From 1/26/1965 ( premiere US film "How to Murder Your Wife" ) To 7/8/2010 is 16599 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/14/2011 ( Lesa Jewell Withem reported dead ) is 16599 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-united-states-fbi-for-sale.html ]
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-director-mueller-names-timothy-p.-murphy-deputy-director
THE FBI FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
National Press Releases
FBI Director Mueller Names Timothy P. Murphy Deputy Director
Washington, D.C.
July 08, 2010
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
Director Robert S. Mueller, III named Timothy P. Murphy to be the FBI’s deputy director. Mr. Murphy has served as associate deputy director since January 2008, overseeing the FBI’s personnel, budget, administration, and infrastructure. He succeeds John S. Pistole, who left the FBI to serve as administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
Director Mueller noted, “Tim has consistently shown exceptional leadership and met tough challenges head-on. I have every expectation that he will do the same as deputy director, and I look forward to working closely with him in his new position.”
Mr. Murphy entered on duty as a special agent in September 1988. Since joining the FBI, Mr. Murphy has been assigned to the Newark, Tampa, Washington, and Cincinnati Field Offices, in addition to four different positions at FBI Headquarters. While in the field, Mr. Murphy managed a variety of investigative matters, including counterterrorism and organized crime/drugs, and he served as a pilot in the aviation program and within the special operations, technical operations, undercover operations, and surveillance programs. He was an assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, special agent in charge of the Cincinnati Division, and a member of the Director’s Special Agent in Charge Advisory Committee.
At FBI Headquarters, Mr. Murphy served in several positions, including supervisory special agent in the Executive Development and Selection Program, unit chief of the Senior Executive Service Unit and Director’s Research Group, and special assistant to Director Mueller. Mr. Murphy provided counsel to the Director on a variety of policy, budget, and administrative matters.
Mr. Murphy then became the assistant director of the Finance Division at FBI Headquarters. In this role, he formulated and executed the FBI’s then $6.2 billion budget.
Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Murphy was a police officer in Michigan. He graduated from Ferris State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058212/releaseinfo
IMDb
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Release Dates
USA 26 January 1965
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/gcms/news/2011/04/17/lesa-withem-306979.php
Texarkana Gazette
LESA WITHEM
ASHDOWN, Ark.—Lesa Jewell Withem of Ashdown died Thursday, April 14, 2011
1956 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" DVD video:
00:07:41
Becky Driscoll: [ about Sam Janzek: ] Say, didn't he go to college with us?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Quit his second year to get married, like I wanted us to do.
Becky Driscoll: Just be thankful I didn't take you seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(California_politician)
Kevin McCarthy (California politician)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is the House majority leader of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. representative for California's 23rd District.
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
2006
McCarthy entered the Republican primary for the 22nd—the real contest in this heavily Republican district—after his former boss, Thomas, announced his retirement. He won the general election with 70.7% of the vote.
2015
On September 25, 2015, House speaker John Boehner, while announcing his resignation from the speakership and Congress, stated McCarthy was his preferred successor to the speakership. Boehner also noted he himself would be unable to cast a vote for the next speaker, as his resignation would be effective prior to the vote. On Monday, September 28, McCarthy formally announced his candidacy for Speaker of the House.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m001165
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
MCCARTHY, Kevin, (1965 - )
MCCARTHY, Kevin, a Representative from California; born in Bakersfield, Kern County, Calif., January 26, 1965; attended Bakersfield College, Bakersfield. Calif., 1984-1985; B.S., California State University, Bakersfield, Calif., 1989; M.B.A., California State University, Bakersfield, Calif., 1994; staff, United States Representative William Thomas of California, 1987-2002; member of the California state assembly, 2002-2007; minority leader, California state assembly, 2004-2006; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Tenth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2007-present); majority whip (One Hundred Twelfth and One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses); majority leader (One Hundred Thirteenth and One Hundred Fourteenth Congresses).
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/28/local/me-redistricting28/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Gov. Relents on Sped-Up Remapping
Schwarzenegger drops a demand that political districts be redrawn by next year. Some now call special election unlikely, but ballot effort goes on.
