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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The US Hunts Pancho Villa (1916)
Description: It’s March 13th. This day in 1916, some 6,000 US troops are getting ready to enter Mexico to track down rebel leader Pancho Villa.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why President Wilson sent the troops into Mexico, and what it said about US meddling around the world, and colonial ambitions, in that era.
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