Jen and Matt take listeners on a tragic journey through the assassination of  the idealistic leader Patrice Lumumba.

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Sources for today's podcast:

• ​From CIA.gov’s Center for the Study of Intelligence the book review of: Death in the Congo: The Murdering of Patrice Lumumba (Vol. 59, no. 4), by  Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick, Book Reviewed by: Stephen R. Weissman publish December, 2015→ this is fascinating
• ​The political life of the dead Lumumba: Cold War histories and the Congolese student left Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2019 by Pedro Monaville
• ​“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations”The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965 Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department→ a truly mind bending read.
• ​The podcasts: Assassination Podcast and the BBC World Service Witness Achieves
• ​And finally, throwing some love to the students of the world, the Harvard University Senior thesis Patrice Lumumba’s Congo: Sovereignty Denied by American Interests by Samuel Kies (2015) reviewed by Professors Andrew Friedman and Darin Hayton.