Ronald Reagan: Actor, President And Secret FBI Informant

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President Of the United States

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6th, 1911 in Tampico Illinois to Nelle Clyde Wilson and Jack Reagan. 

Nelle taught Ronald to always expect to find the best in people which he often did.

Jack was a salesman and a story teller. Jack nicknamed Ronald "Dutch" due to his "fat little Dutchman"-like appearance and "Dutchboy" haircut.

Ronald’s ancestry is Irish on his father’s side and Scots-English on his mother’s side.

Ronald was raised in a poor family in a small town of northern Illinois.

He was baptized into the the Disciples of Christ faith in 1922.

Long before the civil rights movement, Ronald opposed racial discrimination. One time in Dixon, the proprietor of a local inn would not allow black people to stay there, Ronald brought them back to his house. His mother invited them to stay overnight and have breakfast the next morning.

At Dixon High School Ronald developed interests in acting, sports, and storytelling.

Ronald's first job was as a summer lifeguard at Rock River in Lowell Park. He preformed 77 rescues over six years.

He attended Eureka College were he majored in economics and sociology and graduated with a C grade. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, was on the football team and was captain of the swim team. He was elected student body president and led a student revolt against the college president after the president tried to cut back the faculty.

After he graduated college in 1932, Ronald worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations before moving to WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa. There he was as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games creating play-by-play accounts of games using only basic descriptions that the station received by wire as the games were in progress.

In 1937, Ronald traveled with the Cubs to California, while there he took a screen test with Warner Brothers Studios. This lead to a seven year contract.

His first starring role was in the 1937 movie Love Is on the Air. 

In 1938, on the set of the film Brother Rat, Ronald met fellow actress Jane Wyman. 

They fell in love and were married on January 26, 1940 at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California. 

Together they had three children, Maureen, Christine and Michael. Christine only lived one day and Michael was adopted.

Ronald lost partial hearing in one ear when he was hurt on the movie set "Code Of The Secret Service" in 1939 after a gun was fired next to his ear. Decades later, President Reagan wrote to Michael Jackson offering his support after Jackson was burned filming Pepsi TV commercial.

By the end of 1939 he had already appeared in 19 films.

In 1940, in the film Knute Rockne, All American, Ronald played the role of George "The Gipper" Gipp and from it, he acquired the lifelong nickname "the Gipper".

Ronald acted in the 1942 movie "Kings Row" where he played a double amputee who recites the line "Where's the rest of me?" This was his favorite movie he acted in.

One April 14th, 1942, he was ordered to military active duty in San Francisco. He classified for limited service only due to his poor eyesight, this excluded him from serving overseas. He was promoted to captain of the First Motion Picture Unit on July 22, 1943 where  he was indirectly involved in discovering actress Marilyn Monroe. He returned to Fort MacArthur, California, where he was separated from active duty on December 9, 1945.

In December 1945, he was stopped from leading an anti-nuclear rally in Hollywood by pressure from the Warner Bros. studio.

Ronald was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940's. During this time Ronald and his then wife Jane, provided the FBI with the names of actors within the motion picture industry whom they believed to be communist sympathizers. 

He also testified in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee against the "Hollywood Ten."

Ronald had doubts about being a spy for the government. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he stated,

"I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment."

Ronald Reagan started out as a democrat and his wife, Jane, a republican. This along with Ronald's Screen Actors Guild duties lead Jane to file for divorce in 1948. Their divorced was finalized in 1949.

In 1949, Ronald met actress Nancy Davis while he was helping her with her name appearing on a Communist blacklist in Hollywood. She had been mistaken for another lady of the same name. Nancy described their meeting as, 

"I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close."

They were married on March 4, 1952, at the Little Brown Church in the valley with actor William Holden serving as best man. 

Together they had two children together, Patti and Ronald "Ron" Jr.

Ronald became a motivational speaker at General Electric factories.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a true hero" to Ronald, but  Ronald became a Republican in 1962 and was a leading conservative spokesman in the Goldwater campaign of 1964. 

