Did Nuclear Fallout Kill Hollywood's Biggest Star?
Half-Life Histories · Season 1 · Episode 16
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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Season
1
Episode
16
Air Date
14/Jan/2023
Air Time
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Runtime
24 min
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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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