler -- plus her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, who was even younger -- under his wing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Profumo soon began a sexual relationship after their poolside meet-cute, but here let’s pause -- lest you think this is just another story about a powerful man having an affair -- and remember Russia. In 1961, the Cold War was a suffocating presence in geopolitics. Then, as now, Russian influence in domestic affairs was a terrifying prospect. In a time when the USSR was testing huge nuclear weapons, the Berlin Wall had just gone up, and the Russians were looking like they could conquer space too, it’s almost impossible to overstate the UK’s fear and apprehension over Russia’s reach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliveden House, the scene of Lord Astor's 1961 party at which Profumo first met Keeler. (\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden,_June_2005.JPG\">Daderot/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>) \u003ccite>(Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against this backdrop, the very worst person for the mistress of UK Secretary for War John Profumo to simultaneously be sleeping with would be a Russian spy. But of course, that’s exactly who she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> sleeping with: Ward’s old pal Ivanov, with all the collusion-friendly “passing state secrets during pillow-talk” potential that brought. Even though the affair between Keeler and Profumo -- which she described as \"screw of convenience\" -- wound down fast, rumors soon began swirling in London.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet despite mounting conjecture, the press wouldn’t touch the story. The Conservative government of the time had been engaged in fierce hostility with the press, and amid a string of much-reported spy scandals in early ‘60s Britain, the USSR’s blackmail of civil servant John Vassall stood out. Many of us only learned the term \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kompromat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> following allegations about Donald Trump’s 2013 visit to a Moscow hotel room, but the tactic of gathering and deploying damaging information for political benefit has been in use for decades by Russian intelligence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1962, they had successful leveraged proof of Vassall’s sexuality -- being gay was illegal until 1967 in the UK -- to pressure him into spying for them. In the fallout from the subsequent inquiry, two British journalists were jailed for protecting their sources, in a move that hugely damaged relations between the administration and a defensive media. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So even by 1963, when Christine Keeler sensed rising interest and attempted to sell her account to the press, she wasn’t successful at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103998 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-160x205.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-768x984.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1020x1306.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1920x2459.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1180x1511.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-960x1230.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-240x307.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-375x480.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler, pictured in London in 1963 in London. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story became harder to ignore, however, when a former boyfriend of Keeler’s went on trial for shooting up the house in which she was staying -- of course, Stephen Ward’s house. As speculation mounted about Profumo’s involvement in this bizarre series of events, the politician’s strategy for handling media interest in his affair was to go on the offensive, threatening to sue -- and actually suing one outlet for libel -- and discrediting the stories as what we’d now refer to as “fake news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal statement to his government that \"there was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler.\" This was, of course, the lie that would ultimately damn him, as the UK police authorities began to investigate the man whose connecting and fixing had powered this whole scandal forward: Stephen Ward. As official statements and evidence piled up, Profumo realized the game was up, confessed all, and resigned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the British press, which now included the increasingly popular medium of television, finally considered themselves unleashed, the characters of Profumo and Ward were mercilessly scrutinized, the former portrayed as duped sleaze ball, the latter as pimp and Russian colluder. Meanwhile, Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davie\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s found themselves subjected to more gendered criticism from both the press and politicians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were branded with terms like “whore,” “slut,” and “dirty little prostitute” by male politicians of the time who were incensed not just at the potential damage to national security, but by the way the scandal opened the floodgates for a glut of subsequent stories alleging misconduct and sexual impropriety among the ruling classes. Rumors of sex parties, affairs, even masked naked royals at orgies, trashed the myth of upper-class respectability, and lifted the lid on a sex-fueled world that relied on the services of men like Stephen Ward, and the bodies of working class women like Keeler and Rice-Davies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4174px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104000 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4174\" height=\"3304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg 4174w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-768x608.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1020x807.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1920x1520.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4174px) 100vw, 4174px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandy Rice-Davies, pictured in Holland in 1964. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives,)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To modern observers there might be echoes of how someone like Stormy Daniels -- another woman making her living from erotic entertainment, alleging sexual relations with a powerful man who’s denying it -- deals with her critics. In the same way, Daniels receives the words intended to silence women like her -- slut, whore -- on Twitter as her cue to speak more, not less.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stormydaniels/status/971923035153424384?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Rice-Davies simply refused to be quiet or go away. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the height of the Profumo scandal, Keeler sat for a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/christine-keeler-photograph-a-modern-icon/\"> now-iconic, much-imitated nude photo shoot,\u003c/a> in which she meets the viewer’s gaze directly, as if to say “How do you like me now?” For her part, the teenage Rice-Davies entered courtroom clap-back folklore, when asked about her alleged affair with Lord Astor (the politician, remember, who hosted that fateful 1961 party), and the fact that this powerful man almost 40 years her senior had denied everything. Her response: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” These five words have since \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRDA_(slang)\">become skeptical internet shorthand\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did this all end? With death, disgrace, and the fall of a government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Ward was put on trial on pimping charges, but on the eve of his sentencing, he was found dead of an apparently self-administered sleeping pill overdose. To this day, some suspect foul play on the part of those about whom he might have known too much. