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THE JFK FILES: RUBY KNEW
According to the testimony of two women from the demimonde in Dallas—Jada Conforto, a fiery and highly intelligent red-haired beauty who at the age of 27 was already one of the stars of burlesque, and Beverly Oliver, a naïve 17-year old singer from the club next door to the Carousel Club— Jack Ruby knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Moreover,…
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The JFK assassination and ‘Barry & ‘the boys’
Two hours before John Kennedy was assassinated on Friday November 22 1963 at 12:30 p.m. Central Time, the stripper headlining Jack Ruby’s Carousel nightclub in Dallas was in a panic to get out of town. The National Archives and Records Administration today began releasing government documents never been disclosed on the Kennedy assassination, under a law passed in 1992 after…
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The Vegas shooter, general aviation, & CIA planespotting
It is a circumstance unparalleled in American history. Two weeks after a gunman started pouring down fire from a 32nd floor window in Las Vegas on people at a country music festival, police and the FBI remain in the dark over why he did it—and why he stopped.
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Mystery behind fatal plane crash dogs ‘American Made’
The word which best describes the new movie ‘American Made’ isn’t “boffo.” It’s “manslaughter.”
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Keeping it in ‘The Family:’ Director’s Mobbed-Up Dad
Doug Liman, the director of the new Tom Cruise movie ‘AMERICAN MADE,’ has a dirty secret in his family closet. His Dad was a Mafia groupie. Which wouldn’t matter, except Liman loudly claims his new film is based on the true story of Barry Seal, when it isn’t. And it amounts to a further Iran…
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‘AMERICAN MADE’ LIES, SEX, & VIDEOTAPE
It’s hard to credit anything about a movie whose ruthless Medellin Cartel Drug Lords wear powder-blue leisure suits. Still, when a “based on a true story” movie spreads egregious falsehoods about a man who will someday be of vital interest to future historians, attention must be paid.
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Barry Seal & AMERICAN MADE’S Cigar Store Indians
(Want to see why the new movie “based on a true story” AMERICAN MADE is an insult to America? READ “Deep Watergate, a chapter from “Barry & the boys.’) The most interesting thing about the new movie ‘AMERICAN MADE’—assuming you’re immune to gape-jawed curiosity at an obviously-smitten director unspooling an $80 million love letter…
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A True Story about Barry Seal & the CIA
Speaking of the new movie “American Made” about Barry Seal and the CIA and drug trafficking… and we WERE, weren’t we? I mean, with all the MONEY rolling in– day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade– why would anyone ever talk about anything ELSE?
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The Mystery in Medellin: Why was ‘American Made’ there?
This is a story about a plane crash. Start here: Everybody in-country was tired, or sweaty, or both. “Swelter” is a word that acquires new meaning in a South American jungle. It was the last day of filming. Tom Cruise has been in-country for 20 sweaty days in a row. Everyone was anxious to get…