Chuckie was Jimmy Hoffa’s foster son…he and I were going to be part of the bait to lure Jimmy into a car with Sally Bugs…. Jimmy was supposed to feel safe with me in Chuckie’s car so he’d go to the “house with the brown shingles” and walk right in the door with me as his back up…. Chuckie was just an innocent bystander…all he knew was that he was taking us to pick up Jimmy... and then driving us all back to an important meeting with important people….(Brandt, 2005, p. 252) Chuckie arrived to the house and the Sally and Frank climbed into the car. Chuckie was driving Tony Jack’s son’s maroon Mercury, that familiar car would put both Jimmy and Chuckie at ease. Frank sat in the passenger seat and Sally Bugs behind the driver so he could keep …show more content…
Who in their right mind would transport such a high-profile package a block longer than necessary, much less across the country?” (Brandt, 2005, p. 251)
The mystery of who murdered Jimmy Hoffa has been solved. Frank Sheeran gave a clear confession in his interviews with Charles Brandt. Frank Sheeran was also able to give vivid details about what happened that fatal day in 1975. Not to mention the blood traces found in the “house with the brown shingles” exactly where Frank said they would be so many years later. Jimmy’s body was never found so there is room to believe that his body was taken to be cremated at Pete Vitale’s meat packing factory. One of Frank Sheeran’s daughters spoke to Charles Brandt after the release of “I heard you paint houses”:
“Jimmy Hoffa was one of only two men my father cared anything about. Russell Buffalino was the other one. Killing Jimmy Hoffa tortured my father the rest of his life. There was so much guilt and suffering that my father lived with after the disappearance… My father is finally at peace now and I would like the same for Jimmy’s family... My father killed his friend a regretted it until the day he died…” (Brandt, 2005, p.
Henry and his friends of 38th Street Gang members got the troublesome with Downey Gang, the Williams’ attack them. This attack results in the death of Jose Williams, an occupant of the Williams’ ranch.
In June of 1998, a sadistic murder of a middle-aged black man from Jasper, Texas, rekindled memories of lynching practices from the blood stained American past. James Byrd, Jr., 49, was beaten savagely to the point of unconsciousness, chained to the back of a pickup truck by his neck, and dragged for miles over rural roads outside the town of Jasper. It is believed that Byrd survived through most of this experience, that is, until he was decapitated. Three white men, John William King, 23, Shawn Berry, 23, (both of whom had links to white supremacist groups) and Lawrence Brewer Jr., 31, were arrested. Brewer and King were sentenced to death for a racial hate crime that shocked the nation. Berry was sent to prison for life.
...g exclusively on the war and men of whom he is in charge of. It ends up taking the death of one of his men, Ted Lavender, for Jimmy to realize that he needed to get his priorities straight; which included, being the leader that his troops deserved. In conclusion, Jimmy’s character traits changed immensely, from several negative traits in the beginning, to ample positive traits in the end. Jimmy took on his responsibility as the First Lieutenant, and began taking the necessary steps to bettering himself, along with his troops.
On 26 February 1993 at 12:17, a yellow RYDER van detonated on level B-2 of the World Trade Center North tower. What was first believed to be a below grade transformer explosion turned into an extensive test of New York Cities Incident Command capabilities. Everyone involved had an intricate part in handling this situation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was able to get all support assets there promptly to assist in rescue operations. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discovered information on the vehicle used. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used all of the intelligence gathered to apprehend and convict those responsible. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducted cleanup of chemical and biological hazards that were left behind from the blast. Numerous agencies worked together to solve the first terrorist attack on American soil and clean up a disaster of epic proportions.
As loyal Americans, people do not want to believe that the president’s own government would conspire to assassinate him. However, there are numerous possible reasons for its potential involvement in the murder. Tension began to rise when the CIA sent 1500 trained anti- Castro expatriates to seize Cuba. At the critical last moment, President Kennedy cancelled the air strikes responsible for disabling Castro’s air force. The results were horrify...
