About this episode
When people started saying that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of two women and 11 children near a coal mine in Colorado, he decided to do something unusual. He hired “the father of public relations.” Scott Martelle's book is Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West . Amy Westervelt's podcast is called Drilled . Say hello on Twitter , Facebook and Instagram . Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice . Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow . Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal , ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here . Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast . We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery . Artwork by Julienne Alexander . Check out our online shop . Episode transcripts are posted on our website . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices