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>> PLANS FOR THE D-DAY

INVASION OF NORMANDY ALMOST

SPOIL

ME CHICAGO POSTAL CLERK.

GEOFFREY BAER TELLS THE TALE OF

ACCIDENTAL

ESPIONAGE.

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU AS A LOOK

AT THE QUESTIONS FOR TONIGHT

SEGMENT THESE ARE SOME OF THE

MOST INTERESTING QUESTIONS.

I REALLY LOVE THEM.

THE BOOK , "THE LONGEST DAY"

MENTIONS THE TOP-SECRET D-DAY

PLANS WERE ACCIDENTALLY

REVEALED AT CHICAGO'S

CENTRAL

POST OFFICE.

WHAT HAPPENED?

>> LAST WEEK ALL OVER THE

MEDIA WAS THE 60TH

ANNIVERSARY

OF D-DAY THE INVASION OF

NORMANDY, JUNE 6, 1944.

IN CORNELIUS RYAN'S BOOK

"THE

LONGEST DAY"

IT WAS A

CHOREOGRAPHED MANEUVER

CALLED

OPERATION OVERLORD.

LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS SO

SECRECY

WAS OF UTMOST

IMPORTANCE.

THE PLANNING DOCUMENTS WERE

TIGHTLY CONTROLLED BUT NOT

TIGHT ENOUGH TO STOP EVERY

WEEK.

WE TALK TO OUR FRIENDS AT THE

SICK MILITARY LIBRARY.

A POORLY PACKAGED SET OF THESE

TOP-SECRET D-DAY DOCUMENTS WERE

SENT THROUGH THE MAIL AND ENDED

AT THE CHICAGO POST OFFICE,

IT BURST OPEN ON A SORTING

TABLE IN THE OLD

POST OFFICE.

THE PACKAGE WAS SENT BY A US

ARMY SERGEANT

WHO WAS IN THE

ORDINANCE SUPPLY DIVISION

LONDON.

THE SERGEANT WAS OF GERMAN

DESCENT

SENDING THIS PACKAGE OF

TOP-SECRET DOCUMENTS TO HIS

SISTER

AND A GERMAN

NEIGHBORHOOD IN CHICAGO.

A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS.

A NUMBER OF MALE SORTERS WHEN

THIS PACKAGE BURST OPEN SAW

THESE PAPERS.

THEY WERE STAMPED TOP-SECRET.

THEY WERE STAMPED WITH A

STRAINED ACRONYM,

BIGOT WHICH

STOOD FOR BRITISH INVASION

GERMANY OCCUPIED TERRITORY.

THE

BIGOT PAPERS INCLUDED NOT

ANYTHING TOO IMPORTANT, THE

TARGET DATE, THE MAPS OF THE

LANDING BEACHES THE SCHEDULE

AND SO FORTH.

NATURALLY, THE POSTAL INSPECTOR

SUPERVISORS WERE VERY ALARMED.

THEY CALL THE FBI WHICH BROUGHT

SEVERAL INVESTIGATORS TO

FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED.

I AM SURE THEY WERE TOLD TO

FORGET

EVERYTHING THEY HAD

SEEN?

THE POSTAL WORKERS SAID

ZIP, FORGET

EVERYTHING.

AND THEY WERE KEPT UNDER

SURVEILLANCE.

THEY QUESTIONED THE SERGEANT'S

SISTER WHO HAD NO IDEA WHY

THESE DOCUMENTS WERE SENT TO

HER BUT SHE RECOGNIZED THE

HANDWRITING ANSWER BROTHERS.

OFF THEY WENT TO INTERVIEW THE

BROTHER AND HE SAID HE INTENDED

TO SEND THE DOCUMENTS

TO THE

ORDINANCE DIVISION FOR SOME

REASON

THEY GOT MIXED UP AND

PUT HIS SISTER'S ADDRESS ON THE

ENVELOPE.

THEY DETERMINE HE WASN'T A SPY.

HE EXPLAINED HIS SISTER HAD

BEEN ILL.

THEY KEPT HIM UNDER OBSERVATION

THE ENTIRE TIME UNTIL THE DAY.

HE WAS CONFINED TO QUARTERS.

HIS PHONE WAS TAPPED FOR SIX

WEEK'S

AND THEN THE D-DAY

INVASION HAPPENED AND WE KNOW

THE REST IS HISTORY.

