The tag 'Assassination' is associated with 6 posts.

Sirhan Sirhan and the “Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: Any­one famil­iar with the facts of Robert F. Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion knows that the offi­cial ver­sion of Sirhan Sirhan as a “lone nut” assas­sin is unten­able. (Lis­ten­ers are invited to exam­ine AFA #9, detail­ing RFK’s mur­der, as well as FTR #582, sup­ple­ment­ing that analy­sis.)
Inves­ti­ga­tors have long believed that Sirhan was a vic­tim of mind control, [...]

FTR #712 Interview (#2) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 28, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

George H.W. Bush appar­ently deeply involved with JFK assas­si­na­tion; in Dal­las at the time, he’s never sat­is­fac­to­rily accounted for his activ­i­ties; he was very close to Dal­las power polit­i­cal ele­ments that removed Kennedy (many of them appar­ently CIA); Poppy’s attempts at cov­er­ing his tracks sug­gest cul­pa­bil­ity in the murder.

FTR #708 Going Deep with Daniel Hopsicker

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 2, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Venice Air­port a cen­ter of intrigue long before Mohammed Atta and com­pany arrived; arms and drug traf­fick­ing a decades-long sta­ple of the milieu that oper­ated there; ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the JFK hit oper­ated here as well.

Gunman kills Arkansas Democratic Party chairman

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by ANDREW DeMIL­LOAP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A man barged into the Arkansas Demo­c­ra­tic head­quar­ters and opened fire Wednes­day, fatally shoot­ing the state party chair­man before speed­ing off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the sus­pect after a 30-mile chase.
Police said they don’t know the motive of the sus­pect, who they described as about [...]

Key Eyewitness In Benazir Bhutto Assassination Case Killed

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ July 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Memri Blog
Khalid Sha­hen­shah, the key eye­wit­ness in the Benazir Bhutto assas­si­na­tion case and the Chief Secu­rity Offi­cer to her hus­band Asif Zardari, the leader of rul­ing Pak­istan People’s Party, was shot dead at his door.
Accord­ing to a report in the Urdu-language news­pa­per Roz­nama Nawa-i-Waqt, car-borne assailants fired six bul­lets into Khalid Sha­hen­shah in Karachi. In the [...]

Arthur Bremer Is Alone

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 11, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The man who shot George Wal­lace is now out of prison, but ques­tions about his sta­bil­ity remain.
Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-FloresNEWSWEEK
In the frigid hours before dawn last Fri­day, Arthur Bre­mer emerged from the Mary­land Cor­rec­tional Insti­tu­tion in Hager­stown. He looked far dif­fer­ent from the man who entered in 1972 for shoot­ing Alabama Gov. George Wallace, [...]

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