Margaret marsh: John rock always kept his own conscience. When united fruit decided to cut everyone's wages, and who did rock support his workers? He just defied all the bosses that united fruit. Margaret marsh an wander onor tell the story of when rock was 19 and he got a job with the united fruit company in guatemala. And you wonder, where is a 19 year old whos probably never had a deep thought about racial injustice in his life, where does he get that reservoir?
John Rock was the co-inventor of the birth control pill — and a committed Catholic. He wanted his church to approve of his invention. What happens when a layman takes on the Vatican? Part two of three.
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