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H.L. Hunt is profiled as the "OG Cowboy" and once the richest man in America, who used his petroleum fortune to fund radical right-wing causes. Through his "Lifeline" radio program, Hunt attacked social progress like Medicare and the United Nations, equating liberalism with communism. Despite his immense wealth and influence, Hunt lived a modest personal life, famously carrying his lunch in a brown paper bag.
H.L. Hunt collaborated with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to use the "Lifeline" media network to smear Martin Luther King Jr. as a communist agent. Hunt also attempted to derail John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign by funding the distribution of anti-Catholic sermons to 200,000 Protestant ministers. This segment highlights Hunt's role as a behind-the-scenes architect of political and racial division in the 1960s.