April 28, 2005 Robert Salladay and Jordan Rau Times Staff Writers
On Wednesday, the governor singled out the 23rd Congressional District, dubbing it -- displayed on a huge video screen -- the "ribbon of shame" district because it stretches 200 miles up the coast from Oxnard to Monterey County, and "in some areas the district is only a few hundred yards wide."
He said lawmakers were picking their voters, not the other way around.
The governors' aides insisted Wednesday that he was not softening his position. Spokeswoman Margita Thompson said: "It's nothing different than we said before. The governor has said all along that he wants to work with the Legislature. This isn't anything different.
"He wants it as soon as possible and whatever time it takes to be feasible," she said.
The Assembly Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, who is sponsoring legislation to redraw districts for the next election, said a delay would make it more difficult for Schwarzenegger to negotiate with the Legislature, because incumbents would remain insulated from public pressure.
"If you agree that redistricting is dysfunctional, why would you wait?" McCarthy asked. "If your arm is broken, you don't wait for the next doctor's appointment to see him. You go now."
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956
Springfield! Springfield!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Mad as a March hare.
What have we here?
He ran his truck
through a red light.
Greyhound bus
smacked him broadside...
and tipped him over.
Put him in the O.R.
Will you take over Bennell
for me?
Certainly.
How badly is he hurt?
Both legs, left arm,
broken all to bits.
We had to dig him out...
from under the most
peculiar things I ever saw.
What things?
I don't know what they are.
I never saw them before.
They looked like, uh,
great big seedpods.
Seedpods?
Where was the truck
coming from?
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IMDb
Release dates for
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Country Date
USA 5 February 1956
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IMDb
Full cast and crew for
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Kevin McCarthy ... Dr. Miles J. Bennell
From 2/5/1956 ( premiere US film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ) To 6/9/1996 ( Bill Clinton - Remarks at the Presidio in San Francisco, California ) is 14735 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/7/2006 is 14735 days
From 12/21/1960 ( premiere US film "The Horse with the Flying Tail" ) To 3/7/2006 is 16512 days
16512 = 8256 + 8256
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/10/1988 ( premiere US film "The Presidio" ) is 8256 days
From 6/27/1994 ( United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the pilot and plane crash survivor along with me Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the United States Marshal and the active duty commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps - and the other Lockheed 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 by causing the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode and fatally disable our aircraft ) To 3/7/2006 is 4271 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/13/1977 ( the New York City blackout begins ) is 4271 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 3/7/2006 is 4095 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/18/1977 ( the first successful flight test of the United States Navy Trident submarine launched atomic warhead capable ballistic missile ) is 4095 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 3/7/2006 is 5528 days
5528 = 2764 + 2764
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/28/1973 ( premiere US TV series "Praise the Lord" ) is 2764 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 3/7/2006 is 5528 days
5528 = 2764 + 2764
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/28/1973 ( premiere US TV series "Praise the Lord" ) is 2764 days
From 5/12/1910 ( William Huggins deceased ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 29470 days
29470 = 14735 + 14735
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/7/2006 is 14735 days
From 5/12/1910 ( William Huggins deceased ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 29470 days
29470 = 14735 + 14735
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/7/2006 is 14735 days
From 6/13/1955 ( the Mir mine discovered in Soviet Union Siberia ) To 3/7/2006 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
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From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) To 3/7/2006 is 3904 days
3904 = 1952 + 1952
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19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days
From 2/6/2004 ( my final day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the deputy director of the United States Marshals Service and the United States Marine Corps brigadier general circa 2004 ) To 3/7/2006 is 760 days
760 = 380 + 380
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/17/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Menagerie - Part 1" ) is 380 days
From 10/4/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Steel" ) To 2/6/2004 ( my final day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the deputy director of the United States Marshals Service and the United States Marine Corps brigadier general circa 2004 ) is 14735 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/7/2006 is 14735 days
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/128/26039012128/26039012128.pdf
FEC FORM 2
STATEMENT OF CANDIDACY
1.(a) Name of Candidate (in full)
Mr. Kevin McCarthy
Signature of Candidate
Date 03/07/2006
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=52929
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks at the Presidio in San Francisco, California
June 9, 1996
Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Chandler, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Mayor, it's wonderful to be back in San Francisco. Congresswoman Pelosi, Senator Boxer, Senator Feinstein, thank you all for your work on this magnificent project.
