Molly Maggia died in September 1922 after radium destroyed her jaw, inner ear, and then her throat — her jugular vein eaten away until it erupted, drowning her in her own blood while her sister watched. Her official diagnosis? Syphilis — a lie planted by the company to shame her into silence and protect their profits.
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Dentists were the first to recognize something was deeply wrong. Beginning in the late 1910s, dial painters arrived at dental offices with inexplicable tooth pain, loose teeth, mouth ulcers, and extraction sockets that refused to heal. In the most extreme cases, the jaw tissue itself had become necrotic — dentists found bone that crumbled like dust when they touched it [1] — Alaina Urquhart "Dial painters began showing up at dentists with tooth pain, loose teeth, and extraction sockets that wouldn't heal. In extreme cases, denti…" 39:20 . These symptoms were lumped together informally as 'radium jaw,' and they progressed relentlessly: loose teeth led to jaw pain, jaw pain led to bone disintegration, bone disintegration led to infection and spread throughout the body. When one dentist tried to get answers by visiting the radium plant and asking for the paint's ingredients, the managers refused to provide any information at all. The cover-up was total and deliberate — and the symptoms were only going to get worse.
Dial painters began showing up at dentists with tooth pain, loose teeth, and extraction sockets that wouldn't heal. In extreme cases, dentists discovered jaw bone that simply crumbled to dust when touched — the result of radium replacing calcium in bone. They called this 'radium jaw,' and there was nothing medicine could do to stop it.
The first death attributed to radium poisoning came in 1922 when Molly Maggia died after her jaw and throat were eaten away, with her jugular vein ultimately rupturing.
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Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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