Half-Life Histories

S1 E162020

Did Nuclear Fallout Kill Hollywood's Biggest Star?

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Almost half of the people who worked on John Wayne’s “worst” film – The Conqueror – eventually died of cancer. Was it because the movie was shot downwind of an infamous nuclear test site? Or is there something more to the statistics?

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