Tag: Richmond Harper

  • Frank Sinatra, Pablo Escobar… and Meyer Lansky

    Frank Sinatra, Pablo Escobar… and Meyer Lansky

    “Two kilos of heroin for a little walking around money” A  ‘friend’ on Facebook found a link I posted there to a DailyMail story about Frank Sinatra’s purported ties to Pablo Escobar, (Frank Sinatra was ‘a better cocaine dealer than singer), based on interviews with dead Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s son where he claims singer Frank…

  • Barry Seal, the Dallas get-away plane, and the JFK assassination

    Barry Seal, the Dallas get-away plane, and the JFK assassination

    It’s July 1, 1972. The TV series Bewitched is airing its final episode, Attorney General John N. Mitchell is resigning as chairman of President Nixon’s re-election  committee, and Sammy Davis JR’s aptly-titled single “Candy Man” is moving smartly up the charts. (This is the second of two parts. Read the first part here.)