You know, I always love coming here, but I especially love coming right here because that's my jogging route right there. [Laughter] Whenever I come to San Francisco I always go down there and run to the Golden Gate Bridge and back, so—and I didn't know exactly where we were going to do this on the Presidio today. I got driven around a little bit, so I got to see some other things that are being done here. When I finally realized that we were going to do this here, I didn't know whether I could actually sit still long enough for the program to unfold, instead of just racing away down there—or, as the case may be, kind of stumbling away down there—toward the bridge.
I want to talk to you today about three little simple ideas that this magnificent place embodies, ideas that are easy to say but have a great deal to do with what kind of country we are and what kind of country we're going to be. When I think of the Presidio, I think of, first and foremost, preserving our incredible natural heritage and our important history. Second, I think about the obligation that the rest of the country has for defense conversion. And thirdly, I think about partnership, the kind of partnership that Jim Harvey's life embodied and that all the things that Mr. Chandler just mentioned represent.
And I want you to think about all that today because in my opinion if this country is going to be what we all want it to be as we move into the next century, we have to keep going until every place that lost a lot because of the end of the cold war—which was a happy and wonderful event—has been fully restored to economic prosperity through a real commitment of all the American people to defense conversion. Because we cannot, over the long run, sustain an American economy in this new world unless we have a theory of sustainable development that puts the environment first, not last, and recognizes that we can grow the economy and still preserve our natural heritage. And because we cannot do a lot of what we need to do publicly and still continue to bring the deficit down unless we have partners: business partners, citizen partners, like the young people in the conservation corps, and others who are committed to making the most of our national potential.
It was a brilliant thing that the late Congressman Burton did to provide for the fact that this would become a national park if ever the military should leave. But all over California you see now what can happen if there's a real commitment not to leave the people who fought the cold war for us behind; in Monterey, where Fort Ord is now the California State University at Monterey Bay; in Alameda, where machinists who once built Bradley fighting vehicles are now building electric cars for the 21st century; in Sacramento, where Packard Bell has now hired 3,600 people to assemble personal computers in a former Army depot. And now, of course, this newest of our national parks is showing the rest of our national parks the way to the future.
I have to tell you that—the previous speaker sort of alluded to this, and with greater specificity when Senator Feinstein mentioned the California Desert Protection Act and how we got it and then we very nearly lost it last year. But all of our national parks are at risk. Too many of them have fallen into disrepair. We're working hard to protect them. There were some people who wanted to sell off a lot of them or privatize them or just let them continue to fall into disrepair. We have resisted that, and I think it's clear now that there is an overwhelming bipartisan consensus in the United States that our national parks are a part of our national treasure; that we have to nourish them, we have to maintain them, we have to improve them. And the last thing in the wide world we need to do is to get rid of any of them. We need to make them better, instead.
But I will say again, in order to do this right, we're going to have to have a lot of support from citizens. The businesses now in this park are thriving, already helping to offset taxpayer costs. Here at Crissy Field, where de Havilland biplanes once touched down, this land will soon become the great common ground for all Americans: historic buildings, wide open areas for kids to play in, restored natural habitat. All the design and planning here have been undertaken through private, nonprofit campaigns. And as we have learned today from their smiling faces and strong voices, much of the work has been done by volunteers who are just as dedicated to this country's future as those who drilled with the 6th Army outside these hangars a generation ago.
