The Largest Biological Attack in US History | Fascinating Horror

This short documentary tells the story of a bizarre bioterror attack on a small city in Oregon by fringe members of a local cult...

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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:59 - Background
► 05:20 - The Bioterror Attack
► 07:32 - The Investigation

*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

*SOURCES:* 📑
► "Lest We Forget: A Critical Analysis of Bioterrorist Incidents, National Exercises, and U.S. Prevention, Response and Recovery Strategies" by Colenol Tasha Pravecek, published by the US Air Force, April 2011. Available via: https://media.defense.gov/2019/Apr/11/2002115514/-1/-1/0/50LESTWEFORGET.PDF
► "The 1984 Rajneeshee Bioterrorism Attack: An Example of Biological Warfare by Violent Non-state Actors" by Matthew Turner, Kimberly Marinconz and Griffin Shimp, published by Cureus, July 2022. Available via: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12369568/
► "Rajneeshpuram Was More than a Utopia in the Desert. It Was a Mirror of the Time" by Hugh Urban, published by Humanities, 2018. Link: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/spring/feature/rajneeshpuram-was-more-utopia-desert-it-was-mirror
► "Revisiting Rajneeshpuram 40 Years Later: The Untold Story" published by the Oregon Historical Society, March 2025. Link: https://www.ohs.org/events/revisiting-rajneeshpuram.cfm
► "Rajneeshpuram" by Russell King, published by Chicago Review Press, 2022. More information: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Rajneeshpuram/YoZ-zgEACAAJ?hl=en
► "Bioterrorism in History - 1984: Rajneesh Cult Attacks Local Salad Bar" published by WBUR, 2002. Available via: https://web.archive.org/web/20090105132017/http://www.wbur.org/special/specialcoverage/feature_bio.asp
► "Forensic Files: Bio-Attack" produced by William Flood, distributed by TruTV, November 2002. More information: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3259116/

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