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In reply to the discussion: What the Hell Just Happened on MSNBC and CNN? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)1. One time that happened, the two reporters died soon thereafter--one murdered, the other shot by cop.
They toured Jack Ruby's apartment after that guy murdered Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jim Koethe worked as a reporter for the Dallas Times Herald. He was involved in the investigation of the killing of President John F. Kennedy. On 24th November, 1963, Koethe and Bill Hunter of the Long Beach Press Telegram interviewed George Senator. Also there was the attorney Tom Howard. Earlier that day Senator and Howard had both visited Jack Ruby in jail. That evening Senator arranged for Koethe, Hunter and Howard to search Ruby's apartment.
It is not known what the journalists found but on 23rd April 1964, Bill Hunter was shot dead by Creighton Wiggins, a policeman in the pressroom of a Long Beach police station. Wiggins initially claimed that his gun fired when he dropped it and tried to pick it up. In court this was discovered that this was impossible and it was decided that Hunter had been murdered. Wiggins finally admitted he was playing a game of quick draw with his fellow officer. The other officer, Errol F. Greenleaf, testified he had his back turned when the shooting took place. In January 1965, both were convicted and sentenced to three years probation.
Jim Koethe decided to write a book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. However, he died on 21st September, 1964. It seems that a man broke into his Dallas apartment and killed him by a karate chop to the throat. Tom Howard died of a heart-attack, aged 48, in March, 1965.
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKkoethe.htm
It is not known what the journalists found but on 23rd April 1964, Bill Hunter was shot dead by Creighton Wiggins, a policeman in the pressroom of a Long Beach police station. Wiggins initially claimed that his gun fired when he dropped it and tried to pick it up. In court this was discovered that this was impossible and it was decided that Hunter had been murdered. Wiggins finally admitted he was playing a game of quick draw with his fellow officer. The other officer, Errol F. Greenleaf, testified he had his back turned when the shooting took place. In January 1965, both were convicted and sentenced to three years probation.
Jim Koethe decided to write a book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. However, he died on 21st September, 1964. It seems that a man broke into his Dallas apartment and killed him by a karate chop to the throat. Tom Howard died of a heart-attack, aged 48, in March, 1965.
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKkoethe.htm
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One time that happened, the two reporters died soon thereafter--one murdered, the other shot by cop.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#1
Ruined! Same for the other guy, who was Jack Ruby's lawyer for a couple of days.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#33
Kerry Sanders (MSNBC) and Stepanie Elam (CNN) were just awful and creepy! They...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#4
I understand that the landlord was paid $1000 from a tv program (was it
No Vested Interest
Dec 2015
#28
I don't see how they could let go of the space so quickly if it had been filled with bomb material
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2015
#13
thanks, but still odd for the SB case, which is a high profile terrorism case
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2015
#64
My comment was directed at this point made by the OP: "Tainting the criminal scene... "
Buzz Clik
Dec 2015
#21
Hard to say, really. Were they in arrears in rent? Could it be said that they "abandoned the
MADem
Dec 2015
#55
Keep smacking your head and tipping your hat. That kid won't get a dime by the time
MADem
Dec 2015
#72
Prove your assertions or walk. You're the one who needs to deal with a few facts, here,
MADem
Dec 2015
#77
No. Law enforcement had walked away from the residence and returned control to the landlord.
Buzz Clik
Dec 2015
#10
Were you? Good grief, you're certainly insistent that someone -- with cameras everywhere--would
MADem
Dec 2015
#73