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Thumb‑sized Vials, Seven Hundred Sick: The Dalles' Hidden Bioterror Plot
Thumb‑sized Vials, Seven Hundred Sick: The Dalles' Hidden Bioterror Plot
A single night: surgeons recorded fifty‑five pints of blood pumped into a forty‑two‑year‑old man after a seven‑and‑a‑half‑hour operation on May 17, 1961 - more than four times the normal human blood volume - and it still was not enough. How did a back injury on a film set in the Philippine jungle turn into a fatal cascade of care and error that few remember today?
In this episode, we tell the life and final months of Ira Grossel, better known as Jeff Chandler, tracing his rise from a Brooklyn childhood and a $18‑a‑week…
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