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	Podcast:		Black Sheep
	Episode:		Erased: the story of Charles Mackay - Part 1
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:40:12
	Publish Date:		2023-05-25 17:00:00
	Description:		For more than 50 years the name "Charles Mackay" was all but forbidden in Whanganui. The former mayor's name was chiselled off public buildings, ripped off street signs and deliberately excluded from official histories. Why? Well because in 1920 Charles Mackay shot a man through the chest after he threated to expose the mayor's homosexuality. RNZ's Black Sheep podcast investigates the downfall of Charles Mackay, and how his story is being reevaluated in modern New Zealand.
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