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Cash and Flesh

36m · Hookergate: Criminals and Libertines in the South · 02 Apr 07:00

Just as the truck stops see success, a powerful force threatens the whole operation. Rodney discovers an unusual cluster of arrest records, and their mysterious dismissals. Connie instructs Buckeye in the art of seduction with a group of men from out of town.

Written and hosted by Lindsay Byron - goodtimesbadgirls.com

Music and sound design by Guy Kelly - guykelly.com

CAST:

Prosecutor - Ben Bowlin

Newscaster - Lauren Vogelbaum

Sergeant Bradley - Dylan Fagan

SOURCES:

All courtroom scenes are pulled from the transcripts of The United States VS Joseph Whitehead, Landon Wayne Holley, and Aubrey Henderson trial trial. These transcripts are located in the National Archives in Philadelphia.

The first hand accounts from Frankie Jones come from an interview I conducted with him in Danville, Virginia, in June 2022.

The first-hand accounts from Rodney Smith come from an interview I conducted with him on January 26th, 2022.

The courtroom scene characterizing Wayne Holley as Hookergate’s primary liaison comes from US Prosecuting Attorney Robert Stubb’s closing arguments on Dec 20, 1977.

The reportage describing Holley’s bribery of the truck stop operators is from the 1977 Grand Jury report indicting Whitehead, Holley, Henderson, Boyd, Dowdy, and Barker (“The Big Six”) on Federal RICO charges.

The courtroom description of the terms of truck stop lounge entry–”all you have to do is want to fuck”--occurred during US Prosecuting Attorney Robert Amidon’s direct examination of Sergeant Charles L. Bradley on Dec 5th, 1977.

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CAST:

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SOURCES:

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CAST:

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SOURCES:

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This and all courtroom scenes come from The United States VS Joseph Whitehead, Landon Wayne Holley, and Aubrey Henderson trial trial trial. These transcripts are located in the National Archives in Philadelphia.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.