In September 1965, Hurricane Betsy slammed into Louisiana and changed New Orleans forever. What followed wasn’t just flooding — it was controversy, conspiracy, and a government response that exposed deep cracks in America’s disaster system.

In this episode of American Scandal Report, host Oz Dalton investigates the untold story of Hurricane Betsy: the levee failures that drowned the Lower Ninth Ward, the explosions residents swear they heard, and the historic mistrust rooted in decades of racial and political neglect. Long before Katrina, the warning signs were already there.

Was Betsy a natural disaster — or a man-made catastrophe shaped by flawed engineering, environmental destruction, and unequal protection? And why did survivors receive debt instead of relief?

This is the hurricane that rehearsed a national tragedy — and the lessons America failed to learn.

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