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18.05.2021
29 Minuten
The House Select Committee on Assassinations picks up where Church
left off. Nearly four decades after those hearings, Nina visits
Robert Blakey, HSCA's Chief Counsel, to try to understand why the
FBI never looked into a conspiracy to kill King. Blakey tells her,
'I've been waiting 40 years for someone to ask me these questions.'
The answers go back to St. Louis, and the COINTELPRO operations
against Nina's father's clients, including Howard Mechanic. To
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11.05.2021
28 Minuten
After 11 months in prison, Howard is granted a pardon. But Nina has
more questions. How is Howard's story connected to the other
threads she has pulled? We go back to 1975, and the Church
Committee's suspiciously truncated investigation into the possible
conspiracy to kill Dr. King. To learn more about listener data and
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04.05.2021
44 Minuten
Howard goes underground and emerges as Gary Tredway. He gets
married. There are dangerously close calls, but he gets away with
it for decades -- until a reporter uncovers the truth. To learn
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27.04.2021
28 Minuten
Howard and others are arrested by the FBI and put on trial by the
feds. For reasons neither Nina’s father nor his clients understand,
St. Louis is the only place in America where student protestors are
facing federal charges -- and the verdict is too much for Howard to
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20.04.2021
31 Minuten
In this episode, we return to St. Louis. Nina learns about
the FBI's harassment of her father's clients, Percy Green and Jane
Sauer, whose left-leaning groups were targets of COINTELPRO. Howard
Mechanic and the student activists at Washington University are
also on the FBI's radar, and there are informants among them. To
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Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force
building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a
young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious
federal time, Howard went on the run and became one of the
longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. As an adult, Nina picked
up the trail. What ever happened to Howard Mechanic? This
eight-part series is the tangled story of her search for answers.
Hundreds of Freedom of Information requests. Hundreds of thousands
of pages of documents. FBI surveillance and confidential
informants. Cold War spies, conspiracy theories and the murder of a
civil rights icon. And the sacrifices America makes in the name of
national security.
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