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On each episode of RIP Corp, we tell the story of one failed business, or a business failure. Join us in the dead mall of business history.
RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production, written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.
Cosplay Cops and Special Ops: Baldwin-Felts and the West Virginia Mine War
RIP Corp
49 minutes 6 seconds
3 years ago
Cosplay Cops and Special Ops: Baldwin-Felts and the West Virginia Mine War
The Battle of Matewan, also known as the Matewan Massacre, took place on May 19, 1920. It’s a significant part of the history of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The shootout claimed ten lives: three residents of Matewan and seven employees of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, a private security firm that among other things worked for coal operators throughout West Virginia. That day lives in infamy in both Appalachian and American labor history. But Baldwin-Felts doesn’t really live on in the public record. Which is weird, because for miners and organizers trying to build union power in the West Virginia coal fields, Baldwin-Felts was synonymous with the enemy.
RIP Corp
On each episode of RIP Corp, we tell the story of one failed business, or a business failure. Join us in the dead mall of business history.
RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production, written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.
