Assume Nothing: Black Gold in Mexico

Belfast-born sound mixer Peter Devlin joins forces with producer Conor McKay to trace the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of Edward L Doheny - a penniless prospector who built a vast oil empire. Sent south by a railway company in search of oil, Doheny and business partner Charles Canfield headed into the jungles west of Tampico on horseback and soon discovered vast tracts of untapped land. They quickly built a vast oil empire on a colossal scale, but questions arose about Doheny's dealings with the Mexican government - and a terrible tragedy called Canfield back to Los Angeles