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EPISODE 98: Machine Gun Blues

History on Fire

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The Life and Times of Jose Lucena

Virgoligno Lucena and his three brothers became full-time bandits. They were looking for allies with the gang of a guy named Antonio Porcino. In June of 1921, they got into a giant gunfight between the police and the bandits. One soldier was killed, one bandit was killed, but still nothing to the scale of some of the stuff that will happen later.

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