The Presidio bill now in the Congress that Congresswoman Pelosi worked so hard for and that Senator Boxer talked about and she and Senator Feinstein are working hard for has virtually no opposition. It calls for a public-private trust to oversee the Presidio's economic future, to preserve the park for future generations, to create a national park that will sustain itself without Government funds. So let me say again, I urge Congress to send me this bill in a clean and straightforward way. We simply cannot continue to have lawmaking paralyzed by the attempts to add to every single good bill that comes along in the Congress some objectionable provision. We need the Presidio bill. We need it now; we need it clean; we need it unhampered.
Let me just say one other thing. I was thinking about my jogging and looking at Senator Cranston, and I remember in my earlier years, back when I had a private life when I was Governor, sometimes Senator Cranston and I would jog in Washington together. I was thinking about all the years that he devoted to public service here in California. When you look at something like the Presidio, when you see at least the natural beauty of it, forgetting about the buildings, you may think that it has been this way forever and that it would always be this way. But that is far from true. The trees above us, the eucalyptus, the Monterey cypress, believe it or not, were only planted 100 years ago. The Americans who planted them knew that they would never see them full grown. They would never walk under their shade, but they planted them anyway.
We are now being asked to deal with a different sort of planning. Our country is going through a lot of changes. We have proved that we can come to grips with the challenges of the modern economy. The American people have produced almost 10 million jobs in the last 3 1/2 years. And after a long dry spell, a lot of them are being produced here in California. But we cannot forget that what ought to animate us is a vision of what we want this place to be like 20 or 30 or 50 years from now.
I know what I want it to be. I want the Presidio to exist in a country and a State where everybody who is willing to work for it can live up to their dreams; where people have good jobs, yes, but also children have safe streets and good schools; where everybody has access to a clean environment and natural beauty; where our country is still a force for peace and freedom and decency in the world; and where instead of being divided by all these incredible differences that make up the American people, we are united by them and our respect for our diversity and our shared values. It all begins, in a fundamental way, with preserving what God has given us, and there has been no richer gift than the Presidio. I'll do my part, and I want you to keep doing yours.
Thank you, and God bless you all. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 6:25 p.m. at Crissy Field.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095897/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Presidio (1988)
Release Info
USA 10 June 1988
http://www.wired.com/2012/06/june-13-1955-innumerable-carats-of-ice-amid-actual-siberian-ice/
WIRED
MATT SIMON 06.13.12 6:30 AM
JUNE 13, 1955: INNUMERABLE CARATS OF ICE AMID ACTUAL SIBERIAN ICE
1955: Soviet geologists in eastern Siberia discover a massive deposit of diamond in what will become the Mir mine, the second largest excavated pit in the world.
The honor went to Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina, and Viktor Avdeenko, who, while on an expedition, noticed that the ground under their feet contained kimberlite, a volcanic rock that proliferates in diamond-rich South Africa. And their hunch was correct. They were standing on very profitable ground.
Problem was, they were in Siberia, where it’s really, really cold. So cold, in fact, that the ground is frozen for seven months of the year. This would have been an unscalable obstacle for anyone but the Soviets.
The Mir (Russian for “peace”) mine went operational in 1957. Workers warmed up the permafrost with jet engines, and when that didn’t work (it’s very cold in Siberia), they dynamited it. By the 1960s they were extracting 10 million carats of diamond a year.
Sweet success brought sweet-talking representatives from De Beers, the massive multinational mining firm. You see, they were concerned about the Russians’ success. Might we tour your facility? they asked, apparently not realizing how cold it is in Siberia. Sure, the Russians said, so long as we can tour your facilities in South Africa.
What transpired in the summer of 1976 is a shining specimen of unbridled Soviet cunning. When De Beers executive Sir Philip Oppenheimer and his chief geologist arrived in Moscow, they were treated to grand banquets and meeting after meeting with Russian geologists. By the time they actually got to the Mir mine, their visas had nearly expired. They were allowed 20 minutes on site, then dragged back to Moscow.
For the next three decades workers dug deeper and deeper into the permafrost, enduring temperatures so low that tires and steel would shatter. By the time the mine closed in 2001, it had grown to 3,900 feet wide and 1,722 feet deep. Today, it remains an astonishingly gaping wound in the Siberian landscape.
