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Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Judge: Mr. Kane, you are one of the worst lawyers I've ever known.
Norman Kane: Well, then I move for a mistrial.
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
History
The Origins of EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was born on December 2, 1970.
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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.
"Space: Above and Beyond"
"Who Monitors the Birds?"
Sunday 7 January 1996
Episode 12 Season 1 DVD video:
00:07:56
US Marine Corps Major Jack Colquitt: I know that a judge sentenced you to the Marines. That is your ticket out. You go on this mission, the old man will sign it. Lieutenant Hawkes, you're the best natural shooter there is aboard Saratoga. Now, normally, a mission of this intensity would require long-term training. But Intelligence indicates it needs to be executed in the next seventy two hours and my regular partner just bought it on Cloth Hill. The Fleet Imagery Interpretation Unit has detected the presence of a high-ranking enemy officer on the planet Tigrus. We believe that this is the same individual who commanded the attack on the Vesta colony. The mission is fairly straightforward. Insert on planet, make our way to a designated location via a system of interlocking waterways. We find this individual, and we terminate the target. It's an extremely high-risk assignment, Lieutenant, one I believe is worth taking. And that's the reason I'm empowered to offer you this special reward if we're successful. Understand this, mister. Whether you decide to accept this assignment or not this mission does not exist. It will never have existed. If you go, the rest of the Marines of the 58th squadron will have no prior knowledge of your departure nor will they have any information at all about the nature of your disappearance.
From 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush murders 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because as a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess was assigned to maintain custody of a United States military prisoner ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 2363 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 4/22/1972 ( premiere United Kingdom TV series "New Scotland Yard"::series premiere episode "Point of Impact" ) is 2363 days
From 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith traps her two children in her car and murders them by drowning them in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 439 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 1/15/1967 ( premiere United Kingdom TV series "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"::series premiere episode "Lot 249" ) is 439 days
From 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith traps her two children in her car and murders them by drowning them in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" )(Sunday) is 439 days
439 = 1 + 219 + 219
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 6/9/1966 ( premiere United Kingdom film "Khartoum" ) is 219 days
From 1/23/1938 ( premiere US film "Kathleen" ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 21168 days
21168 = 10584 + 10584
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith traps her two children in her car and murders them by drowning them in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) is 10584 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps Warrant Officer 1 Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 1474 days
1474 = 737 + 737
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 11/9/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Ironside"::"Light at the End of the Journey" ) is 737 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps Warrant Officer 1 Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 1474 days
1474 = 737 + 737
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 11/9/1967 ( premiere United Kingdom film "Five Million Years to Earth" ) is 737 days
From 11/8/1985 ( United States President Ronald Reagan and United States Public Law 99-145 - the United States Prisoner of War Medal ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 3712 days
3712 = 1856 + 1856
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 12/2/1970 ( the United States Environmental Protection Agency formed ) is 1856 days
From 8/3/1941 ( Martha Stewart ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina the Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Burgess is seriously wounded by gunfire when returning fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was sent again by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to murder the Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Burgess ) is 9940 days
From 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins as the premeditated criminal event staged by George Herbert Walker Bush for the explicit purpose of murdering United States Marine Corps Warrant Officer 1 Kerry Wayne Burgess and as many other United States of America soldiers sailors marines as possible ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 826 days
826 = 413 + 413
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 12/20/1966 ( premiere US film "The Sand Pebbles" ) is 413 days
From 5/19/1925 ( premiere US film "William Tell" ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 25800 days
25800 = 12900 + 12900
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate US ) 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 12900 days
From 7/23/1973 ( date hijacked from me:Thomas Reagan passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 8203 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis - US Navy Lieutenant Tom Reagan and US Navy FC2 Kerry Burgess are both at the same time onboard the United States Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 when it evaded a Harpoon anti-ship missile from hostile Iran-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush-Axis of Evil-Soviet Union-Communist forces but 2 United States Marine Corps aviators launched from USS Wainwright CG 28 killed this day ) is 8203 days
From 2/18/1991 ( the Bill Gates-Microsoft-Nazi-George Bush attack against the US Navy warship USS Princeton CG 59 as another attempt to murder Tom Reagan the US Navy SEAL and Kerry Burgess the active duty reservist and US Navy Fire Controlman First Class Petty Officer SW who were both serving the US Navy presence in the Persian Gulf again at the same time ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 1784 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 9/21/1970 ( premiere US TV series "The Young Lawyers" ) is 1784 days
From 9/17/1974 ( date hijacked from me:the United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active service in the United States Navy fleet and I am the first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 7782 days
7782 = 3891 + 3891
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate UK ) To 10/28/1969 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Young Lawyers" ) is 3891 days
