#miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history

"America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History

The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.

(. . .)

According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.

Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.

(. . .)

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.

(. . .)

He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.

Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."

https://archive.ph/MgtxC

Here are some clips taken from our interview with Author Caira Benson author of Salt Covered Lies

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/03/21/here-are-some-clips-taken-from-our-interview-with-author-caira-benson-author-of-salt-covered-lies/

#ConspiracyTheories #coverups #déjà_vu #Marilyn #JFK #propaganda

"Overdose, suicide or murder? What really happened the night Marilyn died

In this exclusive extract from a new biography of the star, unpublished documents reveal the truth behind the Kennedy conspiracy theories

There have been other reports that suggest Marilyn died as early as 10.30pm on the Saturday night, and Dr Greenson did not report the death to the police until 4.25am on the Sunday morning.

Into the black hole of these few empty hours conspiracy theorists have injected a thousand wild conjectures. According to one of the most widely believed conspiracy theories, the delay in reporting the death would give Marilyn’s supposed murderers time to clear the house of any incriminating evidence. Central to the question of the alleged cover-up is Marilyn’s involvement with the Kennedy family.

Six weeks after Marilyn’s death, sergeant Jack Clemmons met with two men who – like him – had a vested interest in digging up dirt on the Kennedys. Clemmons was a director of the Right-wing Fire and Police Research Association of Los Angeles 'If you haven’t time to learn more about and to fight communism today,' runs the tagline for one of the organisation’s newsletters, 'you’d better start getting ready to learn how to live under it tomorrow!' Jim Dougherty, Marilyn’s first husband, was a colleague of Clemmons’s at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), where Jack was known for his extreme Right-wing views. 'The old rascal, he hates the Kennedys,' said Dougherty. 'He’s so far Right, I can’t tell you, if he stuck out his head he’d hit himself in the right eye… He would paint the Kennedys as black any way he could.'

Clemmons’s co-conspirators in a battle to bring down the liberal Kennedy clan – whom they thought were too sympathetic to far-Left causes – were Maurice Ries, president of the anti-communist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, and private detective turned Right-wing propagandist Frank Capell."

https://archive.is/KC248#selection-3691.236-3695.400

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