Just don’t hover a helicopter over it. Yours wouldn’t be the first to get caught up in the pit’s downdraft and tumble into the depths.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/1971/film.html
PBS KSPS
1971
About the Film
In the past several decades, whistleblowers have helped shape the nation’s history, from Deep Throat exposing President Nixon’s Watergate scandal to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance. But long before the dawning of the digital age, one group of citizens risked everything when they uncovered illegal government spying programs.
The FBI, established in 1908, was for 60 years held unaccountable and untouchable until March 8, 1971, when The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, as they called themselves, broke into a small FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, took every file, and shared them with the American public. After the break-in, the group sent the files to journalists at the Washington Post, which published them and shed light on the FBI’s widespread abuse of power. These actions exposed COINTELPRO, the FBI's illegal surveillance program that involved the intimidation of law-abiding Americans, and helped lead to the country's first congressional investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies.
The activist-burglars then disappeared into anonymity for forty years. Until now. Never caught, these previously anonymous Americans — parents, teachers and citizens — publicly reveal themselves for the first time and share their story in the documentary 1971. Using a mix of dramatic re-enactments and candid interviews with all involved, the film vividly brings to life one of the more important, yet relatively unexplored, chapters in modern American history.
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/06/22205443-after-43-years-activists-admit-theft-at-fbi-office-that-exposed-domestic-spying
NBC NEWS
After 43 years, activists admit theft at FBI office that exposed domestic spying
Monday Jan 6, 2014 8:54 PM
In the bombshell book, "The Burglary," journalist Betty Medzger exposes the robbers behind the momentous theft from an FBI office outside Philadelphia over 40 years ago. The perpetrators have come forward in an interview with NBC News.
BY MICHAEL ISIKOFF, NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT, NBC NEWS
Forty-three years after the mysterious theft of up to 1,000 documents from an FBI office outside Philadelphia, three former political activists are publicly confessing to the brazen burglary, calling it an act of “resistance” that exposed “massive illegal surveillance and intimidation.”
“We did it … because somebody had to do it,” John Raines, 80, a retired professor of religion at Temple University, said in an interview with NBC News. “In this case, by breaking a law — entering, removing files — we exposed a crime that was going on. … When we are denied the information we need to have to act as citizens, then we have a right to do what we did.”
Raines, his wife, Bonnie, and Keith Forsyth, a former Philadelphia cab driver, said they were part of an eight-member ring of anti-Vietnam War protesters that — while much of the country was gripped by the so-called “Fight of the Century” in New York between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier — broke into the FBI’s Media, Penn., office on March 8, 1971.
Members of the burglary team, armed with little more than a crowbar and wearing suits and ties, then walked off undetected with suitcases stuffed with sensitive bureau files that revealed a domestic FBI spying operation known as COINTELPRO. The heist enraged the bureau’s legendary Director J. Edgar Hoover, who launched a massive but ultimately futile manhunt.
The identities of the burglars are revealed in a book being published Tuesday, "The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI," by Betty Medsger, a former Washington Post reporter.
The book, as well as a new film, "1971," by documentarian Johanna Hamilton, portray the break-in as a story with new resonance in light of the recent revelations of National Security Agency surveillance of American citizens by ex-contractor Edward Snowden.
Much like Snowden, the FBI burglars selectively leaked the stolen files to journalists. They produced months of headlines about FBI surveillance of anti-war and civil rights groups — including the first references to COINTELPRO, a secret program started years earlier by Hoover and aimed at smearing the reputations of perceived enemies such as Dr. Martin Luther King.
Among the stolen files: plans to enhance “paranoia” among “New Left” groups by instilling fears that “there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox.” Another instructed agents in the Philadelphia area to monitor the “clientele” of “Afro-American type bookstores” and recruit informants among the “the Negro militant movement.”