Ronald believed in the importance of smaller government. 

In his famous speech, "A Time for Choosing" Ronald states,

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing ... You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream—the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order—or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism"

Ronald's last movie role was in the 1964, The Killers. It was based on an Ernest Hemingway story, and  Ronald's only role as a villain in a film. It was the first made-for-TV movie, but was considered too violent for TV, and released to movie theaters instead.

His final work as a professional actor, Ronald was a host and performer from 1964 to 1965 on the television series Death Valley Days.

When Ronald was newly elected governor of California in 1966, by defeating former San Francisco mayor George Christopher, he sided with his political benefactors over Cesar Chavez.

Cesar Chavez led the movement to end the underpayment and inhumane working conditions endured by over a million Mexican-American farm workers.

Reagan's campaign emphasized "to send the welfare bums back to work," and "to clean up the mess at Berkeley". During his tenure as senator, Ronald raised taxes and turned a state budget deficit to a surplus. He also ordered in National Guard troops during the People's Park protests at the University of California. 

This led to an incident that became known as "Bloody Thursday," resulting in the death of student James Rector and the blinding of carpenter Alan Blanchard. 

Ronald was re-elected as Governor in 1970 defeating "Big Daddy" Jesse M. Unruh. That year, Ronald then responded to questions about campus protest movements saying, 

"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. 

No more appeasement."

Ronald was "pro-life" he was quoted as saying, 

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

In 1967, Reagan signed the Mulford Act, which repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. This garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest it.

He strongly supported capital punishment.

In 1968 and 1976, he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination. Four years later, he won the nomination, and then defeated incumbent president Jimmy Carter.

Ronald's campaign included, lowering taxes to stimulate the economy, less government interference in people's lives, states' rights, and a strong national defense.

George H. W. Bush was Ronald's running mate.

Debategate, was a political scandal that took place in the final days of the 1980 presidential election. Reagan's team had somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's top secret briefing papers that Carter used in the preparation for the October 28, 1980, debate with Reagan.

On November 4, 1980, Ronald won over Carter, carrying 44 states and receiving 489 electoral votes. Ronald also won the popular vote.

Ronald was 69 years old at the time of his inauguration. Until Donald Trump came along, Ronald was the oldest president-elect to take the oath of office. Ronald was also the the first person elected as President to have been divorced.

After taking office, Ronald began implementing his  "Reaganomics", which were his economic policies associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. This spurred economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending.

In his first year in office Ronald appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as America's first female Supreme Court Justice. He also appointed Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., of San Diego as the first African American to chair the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

In 1981, Ronald became the first president to propose a constitutional amendment on school prayer stating,

"Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. 

No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer."

On March 30, 1981, Ronald was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. when he was shot at six times by John Hinckley, who was loitering by a poorly guarded exit. Ronald only was hit once because the bullet ricocheted off the presidential limousine and into his’s chest. A police officer was wounded, as well as a Secret Service agent, and press secretary James Brady. The attack left Brady partially paralyzed. Hinckley was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster and he claims that he tried to kill Ronald in order to impress her. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21, 1982.

Also in 1981, the AID's crisis arrived in the United States. Some say Ronald largely ignored the crisis and did little about it. By the time Ronald had given his first speech on the epidemic, it was six years into his presidency. 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had died of it. By the end of  the year Reagan left office, 115,786 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and more than 70,000 of them had died of it.

However federal funding for AIDS-related programs was $2.3 billion in 1989 and nearly $6 billion total over his presidency.

In 1982, Ronald signed legislation establishing a federal Martin Luther King holiday.

Ronald began the War on Drugs campaign in 1982 saying that "drugs were menacing our society". He promised to fight for drug-free schools and workplaces, expand drug treatment, strengthen law enforcement and drug interdiction efforts, and bring fourth greater public awareness.

Ronald ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces. He revived the B-1 Lancer program that had been canceled by the Carter administration, and he produced the MX missile. 