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His protégée Christine Keeler received six months of jail time for perjury during the trial of another ex-boyfriend, whom she’d claimed attacked her. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a government inquiry exonerated Profumo of inadvertently passing state secrets to the Russian authorities, but later in 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fell ill and, at least partly exhausted by this relentless scandal, resigned. The Conservative party didn’t regain power again until 1970.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1207px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104003 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1207\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM.png 1207w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-160x80.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-800x402.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-768x386.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1020x512.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1200x602.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1180x592.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-960x482.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-240x120.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-375x188.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-520x261.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1207px) 100vw, 1207px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler arriving at court in 1963. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amid all the startling parallels to modern politics and public life, there’s one final element of this story that surprises: what John Profumo did next, after being caught in one of the biggest sexual misconduct scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Months after the explosion of the #MeToo movement, we now find ourselves wondering what, if anything, we’re meant to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with an ever-growing list of disgraced men, many of whom are now actively planning their comebacks with varying degrees of humility. Total self-exile seems to be beyond most of those whose reputations now lie in tatters of their own making, yet over 50 years ago, that’s exactly what Profumo himself chose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After apologizing to the prime minister, his political party, and the general public, he became a volunteer at an East London anti-poverty charity, where he quite literally scrubbed toilets. After that first self-flagellating penance as a quasi-janitor, Profumo continued volunteering there in administrative and fundraising roles. Right up until his death at age 90 in 2006, Profumo gave not one single interview -- no mea culpa profile, no humble photo shoot. Others -- including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- spoke about him, and praised the re-dedication of his life to charity, but in a world of the swiftly-issued apology (or denial), Profumo’s own deafening silence is now almost unthinkable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re entitled to your skepticism about the low stakes inherent in a man with vast inherited wealth being able to volunteer for the rest of his life, but the fact remains: Profumo’s charity atonement took place without the “story-straightening” soul-baring interviews, or the big symbolic “welcome back” to public life, and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lasted decades, for the rest of his life. For a man who once wielded such agency, whose voice carried such weight, mute self-exile feels like the ultimate renunciation of male power. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">55 years ago, it was one of the most explosive, far-reaching public scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started -- as most government sex scandals do -- with a middle-aged male politician being involved with a woman decades his junior. It ended with Russian collusion, perjury, jail, death, disgrace, and the ultimate downfall of an administration. And over half a century later, a number of elements might seem oddly… familiar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ‘Profumo Affair,’ as it would come to be known, was set in a '60s Britain that was definitely not yet “swinging.” When events began in 1961, the food rationing instigated during World War II had only finally ended seven years prior. The contraceptive pill wasn’t yet available to women around the country, and the Beatles were relative unknowns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Profumo in question was a 46-year-old married politician named John Profumo, the government’s Secretary of State for War. Despite frequent rumors about his infidelities, Profumo was an uncontroversial figure -- rich, successful -- at the very top of UK politics. Until he attended a high-class party in July 1961 at the country estate of his political pal Lord Astor -- and saw a young woman called Christine Keeler swimming naked in the pool.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103997\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103997 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2033\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1020x829.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1200x976.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1920x1561.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-57046520-520x423.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former British War State Secretary John Profumo and his wife Valerie Hobson, taken at the time when he was at the centre of a Cold War sex and spying scandal that cost him his political career. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler, who was 19 at the time, was an aspiring model, then working as a topless showgirl in a London cabaret club. The working-class Keeler was mingling with the rich and famous at Astor’s party because of her connection to another much older man there: Stephen Ward. He was a trained osteopath whose charm -- and ceaseless social-climbing -- had resulted in an impressive list of connections and clients that ranged from socialites and aristocrats to members of the UK royal family. One of his friendships in particular -- with a Russian official \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and London-based spy named Yevgeny Ivanov -- had even attracted the attention of British intelligence agency MI5.