>> BUT THERE WAS NO LEE,

RIGHT,

AS A RESULT OF THIS?

>> NO.

>> IT WOULD BE LIKE TODAY

TYPING AN EMAIL AND YOU TYPE IN

THE FIRST FEW LETTERS OF THE

PERSON YOU INTEND TO SEND IT

YOU SEND IT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN

YOU GET THIS RESPONSE FROM

SOMEBODY SAYING YOU SENT ME

THESE DOCUMENTS ON D-DAY

INVASION

>> SHOULD I BE SEEING THIS?

>> THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE

EQUIVALENT MISTAKE AT THE TIME.

THIS ONE I NEVER HEARD OF.

I HEARD THERE USED TO BE A

SAUSAGE FACTORY IN LAKEVIEW

WHERE THE OWNER

MURDERED AND

CUT UP HIS WIFE AND MADE HER

INTO SAUSAGES.

IS THIS TRUE?

>> WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THIS AT

THE STOCKYARDS

UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE HEARD

ABOUT THAT?

URBAN MYTHS.

WE DON'T KNOW

IF THIS HAPPENED.

THAT IS A DIFFERENT STORY.

THIS IS THE SAUSAGE MURDER.

UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS PARTLY

TRUE.

THERE WAS A SAUSAGE FACTORY

LAKEVIEW WORTHY OWNER

ADOLPHE

LOUP GEAR

DID MURDER HIS WIFE

IN 1897

BUT HE DID NOT MAKE HER

INTO SAUSAGES

>> NOT EVEN COCKTAIL WIENERS?

[LAUGHTER]

NO, NO SAUSAGE OF ANY SORT.

IT'S A GRISLY STORY

IT WAS ALL DOCUMENTED IN THIS

AMAZING BOOK I CHICAGO

AUTHOR,

CALLED "ALCHEMY OF BONES".

THE MURDERER WAS A GERMAN

IMMIGRANT WHO CAME

TO THE US AS

A TEENAGER.

AFTER WORKING VARIOUS JOBS

WERE

A FEW YEARS, HE SAVED UP ENOUGH

MONEY,

THE AL LUETGERT SAUSAGE

AND PACKING COMPANY .

THAT WAS LAKEVIEW

WHICH WAS A

VERY GERMAN NEIGHBORHOOD IN

THOSE DAYS.

LISA WAS HIS SECOND WIFE WHO HE

MARRIED

MONTHS AFTER HIS FIRST

WIFE HAD DIED.

IN 1897, MAY OF THAT YEAR LISA

DISAPPEARED.

ADOLPHE

TOLD THEIR CHILDREN

THEIR MOTHER HAD GONE

TO VISIT

HER SISTER AND HAD NEVER COME

BACK.

BUT A FEW DAYS LATER HER

BROTHER

REPORTED HER MISSING

THE POLICE.

THEN ADOLPHE CLAIMED SHE HAD

RUN OFF WITH ANOTHER MAN.

THEY INVESTIGATED FURTHER.

A CHICAGO HOTDOG.

NO CATCH UP.

[LAUGHTER]

>> POLICE

LEARNED THEY WERE

NOT A HAPPY COUPLE.

THEY WOULD FIGHT, SOMETIMES

PHYSICALLY.

CAME TO LIGHT LOUISA

HAD BEEN

SEEN

GOING INTO THE FACTORY

WITH ADOLPHE THE NIGHT SHE

DISAPPEARED AND

THEY DISCOVERED

HE HAD PURCHASED

ARSENIC THE

DAY BEFORE

AND THAT WAS WEIRD

BECAUSE THE FACTORY

WAS CLOSE.

POLICE SEARCH THE FURNACES,

THAT YOU SEE HERE

IN THESE

BATS, AND THEY FOUND

TWO OF HER

RINGS, ONE WAS INITIAL

AND

THERE WERE BONE FRAGMENTS.

ADOLPHE WAS ARRESTED

AND

BROUGHT TO TRIAL

BUT IT ENDED

IN A HUNG JURY.

HE WAS RETRIED AND CONVICTED IN

1898 WHEN THE PROSECUTION USED

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO PRESENT

FORENSIC EVIDENCE

THE BONES

FOUND WERE HUMAN AND THAT

WAS

ONE OF THE EARLIEST USES OF

FORENSICS EXPERTS IN A TRIAL.