In 1982 Ronald impeded Moscow's proposed gas line to Western Europe. It hurt the Soviet economy, but it also caused ill will among American allies in Europe who counted on that revenue. Ronald retreated on this issue.

On March 3, 1983, Ronald predicted that communism would collapse, stating,

 "Communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written."

In September of 1983, Ronald's administration suspended all Soviet passenger air service to the United States, and dropped several agreements being negotiated with the Soviets after Soviet fighters downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island. The flight carried 269 people, including Georgia congressman Larry McDonald. Ronald stated that that act was "massacre" and said that the Soviets had turned "against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere."

Ronald deployed the CIA's Special Activities Division to Afghanistan and Pakistan. They trained, equipped and lead Mujahideen forces against the Soviet Army. This action credited him for assisting in ending the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The CIA also began sharing information with the Iranian government, which it was secretly courting. This cost billions of dollars, advanced the career of a Mujahidin commander named Osama bin Laden and led to the emergence of the Taliban.

He did all of this in order to curtail the Soviet Union's influence over Central Asia.
He also continued the war after the USSR's retreat.
This helped bring about bin Laden's ascendancy in the region.Reagan illegally sold weapons to the unfriendly Iranian government to fund right-wing rebel forces in Nicaragua.

This leading to the Iran-Contra scandal.

In March 1983, Ronald introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative. This was a missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. He believed that this could make nuclear war impossible.

In 1983, Ronald sent forces to Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission during the Lebanese Civil War. On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings, that housed that peacekeeping operation, in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack killed 241 U.S. and 58 French peacekeepers, 6 civilian, and the 2 attackers. Ronald sent in the USS New Jersey battleship to shell Syrian positions in Lebanon, he then withdrew all the Marines from there.

On October 25th, 1983,  Ronald, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation's Marxist regime, ordered the Marines to parachute into battle during Operation Urgent Fury. Operation Urgent Fury was the first major military operation conducted by U.S. forces since the Vietnam War. After several days of fighting, the U.S. was victorious, with 19 American fatalities and 116 wounded American soldiers. In mid-December, after a new government was appointed by the governor-general, U.S. forces withdrew.

When Ronald ran for re-election in 1984, he defeated former vice president Walter Mondale in a landslide with the second-largest electoral college victory in American history.

In 1986, Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill that budgeted $1.7 billion to fund the War on Drugs and specified a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses. This was highly criticized  for promoting significant racial disparities in the prison population and for doing nothing to change the availability of this drugs on the street.

On January 28th, 1986, the night of the Space Shuttle Challenge disaster, Ronald delivered a speech, written by Peggy Noonan, in which he said:

"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave ... We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"

On Tuesday, April 15, 1986, in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing, that resulted in the injury of 63 American military personnel and death of one serviceman, Ronald authorized the use of force against the country. In the late evening of April 15, 1986, the United States launched a series of airstrikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, on ground targets in Libya. To explain his actions, Ronald said,

"When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the world on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long as I'm in this office.

Ronald signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act which enacted on November 6th, 1986, which was passed in order to control and deter illegal immigration to the United States. This made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants, required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status, and granted amnesty to approximately three million illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and had lived in the country continuously.

The Iran Contra Affair came to light in November 1986. when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It was part of a largely successful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon.
Some of the money from the arms deal had been covertly and illegally funneled into a fund to aid the right wing Contras counter revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

Ronald escalated an arms race with the USSR while engaging in talks with Gorbachev.

Speaking at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, Ronald challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"

When Gorbachev visited Washington in December 1987, he and Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. 

In 1988, he vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, arguing that the legislation infringed on states' rights and the rights of churches and business owners. His veto was overridden by Congress.

In 1988, near the end of the Iran–Iraq War, the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes accidentally shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilian passengers. 

He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms, after a succession of five prior presidents did not.

In November 1994, Ronald announced, through a letter, that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier that year. The letter read,

"I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease ... 

At the moment I feel just fine. 

I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done ... 

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. 

May God always bless you."

