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Name
Smith, Susan
SCDC ID
00221487
SID
SC01025612
DOB 09/26/1971
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Windtalkers [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
-Corporal Enders reporting, as ordered, sir.
-At ease.
You've done well as a Marine, Corporal.
Better than you did as a civilian.
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
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By Rachel Pergament
The Trial
After Susan was arrested for the murders of Michael and Alex, she was held without bail at the York County Jail. On the evening that Susan was arrested, Bev and Linda Russell hired David Bruck, a Columbia, South Carolina attorney specializing in death penalty cases, to represent Susan. The Russells would eventually be forced to mortgage their home in order to pay for Bruck's services.
Bruck was 46 when agreed to represent Susan Smith. He had attended Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude. After college, Bruck attended the University of South Carolina Law School and graduated in 1975. Before beginning his law practice, Bruck traveled throughout United States and Canada, eventually returning to South Carolina to represent clients facing the death penalty because he was convinced that these defendants did not receive adequate legal representation. Bruck was also disturbed by the fact that the death penalty population in South Carolina was made up largely of poor black men. Prior to defending Susan Smith, Bruck had represented 50 people charged with capital murder before juries or at the appellate level. Of Bruck's 50 capital clients, he has only lost three to death sentences. He has saved many of his clients from death sentences by winning new trials that have resulted in life sentences and in one case, an acquittal. Other defense attorneys praise Bruck for being shrewd and for being able to "localize his intelligence." One admirer said Bruck can be "chameleon-like, he understands that arguing a case in Columbia, South Carolina is different than arguing a case in Union."
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Windtalkers [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
-Corporal Enders reporting, as ordered, sir.
-At ease.
You've done well as a Marine, Corporal.
Better than you did as a civilian.
Stole a motorbike, crashed it.
Got kicked out of high school.
Assault and battery...
on one Father Crispin O'Donnell.
A priest?
Assistant Principal at Archbishop Keenan
High School, sir, and head disciplinarian.
Public-school boy, myself.
Some minor problems in boot.
A commendation for valor in Shanghai.
And you made a hell of a stand
on the Solomons.
Tough bit of business there.
Pretty tough, sir.
But you're prepared
to jump right back into it?
Yes, sir. Very much so.
''Very much so.''
The Japs have pretty much busted
every code we've thrown at them.
Your men on the Solomons
were lost to a broken code.
Tell me, did you ever run into any Injuns
on the Solomons?
-Indians, sir?
-Navajo, to be exact.
The Corps has developed a new code
based on their language.
It's had quite an impact.
So much so, the Navy have decided
to go to great lengths to protect it.
That's why you're here.
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Dark Blue [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
The verdict might be today.
I bet they get off.
That's my opinion. What about you?
Jesus, you talk about everything else...
from dog racing to foreign policy.
How come you never talk about the King thing?
Bobby, I avoid the subject...
because it pains me to see real criminals free...
while four of my brothers eat political shit...
because the Pogues outlawed the choke hold.
When they got rid of the choke hold...
it left us with a stun gun and a baton.
The choke hold saved lives...
but nobody ever got elected saying that.
They don't give those guys enough cars, radios...
equipment or live bodies to man the watches.
Then they take away the tactics that work...
and indict them for using approved tactics that don't?
Bobby, this is simple.
Either four good cops are going down...
because they followed the department manual...
or they get off and we're back in the Summer of '65.
I don't know about that. You really think so?
If they get off, this city burns.
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7790 = 3895 + 3895
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From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/20/1979 ( premiere US TV series "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"::series premiere episode "Awakening" ) is 5070 days
From 9/1/1975 ( I am the pilot and plane crash survivor along with Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the Deputy United States Marshal - and the other Lockheed Martin L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal that caused the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode under our aircraft ) To 6/27/1994 ( I am the pilot and plane crash survivor along with Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the Deputy United States Marshal - and the other Lockheed Martin L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal that caused the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode under our aircraft ) is 6874 days
6874 = 3437 + 3437
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Scott Speedman
Born: Robert Scott Speedman September 1, 1975 in London, England, UK
Dark Blue 2002
Bobby Keough
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Greaves, R.B
Take a Letter, Maria
Last night as I got home about a half past ten
There was the woman I thought I knew
In the arms of another man
I kept my cool, I ain't no fool
Let me tell you what happened then
I packed some clothes and I walked out
And I ain't going back again
CHORUS:
So take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Say I won't be coming home, gonna start a new life
So take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta start a new life
You've been many things but most of all a good secretary to me
And it's times like this I feel you've always been close to me
Was I wrong to work nights to try to build a good life
All work and no play has just cost me a wife
CHORUS
When a man loves a woman it's hard to understand
That she would find more pleasure in the arms of another man
I never really noticed how sweet you are to me
It just so happens I'm free tonight
Would you like to have dinner with me
CHORUS
So take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta start a new life
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Dark Blue
He was my station house fling.
