The Hillsborough disaster of 1989 was a catastrophic crowd crush at an English football stadium that killed 97 Liverpool fans, initially blamed on drunken hooliganism but later revealed to be a result of police failure and a systemic cover-up. The episode unpacks how truth was suppressed
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