From 7/27/1972 ( date hijacked from me:the first flight McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter jet and as Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer I was the primary United States Navy test pilot for the first flight and for the United States Air Force F-15 Eagle fighter jet test program ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 8564 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate US ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere US film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 8564 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate US ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 13459 days
'1-34-59' ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK )
From 7/2/1976 ( date hijacked from me:I intercepted the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and set to work at diverting it as Tom Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in my privately financed nuclear-pulse propulsion spaceship ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 7128 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 5/9/1985 ( while I was averting the Soviet Union Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire maritime bomber force targeting for destruction my US Navy aircraft carrier I was the United States Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot that was attacked by hostile Soviet Union air forces and my United States Navy RIO flight officer crewman is killed by enemy fire from Soviet Union forces and as instigated by Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush the known accomplice of communist China and Soviet Union and the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States of America federal government ) is 7128 days
From 10/29/1964 ( premiere US film "The Time Travelers" ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 11392 days
11392 = 5696 + 5696
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 6/7/1981 ( my 3rd United States Navy Medal of Honor hijacked from me and the Iraq-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush Baghdad Osirak terrorist nuclear weapons construction site destroyed by Israeli Air Force with my personal assistance as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Tom Reagan the F-16 Falcon pilot flying combat to destroy the Iraq-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush Baghdad Osirak terrorist nuclear weapons construction site ) is 5696 days
From 7/11/1966 ( premiere US TV series "The Newlywed Game" ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 10772 days
10772 = 5386 + 5386
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 8/1/1980 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 5386 days
From 7/11/1966 ( premiere US TV series "The Newlywed Game" ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 10772 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 5/1/1995 ( as United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan I personally prevented a United States Navy fleet ballistic missile submarine from launching a salvo of nuclear warheads to destroy Seattle Washington and Redmond Washington and the surrounding region after that nuclear weapons launch authorization was ordered personally by Bill Clinton because Bill Clinton had been personally offended by insults sent directly to Bill Clinton and because Bill Clinton is an irredeemable coward ) is 10772 days
From 8/6/1945 ( Hiroshima Japan destroyed by atomic bomb code-named Little Boy to end World War 2 violent hostilities against the United States of America ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 18416 days
18416 = 9208 + 9208
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 1/18/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Flight of the Intruder" ) is 9208 days
From 3/28/1949 ( Fred Hoyles during BBC "Third Programme" invents the term "Big Bang" ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 17086 days
17086 = 8543 + 8543
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate US ) To 7/23/1982 ( premiere US film "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" ) is 8543 days
From 8/19/1946 ( Bill Clinton the cowardly subversive agent of Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi violently against the United States of America federal government ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 18038 days
18038 = 9019 + 9019
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 7/13/1990 ( premiere US film "Ghost" ) is 9019 days
From 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) To 8/31/1997 ( the death of Diana Spencer the Princess of Wales under suspicious circumstances ) is 602 days
602 = 301 + 301
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate UK ) To 12/30/1959 ( the United States Navy warship USS George Washington SSBN 598 commissioned into United States Navy strategic force fleet active service - the first US Navy nuclear propulsion fleet ballistic missile submarine - date of record 24 January 1985 serving as General of the Armies of the United States and United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan I am the final commanding officer of USS George Washington SSN 598 ) is 301 days
From 8/4/1961 ( Barack Hussein Obama the Islamic punk for Al Qaeda and the cowardly violent criminal has never been a legal citizen of the United States of America and Barack Hussein Obama actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government and United States of America public law requires the immediate confinement and deportation of Barack Hussein Obama back to his birth country in Africa ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 12574 days
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate UK ) To 8/6/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "The Fugitive" ) is 12574 days
From 12/17/1946 ( Eugene Levy ) To 1/7/1996 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Who Monitors the Birds?" ) is 17918 days
17918 = 8959 + 8959
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:the birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA of the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess & my birthdate as legally bound ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer the honorable discharge from United States Navy active service of Kerry Wayne Burgess and circa 2011 the current grade of United States Marine Corps major general ) is 8959 days
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Space: Above and Beyond (TV series 1995–1996)
Who Monitors the Birds? (#1.12)
Rodney Rowland ... Lt. Cooper Hawkes
Dale Dye ... Major Jack Colquitt
Release Date: 7 January 1996 (USA)
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Space: Above and Beyond
Season 1, Episode 13
Who Monitors the Birds?
Air Date
Sunday January 7, 1996
Hawkes is left stranded and practically defenseless on an alien world when he accepts an assassination mission which is supposed to buy him an immediate Honorable Discharge from the Marines.
