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Mussolini Dagger; Liberia Letter; N.E.A.R. Device

History Detectives

Season 7Episode 8Aired 2009-08-17
Mussolini Dagger; Liberia Letter; N.E.A.R. Device

Mussolini Dagger; Liberia Letter; N.E.A.R. Device

A man from Nevada believes he holds a dagger which was owned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, including a letter which indicates it was retrieved from Mussolini's apartment following his death. Also, a stack of letters from post-Civil War from a freed slave emigrating from the US to Liberia; and a Cold War era, hand size device that has "National Emergency Alarm Repeater, Civilian Warning Device" printed across them.