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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

St John Hunt - The Bond of Secrecy October 3 A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his son St. John, he revealed that key figures in the CIA were responsible for the plot to assassinate JFK in Dallas, and that Hunt himself was approached by the plotters, among whom included the CIA's David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Jr., and William Harvey, as well as future Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. An incredible true story told from an inside, authoritative source, this is also a personal account of a uniquely dysfunctional American family caught up in two of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century. From 2017 Book: The Bond of Secrecy 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

Jeffery Caulfield - General Walker and the murder of JFK Jun 30, 2022 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 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

Vincent Palamara - JFK Ultimate Compendium Aug 16, 2022 Ed is joined by one of the worlds’ foremost authorities on the events in Dallas on 23 November 1963. Vincent Palamara has spent almost half a century collecting information, data, witness reports and FOI documents to present a compelling case for conspiracy. In this interview, he outlines his case and his methodology to arrive at his conclusions, and his copious amount of research which he has put into many books on both Kennedy and the Secret Service surrounding him. Books By Guest: Not-So-Secret Service: Agency Tales from FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda: The Ultimate Kennedy Assassination Compendium Website: Vincent Palamara 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

Francis Richard Connelly - Everything is a rich man's trick Oct 4, 2022 Everything is part of a brutal conspiracy; from JFK to 9/11 powerful, evil minds are intent on redesigning the world in their image. Or so Francis Connelly would say. and his comprehensive research does seem to bear out this theory. But where did the 'New World Order' theory emerge? Originally a anti-Government and Fundamentalist Christian construct, it echoed through the 20th century, was mentioned by Woodrow Wilson, Churchill and Eisenhower. Latterly it has grown in parallel with the increased induced paranoia of the population through terror and conflict coverage, together with the increase in surveillance and monitoring technology used my the more shadowy aspects of Government. Encased in a fog of money and power, the events of the last 70 years and the acceleration of technology particularly of the last twenty have given this movement new and fresh momentum and believers. Frances Connelly presents his compelling evidence that this is more than a fanciful notion. 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

Buell Wesley Frazier - Steering Truth January 22 The events of 22 November 1963 are still shrouded in mystery, despite recent releases of Government papers. Was it the CIA? The Mafia? Some nefarious factions of each working in concert? Could Oswald have worked alone or was he just a man who happened to be marked out. Oswald's life is as mysterious and full of trap streets as the main event. Just what went on? Buell Wesley Frazier had previously worked in a department store and had handled curtain rods as part of his duties. When Oswald told him that his package contained curtain rods, Frazier saw nothing unusual about it. The bag found on the sixth floor was 38 inches long, and the disassembled rifle was 34.8 inches long. In this interview Buell talks about the Oswald he worked with, the situation he found himself in and how, even after all these years, be believes there is so much more to come out we don't yet know. Book : Steering Truth: My Eternal Connection to JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald 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

Ricardo A. Morales Sep 18, 2022 Ed is joined by Ricardo Morales, whose story adds yet more credence to the conspiracies and fact-fog surrounding the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963. From JFK Facts: Ricardo Morales, the Miami man who told his son he met accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in a CIA training camp, was considered a credible source by the Agency and FBI. His heavily-redacted 130-page CIA personnel file, is found among the JFK assassination records whose release was postponed by the White House on October 22. Morales also told his son that he met Oswald in a CIA training camp. He didn’t tell his son when or where. There was a training camp near New Orleans where Oswald lived in 1963, that was run by an anti-Castro group called the Movimiento Democratico Cristiano (MDC). Morales is known to have reported on MDC activities in 1964. When Morales’s anti-Castro compatriots bombed a Polish ship and other communist targets in 1968, his fingerprints were found at one of the bombing scenes. The FBI received testimony that the explosives came from the CIA. Morales then became a witness for U.S. prosecutors. He wore a wire for the FBI while meeting with other Cuban suspects in the case. In a 1972 memo, the chief of the Agency’s Western Hemisphere division said the FBI considered Morales “honest and objective” as an informant. Morales’s career as terrorist, drug trafficker, and informant grew ever more complex, as detailed in a mind-bending (and paywalled) Harper’s magazine cover story in January 1982. Morales was shot to death in a MIami bar in December 1982. President Biden gave the CIA and other federal agencies until December 15 to release JFK files with a proviso they can delay sensitive material related to national security, military intelligence and the foreign policy until December 15, 2022. Twitter:Ricardo Morales 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