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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
UP
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
IN
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
OF
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
IN
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
IN
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
TO
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
LL
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
,
IT
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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