Ronald's son Ron said he had suspected early signs of his father's dementia as early as 1984 and former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl said that in her final meeting with the president in 1986, Ronald did not seem to know who Stahl was at first. However, all four of Ronald's White House doctors said that they saw no evidence of Alzheimer's while he was president.

Ronald did suffered an episode of head trauma in July 1989, after being thrown from a horse in Mexico. A subdural hematoma was found and surgically treated later in the year. The fall supposedly hastened the onset of Alzheimer's disease. 

He passed away of pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer's disease, at age 93, at his home in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles, California on  Saturday, June 5th, 2004, at 1 p.m. 

He had a seven day state funeral, which was executed by the Military District of Washington. 

Ronald Reagan was the first former U.S. president to die in the 21st century.

In this life Ronald Reagan won many honors including, being made an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Presidential Medal of Freedom the Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom. 

Did you know that Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans and black licorice was is favorite flavor? He was trying to kick a pipe smoking habit. He wasn't a fussy eater, but he hated brussels sprouts and tomatoes.

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Ryan Michael Nehiley's murder still is unsolved.

Ryan Michael Nehiley was the owner of Chronic Releaf Medical Dispensary, a Halifax medical marijuana business. He was 25 years old when he was pronounced dead at hospital after he was shot inside his residence on Clovis Avenue in Spryfield on the evening of Nov. 23, 2018. Police have said the homicide was not random and that they believe more than one person was involved in the incident.

Police seized a Savage rifle from Nehiley's residence along with ammunition clips, a shell casing and a gun case.

The Chronic Releaf store on Joseph Howe Drive was firebombed in August of 2018. The business relocated to Quinpool Road, where it was raided by police in October of 2018.

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Ashley Went Missing And Now Her Uncle Is Charged With Rape.

Ashley Nicole Summers was 14 years old when she went missing from Cleveland, Ohio, on July 9th, 2007. She was living with her great-uncle at the time of her disappearance. That same uncle was charged with rape in December of last year in an unrelated case. All of this happened just weeks after the yard, to the home Ashley and her uncle shared, was dug up by authorities.

Ashley went missing just blocks away from kidnapper Ariel Castro’s home.

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What Really Is Groom Lake?

Groom Lake is a salt flat in Nevada and is a part of Area 51. It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport and is the most protected base on the planet.

U2 pilot training in the 1950's happened here. The SR-71 was developed here. And it is where the US government is test-flying highly secret Black Project air crafts.

A black project is a term used for a highly classified military or defense project publicly unacknowledged by government, military personnel, and contractors.

Every weekday morning hundreds of people arrive at the guarded terminal owned by EG&G on the northwest side of McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here they board one of a small fleet of unmarked Boeing 737-200s. Using three digit numbers prefixed by the word "Janet" as their call signs, the 737's fly off North every half hour to Groom Lake.

EG&G is formally known as Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc., and is a United States national defense contractor and provider of management and technical services. And is now it is apart of the URS corporation.

Some people claim that Groom Lake houses UFOs, like Bob Lazar.

In May 1989, Lazar appeared on a Las Vegas television station KLAS, under the pseudonym "Dennis" and with his face hidden he claimed that he had been employed at Area 51 for the purpose of "reverse engineering" alien flying saucers. Lazar said that the UFOs use gravity wave propulsion and are powered by the (then unsynthesized) Moscovium. He also claims that he was given briefing documents describing the historical involvement with Earth for the past 10,000 years by extraterrestrial beings, Grey aliens, from a planet that orbited the twin binary star system Zeta Reticuli.

Lazar's claims resulted in bringing the existence of Area 51 site to public attention.

Lazar also says that his academic records were erased by the government in attempt to discredit him.

Flight MH370 Found And Then Secretly Moved?

Noel O'Gara is a private investigator who has been studying the crash o Flight MH370 for four years. He claims that witnesses saw the plane go down and that Malaysian officials probably moved the plane in secret.

One of the witnesses, a Kiwi oil worker, Mike Mckay, saw a plane on fire when he was on a oil rig off Vietnam.

