Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. and the Ark of the Covenant Incident of 1936 (Episode 14)

This week, we're looking at the amazing life of Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. and his discovery of the Ark of the Covenant! This one's got it all - guerilla archaeology, Nazis, and a prize of biblical proportions. We'll talk about the history of the Ark, its disappearance from the historical record, and its re-emergence and re-discovery in the 1930s. Nearly everyone directly involved with the project died in a mysterious explosion which took place at the opening of the Ark in 1936; we'll discuss what little is known of that, and take a look at the amazing life of Dr. Jones. Additional sidebars include the federal gag order on the Ark project participants, the current whereabouts of the Ark itself, and a little background on the great 1981 documentary on the subject.

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Sources for this episode include:

Freedom of Information Act Request 34-6897B (filed in 2008, released in 2015)

"Document 9906753" by Top Men.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark", PBS documentary by S. Spielberg, 1981