Another "Suicide" In The Oklahoma City Bombing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ted Richardson was a sports hunter and was active with his sons and the boys scouts in his church. He was also the chief bombing and arson prosecutor for the Western District of Oklahoma at the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing. He was immediately transferred out of that position after the bombing. 

Ted was investigating Samir Khalil and his connection to the 1993 Word Trade Center Bombing and to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Khalid also was the employer of the Iraqi suspect Hussain Hashem al-HUSSAINI. The Department of Justice took Richardson off the Khalil investigation days after the Oklahoma City Bombing even though Richardson was preparing to submit evidence to a Grand Jury on Khalils HUD property scams and tax evasion schemes to raise money to finance Hamas. 

Ted also helped put the case together against McVeigh and Nichols in the Oklahoma City Bombing.

A month after Melvin Beall, a 26 year veteran of the Oklahoma City PD, who talked to and gave directions along with three other OG&E employees to McVeigh, Fortier, McVeigh’s sister and Fortier's wife,  complained to Ted that the FBI and later the County grand jury covered up and ignored his and the employees testimony, Ted was found dead. Ted was 49 years old when he was found dead in 1997, near his church and allegedly Khalil's home. He was wearing a T-shirt honoring the unknown hundreds who came to the aid of victims: "Nameless Saints," it said, "We Give Our Thanks." He had a single shotgun blast that tore a hole through that T-shirt. His death was ruled as a suicide, even though his family claims he wasn't suicidal.

Another Hero Bites The Dust In A Mysterious Plane Crash.

Dr. Howard Don Chumley had a clinic 12 blocks away from the Murrah building and was one of the first doctors on the scene of the Oklahoma City Bombing. He shared a safety deposit box and information with Sgt.Terrance E. Yeakey, who was also a first responder to the Oklahoma City Bombing. He had his step son, Sean Jones, with him. When Sean and Howard first arrived, they were sent to the parking garage. Victims were trapped there. When they got there, they were approached by a man repeatedly yelling about a bomb, so they all ran away.

Sean said that Howard was the only doctor to actually go in the building. Sean and Howard saved nine infants from the day care center. 

Howard said that two FBI agents came up to him and asked to be bandaged, even though they had no wounds. Howard told the agents he had real injuries to treat and he didn't want to be a part of whatever they were concocting. His claim was corroborated by another witness. The two agents tried with another doctor, but Howard stepped in and said he would report them if they didn't leave.

Howard, like Terrance, didn't believe the official story of what happened that was being put out about the bombing. Rumor has it that he was about to go public with the evidence he had found inside the Murrah building.

Four months after the Oklahoma City Bombing, Howard was 47 years old when he was killed in a plane crash, in his personal plane, on a routine trip from Texas back to Oklahoma.  He was flying his Cessna 210 when the plane went from 7,000 feet to a full nose dive, seemingly out of nowhere. An investigation was conducted and there was nothing wrong found with his body or the plane that could have caused the crash. 

The safe deposit box, remember, was found empty. The information that Howard had allegedly compiled was never made public.

Michael Rescued People From The Oklahoma City Bombing And Then He Was Found In A Strange Place.

Michael L. Loudenslager was born January 1st, 1947 in Twin Falls County, Idaho. He was a graduate of Choctaw High School and received a BS in Agricultural Science from OSU in 1969. He had resided in Harrah since 1978, and was a member of McLoud Masonic Lodge and India Temple. He was married and had two children. His family said horses were his life. He was a reserve sheriff for Oklahoma County, the Mounted Patrol, a member of the US Marshall's Posse, OETRA, NRA, and the Quarter Horse Assn. He worked on the first floor of the Murrah Building as a planner-estimator for the General Services Administration. His wife used to work at the Murrah building, running the daycare.

Michael had given forewarning to parents of kids at the daycare center that resided in the Murrah building. In weeks before the bombing, he had growing concerns about an increased amount of missiles being brought into the building by the B.A.T.F. and D.E.A. He urged parents and the day care operator to pull their children from the building.

Michael was 48 years old and was working in the Murrah building at the time of the explosion. Michael was seen by numerous people actively helping in the rescue and recovery effort. Sometime during the rescue efforts, he was seen and heard in a very "heated" confrontation with someone. 

His was found, two days later, inside the Murrah Building, still at his desk.Even though he died after the bombing, he is considered among the 168 that died in the bombing.

Did This Veteran Commit Suicide Or Was He Murdered Because He Knew Too Much?