A second witness named Latife Daleah, says she believes she saw the plane on the surface of the water while flying home to Saudi Arabia.

A third witness, Katherine Tee, said she had seen the burning plane on the Phuket in Thailand. The Phuket is a rain-forested, mountainous island in the Andaman Sea, has some of Thailand’s most popular beaches, mainly situated along the clear waters of the western shore.

Two Malaysian fisherman also insist they saw the plane come down.

O'Gara believes that the Malaysian government shot it down because they feared it was high-jacked and they only had moments to stop a 9-11 type of attack.

He also claims that the Malaysian government covered up the shooting down of the plane.

The official investigation claims that flight MH370 must have landed somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

The Search Begins For Kelsey Berreth Who Was Allegedly Beaten To Death With A Baseball Bat.

During a court hearing on February 19th, of this year, investigators testify that Kyrstal Kenney Lee told police that Patrick Frazee took matters into his own hands. Lee claims that Frazee wrapped a sweater around Kelsey Berreth's head and fatally beat her with a baseball bat at her home on Thanksgiving Day.

Lee says then he asked her to come and clean up the blood in the victim's home after the attack, and she brought a box of latex gloves, a white suit, booties, bleach, two trash bags and a hair net. 

Lee says when she entered Berreth's townhouse she was met with what she described as a "horrific" scene. She spent hours cleaning, discarding blood-stained toys and other items.
Frazee then allegedly asked Lee to dispose of the body in Idaho, but she refused.

Frazee then removed the body to a farm in Fremont County, where it was left in a black tote bag in a stack of hay while he went to Thanksgiving dinner.

Later Frazee moved the body to a water trough, added gas and wood before setting it ablaze. 

He then planned to dump Berreth's remains in a landfill or river.

Today, investigators began the search of Midway Landfill in Fountain Colorado for Kelsey's remains. Authorities say it could take weeks. 

Also during that hearing it came out that Frazee allegedly asked Lee to murder Barreth on three separate occasions, but Lee could not go through with it.

In early December, investigators examining Berreth's bathroom found Berreth's blood in the toilet, the bathtub exterior, the bottom of a trash can, the walls, floor, a towel rack, the vanity and an electrical outlet.

What is Frazee's motive for all of this?

He claims that Berreth was abusive toward's their daughter and that Berreth was a drug addict. Which there is no evidence of this.

Investigators and Berreth's parents allege it is because he wanted soul custody of their child and Berreth refused.

I think he wanted to start a new life with Lee and his daughter. It's too bad he didn't think of the consequences of his actions, because he won't get to see his daughter grow up. In my opinion, he should be in prison for the rest of his life for this premeditated act.

And as for Lee, she claims she was afraid that Frazee was going to kill her if she didn't go along with him. i think that was a crock and she did what she did because she thought she loved him. Then when she was cleaning up the scene, she saw how truly horrific of a thing he had done and changed her mind about him. Then she was afraid that she was going to get in trouble and spend some jail time.

I hope that Frazee and Lee are both haunted by what they have done.

Possible Suspect In Custody Of the Murders Of the murders Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi.

                 Suspect in Abigail and Liberty's murder           Charles' mugshot

Back On Tuesday, January 8th, of this year, Charles Andrew Eldridge was caught in an undercover sting with him trying to have sex with a minor. He was taken to Randolph County Jail where he told police he had done sexual acts with another minor younger than 13 on multiple occasions.

Now investigators say they are looking into a link between Abigail Williams and Liberty German's case and his arrest.

Iceberg Twice The Size Of New York City Is About To Break Off From Antarctica And NASA Is Worried.

A massive iceberg will soon break off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf NASA scientists claim. The scientists have observed cracks growing across the ice shelf in recent years. And now they are worried that, 

"The splitting could result in an uncertain future for the shelf’s scientific research & human presence."

Scientists warn that this could cause a global flood. 

NASA said that the rift was previously stable for about 35 years, but this crack recently started accelerating northward as fast as 2.5 miles per year.