On March 16, 1968, in the Quang Ngai region of Vietnam, specifically My Lai, the United States military was involved in an appalling slaughter of approximately 500 Vietnamese civilians. There are numerous arguments as to why this incident even had the capacity to occur. Although some of the arguments seem valid, can one really make excuses for the slaughter of innocent people? The company that was responsible for the My Lai incident was the Charlie Company, and throughout the company, there were many different accounts of what happened that reprehensible day. Therefore, there are a few contradictions about what had occurred, such as what the commanding officers' exact instructions for the soldiers were.
While researching the Kennedy assassination there were many articles, saying that the mob was involved in the shooting. The writers were convinced that there was more than one person involved when it came too killing John Kennedy, on that warm sunny day in downtown Dallas. However, while these authors were convinced that there was another party involved, so was the rest of America with eighty percent saying the report was false. The goal of this paper is to bring this topic into the spotlight once more, by connecting the shooting of the president with the mob, and Lee Harvey Oswald.
On July 22, 2011, thirty-two-year-old Anders Behring Breivik of Oslo, Norway, bombed a government building, killing eight people and injuring more than two hundred, then went to a summer camp for teens and opened fi re, killing sixty-nine and wounding sixtysix before surrendering to police. Breivik’s motives were political, but he later said that a fi rst-person shooter game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, had helped him carry out his massacre. Having spent many hours playing, he decided to incorporate some of its details into his plans and was inspired to equip his gun with a holographic sight because of how well it worked in the game. In fact, he reported that had it not been for the holographic sight, he might not have been able to kill
In the past two years, there have been two instances where the lives of innocent teenagers have been taken over nothing. Both 17 year old Trayvon Martin and 18 year old Michael Brown were killed by Caucasian males despite the fact that they were both unarmed at the time. Both shootings have created unrest within the African American communities across the country, and if justice isn’t served for the victims we will never see a period of peace and rest within those communities.
Based on a television documentary, Lincoln, A&E Networks provides readers with an in-depth summary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This online article goes along with the documentary to give details as to what happened the night of Lincoln's assassination. Although this article is not based on a conspiracy theory, it was a good starting point to find out more about the assassination. I began my research by analyzing the proven facts that pertain to the assassination plot. These facts provided me with a general knowledge of dates, times and important figures that were involved with this historic assassination. I then was able to create a timeline by analyzing the chronological order of this article. This article provided me with clean-cut facts such as that Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 16, 1865. I was able to use the information gathered from this site to eventually support conspiracy theories with proven information. The validity of this source could be proven through its publisher, a major television network, whose main focus is producing historical shows and documentaries. Knowing that the facts on this website were proven, I was able to begin my research based on confirmed facts.
Have you ever heard of Tupac, the 1990 hip-hop sensation. Have you heard how he died, or even who killed him? Well, this is what this essay is about, the murder of Tupac Shakur, also known as Makaveli. The murder of Tupac Shakur is a conspiracy topic. A conspiracy is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. Many humans believe that Tupac is still alive and in hiding, while the other percentage think he is dead.
Erica Castillo Mrs. Olah English 10 March 2017 The Killer Clown and Lethal Injection John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist. He tortured and killed thirty-three young boys between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. He was executed by lethal injection, however this act of execution was wrong. John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942.
Bang! The sound of a bullet being fired from a gun. To some, a sound of protection and safety, to others sheer agony and pain, and to some unlucky few the last sound they will ever hear. One of these unlucky few happened to be Tupac Shakur on the fateful night of September 7, 1996 at approximately 1:30 a.m. Unfortunately for Tupac he had to listen to a flurry of 15 bullets, some of which buried themselves deep into his chest, while the others ended up in the side of his car. Thus, the saga had come to a tragic close, as was presumed by the media, but in actuality it was just beginning to reach its often-publicized climactic end. Initiating the story of the east coast, west coast battle, which came about through the on-going confrontations between Bad Boy Records from the east and the infamous Death Row Records, who resided in the west (Ro, 288).
Charles Manson and the Manson family committed gruesome crimes that shocked Los Angeles in 1969. The actress Sharon Tate and four others were ritualistically slaughtered in her Hollywoods Hills home. The murderers had left cryptic messages on the walls in the victims blood, and law enforcement were stumped by the multiple stab wounds found on the victims. The next day a married couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, who were successful shop owners, were found in their Las Feliz home murdered in the same way as Sharon Tate and her friends.