By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Listen my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy Five…. Longfellow’s poem forever immortalized Paul Revere’s ride. What the poem does not say is that Revere’s mission that night was to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When 29-year-old Clay Alexander heard the first gunshots, the ATF agent quickly realized, “They are shooting at me.” Alexander, who was shot in the legs, spoke at length to the Tyler Morning Telegraph about the Feb. 28, 1993, raid on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. “It was very bizarre. At that point,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four ATF agents who were killed during the botched raid on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco, Texas, will be honored during a private ceremony today – the 20th anniversary of the raid, the Associated Press reports. Killed during the Feb. 28, 1993, gun battle were agents Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Robert John…
Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com. , was an FBI agent for 31 years before retiring as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor, Mi. office. He was one of the FBI SWAT team leaders who searched the Michigan farm of James Nichols, brother of convicted Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols, in 1995 after the…
