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Douglas Clark – Dead Man Talking Podcast
While there are serial killers who are well known and infamous, somewhat down the food chain although no less horrifying is Douglas Clark. Or is he? Dawn and Dave Cook have researched the case after deciding to make a documentary about serial killers, spoke to Clark – known as The Sunset Strip Killer. It is alleged Clark and a misfit called Carol Bundy went on a spree of gruesome murders between June and August 1980.
What started as a curiosity as to the common determining factor or experience which creates a serial killer turned into an investigation into the Clark/Bundy murders and the holes in the prosecution which cast doubt on the sentencing that ultimately placed Douglas Clark on death row.
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Douglas Clark Interview, Meet Doug Clark, One-Half Of The Murderous Duo Known As The Sunset Strip Killers, Was Carol Bundy A Victim Or The Mastermind Behind The 'Sunset Strip Killers'?
WikipediaDouglas Clark Carol Bundy
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Jonathan M. Katz - Smedley Butler
Smedley Butler was a decorated and notable soldier, rising to the rank of Major General thanks to his fighting in battles in the Philippines, The Mexican Revolution and World War 1.
In 1933 he appeared in front of a congressional committee to inform them of a planned coup, organised by some of the wealthiest industrialists in America, to overthrow the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. He was appearing after being asked to lead a demonstration of veterans in Washington who would then launch an attack on the civil structures of State. This was similar to events and schemes happening or being planned throughout Europe at the time, though bore few connections apart from the Fascist influences.
Jonathan M. Katz talks about his book – Gangsters of Capitalism, detailing how America went from where it was at the turn of the 20thCentury, to where it is over a hundred years later, from the foundations built by people like Smedley Butler – called The Maverick Marine - in the first half of the century.
His book has been referenced as essential for anyone who wants to know how the modern world came to be.
WebsiteJonathan M. Katz
TwitterJonathan Katz
BookGangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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Jeffery Caulfield - General Walker and the murder of JFK
Ed is joined by Jeffrey Caulfield, whose exhaustive research in the motivations and build up to the JFK assassination and the aftermath have yielded yet another credible theory.
In the events building up to November 1963, a plan was being hatched in Miami. Caulfield uses personal recollections of witnesses and FOI documents to ferment a devious scheme which ultimately resulted in the murder of the President of the United States.
Jeffrey Caulfield is a emergency department doctor and writer with many credits to his name, and a formidable tenacity for seeking out evidence and facts.
WebsiteJeffrey Caulfield
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Park Police discovered Foster dead from an apparently self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia on July 20, 1993. Foster was holding a gun in his hand. An autopsy and subsequent investigation later confirmed that Foster had died by shooting himself once in the mouth with the .38 calibre Colt revolver found at the scene.Or did he? Foster had been known to be unhappy with his job at the White House. Exactly why remains a subject of controversy. Accusations and criticisms were rife in his work.But the case didn't sit right. Foster wasn't logged out of the Whitehouse. The gun was found some distance from the body - a rare occurrence in gun shot suicides. And Forster's injuries were indicative of the pistol being held in the right hand, but Foster was left handed.Despite the reluctance of authorities to reopen the case, many researchers have postulated a number of different scenarios which ended in Foster's demise.Hugh Turley is one of those who has looked into the case. he shares his knowledge of the case with Ed Opperman.
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Derf BackDerf - The Kent State Killings
The Anti-war movement in the 1970s was one of the biggest or perceived as the biggest threat to the American society in generations.
Derf talks to Ed about his work and his current project, which is the killings of students during a anti-war protest in 1970, known as The Kent State Shootings.
The event and the cover up was one of the most obvious and blatant in your face operations, even for the US Government under Nixon.
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) resulted in the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. This incident marked the first time a student was killed in an anti-war gathering in United States history.
Derf Backderf, is an American cartoonist. He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially My Friend Dahmer, the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip The City, which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990 to 2014. In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning. Backderf has been based in Cleveland, Ohio, for much of his career.
