Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The plan was for the new raids to take effect quietly on the industry.
But instead, in late February 1872, a railroad freight agent, not knowing the new raids were to be kept secret for the present, posted them early.
The next morning, the people of the Pennsylvania oil regions work up to read that freight raids had doubled overnight.
The region exploded.
3,000 people stormed the Titusville Opera House waving banners that read, Down with the Conspirators.
The producers organized overnight and refused to sell a single barrel of crude to any member of the scheme.
A local paper began printing the conspirators' names every day on its front page in a black box, like a death notice.
Mobs defaced Standard's blue barrels with skulls and crossbones.
Men tore up railroad tracks and raided tank cars and spilled the oil into the dirt.
And it was here, in these furious weeks, that the wider world first learned the name John D. Rockefeller.
The boycott was no joke.
It starved his refineries of crude oil, and he had to temporarily lay off 90% of his workers.
Along Oil Creek, mothers took to scolding their children with his name like a boogeyman.
Run, children, or Rockefeller will get you.
Back in Cleveland, he had to start posting policemen outside of his office and his home.
He even began keeping a revolver by his bed.
But he said nothing publicly.
Not one word in his own defense.
He believed that his silence would look like confidence, but instead, many assumed the silence meant guilt.
It was a mistake he would repeat again and again for the next 40 years.
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