Did Abraham Lincoln Lie About His Belief In The Freedom Of Free Speech?

Harold Holzer won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book, Lincoln and the Power of the Press.

On February 21st, at Washburn University’s Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center, people gathered to hear the 70 year old lecturer speak about President Abraham Lincoln and suppression of the media during the Civil War.

He spoke about conflicts between United States Of American presidents and the media, dating back to George Washington, who threw newspapers on the floor and jumped up and down on them because people weren’t treating him “like a god” anymore.

Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also battled the press according to Holzer.

Most of the lecture centered on Lincoln and extreme measures that Lincoln took to suppress the media.

Holzer stated,

“Lincoln believed that in the case of rebellion, contingency trumped the Bill of Rights and before his inaugural, even though he insisted that the freedom of the press was necessary for a free government, he responded to secession and open warfare by assuming extraordinary and unprecedented powers to hit back against critical newspapers and journalists.”

Holzer said that he found 200 incidences in which newspapers and their editors were blocked. And in some of those cases the newspaper was banned from the U.S. mail, people were arrested and imprisoned, press equipment was seized and destroyed and publications were suspended.

“The 1864 campaign and the things Lincoln did to gain re-election remind me that Abraham Lincoln may have initiated surprising and unprecedented crackdowns on liberty of the press because he believed that there was no way to save the Constitution without sacrificing a part of it temporarily,” 

Holzer said.

At the end of his talk, Holzer closed with, 

“Lincoln cracked down on fake news, much more than any president before him and any president after him.

Nothing we are seeing is new, and it’s always been there, and I think probably as we continue and debate current events, it’s good to remember that history is complicated and Lincoln set standards in more ways than sometimes we even like to imagine.”

Lead Detective In The Re-investigation Into Natalie Wood's Death Dies

Lieutenant John Corina served as an officer for 36 years and was leading the re-investigation into the mysterious 1981 death of actress Natalie Wood. 

He was 58 years old when he passed away from a short illness on February 23rd of this year. He was part of the team that tried exhume Natalie's body as they believed that she could have been assaulted before she drowned. The detectives wanted to have another autopsy done, focusing on any trauma to Natalie’s head before she drowned.

Robert Wagner Is Making It Difficult To Exhume Natalie Wood's Body

Last year, A team of forensic investigators and Los Angeles detectives, who had joined forces, wanted to exhume Natalie Wood's body in a bid to learn the truth behind her. mysterious death. Her body has yet to be exhumed. Allegedly, Robert Wagner, a “person of interest” in the case, hired a team of lawyers to crush the exhumation effort.

The Haunting Disappearances And Murders Of the Bakersfield 3 Part 4 A Body Part Is Found And Someone is in Trouble

The Arm

On August 18th, 2018, a group of people were playing in the Kern River near Hart Park when they discovered a bag weighed down with rocks. Inside the bag was a human arm, from the forearm to the hand. Though the bag was moving with the current, so investigators say it could've been dropped anywhere upstream. The arm was confirmed as belonging to Micah Holsonbake.

The Chiropractor

The house party that Kulstad was at when he was shot belonged to  chiropractor, Dr. Sukhjeet Bajwa. He has since agreed to surrender his chiropractic license because of drug and gun convictions.  
He was arrested Bajwa in May 2017 after heroin was found in his possession. 
In 2016 police arrested Bajwa for driving under the influence and crashing into parked cars. Officers found two unregistered guns inside the car.
Bajwa took plea deals in both cases. He was convicted of selling drugs and carrying a loaded firearm.

What Do The Parents Of the Bakersfield 3 Believe?

Baylee's mom suspects that Baylee's boyfriend knows more than he is saying.

Baylee's boyfriend, Matthew Queen, is twice Baylee's age. He said that he saw her last at his house and that she probably ran away. Baylee's mom thinks that he might not be telling the truth. 

Baylee's boyfriend is already with someone else. He states that he is being harassed by Baylee's mom.

