The Opperman Report'

Opperman Live - Russian Coup, Internet Research Group, Death Porn & Me ... July 1 Join Ed Opperman out on the road with more news and views of the news behind the news, and background to recent guests on the Opperman Report plus exclusive content you won't hear elsewhere. PRODUCTION NOTE Because this was broadcast out on the road the signal was not as strong as it could have been, and there is an issue with drop outs on the signal. This is not ideal, but the content remains intact. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Opperman Live - Time Flies By July 1 Live and loud Ed Opperman opines his take on the news, the views and the facts which most outlets won't even give you a hint of. Analysis from a man who knows more about what is going on than is perhaps strictly healthy. Recorded 06/23/23 This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Jeffrey L. Rinek - In the Name of the Children June 18 Ed's guest is former FBI agent Jeff Rinek who has written a book called 'In The Name Of The Children' During his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity, to see things no one should ever have to see - and once seen can never forget. There is no more important - or more brutal - job in law enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving these sort of cases. Most famously, Rinek got Cary Stayner to confess to all four of the killings known as the Yosemite Park Murders, an accomplishment made more extraordinary by the fact that the FBI nearly pinned the crimes on the wrong suspects. Rinek's recounting of the confession and what he learned about Stayner provides perhaps the most revelatory look ever inside the psyche of a serial killer and a privileged glimpse into the art of interrogation. Jeff gives valuable insight into the case and consequences for the victims, perpetrators and investigators. Part one of a two part interview. Part two is Next Sunday. Book : In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators From July 2018 buy the book https://amzn.to/3uEqY8x This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Phillip Crawford Jr. - The Mafia and the Gays Oct 3, 2022 Former NY Lawyer and true crime author Phillip J. Crawford joins Ed Opperman to discuss how the Mafia capitalised on the gay scene at a time when it was illegal and frowned upon. The Mafia and the Gays meticulously documents how the mob controlled gay bars for decades in New York and Chicago due to their once illicit status, and relies upon an extensive collection of primary sources including FBI files many of which were not publicly available until acquired by author Phillip Crawford Jr. through substantive amounts of FOIs. Book: The Mafia and the Gays This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Steven hoffenberg fmr CEO of NY post, Tower Financuial, mentor/ Partneer of Jeffrey Epstein claims to be incontact with sources that state Ghislaine Maxwell is alreadt dead. Ed agrees and speculates tht epstein was walked out of MCC and that the $600 milliona 'Estate' is actually created as a slush fund to silence victims and witnesses This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

DECEIVED: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult Jan 2, 2021 “Deceived” is a memoir of Detective Mike King’s 1991 investigation and the ultimate take-down of a deviant polygamous cult called the Zion Society. For over a decade, gossip swirled around northern Utah that a secretive group of religious zealots were buying up homes to take over a developing neighborhood in an Ogden community. The homes were known far and wide for their immaculately landscaped yards. Rumors spread that a well-known landscaper in the city had proclaimed himself to be a prophet of God and was being commanded to start his own secret religion that promoted polygamy. It was also believed these extremists were stockpiling weapons as part of their doomsday beliefs. In reality, the leader was directing some of the most repugnant crimes against women and children ever seen in the state. The hidden atrocities of the cult may never have been discovered if not for the courage of one of its members. Thirty years later, victims reconnected with each other and with the lead investigator to address the shortcomings of the criminal justice system regarding child victims. buy the book https://amzn.to/47pFY8F This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Terry Hobbs and Vicky Edwards - Box Full of Nightmares July 28 In 1993, three eight-year old boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Chris Byers, were murdered; their naked, mutilated bodies found shoved into the mud at the bottom of a ditch. The information developed by investigators pointed to three teenagers as the murderers. The three teens were convicted after two separate trials. One was sentenced to life imprisonment, one was sentenced to life plus forty years, and the third was sentenced to death. The convictions of the three teens became one of the most controversial cases in the State of Arkansas. During the early years of their incarceration, the growth of the Internet connected people all over the world through discussion forums and websites. As a result, the three teens, who became known as the “West Memphis Three,” developed a cult following that included the support of high-profile celebrities, including Johnny Depp, Peter Jackson, and Eddie Vedder and others, who all bought into the myth that the three convicted murderers were innocent.Today, the three convicted murderers are free. They appear to have given up their quest for judicial exoneration. Once they exhausted all other potential “guilty” parties, (some joined their camp and others were obviously not guilty), they focused their attention on Terry Hobbs, step-father of Stevie Branch, in an effort to divert attention from the evidence proving their guilt. Terry Hobbs was never a suspect in the murders and the facts of the case do not support his guilt. Undeterred, the convicted killers and their supporters continue to point fingers at Terry Hobbs. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Christian Cipollini - Dopeman August 14 Christian Cipollini is an award-winning Author, Organized Crime Historian, and Comic Book Creator. He was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, an a childhood fascination with history's lesser-known corners led to his twenty-something years becoming very focused on the subjects of organized crime, politics, pop culture, how it all intertwined. Cipollini penned his first true crime book - Diary of a Motor City Hitman - published in 2013. From there, he began appearing on and consulting for true crime documentary shows, followed by two more non-fiction book releases, several book awards, speaking engagements, a comic book series based on the life and crimes of mobster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, and most recently - editing, co-writing the sinister personal memoirs of modern day drug cartel sicario El Mano Negra. Cipollini frequently contributes to UK based true crime magazine 'Real Crime' and The Mob Museum blog, while his organized crime insight and can be found quoted in media outlets such as Vice, Penthouse, The Huffington Post and AM New York. He joins Ed Opperman to talk about his new film Dopeman, America's First Drugs Cartel. IMDB : Dopeman Amazon : Dopeman This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

