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central scrutinizer

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2. Karma
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:54 AM
Sep 2020
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/some-of-the-most-dangerous-movies-ever/4/

In 1956, "The Conqueror" was filmed on location in St. George, Utah, just 137 miles away from a Nevada test site where the United States had conducted above-ground nuclear weapons testing three years before. In the years that followed, many of the film's principal actors and crew members came down with various forms of cancer.

The film's director Dick Powell was diagnosed in 1963. Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz was diagnosed in 1960. And the film's stars Susan Hayward, John Wayne and Agnes Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s.

Of the film's 220 cast and crew members, 91 developed cancer and 46 ultimately died of the disease.

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Atomic testing on/near remote Native American sites another crime against FirstNations bobbieinok Sep 2020 #1
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The radiation kills "cowboys" too. Codifer Sep 2020 #5
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