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Papa Doc Part 2: Haiti’s Dictator vs JFK
The horrors of the regime are impossible to ignore & so JFK decides to lay down a marker.
Haitian dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier crushes an attempted coup without mercy. Spooked by this near miss, Duvalier forms his own private militia called the Tonton Macoute. They take their name from a terrifying bogeyman of Haitian mythology. As the horrors of the regime become impossible to ignore, President Kennedy decides to lay down a marker.
A Noiser production.
This is Part 2 of 3.