BAD HENRY - The Murderous Rampage of ‘The Taco Bell Strangler’ September 13 Ron Chepesiuk joins Ed Opperman to discuss one of the most unusual serial killers of our times; Henry Wallace Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994. Wallace preyed on lower economic class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature—concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women. A rarity in that he was an African American serial killer, his murderous rampage spurred controversy throughout the city. Community members accused local police of ignoring the murders because of the victims' race. Wallace attended the funerals of many of his victims and offered condolences to families. The ensuing investigation became the largest in North Carolina’s history. Wallace was eventually found guilty and convicted of nine counts of murder, but he admitted to more killings while incarcerated; he is potentially responsible for anywhere from 20 to 90 deaths of Black women. Wallace continues to appeal and awaits his execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. BAD HENRY - The Murderous Rampage of ‘The Taco Bell Strangler’ This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

J J Vance - Idaho 4 August 16 In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idahostudents were fatally stabbed in an off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho.[On December 30, 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on four counts of first-degree murderand one count of felony burglary. Kohberger's trial is currently set for October 2023. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. JJ Vance takes a deep dive into this mysterious case where the main question is 'why?' Podcast : Operation GCD This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Back to November 1963 and the fateful events which were to change America and the world. Ed Opperman is joined by Joseph McBride. From Amazon: “AMERICA’S NEED TO WALK INTO THE NIGHTMARE . . .” . . . was how Norman Mailer predicted the tumultuous period that led to President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 murder on a public street and the fifty years of controversy that have followed that turning point in our nation’s history. Journalist and historian Joseph McBride, a volunteer in JFK’s 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary campaign, began studying the assassination minutes after it happened. In 1982, McBride launched his own investigation. Both epic and intimately personal, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit incorporates rare interviews with key people in Dallas, archival discoveries, and what novelist Thomas Flanagan, in The New York Review of Books, called McBride’s “wide knowledge of American social history.” McBride chronicles his evolving skepticism about the official story and shines a fresh, often surprising spotlight on Kennedy’s murder and on one of the murkiest, most crucial aspects of the case, its “Rosetta Stone,” the Tippit killing. Joseph McBride is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written numerous books including biographies of notable film directors, a book on screenwriting, an investigative journalism book on the JFK assassination, and a memoir of the dark years in his life. He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. Book: Into The Nightmare Website: http://www.josephmcbridefilm.com/(domain registered, website under maintenance at time of posting. Twitter: Bio: Wikipedia This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Ted Rubenstein : Johnny Roselli, JFK, Cuba. Trump , BLM , ANTIFA Sep 16, 2020 Ted Rubenstein is an elder statesman in the field od JFK research, Assassinations, Organized crime. He has worked with Mae Brussels, Dave Emory and Larry don Flynt Publications and Opperman Report. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Max Good - JFK Assassination witness Ruth Paine July 5 Without question, one of the most famous events of the 20th century was the JFK assassination. As time has passed, the tendrils of conspiracy have lead to a point where 80% of the American public believe there was a conspiracy to kill the President. However, the blurring of the lines between who fired the shots, who they worked for and why have intersected, often wildly. The reasoning for the hit has been everything from his dealing with the Russians over the Cuban Missile Crisis to his alleged determination to announce the USAF had found conclusive proof of aliens. The facts around Lee Oswald are similarly murky; his motivations, movements and murder are all mired in contradictory theory and conjecture. When Max Good read James Douglas's Unspeakable - the seminal work on the events of 22nd November 1962, the consequences and, perhaps most intriguingly, the events which built up to it. He became interested in the Warren Commission and, in particular, in certain key witnesses testimony. Documentary Patreon Website This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Scott Kaiser - Son of JFK Assassin & Watergate Burglar August 9 Edwin Benjamin Kaiser was a thrill-seeking patriot who became enmeshed with many of America’s biggest conspiracies, the full significance of which is pieced together and explored in this exciting account by his son, Scott Kaiser. Through handwritten letters and contact book entries left by Edwin Kaiser, and a bevy of discovered government documents, an exciting puzzle forms around the life of a man who was at once a patriot, an arms smuggler, a revolutionary leader, an assassin, and a husband and father. In the 1970s Edwin was the military head of an anti-Castro movement called Cubanos Unidos, and during his life he was frequently in contact with Frank Sturgis—during which time Edwin confessed to the author an assassination plot against President Nixon and confirmed Sturgis’ role in the death of JFK. This thrilling mix of paramilitary bravado, government conspiracy, family history, and firsthand anecdote shows how Edwin Kaiser was willing to lay it all on the line to accomplish what he thought was right. This was Scott Kaiser's last interview on this subject; you will not hear this information ANYWHERE else. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Mick once put a funny tweet up on Twitter. Realising it wasn't that amusing the cold light of day, he deleted it and promptly forgot all about it. Then the FBI started contacting him and following him around... Twitter : The Curls Music Instagram : The Curls Cool Band Mix Cloud : The Curls The Minimal Beat with Caitlin Mahoney Chicago Tribune : The Curls have a new album ‘Smothered & Covered’ and a show at Golden Dagger — everything feels ‘more possible’ Youtube : The Curls Spotify : The Curls Bandcamp : The Curls Apple Music : Spiritual Mick Link Tree : The Curls & Spiritual Mick This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

