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From Crimereads: “The prisoner hauled before a Brooklyn judge in 1928 did not look the part of one of the most notorious criminals in history. He squinted at the world through round-framed spectacles. When he removed his broad-brimmed hat, the sudden exposure of the baldness beneath added years to his appearance. The man was sixty-eight, born the year before the outbreak of the Civil War. He had been arrested more than a dozen times and had spent years in New York’s infamous Sing Sing prison. In the press, he was crowned the “dean of confidence men” and “the biggest of the big-time” swindlers. His name was John McCarthy. And he was the con man who sold the Brooklyn Bridge.”
This town kept its nuclear bunker a secret for more than three decades
![A diagram of the bunker, which was hidden beneath the resort's West Virginia Wing](https://i0.wp.com/th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/-SiS3EInZxg-GZfdwLOHFadjwKI=/fit-in/1072x0/filters:focal(1065x872:1066x873)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/78/3a/783a89b3-cb2a-4828-8a3c-86b91df4cedd/the_bunker_1.jpeg?w=525&ssl=1)
From The Smithsonian: “West Virginia’s Greenbrier resort has been a playground for princes and politicians since its opening in 1778. Nestled in the Allegheny Mountain town of White Sulphur Springs, the Greenbrier has expanded over the centuries, so, when the resort broke ground on a new wing in late 1958, no one was surprised. But locals soon noticed something odd about the project. The hole dug for the foundation was enormous, and vast amounts of concrete arrived every day on trucks, along with puzzling items: 110 urinals, huge steel doors. But locals kept their suspicions private, and nearly 35 years passed before the rest of the country learned the truth: the bunker buried 720 feet underground was equipped to hold every single member of Congress.”
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