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SCOUT· 25%51m·2020-03-20·History#312 Has Jack the Ripper Come to Town? A Gilded Age Hysteria
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EPISODE 312 The Whitechapel murders of 1888 -- perpetrated by the killer known as Jack the Ripper -- inspired one of the greatest cultural hysterias of the Victorian era. The idea that the Ripper could appear anywhere -- even in New York City. The usual vicious crimes of gang members and roughs on the Bowery were not…
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