Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and CIA missed opportunities to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by not taking seriously enough threats from Lee Harvey Oswald, according to Philip Shenon’s new book, “A Cruel and Shocking Act,” reports the Orland Sentinel. Days before the assassination, the president’s administration found a threatening note addressed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The endless search for answers in the JFK assassination was the impetus for yet another film. “JFK: The Smoking Gun” pursues this question: Did a Secret Service Agent accidentally shoot President Kennedy in Dallas in November of 1963? The docudrama that will air on ReelzChannel is based on the book, “Mortal Error:…
By PHILIP MESSING New York Post NEW YORK –– The outraged head of the Port Authority police union today demanded an investigation into how a swamped jet skier was able to breach Kennedy Airport’s troubled $100 million security system. Paul Nunziato, president of the authority’s PBA, will send a letter to PA big Patrick Foye…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The era haunted by first-hand memories of the JFK assassination is coming to an end. Ex-FBI agent James Sibert died April 6 in Fort Myers, Florida, from complications following a fall. At age 93, he was the last surviving FBI agent to have attended JFK’s autopsy, according to the Naples News. Naples…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Most often when someone on the plane has lost it, it’s a passenger. But this time was different. JetBlue Pilot Clayton Frederick Osbon, 49, went a little off the deep end, yelling things about Jesus and Sept. 11. and terrorists. He was charged on Wednesday in federal court in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Sept. 26, 1981 when Donna Joan Borup showed up to an anti-apartheid rally at JFK Airport in Queens and allegedly tossed an acid-like substance into the eyes of Port Authority Police Officer Evan Goodstein. Goodstein ended up partially blind and had to resign from the force. Thirty years later,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Guyanese men were convicted Monday in Brooklyn federal court of plotting to blow up JFK Airport by exploding fuel tanks and fuel pipelines underneath the airport, authorities said. Following a six-week trial, the federal jury convicted Russell Defreitas, a naturalized citizen from Guyana, and Abdul Kadir. Authorities had been watching…