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The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Country Date
USA 20 December 1966
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The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Steve McQueen ... Jake Holman
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Release Date: 20 December 1966 (USA)
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The Newlywed Game
Season 1, Episode 1
Monday July 11, 1966
Air Date
July 11, 1966
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"Lost"
Pilot: Part 2 (2004)
[first lines]
Charlie: [as Jack fiddles with the transceiver] Anything?
Jack: You keep asking if there's anything.
Charlie: Pardon me for appearing desperate, but before the pilot was *ripped* from the cockpit, he did say that no one's going to find us unless we get that transceiver working. So... is there anything?
Jack: No.
Charlie: Okay.
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probable cause
(law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest
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Matt Parkman
Matthew "Matt" Parkman, Sr., is a fictional character of the NBC science fiction serial drama Heroes, played by Greg Grunberg. Matt is a police officer, who works for the LAPD and NYPD in Seasons One and Two respectively. He is a telepath; his ability allows him to read minds
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Kathleen (1938)
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Kathleen (1938)
Sally O'Neil ... Kathleen O'Moore
Tom Burke ... Michael Rooney
Kathleen O'Moore returns to her home in rural Ireland and becomes torn between the affections of Michael Rooney, a poor but honest man, and the wealthy squire with the power to make her dreams come true.
Release Date: 23 January 1938 (USA)
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By Rachel Pergament
The Letter
It was a mild October night in Union. Susan had been driving around for the last hour, trying to calm herself. She drove along Highway 49 and followed the signs to John D. Long Lake. Before driving to the lake on this evening, she had never before been there. Susan preferred to take her sons to the pond at Foster Park, which was closer to her home. At Foster Park, Susan and her sons would feed breadcrumbs to the ducks.
Once she arrived at the shore of John D. Long Lake, Susan drove across a portion of the seventy-five-foot boat ramp and parked in the middle of the ramp. The ramp was unpaved and consisted of gravel and stones. Susan sat quietly behind the wheel of her 1990 burgundy Mazda Protégé, listening to the sounds of her two young sons sleeping. Michael, her oldest son had celebrated his third birthday two weeks earlier and Alex was fourteen months old. Susan was twenty-three, with long, sandy blond hair that she tied in a ponytail. She wore wire-rimmed glasses and was in the best physical shape she had been in since before becoming pregnant with Michael.
Susan shifted the Mazda into neutral and felt the car slowly begin to roll down the remaining length of the boat ramp. The car only traveled a few yards before Susan stepped on the brake. With a shift tug, Susan pulled the emergency hand brake, stopping the car from further rolling forward. She opened her door and stepped out of the car. Susan stood outside of her car, on the boat ramp, on the banks of John D. Long Lake and thought about suicide. Susan looked around and saw only black. The lake was not illuminated and she stood alone thinking about her life. The darkness and loneliness of the deserted lake mirrored how Susan felt.
Susan wanted relief from her loneliness and the problems in her life. Susan and her husband, David, were in the middle of a divorce and her boyfriend, Tom Findlay, had just rejected her the week before. She wanted to commit suicide, but she did not want her sons to suffer. Susan believed if she killed her sons first and then committed suicide, that her sons would suffer less, rather than if she committed suicide and left them on their own. Yet, something was stopping her from surrendering to her depression and loneliness. She did not want to commit suicide, what she wanted was relief from all the stresses and burdens that overwhelmed her. She felt that her life was filled with loss and rejection, and that the responsibilities of being a single mother were overwhelming.
Susan's next decision will never be forgotten. Attempts to explain it will always fall short and continue to leave the question "why?" open to further speculation.
Susan Smith released the emergency brake and softly closed the driver's side door. Michael and Alex were asleep in the back seat, strapped into their car seats. As the car drifted into John D. Long Lake, the headlights were on. The car entered the water slowly and did not submerge immediately. Instead, it remained on the surface, bobbing peacefully, while slowly filling with water.
Susan watched the car submerge into the lake. She turned away from the sinking car and began to run toward a small house. The story that Susan would tell would capture the nation's sympathy. Susan's story would also raise doubts in some and cause a community to question some of its own citizens, based solely on the race of those citizens.
After the truth was revealed, many would try to imagine the thoughts running through Susan Smith's head the night of October 25, 1994, when she took the lives of her children.
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Point of Impact (#1.1)
John Carlisle ... Det. Insp. Ward
Release Date: 22 April 1972 (UK)
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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.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (TV series 1967)
Lot 249 (#1.1)
Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle (novel)
Release Date: 15 January 1967 (UK)
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"Space: Above and Beyond"
Who Monitors the Birds? (1996)
Cooper Hawkes: Monitor? Who monitors the birds?
Monitor #2: I monitor the birds.
Cooper Hawkes: Who monitors you?