“These documents were explosive,” said Medsger, who was the first reporter to write about them after receiving a batch of the files anonymously in the mail. Her book traces how the stolen files led to a landmark Senate investigation of intelligence and law enforcement agency abuses by the late Idaho Sen. Frank Church, and eventually to new Justice Department guidelines that barred the bureau from conducting investigations based on First Amendment protected political activity.
After the burglary, said Medsger, “The FBI was never the same.”
Advance word that the book and film might portray the burglars in a positive light has angered some former FBI agents, including Pat Kelly, who worked in the burgled office at the time. Along with a fellow agent, Kelly was the first to discover the break-in – a scene he still vividly remembers.
“Pat, someone got in our pants,” he recalls his colleague saying as they entered the office. “We found the office in total disarray. Files were all over the place. Paperwork discarded. All the drawers of the desks were ransacked. … I was in a state of shock.”
Kelly said he remains “incensed” by the crime and frustrated that, despite a wide-ranging investigation that at one point involved 200 agents, failed to find the thieves. As far as he’s concerned, the burglars “are criminals, not patriots.”
“I don’t believe such people have the right to take it upon themselves and make decisions’ about what should be made public,” said Kelly, who served as an FBI agent for 32 years until his retirement in 2001. “These are the same type of people that would look upon Snowden as perhaps a patriot when … in my opinion, he was a traitor.”
In response to a request for comment from NBC News, FBI spokesman Michael Kortan emailed this statement: “A number of events during that era, including the burglary, contributed to changes in how the FBI identified and addressed domestic security threats, leading to reform of the FBI’s intelligence policies and practices.”
With the five-year statute of limitations on burglary long since expired and the case officially closed, Raines, his wife and Forsyth said they have few fears about revealing their identities now. To the contrary, they spoke with pride about their roles during several interviews.
“We should have a plaque right up there,” said Raines, standing outside what is now a real estate office across from the Delaware County courthouse, and pointing to the second floor where the FBI office was located. “This is where it happened.”
The burglars were committed political activists during a turbulent era: John Raines was a civil rights “Freedom Rider” who marched in Selma, Ala., and got arrested in Little Rock sitting with African Americans at a segregated lunch counter. Later in the 1960s, they turned their protest efforts to stopping the Vietnam War.
“I was horrified that our government was lying to us about what was actually happening in Vietnam,” said Bonnie Raines, who later worked as a child care advocate. “And all the usual things we always did — picketing, marching, signing petitions — didn’t make any difference whatsoever.”
Their frustrations led them to acts of civil disobedience, including breaking into Philadelphia area Selective Service offices and destroying draft cards. In pulling off those raids, they got assistance from a fellow protester, Forsyth, who said he developed a skill at picking the locks on the draft board office by taking a correspondence course.
In the fall of 1970, an informal leader of their protest group , the late Bill Davidon, then a physics professor at Haverford College, proposed a more risky operation: breaking into a local FBI office in order to get proof of FBI surveillance of the peace movement.
Davidon’s daughter, Sarah, confirmed her father’s role, telling NBC News he first told her about it more than 25 years ago. “He didn’t call it a burglary. He always referred to it as ‘the Media action,’” she said. “He didn’t do this as an anarchist to break the law. He did this because he felt strongly about civil liberties.”
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030910-N-0000X-002 Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Jan. 18, 1977 -- Air Force file photo of the first launch of a Trident missile on Jan. 18, 1977 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Navy museum has just received an example of a Trident I C-4 missile, which will be part of a submarine exhibit in the future cold war annex of the museum. The C-4 was based on an extended-range version of the older Poseidon missile, and led to the current and more advanced Trident II D-5 missile. First deployed in 1979, the Trident I was used on 12 Lafayette-class and the first eight Ohio-class submarines. DOD File Photo provided by the Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. (RELEASED)
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http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=9437
Trident I Missile Delivered to Navy Museum For Future Exhibit
Story Number: NNS030909-10
Release Date: 9/9/2003 11:46:00 PM
By Marie Dumontet, Naval Historical Center Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy Museum has just received an example of a Trident I, C-4, missile, which will be part of a submarine exhibit in the future Cold War annex of the museum.
