America’s Most Hated Family in Crisis | Louis Theroux

Duration: 59'09''

Synopsis

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church.

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