Allegedly a sheriff's office search warrant from June revealed detectives were investigating Queen, Despot, Holsonbake and three others for allegedly manufacturing and selling illegal guns.
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The Haunting Disappearances and Murders Of the Bakersfield 3 Part 3 Baylee Cheyanne Parrent-Despot

Baylee Cheyanne Parrent-Despot

She was born to Jane Parrent in 1998.

She was 20 years old when she went missing on April 25th, 2018.

She has the greatest smile and the greatest laugh.

This self described flower child who wore cloths reminiscent of the 1970's. She enjoyed being around and working around people.

In 2016, she ran off to Las Vegas to marry her boyfriend, a year after she graduated high school. The relationship had always been rocky and it came as a surprise to Baylee's mom that they got married.
The marriage eventually ended.

Her mother said,

“She wrecked her car, and then she lost her job.

She was trying to get back on track and her life just spiraled out of control. 

And it went downhill from there.”

Baylee became involved with older men, eventually dating somebody else.

Jane saw her daughter was on April 25th, 2018, when she dropped off some churros from Costco at her daughter’s new boyfriend’s house.

“I always say ‘I love you’ so I probably said ‘momma loves you.’ That’s what we always said,” 

Jane said.

Baylee stopped responding to text messages.

Jane was suppose to pick up Baylee at a friends house, but she was not there.

Jane filed a missing person’s report with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.

When she was contacted by Holsonbake, she remembered Micah as somebody who would occasionally help her daughter out.

Since she has been missing, Baylee has had no social media activity and there is no sign of her anywhere.
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The Haunting Disappearances and Murders Of The Bakersfield 3 Pt. 2 James John Kulstad

James John Kulstad II was born on August 9th, 1979.
His reason to live was for the future of his daughters and to surf. James was an entrepreneur who never stopped brainstorming to grow his dreams into reality. He would never turn a shoulder to one less fortunate than himself. James has striking blue eyes, a heart of gold and a smile to last a lifetime. James was a caring and thoughtful soul and a role model to aspire to.

Over the last year, Kulstad had struggled with an opiate addiction.
He had been prescribed pain medication after an operation relating to a fractured wrist, and his mother said it became a slippery slope from that point on.

 “He was trying to get his life back on track,” his mother Diane Byrne  said. “He went to rehab.”

Before his addiction, Kulstad had been an avid surfer, who earned money through his career as an entrepreneur to live near his favorite surf spots.
On April 7th, 2018, Bryne had last seen 38-year-old Kulstad around 10p.m.  
Kulstad had left her house without telling her where he was going.

Byrne woke up a little after 1 a.m. on April 8th, to a call informing her that Kulstad had been shot.

By the time she got dressed, one of her other sons had arrived at her house to take her to the scene of the crime.

They arrived in a south Bakersfield neighborhood to find that the car Kulstad had been driving had crashed into a trailer. He had been shot while pulling out of a driveway.

“The police had a line of caution-tape lines up and I just stood there trying to get through screening,” 

Byrne said. 

“My son just kept giving me a bear hug, saying it would be fine.”

Kulstad had crawled out of the passenger door, making it to the ground before he bled out internally. He had been shot in the hip region.

Police later described the incident as a drive-by shooting.

But after his death, the Bakersfield Police Department had trouble bringing the case to a conclusion. Nobody who knew Kulstad at the time seemed keen to testify.

Byrne reached out to Holsonbake to try to help move both cases forward.

Then Holsonbake noticed another person had gone missing, and she recognized the name Baylee Despot.

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Susan Cox Powell's Brother In Law Lied Under Oath in Attempt To Get Millions of Dollars

 

  On Oct. 20, 2012,.Michael Powell's lies came out during a deposition over his brother's, Josh Powell, life insurance policy.

  Ten months prior, Josh Powell made changes to the beneficiaries on his life insurance policy. He directed New York Life to distribute 93 percent of the money to Michael Powell. Eight months after the policy changes, Josh killed his two sons and himself by taking a hatchet to his children and then setting fire to his rented home in Graham, Washington. Michael Powell had made a claim for some of the more than 3 million dollar pay out.