I was a patrol supervisor, and I was attracted to him.
I thought he was a great man.
It was a brief affair.
Then he told me he wasn't leaving his wife.
That was five years ago.
We walked away like adults.
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The Twilight Zone
Season 1, Episode 5
Walking Distance
Air Date
October 30, 1959
Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he's gone back in time.
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Dark Blue
Detective Keough...
if you had a little time machine...
and you could travel back to the day of the shooting...
to the afternoon that you killed Mr. Robertson...
I'd like to hear what you'd do differently.
I wouldn't do anything differently, sir.
He drew down on me. I did what I was trained to do.
If anything, sir, I should've acted quicker.
The last man Robertson pulled a gun on isn't with us anymore.
Thank you, Detective.
I think we've kept Detective Keough long enough.
Chief Barcomb, I have a few questions.
Fire away, Chief Holland.
I know it's been a long day...
and I know those chairs aren't well-padded...
so I promise to be quick.
You OK?
Three weeks in SIS...
and you've made your first kill.
Would you say you've proven yourself?
Respectfully, sir...
I think the shooting board has to decide that.
Do you think it could've been avoided?
No, sir, I don't.
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Dark Blue
Sergeant Perry, we're not quite through beating up on you.
I have one final question before we adjourn.
Time machine, sir?
Yes, the time machine.
Chief, I'd get real proactive.
If I had a time machine...
I'd go back a decade and take out G-Bone--
his street name-- before he killed a man for $10.
The time machine doesn't go back that far.
It goes back one week...
to the day Detective Keough chose to use deadly force.
What would you change about that day only?
Nothing, sir. It was textbook.
The bullets were in the bad guys, not us.
We expect department personnel to use deadly force--
Only as a last resort, which it was, sir.
Bobby Keough's a good cop with a lot of potential...
and he dropped a menace to society.
It was a good call.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sergeant Perry, Detective Keough.
You gentlemen are dismissed.
We'll issue our findings at 9 A.M. tomorrow morning.
Proceedings are closed.
Call me.
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"Dragnet"
The Human Bomb (1951)
Director: Jack Webb
Writers: Jack Webb (creator)
Original Air Date: 16 December 1951 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Jack Webb ... Sgt. Joe Friday
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United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, with continuing service to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (Registration N1819U) operating the route crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, which led to the loss of all flight controls. 111 people died in the accident
The crew guided the crippled jet to Sioux Gateway Airport and lined it up for landing on one of the runways. However, without flight controls, they were unable to slow down for landing, and were forced to attempt landing at much too high a speed and rate of descent. On touchdown, the aircraft broke apart, caught fire, and rolled over. The largest section came to rest in a cornfield next to the runway.
On final descent, the aircraft was going 240 knots and sinking at 1,850 feet per minute, while a safe landing would require 140 knots and 300 feet per minute. Fitch needed a seat for landing; Dvorak offered up his own, as it could be moved to a position behind the throttles. Dvorak sat in the cockpit's jumpseat for landing. Unfortunately, right before touchdown, the aircraft began a downward phugoid and veered right. The flight crew had no time to react. The tip of the right wing hit the runway first, spilling fuel, which ignited immediately. The tail section broke off from the force of the impact, and the rest of the aircraft bounced several times, shedding the landing gear and engine nacelles and breaking the fuselage into several main pieces. On the final impact the right wing was sheared off and the main part of the aircraft skidded sideways, rolled over on to its back, and slid to a stop upside-down in a corn field to the right of Runway 22. Witnesses reported that the aircraft cartwheeled, but the investigation did not confirm this. News reports that the aircraft cartwheeled were due to misinterpretation of the video of the crash that showed the flaming right wing tumbling end-over-end and the intact left wing, still attached to the fuselage, rolling up and over as the fuselage flipped over.
Of the 296 people on board, 111 died in the crash. Most were killed by injuries sustained in the multiple impacts, but 35 people in the middle fuselage section directly above the fuel tanks died from smoke inhalation in the post-crash fire. Of those, 24 had no traumatic blunt-force injuries. The majority of the 185 survivors were seated behind first class and ahead of the wings. Many passengers were able to walk out through the ruptures to the structure, and in many cases got lost in the high field of corn adjacent to the runway until rescue workers arrived on the scene and escorted them to safety.