030910-N-0000X-002 Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Jan. 18, 1977 -- Air Force file photo of the first launch of a Trident missile on Jan. 18, 1977 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Navy museum has just received an example of a Trident I C-4 missile, which will be part of a submarine exhibit in the future cold war annex of the museum. The C-4 was based on an extended-range version of the older Poseidon missile, and led to the current and more advanced Trident II D-5 missile. First deployed in 1979, the Trident I was used on 12 Lafayette-class and the first eight Ohio-class submarines. DOD File Photo provided by the Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. (RELEASED)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/09/arts/ringling-goes-upscale-under-little-top-after-42-years-tent-again-but-just-one.html
The New York Times
Ringling Goes Upscale Under the Little Top; After 42 Years, a Tent Again, but Just One Ring
By GLENN COLLINS
Published: February 9, 1999
SARASOTA, Fla.— Clowns wept. The ringmaster actually sobbed. A thousand roustabouts, aerialists and equestrians began looking for work. When ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' played under canvas for the final time on July 16, 1956, it was a front-page story in newspapers across the land, including this one.
But here in the city that was its winter home from 1927 to 1959, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has raised its tent for the first time in 42 years.
In a parking lot at the Sarasota Fairgrounds right off Ringling Drive, flameproof polyvinyl has superseded canvas. Traditional circus fare like popcorn and cotton candy will be supplemented by designer sandwiches and cappuccino. And the new show will be performed in but one 38-foot-wide circus ring.
This is not intended to replace the three-ring extravaganza that shed its tents and began performing in air-conditioned arenas after the circus regrouped in 1957. The year before, the tented show was a victim of television, red ink, labor difficulties and bad weather.
And instead of being the greatest show on earth, the new show will qualify as one of the coziest: an intimate, upscale circus in a million-dollar custom-made Italian tent, tentatively titled ''Barnum's Kaleidoscape: The Magical One-Ring Experience From Ringling Brothers.''
http://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Huggins
Encyclopædia Britannica
Sir William Huggins
English astronomer
Sir William Huggins, (born Feb. 7, 1824, Stoke Newington, London, Eng.—died May 12, 1910, London), English astronomer who revolutionized observational astronomy by applying spectroscopic methods to the determination of the chemical constituents of stars and other celestial objects.
Huggins built a private observatory at Tulse Hill, London, in 1856. From 1859 he was one of a number of astronomers who began to apply Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff’s discoveries in spectrum analysis to astronomy. Huggins’s first spectroscopic observations, published in 1863, showed that stars are composed of the same elements that occur on the Sun and Earth. In 1864 the spectra he obtained of various nebulae established that they are composed mainly of incandescent gas (rather than aggregations of stars), thus settling a long debate over their composition. Soon afterward he obtained the spectra of several comets and was able to identify the presence of hydrocarbons in them. Huggins’ most important innovation in the use of spectroscopy came in 1868, when he became the first to measure the radial velocity of a star by the Doppler shift of its spectral lines. This particular technical innovation would later assume profound importance in studies of the structure and evolution of the universe.
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Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell: [to Julius] Now why don't you ask him how he won the Medal of Honor?
Sgt. Major Ross Maclure: How old are you, Julius?
Julius: Eight.
Sgt. Major Ross Maclure: You want to live to be nine?
Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell: Obviously he didn't win it for charm.
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The Presidio (1988)
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Jay Austin: You know what I'd like?
[smiles]
Jay Austin: I'd like you to resist arrest. Just a little. God, I'd really like that.
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The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960)
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USA 21 December 1960
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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Dr. Hill: Where was the truck coming from?
Ambulance Driver: Santa Mira.
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The Presidio (1988)
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Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell: You see these little oak leaves?
[points to the silver oak leaves on his lapels]
Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell: They're silver. That means I'm a lieutenant-colonel. If they were gold, THEN I'd be a major! Understand?
Bully in Bar: Yes sir!
Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell: Now, next time you see an officer of the Army, you'll know how to recognize his rank!
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