7-year veteran of the Oklahoma City PD, Sgt. Terrance E. Yeakey was 30 years old when he was the first to arrive on the scene of the Oklahoma city bombing. He saved the lives of 8 people from the rubble of the building of the horrific explosion. He had been awarded the Key to the City of El Reno, Oklahoma for his heroism during the aftermath of the bombing.

Terrance was scheduled for a final interview with the FBI in Irving, TX. He was planning on working for the FBI in Dallas and moving there with his sister and brother in law. Terrance had reconciled with his ex-wife. Their plans were set to remarry shortly after his move to Dallas. He was also a Gulf War veteran who had served as an M.P. for two years in Saudi Arabia.

Terrance did not agree with the official version of events touted by the national media and law enforcement at that time and was living under constant scrutiny. He was the target of horrific persecution from his brothers in law enforcement.

He was in the process of collecting evidence, which supported and documented the inconsistencies he witnessed the morning of the bombing at the scene itself, when he was found dead on May 8th, 1996. His body was found in a field in El Reno, Oklahoma, over a mile away from his abandoned vehicle. An extremely large amount of blood was found in his vehicle, he had been bound, had rope burn on his neck, ligature marks on his wrists, numerous deep cuts. The cuts on his wrists were so severe that they had to be sewn up before he was embalmed to prevent leakage. A single bullet had entered his right temple at a 45-degree angle. There was no gun found at the scene right away. An hour later, a FBI agent showed up and found a gun in an already thoroughly searched area within 5 minutes of being there. 

His 9 boxes of evidence that he had collected were never found. The safe deposit box that supposedly had evidence about the Oklahoma City Bombing, and that Terrance shared with Dr. Howard Don Chumley, later was found empty.

Terrance's family claim that his death was a brutal murder, and indicate that local law enforcement were complicit in covering up this murder. The official theory given out was that Terrance slit his wrists and neck, causing him to nearly bleed to death in his car, and then climb over a barbed wire fence. He then was supposedly walked over 1-1/4 miles distance, through a nearby field, eventually shooting himself in the side of the head. There was no autopsy preformed.

The family would sometimes be approached by others in the police department, who told them in no uncertain terms, but off the record, that Terrance had been murdered.

The family was allegedly harassed and followed by Oklahoma City Police and others. Unmarked cars sat in front of their homes for hours. Some of this stalking was caught on video by the family.

Terrance's ex-wife had her home broken into and a balloon was left in her house with the words, “we know where you are”, written in black marker on it. 

Terrance's family is still looking for the truth.

The Oklahoma City Bombing: John Doe #2 and The Man With The Dragon Tattoo.

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 19th, 1995. It was a domestic terrorist 12,000 lb truck bomb that ripped through the 9 story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

It was perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The catastrophic bombing injured more than 680 people and killed 168 others, including 19 children.

Immediately following the bombing, law enforcement searched for a man whom numerous sources said they saw with Timothy. Some of them said that this mystery man was seen walking away from the Ryder truck. 

This alleged person's police composite sketch became known around the world as John Doe No. 2. This man was described as about 5 feet 9 inches tall, muscular, and dark-haired. Possibly, he drove an older model pickup truck and had a dragon tattoo on his left forearm.

Kenneth Michael Trentadue was born and raised in a coal mining family. He grew up in a coal mining camp in Virginia. In 1961, Kenneth and his family moved to California after the coal mining business fell on hard times. In high school, he was an accomplished track and field athlete, but despite this, he dropped out after and enlisted the army. He also developed a heroin addiction. He tried to get jobs doing factory and carpentry work, but eventually turned to robbing banks with a fake gun. He got caught and served 6 years of a 20 year sentence before being released on parole in 1988. After being released, he got married and became gainfully employed as a construction worker. 

He was driving a 1986 Chevy pickup when he was pulled over at the Mexican border on his way home to San Diego on June 10, 1995. He fit the description of John Doe No. 2. Officers ran his license and found that it had been suspended, and that he was wanted for parole violations.

On June 19th, 1995, Kenneth's wife had their first baby, a boy named Vito.

Kenneth was shipped, on August 18, to a prison in Oklahoma City for a hearing on the parole violations. This put him into close proximity to Timothy McVeigh, who, four months earlier, had been stopped by a state trooper, some 80 miles north of Oklahoma City. Timothy was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and driving without tags, and two days after, was identified as the John Doe No. 1 wanted in the bombing. Terry Nichols turned himself in.

Authorities said that that was it. Case closed. Timothy and Terry were indicted on August 10th, 1995. There were many people that didn't believe Timothy and Terry acted alone. Was it just wack job conspiracy theorists that thought something bigger was afoot? What about John Doe No. 2 and the police's frantic search for him?

