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American Experience | The Rockefellers Chapter One | PBS

Duration: 09:37
Program: John D. Rockefeller: American Experience
Broadcast Date: Oct. 17, 2000

John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil.

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