656: "Captain William Kidd"

Interesting Things with JC #656: "Captain William Kidd" - Captain William Kidd, once a Scottish sailor commissioned to hunt pirates, turned to piracy himself and met his end at the gallows in London on this day in 1701. A cautionary tale of greed and corruption on the high seas.


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