On August 19th, 1995, was the last time Kenneth's brother Jesse, heard from Kenneth. Kenneth called at night, sounding chipper, and they talked about the parole hearing. At the end of the call, Kenneth promised to call again the next day.

A check of Kenneth's cell at 2:38 a.m. on August 21st, 1995, all was normal. However, at 3:02 a.m., Kenneth was found in his cell suspended from a noose made out of his bed sheets. The noose was hooked to a light fixture in a special cell that was supposed to be suicide proof. It isn't known why Kenneth was in protective custody away from other inmates. 

The prison warden called Kenneth's mom and offered to cremate Kenneth at the expense of the government. Kenneth's mom refused, finding the offer suspicious.

On August 26th, Kenneth’s body arrived at a mortuary in California. There were bruises on his knuckles bruises on his arms where it looked like he was held down and all over, even on the soles of his feet, clumsily disguised with heavy makeup. There were also slashes on his throat, ligature marks, and ruptures on his scalp. He had shackle marks on his legs as well burn marks on his face and shoulders.

On September 1st, the Bureau of Prisons issued a press release stating that Kenneth’s death had been “ruled a suicide by asphyxiation” and that the injuries on the body “would indicate persistent attempts…to cause himself serious injury or death.” Officials put forth an elaborate scenario in which Kenneth tried to hang himself but fell, bruising his head and body, and then tried to slit his throat with a toothpaste tube before succeeding in his second hanging attempt.

No official ruling in his death had been made yet. In fact, although the exact cause of death could not been determined, the claim that Kenneth had committed suicide was not consistent with medical examiner Fred Jordan's findings, and Kenneth appeared to have been tortured.

The chief investigator of the Oklahoma state medical examiner filed a complaint with the FBI reporting irregularities in the investigation of Kenneth's death. The coroner was at first not permitted into Kenneth's cell. Even though the medical examiner gave instructions on not to touch the cell, it was washed out by the afternoon before the legally-required investigation could be performed. The FBI paperwork from the agent who received the medical examiner's call reads "murder" and "believes that foul play is suspected in this matter."

Evidence in the case disappeared. There was no video of the scene taken or it was lost, depending on who you talk to. There were photos taken of  Kenneth's body, but when the family asked for them, they were told that they were lost. The photos did reappear later though, in FBI files years later. His clothes vanished before his body was turned over to the medical examiner. And his bed sheets, boxers, and fingernail clippings, disappeared for several weeks. After the cell was washed, what prison officials called Kenneth’s “suicide note”,a pencil scrawl that read ”My Minds No Longer It’s Friend” and “Love Ya Familia!”, was painted over, leaving only photos whose “lack of detail,” according to the FBI crime lab, rendered it “doubtful if this hand printing will ever be identified with hand printing of a known individual."  For some reason, the investigator who took the pictures shortly after Kenneth’s death wrote in a caption that the scrawl read, “Love Paul.”

In 1996, Jesse got an anonymous phone call talking about his brother and bank robbers.

 “Look, your brother was murdered by the FBI. 

There was an interrogation that went wrong…. 

He fit a profile.” 

Later, in a lawsuit brought by Kenneth's family, FBI and state Bureau of Investigations officials testified that a second person’s blood had been found in Kenneth’s cell, and that there were no cut marks on the noose from which he was, according to prison officials, “cut down."  Supposedly, an internal FBI memo states that a prison guard told his neighbor that Kenneth had been killed, and then hung in his cell as a cover-up. Another inmate who reported heard similar statements from a second guard said he was warned to keep silent and then sent to isolation. In a deposition in connection with a lawsuit brought by Jesse, another inmate, Alden Gillis Baker, said Kenneth got into an altercation with a guard. He claimed that additional officers entered the cell, there was “a lot of physical violence going on,” he heard “faint moaning,” and later the sound of bed sheets being torn.  A judge ruled that Baker, a convicted robber and sex offender, was not a reliable witness. In 2000, Baker was found hanging in his cell in a California federal prison.

In spring of 2003, a small-town newspaper reporter in Oklahoma named J.D. Cash, contacted Jesse and he wanted to talk about Kenneth. He explained that some photos of Kenneth's bore a clear resemblance to the police sketch of the alleged John Doe No.2 And both Kenneth and John Doe No. 2 looked quite a bit like another man, a bank robber named Richard Lee Guthrie. They were the same height, weight, and muscular build, both had dark hair and thick mustaches, and both had dragon tattoos on their left arm.

