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Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Killed

235w103 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:59:45 -0800

Bill Gwatney, Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, has been killed by an unknown gunman, who himself later died in a shootout with police. Arkansas House Majority Leader Steve Harrison is updating his blog with information as it comes in.

In an Instant.

scody — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:41:10 -0800

In an Instant. "Would a doctor come right here?" David Steiner, 65, reflects on how the night of June 5, 1968, changed his own life forever. (LA Times reg. req.)

Death From Above

homunculus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:23:11 -0800

The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem: "Software like 'Bugsplat' is supposed to keep decapitation attacks precise. So why do we keep blowing up Iraqi wedding parties?" Globalization Bush-style: Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Your Help Needed Reviewing JFK Related Documents

cashman — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:07:00 -0800

"Exclusive: Help us examine the lost JFK files." The Dallas Morning News has put a chunk of documents found in a vault in Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins' office online in PDF form for the public to review for notable information. "Given the volume, we haven't been able to review most of the files. That's why we are calling on you. Here's your chance to review never-seen-before materials related to the JFK assassination." Though I was able to load one of the documents at first, it will likely require registration after a few attempts. [via]. There's also a forum at the dallasnews.com site, with little activity currently (4 topics) besides some bug reports. Indeed the pdfs load sometimes and not others, often crash when you try to rotate images, and sometimes the links just don't work. But when they load it is exciting to participate in examining these items. What can you find, MeFites?

New evidence challenges official picture of Kennedy shooting

Postroad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:50:42 -0800

NOT the JFK shooting but Robert Kenedy's One link,yes,but information worth thinking about. If this is true, then what does it tell us about other information the govt processes? [...]The official record states that senator Robert F Kennedy, like his brother before him, was killed by a crazed lone gunman. But the assassination of a man who seemed to embody so much hope for a bitterly divided country embroiled in an unpopular war still troubles this nation. Little about the official explanation of the events at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5 1968 makes sense. Now a new forensic analysis of the only audio recording of the fatal shots has given new weight to a controversial theory that there were in fact two shooters, and that the man convicted of Kennedy's killing — Sirhan Sirhan - did not fire the fatal shots....

Mad Man with a Diary: Would-Be Assassin Arthur Bremer Released from Prison

jonp72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:52:15 -0800

Arthur Bremer was released from prison today, after serving a 35 years of a 53-year sentence for the attempted assassination of George Wallace. After Harper's Magazine published Arthur Bremer's diary in 1973, the manuscript inspired both the character of Travis Bickle in the film Taxi Driver and the Peter Gabriel song "Family Snapshot". After Bremer shot Wallace, Nixon obsessed about the shooting on his audio tapes and pestered FBI agent Mark Felt for information, which Felt a.k.a. "Deep Throat" leaked to cub reporter, Bob Woodward. Woodward's relationship with Felt would later crack the Watergate scandal wide open, but Nixon's plan to portray Bremer as a George McGovern supporter remains less well-known.

The man in the center of the motorcade has learned to tie his shoes.

nasreddin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:43:59 -0800

On his deathbed, the former CIA spymaster E. Howard Hunt made a startling confession. Or so says his son, Saint...Maybe the Zapruder film can tell us if there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll. Or was that a hoax too?

JFK Re-Reloaded

KevinSkomsvold — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:27:03 -0800

Anyone remember the short-lived FPS game JFK:Reloaded? It caused quite a stir when it was released a little over two years ago. Since then, the game's development company discontinued the game and JFK:Reloaded is now considered abandonware. The full version can be downloaded here and a site dedicated to the game is located here.

The Pied Marksman of Surrey

jonson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:27:12 -0800

The Memorial Gardens in Surrey has a pigeon problem, and has hired a marksman to come to town & conduct a three year program of pigeon sniping to resolve the issue. The people of Surrey respond, via some of the funniest letters to the newspaper I've ever read (letters published at the bottom of the article).

Sirhan Sirhan or the Tin Foil Hat?

orthogonality — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:30:54 -0800

"I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard."

Film-maker Shane O'Sullivan has spent the last three years investigating the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968. He has uncovered new evidence that at least three CIA agents were in the hotel the night he died. Tonight we [BBC's Newsnight programme] show the findings and ask could CIA agents have had something to do with the murder of RFK?