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Podcast: Voices of Oklahoma
Episode: Joe Cappy
Description: Joe Cappy had a front-row seat to a strange episode in U.S. car manufacturing history: the 1987 sale of American Motors Corp. to Chrysler-the deal that gave the Jeep brand to Chrysler and made Joe Cappy the last American Motors Corporation CEO.Joe played several roles in this story which goes back to when the French car company Renault partnered with AMC, lending AMC operating capital and eventually acquiring a major interest in the company.After the assassination of Renault’s chairman Georges Besse, Renault sold AMC to Chrysler.Joe’s first job out of c...