David Paul Hammer, a convicted murderer, had struck up a friendship with Timothy McVeigh when both were imprisoned at the same Federal Correctional Complex. Hammer made sworn statements alleging that McVeigh told him information about other conspirators in the Oklahoma City Bombing, including Guthrie.

In 1994 and 1995, Guthrie and the Aryan Republican Army carried  22 bank robberies across the Midwest, netting some $250,000 that they used to support the white-supremacist movement. Guthrie would also be found dead in his prison cell, the day before he was scheduled to give a television interview. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
After being shown a picture of Kenneth, Timothy McVeigh is reported to have said, 

"Now I know why Trentadue was killed, because they thought he was Richard Guthrie."

The federal government did pay a civil settlement, but that still will not help with the obvious injustice that has happened.

Was Guthrie really John Doe No. 2? Or was it someone else?

Andreas Carl Strassmeir is a German national and the former head-of-security for the white separatist community, Elohim City, Oklahoma. His Grandfather was also a co-founder of the Nazi Party. Andreas' father allegedly had connections to the CIA. A confidential informant for the ATF, claims that Andreas would frequently talk about blowing up federal buildings and using direct action against the U.S. Government. McVeigh admitted to being in contact with Andreas two weeks before the bombing but he was never questioned. Andreas fled the United States and hasn't been seen since.

Is Andreas John Joe No 2?

The Curious Disappearance Of Jennifer Kesse.

Jennifer Kesse was born May 20th, 1981 to Joyce and Drew Kesse in New Jersey.

She was a graduate of Vivian Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida, Kesse attended the University of Central Florida in Orlando, graduating in 2003 with a degree in finance. She was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

She worked for a finance manager for a Florida property and vacation company.

Jennifer was 24-years-old when she was last seen on January 23, 2006, at approximately 6 p.m., leaving her place of employment, Westgate Resorts, in Ocoee, Florida.

After work she chatted with her family on the phone. She called her boyfriend, Robert Allen, later that night at around 10 p.m.

The next day, Robert was expecting his usual call or text from Jennifer before she went to work, but no call or text came. This worried Robert, so made several attempts to contact his girlfriend, but texts went unanswered and phone calls went straight to voicemail.

People at her work started worrying about Jennifer as well. She had never showed up for work and had missed an important meeting. She never called in sick or to say she was running late. Her coworkers said that this was very unlike her. 

Jennifer's employer called her parents around 11 a.m. to inform them that their daughter was MIA. This prompted Drew and Joyce to make the two hour drive down from Tampa to Orlando to check if their daughter was at her home. When her parents arrived, they noticed that Jennifer's care was missing.

When Drew and Joyce entered Jennifer's condo, they didn't see anything amiss. They found a damp towel, puddles in the shower, a pair of pajamas on the floor, and some makeup on the counter. Also, Jennifer's mom said that Jennifer's favorite pair of pumps were missing from the closet. This all suggested she got ready for work before she disappeared. 

Jennifer's condo was never processed.

Investigators first thought that Jennifer was abducted on her way to her vehicle before work. They now think she was abducted between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m after she got in the vehicle on January 24th.

Two days after Jennifer's disappearance it was discovered that on the day she disappeared, at 12 p.m., At an apartment complex 1.2 miles away from Jennifer's condo, a hidden surveillance camera catches an unidentified person parking Jennifer's Chevy Malibu and then walking away. The person was mostly obscured by fencing. The only thing discernible about the mystery person is that they are between 5’3″ and 5’5″.

To me, in the video, it seems like it's a woman with her hair pulled back.

Jennifer's car was found still parked where the unidentified person left it.

After analyzing Jennifer's car, a latent print deemed “too minuscule” to yield any helpful information and a small DNA fiber was found. Jennifer's DVD player was still in her car, but her purse and cellphone were never located.

Investigators believe that Jennifer's car was wiped down.

Police brought a search dog to Jennifer's car. The search dog tracked a scent from the car back to her apartment complex, leading investigators to believe that the suspect returned to her apartment parking lot after leaving the car.

Jennifer is still missing.

Her family has filed a lawsuit against the city of Orlando, the Orlando Police Department and the department’s chief in an effort to make thousands of documents related to her disappearance public.

When Jennifer went missing, she was 5'8", 124 lbs, with sandy blonde hair and green eyes.

Anyone with information in the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse is asked to call the FBI's Tampa office at 866-838-1153.

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Will There Ever Be Justice For Hailey Dunn?