HE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN

PRISON AND DIED ONE YEAR LATER

IN 1899 AT AGE 54.

IS A SAUSAGE FACTORY STILL

STANDING?

>> IT IS.

AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVE THERE.

THE INTERIOR BURNED IN 1904 BUT

THE EXTERNAL STRUCTURE

REMAINS.

THE INTERIOR

WAS REBUILT AS

CONDOMINIUMS AND SOME SAY HER

GHOST STILL HAUNTS THE AREA BUT

WHERE

>> WHERE WAS THE

BUNTE

BROTHERS CANDY FACTORY

LOCATED.

AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?

WELL

BUNTE BROTHERS CANDY

WAS ONE OF THESE MINI CANDY

COMPANIES

IN CHICAGO WHICH MADE

THE CITY INTO THE CANDY CAPITAL

OF THE COUNTRY.

THE PLANT CLOSED IN 1961

BUT

REMAINS STANDING AS

WESTINGHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL UNTIL

2009.

OUR PRODUCER,

ERICA, HAS BEEN

RESEARCHING THIS.

SHE WAS AT A GARAGE SALE THIS

WEEKEND

AND FOUND THIS, BUNTE

BROTHERS CANDY TIN.

THERE IS THE FACTORY.

IF YOU KNOW WESTINGHOUSE HIGH

SCHOOL,

YOU WILL RECOGNIZE

THAT.

IT WAS STARTED

IN 1876

ARE

BROTHERS FERDINAND

AND GUSTAV

THEY HAD A PARTNER

CHARLES

SPOEHR

THEIR FACTORY

WAS

ORIGINALLY ON SOUTH STREET

STREET THE

BUNTE BROTHERS HAD A

REAL KNACK

NOT ONLY FOR

CREATING DELICIOUS CANDY BUT

FOR BRANDING

EACH TYPE OF CANDY

WITH DIFFERENT ADVERTISING.

ACCORDING TO KNOW WHAT ARTICLE

AT ITS PEAK OF THE BUNTE

BROTHERS PRODUCE 1500

DIFFERENT

KIND OF CONFECTION.

THEY BUILT A REPUTATION FOR

HARD CANDY

INCLUDING THE FRUIT

FILLED

DIANA STUFFED CANDY.

THEY CLAIM TO HAVE PRODUCED THE

FIRST CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY

BAR CALLED

TANGO.

IN THE COP DROPS THE PRODUCE

WERE A BIG SELLER,

THEIR SLOGAN

WAS STOPPING

THAT TICKLING

COUGH.

>> LOOK AT THE DRAWING?

THEY MOVED INTO THIS

BUILDING IN THIS BUILDING

INCLUDED

ATHLETIC FIELDS FOR

THEIR WORKERS, RECREATION

ROOMS, SHOWER AND MANICURE

FACILITIES FOR THE EMPLOYEES.

BUNTE CANDY WAS

MADE THERE FOR

DECADES

>> YOU MENTIONED THE FACTORY

WAS TURNED INTO A HIGH SCHOOL.

STILL STANDING?

IT WAS WESTINGHOUSE HIGH

SCHOOL.

THE REMAIN THAT UNTIL 2009 WHEN

THE FACILITY AT WESTINGHOUSE

BELT

A NEW HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN

THE OLD FACTORY BECAME THE

SCHOOL'S FOOTBALL FIELD.

WHILE BUNTE BROTHERS CANDY MAY

BE GONE THEIR LEGACY LIVES ON

BECAUSE MANY OF THE FORMER

EMPLOYEES WENT ON TO KEEP THE

OTHER CANNERIES, THE OH HENRY ,

JR HOLLOWAY INVENTED

MILK DUDS.

IN MOST

NOTABLY

BRACH'S CANDY

COMPANY.

THE MASS OF

BRACH'S

SUITE

PALACE

AFTER 76 YEARS OF CANDY

MAKING.

IF YOU'RE A FAN OF BATMAN THE

DARK KNIGHT, YOU WILL REMEMBER

HOW THE

OLD BRACH'S FACTORY

WENT OUT WITH A BANG

AS YOU CAN

SEE

IN THIS CLIP.

THE MOVIE MAKERS DRESSED UP THE

OLD

PARKING DECK OF THE BRACH'S

FACTORY

IN THE JOKER BLEW IT UP

WITH A BANG

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