The first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl Ives. Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives, etc., were also political activists with various associations with the American Communist Party. As a consequence, the FBI, along with other governmental and right-wing organizations, were monitoring them, keeping meticulous files running many thousands of pages, and making (and carrying out) plans to purge them from the cultural realm. In The Folk Singers and the Bureau, Aaron J Leonard draws on an unprecedented array of declassified documents and never before released files to shed light on the interplay between left-wing folk artists and their relationship with the American Communist Party, and how it put them in the US government's repressive cross hairs. At a time of increasing state surveillance and repression, The Folk Singers and the Bureau shows how the FBI and other governmental agencies have attempted to shape and repress American culture. read less 9 months ago This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Betty Medsger is the author of the forthcoming book, THE BURGLARY, as well as: Winds of Change, Framed, and Women at Work. She lives in New York. In late 1970, a mild-mannered Haverford College physics professor privately asked a few people this question: “What do you think of burglarizing an FBI office?” In remarkable detail and with astonishing depth of research, Betty Medsger reveals the never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the Media, Pennsylvania, FBI offices. Through their exploits, a group of unlikely activists exposed the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover was operating a shadow Bureau engaged in illegal surveillance and harassment of the American people. read less 8 years ago #betty, #betty medsger, #burglary:, #bv, #cointelpro, #discovery, #ed, #edgar, #fbi, #hoover's, #j., #medsger, #opperman, #report, #secret, #the burglary This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Betty Medsger : The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation. It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War . . . A small group of activists—eight men and women—the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, inspired by Daniel Berrigan’s rebellious Catholic peace movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land. The would-be burglars—nonpro’s—were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creates in resonant detail how this group of unknowing thieves, in their meticulous planning of the burglary, scouted out the low-security FBI building in a small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into consideration every possible factor, and how they planned the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing match between Joe Frazier (war supporter and friend to President Nixon) and Muhammad Ali (convicted for refusing to serve in the military), knowing that all would be fixated on their televisions and radios. Medsger writes that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and, with the utmost deliberation, released them to various journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the public’s perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for the sensational release three months later, by Daniel Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, which became known as the Pentagon Papers. At the heart of the heist—and the book—the contents of the FBI files revealing J. Edgar Hoover’s “secret counterintelligence program” COINTELPRO, set up in 1956 to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the United States in order “to enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles,” to make clear to all Americans that an FBI agent was “behind every mailbox,” a plan that would discredit, destabilize, and demoralize groups, many of them legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups that Hoover found offensive—as well as black power groups, student activists, antidraft protestors, conscientious objectors. The author, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, began to cover this story during the three years she worked for The Washington Post and continued her investigation long after she'd left the paper, figuring out who the burglars were, and convincing them, after decades of silence, to come forward and tell their extraordinary story. The Burglary is an important and riveting book, a portrait of the potential power of non­violent resistance and the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying. read less 5 years ago #betty, #burglary:, #discovery, #ed, #edgar, #fbi, #hoover's, #j., #medsger, #of, #opperman, #report, #secret, #the This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

John Hankey Returns - Breakthrough - The documentary October 27 With three decades of research and examination of facts, John Hankey has finally reached his conclusions concerning the Kennedy Assassination. With the 60th anniversary heading towards us, much of the evidence we have to examine are filmed interviews, documents which may or may not be genuine and some shaky pictures taken at the event and subsequently. Even the Assassination Commission in the 1970s were not in full possession of the events and the people surrounding them This complex web of lies and half truths has taken up the lives of so many researchers, yet remains a subject of conjecture and intrigue. Celebrated historian John Hankey completes his investigation into the JFK murder with undeniable evidence on the what really happened and who was behind the assassination of a President. Youtube Youtube Movie This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

John Hankey - Breakthrough - The Kennedy Assassination October 18 John Hankey has spent the best part of three decades examining the events on 22 November 1963. This is the third movie has put together combining his evidence and fact-based theories as to the events, the contrivance which lead up to it and the assassination itself. He shares his conclusions with you and Ed Opperman Breakthrough! The Kennedy Assassination Solved This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement