{"podcast":{"title":"True Crime Historian","slug":"true-crime-historian-1041409","podcast_index_feed_id":1041409,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2909311/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.truecrimehistorian.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1ad0391fad07c6b2a46be39bf3ed8e00.jpg","author":"Richard O Jones","episode_count":437,"summary":"Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T08:17:10.363356+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409"},"episode":{"title":"The Fourteenth Fiasco","slug":"the-fourteenth-fiasco","published_at":"2026-05-11T03:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409/the-fourteenth-fiasco","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409","url":"https://www.patreon.com/posts/155289666","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71238285/477_1868_ashburn_spreak26.mp3","summary":"The Klan Claims A Scallywag Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, author of the state's civil rights provisions — who is gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan in their Georgia debut. The killers are caught, tried, and freed through a devil's bargain: their liberty exchanged for ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. More ASSASSINATIONS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support . You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 ad-free episodes from the dusty vault, Safe House Exclusives, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal services you require. We invite you to our other PULPULAR MEDIA podcasts: If disaster is more your jam, check out CATASTROPHIC CALAMITIES , telling the stories of famous and forgotten tragedies of the 19th and 20th centuries. What could go wrong? Everything! For brand-new tales in the old clothes from the golden era of popular literature, give your ears a treat with PULP MAGAZINES with two new stories every week. This episode includes AI-generated content.","meta_description":"The Klan Claims A Scallywag Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, autho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3312,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-crime-historian-1041409/episodes/the-fourteenth-fiasco/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-historian-1041409/the-fourteenth-fiasco.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}