His award winning book, Kent State is out now.
It was won EISNER AWARD, Best Non-fiction Book; ALEX AWARD, for YA literature, The American Library Association ; ACBD CRITICS AWARD, France ;RINGO AWARD, Best Non-fiction Book
Website : Derfcity
Book : Kent State
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It's a small world again in the Land of Opperman. Ed Describes his connection to Russon Merc and Coup leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Ed Opperman talks of the Jerry Falwell jnr and R. Kelly cases
Ed Opperman talks about the R.Kelly case, and his involvement in the events which have lead to his recent incarceration.
Going back to just after the turn of the century, Ed was shocked by the 2002 release of a ‘sex tape’. It lead to an investigation. But this wasn’t the first involvement with the R. Kelly case. He’d be ahead of the crowd since 2001, and done similar work in the mid 1990s which lead to the recommendation to gather evidence in the Kelly controversy.
The story includes the alarming implication that apartment buildings inhabited by the rich and famous, are almost fortresses to protect those people from the law, should those people be up to nefarious activities. The building R.Kelly lived in, the building which was raided on the grounds that a resident may have been holding people (children) there against their will, was Trump Tower.
Ed also speaks of Jerry Falwell Jnr.
Jerry Falwell Jnr endorsed Donald Trump when he ran for President. It was a bizarre choice but later rumour surfaced about Falwell jnr’s dubious investment in a hostel which was set up in a very peculiar way. For an Evangelical Preacher it was a ‘strange’ choice. Then came the pool guy...
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Douglas Valentine - CIA - Pheonix Program
Douglas Valentine joins Ed Opperman to discuss the CIA and in particular the Pheonix Program. The Phoenix Program for the unacquainted was a CIA generated operation that sponsored mass arrests, terrorism, torture, murder and lies during the war in Vietnam. Many of the players went on to walk the halls of the Pentagon, Congress, the Department of Homeland Security, and major National Security Corporations.
As no other writer, Doug Valentine has been to the heart of darkness in American foreign policy and come back with stories of historic moment. His brilliant, courageous work is revelation, prophecy, wisdom. It will stand as a singular mark of our saving capacity to learn.
Books: The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
Website : Douglas Valentine
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Mary Knight – Am I Crazy?
Ed is joined by Mary Knight who talks about her 2017 film, ‘Am I Crazy?’, the harrowing story behind it and the updates with new information to the project.
When Mary Knight confided in someone close about her experiences of being abused as a child, she was met with a less than supportive response; this disbelief in her story affected her badly, but she started to consider whether her own recollections were true.
Slowly, and painfully she went through the process of recovering her memories, but it also forged a desire to help other survivors who faced the same reaction. Were her memories accurate or was she suffering from ‘False Memory Syndrome’?
‘Am I Crazy’ is a documentary of a true life journey and features interviews with Dr. Loftus, Dr. van der Kolk, Former Miss America Van Derbur about childhood trauma.
Also keep an eye out for her book, Becoming Mrs. Brown: Essays by a Child Sex Trafficking Survivor.
Website: Mary Knight Productions
Facebook: Mary Knight
Vimeo: Mary Knight
YouTube: Mary Knight
Facebook: Mary Knight Productions
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Patrick Knowlton - The scandal of Brett Kavanaugh
When Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by the Trump administration in 2018, there were the much needed checks and balances; the results were a slew of accusations at Kavanaugh of impropriety at various stages of his life, resulting in the televised interviews which he fought his case on the premise 'I like beer'.
But the accusations which made headlines were only the tip of a rather unpleasant iceberg.
Patrick Knowlton looked into Kavanaugh's history, gathered stories from friends and colleagues (those who would cooperate) and former peers during his college days.
It was accepted that Kavanaugh's appointment alone tilted the balance of the Supreme Court to the right, but what people found hard to justify was the sheer volume and potential seriousness of the rumours surrounding the proposed Supreme Court Judge.
From 2018.
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