Shadow Kingdom Season 2: Coal Survivor (coming August 25)
Shadow Kingdom is a series from Crooked Media and Campside Media. Each season starts with a crime, and as the layers are peeled back to find out who did it, a larger system at play is revealed.
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Transcript
You've foolishly asked for some pictures.
Oh boy.
Chip Jablonski is a friend of mine, and his family mementos carry a darker story than most.
It was a nightmare.
It was just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
As the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, 1969, three men snuck into Chip's childhood home and gunned down his family while they slept.
She came walking to us and she was yelling.
They killed them.
They killed them all.
Chip's dad, Jock, was trying to take over one of the richest unions in America.
A union that literally controlled electric power across the country, the United Mine Workers.
But Jock Yablonski was also about to expose a dark and dirty secret about the mine workers.
And Chip was convinced the incumbent union president, one of the most powerful men in America, was behind his dad's murder.
And I'm saying, hang on, you son of a bitch, because I want you to get your just desserts.
But to find evidence, Chip, who was just 29 at the time, had to take his dad's place.
He had to beat the seemingly invincible president at the ballot box and take the union back.
My name is Nicola Majoni, and I'm the host of Shadow Kingdom.
I've spent years in the field with union leaders.
Everybody's buzzing me and what the f going on?
You know, it's like, get us the hell out of here.
Tracing clues with investigators.
We're going to come in and we're going to arrest you, but you may not tell anybody.
And even tracking down the assassins.
Phoenix was out there hollering and going on.
It jammed, it jammed, they wouldn't shoot, it wouldn't fire.
All to figure out what exactly happened to Chip's family that night.
and how that massacre unleashed a revolution in American labor.
Coming soon from Crooked Media and Campsite Media, this is Shadow Kingdom Season 2, Cold Survivor.
Find it wherever you get your podcasts starting August 25th.
Friends of the Pod subscribers can listen to the full season of Shadow Kingdom on August 25th by joining FriendsoThePod at crooked.com slash friends or subscribing through the Shadow Kingdom Apple feed.
