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To borrow a concept from Community, one of my favorite TV shows, it often feels as though we’re currently on the “darkest timeline.” So I thought I’d start my Bernath Lecture with something lighthearted … like a murder. In April 1921, a woman in Washington, D.C. shot and killed her husband. Then, as now, it was much less common for a wife to murder her husband than the reverse. What makes this case particularly noteworthy to me was the fact that the wife, early twenty-something Lydia Gertrude Kanode Molavi, was American, and her twenty-six year-old husband, Abdul Hussein Molavi, was Iranian.
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