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Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Richard White

A In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than...

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The hosts noted that historian Richard White authored a book titled Who Killed Jane Stanford, released about two decades after Cutler's work, presenting new evidence and suspect theories.

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There wasn't anything major about it until about 20 years later, another book from another Stanford professor, a historian named Richard White, came out. And he just came out and said it. Who killed J...

— Episode: The Murder of Jane Stanford

Episode: The Murder of Jane Stanford

The hosts noted that historian Richard White authored a book titled Who Killed Jane Stanford, released about two decades after Cutler's work, presenting new evidence and suspect theories.

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There wasn't anything major about it until about 20 years later, another book from another Stanford professor, a historian named Richard White, came out. And he just came out and said it. Who killed Jane Stanford was the title of his book.

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