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Ward wasn’t cracking the backs of the rich and famous, or playing Russian and British spies off each other, he was hanging out in London’s club scene, where he’d first met Christine Keeler. Sensing that having a gorgeous young showgirl close to him might come in handy in his multiple endeavors of varying legality, Ward took Keeler -- plus her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, who was even younger -- under his wing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Profumo soon began a sexual relationship after their poolside meet-cute, but here let’s pause -- lest you think this is just another story about a powerful man having an affair -- and remember Russia. In 1961, the Cold War was a suffocating presence in geopolitics. Then, as now, Russian influence in domestic affairs was a terrifying prospect. In a time when the USSR was testing huge nuclear weapons, the Berlin Wall had just gone up, and the Russians were looking like they could conquer space too, it’s almost impossible to overstate the UK’s fear and apprehension over Russia’s reach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliveden House, the scene of Lord Astor's 1961 party at which Profumo first met Keeler. (\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden,_June_2005.JPG\">Daderot/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>) \u003ccite>(Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against this backdrop, the very worst person for the mistress of UK Secretary for War John Profumo to simultaneously be sleeping with would be a Russian spy. But of course, that’s exactly who she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> sleeping with: Ward’s old pal Ivanov, with all the collusion-friendly “passing state secrets during pillow-talk” potential that brought. Even though the affair between Keeler and Profumo -- which she described as \"screw of convenience\" -- wound down fast, rumors soon began swirling in London.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet despite mounting conjecture, the press wouldn’t touch the story. The Conservative government of the time had been engaged in fierce hostility with the press, and amid a string of much-reported spy scandals in early ‘60s Britain, the USSR’s blackmail of civil servant John Vassall stood out. Many of us only learned the term \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kompromat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> following allegations about Donald Trump’s 2013 visit to a Moscow hotel room, but the tactic of gathering and deploying damaging information for political benefit has been in use for decades by Russian intelligence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1962, they had successful leveraged proof of Vassall’s sexuality -- being gay was illegal until 1967 in the UK -- to pressure him into spying for them. In the fallout from the subsequent inquiry, two British journalists were jailed for protecting their sources, in a move that hugely damaged relations between the administration and a defensive media. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So even by 1963, when Christine Keeler sensed rising interest and attempted to sell her account to the press, she wasn’t successful at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103998 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-160x205.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-768x984.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1020x1306.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1920x2459.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1180x1511.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-960x1230.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-240x307.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-375x480.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler, pictured in London in 1963 in London. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story became harder to ignore, however, when a former boyfriend of Keeler’s went on trial for shooting up the house in which she was staying -- of course, Stephen Ward’s house. As speculation mounted about Profumo’s involvement in this bizarre series of events, the politician’s strategy for handling media interest in his affair was to go on the offensive, threatening to sue -- and actually suing one outlet for libel -- and discrediting the stories as what we’d now refer to as “fake news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal statement to his government that \"there was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler.\" This was, of course, the lie that would ultimately damn him, as the UK police authorities began to investigate the man whose connecting and fixing had powered this whole scandal forward: Stephen Ward. As official statements and evidence piled up, Profumo realized the game was up, confessed all, and resigned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the British press, which now included the increasingly popular medium of television, finally considered themselves unleashed, the characters of Profumo and Ward were mercilessly scrutinized, the former portrayed as duped sleaze ball, the latter as pimp and Russian colluder. Meanwhile, Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davie\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s found themselves subjected to more gendered criticism from both the press and politicians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were branded with terms like “whore,” “slut,” and “dirty little prostitute” by male politicians of the time who were incensed not just at the potential damage to national security, but by the way the scandal opened the floodgates for a glut of subsequent stories alleging misconduct and sexual impropriety among the ruling classes. Rumors of sex parties, affairs, even masked naked royals at orgies, trashed the myth of upper-class respectability, and lifted the lid on a sex-fueled world that relied on the services of men like Stephen Ward, and the bodies of working class women like Keeler and Rice-Davies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4174px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104000 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4174\" height=\"3304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg 4174w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-768x608.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1020x807.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1920x1520.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4174px) 100vw, 4174px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandy Rice-Davies, pictured in Holland in 1964. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Rice-Davies simply refused to be quiet or go away. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the height of the Profumo scandal, Keeler sat for a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/christine-keeler-photograph-a-modern-icon/\"> now-iconic, much-imitated nude photo shoot,\u003c/a> in which she meets the viewer’s gaze directly, as if to say “How do you like me now?” For her part, the teenage Rice-Davies entered courtroom clap-back folklore, when asked about her alleged affair with Lord Astor (the politician, remember, who hosted that fateful 1961 party), and the fact that this powerful man almost 40 years her senior had denied everything. Her response: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” These five words have since \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRDA_(slang)\">become skeptical internet shorthand\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did this all end? With death, disgrace, and the fall of a government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Ward was put on trial on pimping charges, but on the eve of his sentencing, he was found dead of an apparently self-administered sleeping pill overdose. To this day, some suspect foul play on the part of those about whom he might have known too much. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His protégée Christine Keeler received six months of jail time for perjury during the trial of another ex-boyfriend, whom she’d claimed attacked her. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a government inquiry exonerated Profumo of inadvertently passing state secrets to the Russian authorities, but later in 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fell ill and, at least partly exhausted by this relentless scandal, resigned. 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