Legend has painted him as a cunning, murderous pirate, with treasures buried on both sides of the Atlantic. He stands alongside Blackbeard as one of history’s most notorious sea bandits, but does he deserve the title? New evidence suggests that Kidd’s trial and execution may have been a sham. Was he a scapegoat offered up by English nobles to appease a powerful global corporation? Hear the evidence and decide for yourself whether this once respected sea captain was indeed a pirate or the victim of a government plot.
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