  During the deposition he was asked about his Facebook use. He said he rarely used it and never talked with his brother, Josh, about Susan's disappearance.

  It turns out that Michael and Josh created a fake Facebook account to stalk and spy on a group dedicated to locating Susan's body.

  Josh's phones were also tapped by the police. Josh and Michael were heard discussing the the fake Facebook account and the email they used to create it.

  A year after Josh murdered the kids and killed himself, Michael committed suicide in February of 2013.

  It has been long suspected that Michael had involvement in the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell. Some people believe that he helped dispose of her body.

Jabez Spann Allegedly Witnessed a Murder and Now His Remains Have Been Found

 

  Jabez Spann was last seen during Labor Day Weekend of 2017 in rural Florida attending a funeral for his Travis Combs, a friend that Jabez allegedly witnessed being murdered.

  Sarasota Police Department Deputy Chief Pat Robinson said at yesterday's press conference that this last Saturday afternoon that Jabez skeletal remains were found in a rural part of Manatee County, west of I75. They were found by someone working on a fence line. He also stated that,

 “It’s unknown how long those skeletal remains were at the location where they were located, or if they were transported there from somewhere else.”

  His family needs your help! If you have any information at all, no matter how small call Detective Megan Buck or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers by calling 941-366-TIPS or online at www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com.

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The Haunting Disappearances and Murders Of The Bakersfield 3 Pt. 1 Micah HolsonBake

It started with Micah Holsonbake.

Micah Blaine Holsonbake was a jokester and was always quick to say what was on his mind.

He was a shoulder to cry on and the life of the party.

“Micah was also extremely loyal,” he said. “He would go to bat for anybody he cared for. He would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. He was genuine and caring, always helpful and kind.”

said Scott Haagensen, who was a youth minister at the church in the late 1990s when Holsonbake was part of his youth group.

Jackie Chase, who was a member of Holsonbake’s youth group who became a close friend with him said,

“He just had this aura about him that you knew he loved you,” she said. “Even on his darkest days, regardless of what he was going through, he would tell you how much you were loved and make sure you knew it.

“He wanted you to have the best life, and he wanted you to be happy,” she said. “What I want you to do when you leave here is don’t be sad, because he wouldn’t want that. He would want you to know that you are loved.”

Micah Holsonbake was 35 years old when he was last seen on March 23, 2018, in the area of Flower Street and Mount Vernon Avenue in East Bakersfield, California.

A year before he disappeared, Micah had been laid off from his job at a local bank after going on disability leave related to depression.

He met new friends, the kind he didn't normally associate with, and went to bars and other places he never have went to before.

Micah told his family that he had been threatened and feared for his safety. At the time, Micah's family thought that maybe he just was paranoid.

Looking back, Cheryl believes her son was telling the truth. She has learned her son sold small amounts of drugs, possibly to support a habit.

“My mom instinct is that he found himself in over his head,” she said. “And kept himself in that situation because he was afraid for his family, because he felt like he would be hurt if he didn’t.”

The last time Cheryl saw Micah, she dropped him off in a bad neighborhood near Kern Medical Center. She said something felt off and she tried to convince him to go to dinner, but he refused and she drove away.

Micah Holsonbake had called his mother, Cheryl, the morning of March 17, 2018, asking her to help him pay for a hotel room for a friend. Cheryl didn’t have the money for the room and an argument ensued, so she hung up on him.

"He was upset at me that I didn’t care. It was kind of a manipulative anger,” Cheryl said. “And I wasn’t in the mood to go there, so I didn’t. So yeah. I’ve regretted it. I still wouldn’t have had the money to do it, but I still regret hanging up on him.”

That was the last time Cheryl heard from her son.

Two weeks later she filed a missing person's report, after she didn't hear anything back from police.

A month after Micah was last seen, Cheryl received a call from Diane Byrne. She said her son, James Kulstad, had been killed a few weeks earlier, and it appeared that their children had many mutual friends.

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