Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Death of a Marriage Ban

1967 was a big year for marriage in America. The Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia overturned bans on interracial marriage in 16 states. The movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner starred Sidney Poitier as a Black doctor engaged to a white woman. And in the middle of it all, Peggy Rusk and Guy Smith, a very private couple who made the cover of Time Magazine for their wedding. Mo talks to Peggy Rusk about their remarkable love story (involving presidents and horses) and to Professor Sheryll Cashin about the surprising history of interracial relationships. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Sitcom Deaths and Disappearances | Reviving a Mobit

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  Literary Frontierswoman: Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  LaWanda Page: Death of a Comedy Queen

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  Revisiting the Orphan Train: An American Odyssey

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  Death of a Sports Team: Satchel Paige and Los Dragones

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  Death of the Very Special Episode

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  Mobits Extra: How Norman Lear Changed Television

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  The Habsburg Jaw: Death of a Dynasty

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  Death of a Nepo Baby

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  JFK Impersonator Vaughn Meader: Death of a Career

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  Charlie McCarthy: Death of a Dummy

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  Things I Wish Would Die

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  Death of an Accent

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  Jim Thorpe: Death of an All-American

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  Peggy Lee: Death of Cool

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  Died on the Same Day (with special guest Anderson Cooper)