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CROWN V COLONY — Remember, Remember: How Guy Fawkes Tried to Blow Up Parliament and Became a Legend Anyway

The finale of CROWN V COLONY, and on the eve of Independence Day, Garret Fisher ends the week with a bang — literally. In 1605, a band of English Catholics packed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder into a cellar beneath the House of Lords, planning to blow King James I and the entire British government to splinters at the State Opening of Parliament. The man left to light the fuse was a Yorkshire soldier named Guy Fawkes — not the ringleader (that was Robert Catesby), but the explosives man, and the one caught red-handed in the cellar at midnight. This episode traces the desperation behind the plot — what it meant to be a Catholic under brutal persecution in Jacobean England — and why their answer was nonetheless an act of mass terror that would have killed hundreds. The anonymous Monteagle letter that gave it away, Fawkes's torture in the Tower, the conspirators' last stand, and the gruesome traitor's death he partly cheated. And how a man who failed at everything, killed no one, and blew up nothing became the most famous symbol of rebellion on earth — the perfect note to send you into the Fourth.

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