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Close To Shore: A Look At The True Story Behind “Jaws”
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Da-dum, da-dum, da-dum…it’s Shark Week on the Janice Dean podcast!
Janice is joined by author and journalist, Michael Capuzzo for a conversation on his best-selling book, Close To Shore: A True Story of Terror in An Age of Innocence.
Michael reveals details about that fateful July in 1916 on the New Jersey shore that would later become the inspiration for several books, movies and most notably the classic Steven Spielberg thriller, “Jaws.”
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