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26. The day James Rector was killed, Reagan went on TV & said the shooting had been done by protesters

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 12:20 PM

Feb 2013

Local TV had an interview with horrified emergency room doctors who had removed double-ought buckshot from Rectors heart. They had the bullets in their hands for the camera to see.

Reagan went on TV and said the shooting had been done by protesters, not the cops.

At the time Rector was shot, I was a block away on Telegraph Avenue, running for my life and dodging bullets. The guy running next to me fell into the street, his back peppered by buckshot.

It's hard to describe the shock we felt as volley after volley of shots rang out from the lines of police. Things immediately changed at that point. There was no place to hide.

I learned that night what a facile, reassuring, pathological liar Reagan was.

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Anyone else old enough to remember when COINTELPRO was murdering citizens by the dozen? [View all] NNN0LHI Feb 2013 OP

List a dozen to refresh my memory jberryhill Feb 2013 #1

Malcolm X, Viola Liuzzo, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Greensboro '79 (5 dead), plus about 50 Native leveymg Feb 2013 #5

Exactly right. cliffordu Feb 2013 #7

Frank Olson, Dorothy Lagarreta, Karen Silkwood Octafish Feb 2013 #33

As I understand it, COINTELPRO was a series of FBI operations starting in the 1950s. The victims leveymg Feb 2013 #34

Thank you for the excellent observation, leveymg. I stand corrected re COINTELPRO. Octafish Feb 2013 #36

CHAOS? Really? hootinholler Feb 2013 #40

Don Adams of the FBI deserves to be seen and heard by billions. Octafish Feb 2013 #41

This is just, just, fuck, I have no words hootinholler Feb 2013 #42

Joseph Adams Milteer Octafish Feb 2013 #45

A couple of prominent people were in Dallas that day or in the days previous.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #49

Poppy Bush told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Octafish Feb 2013 #51

He appears to be carrying something under a white coat or towel. FBI, SS knew about his threat, leveymg Feb 2013 #54

keyword hijacking? MinM Feb 2013 #50

I've never thought that those operations were as compartmentalizes.......... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #44

They rarely shared info with each other unless they absolutely had to do so.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #46

I'm sure that's true on a certain level, but remember....... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #53

John Huggins and Bunchy Carter NNN0LHI Feb 2013 #35

The media may not have put pieces together el_bryanto Feb 2013 #2

The media was actively complicit with the FBI. Fuddnik Feb 2013 #18

The day James Rector was killed, Reagan went on TV & said the shooting had been done by protesters NBachers Feb 2013 #26

Reagan was a very good actor and delivered his lines well.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #47

"Richard Aoki, admits to his role" = ? richard aoki is dead, and was a panther. he 'admitted' HiPointDem Feb 2013 #56

Wasn't the covert policy to kill leftists south of the border, but not U.S. citizens? Coyotl Feb 2013 #3

The Chicago police who killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton helped 'investigate' plot against JFK. Octafish Feb 2013 #4

Except JFK wasn't ever going to Chicago to see the Army Navy game... Historic NY Feb 2013 #9

Army-Air Force. And for some reason, SS cancelled the trip to Soldier Field. Octafish Feb 2013 #13

Yip... ReRe Feb 2013 #6

Cointelpro was made-up of "people" dotymed Feb 2013 #31

Are you talking about the Church Committee? ReRe Feb 2013 #32

Cointelpro was an FBI operation used to discredit dotymed Feb 2013 #37

It's my Seniorness... ReRe Feb 2013 #39

IMO... dotymed Jun 2013 #61

Absolutely... ReRe Jun 2013 #62

church commission was investigation of the intelligence agencies. i think you mean the HiPointDem Jun 2013 #60

I was actually targeted by Post-COINTELPRO operations justiceischeap Feb 2013 #8

Have you been formally denied a security clearance? What makes you think it was the PETA work? leveymg Feb 2013 #10

I haven't tried for any kind of security clearance justiceischeap Feb 2013 #11

Did agents ever come to your workplace and talk to your employer about you? leveymg Feb 2013 #14

seriously? agents were sent to your workplace for something you wrote at DU? If so, that is HiPointDem Feb 2013 #57

I, too, was surprised. But, it is was strangely gratifying and confirms what I already knew. leveymg Feb 2013 #58

interesting, thanks. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #59

They have been doing this for as long as I can remember. RoccoR5955 Feb 2013 #12

The War Resisters League building. Permanently bugged? Definitely. leveymg Feb 2013 #16

Yep same old shit. bemildred Feb 2013 #15

Kind of like this. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #17

Obviously, if they hack CIA Director David Petraeus' email, EVERYONE is being watched . . . leveymg Feb 2013 #23

cispus (sp?) headquarters broken into mopinko Feb 2013 #19

CISPES. No need to break in, really, the org was penetrated at multiple levels. leveymg Feb 2013 #22

yup. mopinko Feb 2013 #24

I have a campaign ribbon from that group, too. ;-) leveymg Feb 2013 #25

uuummmm heaven05 Feb 2013 #20

not sure it matters booley Feb 2013 #21

The longest media show on TV was "60 Minutes" back then. Not the may 24 hour cable now. napi21 Feb 2013 #27

Hell yes, I remember it. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #28

Yeah, I was old enough then to remember some of it ... I remember Joseph McCarthy and RKP5637 Feb 2013 #29

What a lot of people don't know is that they target people in business, also. loudsue Feb 2013 #30

COINTELPRO is still a dirty secret. Dash87 Feb 2013 #38

Well, sure....... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #43

My educated guess is that it still operates under a different name or names. nt. OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #48

Was? n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #52

Kicking. n/t Hotler Feb 2013 #55