Fact #93068
When:
Short story:
After a lengthy trial, indpendent car
manufacturer Preston Tucker and six other Tucker Corporation
executives are found not guilty of charges of fraud. It had
been alleged that Tucker had been misusing company funds, but the trial was widely seen as part of a high-level conspiracy by the major automobile industry companies to destroy the Tucker
Corporation. Although Tucker had won the day in court, his company
was now in ruins. The story is told in the 1999 song The Big Three Killed
My Baby by The White
Stripes.
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