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Episode 8 — The bomb, the boss and the Jesuit

Episode 8 — The bomb, the boss and the Jesuit

Update: 2023-04-26
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The story of Creighton's Jesuit astronomer Fr. William Rigge, SJ, who — in 1910 and 1911 — became one of the first expert witnesses in an American criminal trial. Using a shadow in a photograph, Fr. Rigge helped an Omaha attorney (and Creighton parent) exonerate a man charged with planting a bomb on the front porch of Omaha crime boss Tom Dennison. This episode's got it all. 

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Episode 8 — The bomb, the boss and the Jesuit

Episode 8 — The bomb, the boss and the Jesuit

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