Hailey Dunn was born to Billie Jean and Clint Dunn.

She was a bright kid with a winning smile and she was a little bit of a tomboy. She loved her family.

Hailey was a 13-year-old middle school student, band member, cheerleader and athlete in 2010. She lived with her mom and her mom's boyfriend, Shawn Adkins. Hailey's 16 year-old brother, David, also lived there and their dad lived just across the street.

Here mom and Shawn drank a lot and threw wild parties with drugs involved.

About ten months before Hailey's disappearance, Billie and Shawn got into a fight. They both called 911 on each other. Neither one was arrested. Billie said that Shawn had threatened to kill her and her daughter. Shawn said that Billie was threatening to killer herself and frame him.

On December 26th, 2010 at around 9 p.m., David said he left the house to go to a friends home. He stated that he saw Hailey playing video games when he left. Authorities say that there was evidence that Hailey played video games until around midnight.

Around 6a.m. the next day, Shawn arrives at work, in Scurry county, walks in, looks at his supervisor and leaves his job, without saying a word. Shawn later tells everyone he was fired, but his work says that they did not.

Sometime after shortly after 6 a.m., Hailey's mom said she went to work, for her 12 hour shift, also in Scurry county, and Hailey was asleep in her bed.

After Shawn left work he says he went to his mother’s house in Big Springs, Texas, which was a lie. Cell phone towers indicate that between 6:35 and 6:56 a.m., Shawn was in the area of Colorado City, Texas. It wasn't until after 9:30 a.m. when he was in Big Springs and he left that area at almost 3 p.m.

Around 4 p.m., David returned home, but could not get in, so he pounded on the door and then eventually climbed through a window. When David got inside, he stated that Shawn was standing in the hallway with a "deer in the headlights" look.

At 6:19 p.m., Billie Dunn made two cash withdrawals from an ATM, Scurry County. First she takes out $60 and then $80. The money was to purchase illegal narcotics from a person in Scurry County. Billie claims these narcotics were for her and Shawn.

Also according to Billie, Shawn tells her that Hailey left in the afternoon to go to her father’s house then to go to her friend’s house, for a slumber party.

Billie did not call the friend’s house to confirm Hailey spending the night there, nor did she call Clint's house.

On December 28th, around 2 p.m., Billie reports her daughter missing to Colorado City police after she didn't return home. She had also called Hailey's friend's house and they stated that Hailey never came over. It turns out Hailey did't show up at her dad's house either.

Sometime after Hailey's disappearance, Hailey's uncle told police that he had a conversation with Shawn about Hailey being missing. The uncle told Shawn he couldn't believe that someone would hurt a child. Shawn replied "yah, it's like killing a deer." According to the uncle, on previous occasions, Shawn had "talked often about how he kills deer and cuts them up with a chainsaw."

Clint says Billie and Shawn changed their entire living room, painting and getting new furniture, even a new TV. He also says that mutual friends of his and Billie's brought him a book that Billie had she had given to these friends. She asked them to burn it and to never mention it. The title of the book is A Witches' Bible. Clint turned the book over the the FBI.

On December 31st, Billie and Shawn thrown a New Year's Eve party.

On January 2nd, a candlelight vigil for Hailey is attended by at least 750 people.

On January 3rd, Colorado City police announce that Hailey Dunn’s case, previously treated as a runaway, now is being called a missing person case.

On January 4th, Billie and Shawn take polygraph tests. Billie fails hers and so does Shawn for the most part. The two questions he answered truthfully were disturbing. One of the questions was asking who the police should look at in Hailey's disappearance. Shawn answered "Us." The second question was if he knew where Hailey was, he answered yes. He said that Hailey was in Surrey.
After this, Shawn is asked by Billie to leave her home.

On February 24, authorities announce that nearly 109,000 images of child pornography, bestiality and deviant acts were discovered on numerous electronic devices Billie's home and Shawn’s mother's house. 

A purple rug painted with a pentagram was pulled from Hailey's home during the investigation and booked into evidence.

On March 17, Police had came to her door and asked for Shawn, Billie said he wasn't home. The police produced a search warrant, so Billie let them in. It turns out Shawn was home and Billie lied. Billie is arrested for lying to police.

On March 26th, 2013, Hailey's remains are found near Lake J.B. Thomas in Scurry County.

Allegedly court documents, say investigators believe Shawn was the last person to have seen Hailey, on December 27th. Investigators also believe that Hailey was "kidnapped and transported to another location against her will."

No one has been brought to justice for Hailey's murder.

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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