Season 5 Finale- The Development of PCP and Ketamine
Ketamine has found wide uses since the 1960s: as a painkiller, an anesthetic, a street drug consumed at raves,...
Season 5 – Episode 9: Fran Harris, The First Female Newscaster in Michigan
Newscaster Fran Harris’s life was a lifetime of firsts. She was the first woman newscaster in Detroit radio during...
Season 5 – Episode 8: A Century of Mexicantown
A longstanding community called Mexicantown on Detroit’s southwest side has persevered for around a century. The area of restaurants,...
Season 5 – Episode 7: The Biography of a Rumor: The “Paul McCartney Is Dead” Hoax
Thousands of phonograph records were destroyed, as were thousands of needles used on the old-style record players. Teenage sleuths...
Season 5 – Episode 6: The Origins of Detroit Style Pizza
Sometime in the mid-1940s, an Italian immigrant bar owner by the name of Gus Guerra started making pizzas in...
Season 5 – Episode 5: The Michigan Democratic Social Club Triple Beheading
It was horrific, even by the low standards of the urban drug trade. Three dead bodies found in a...
Season 5 – Episode 4: The Native American Origins of Detroit
The beginnings of Detroit are inaccurately pinned to the arrival of Cadillac on these shores in 1701, but there...
Season 5 – Episode 3: The 1863 Civil War Riot
Smack in the middle of the Civil War, Detroit experienced a riot that was characterized as “the most brutal...
