Assassinations Podcast

In this mini episode we consider the life and death of the Lebanese leader, whose extensive business interests and political activities made him a friend, confidante, and rival to some of the most powerful - and dangerous - people on earth.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

One was a Nazi torturer, protected by the United States. The other was a Marxist guerrilla, hunted by the Bolivian government. Their paths would cross in one of the most infamous episodes of the Cold War. Assassinated, Guevara would become a countercultural icon. Meanwhile Barbie would go on to commit many more crimes before his final date with destiny.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Though authorities blamed an outlawed far-left militant group called the Red Army Faction for the assassination of this prominent West German businessman, there is good reason to think that other forces might have been behind the hit.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Gerald Bull had been developing “super guns” for decades, culminating in his work for the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. Assassinated in 1990, it is unclear if Bull was killed by the Israelis, the Iranians, some other covert agency … or by the Iraqis themselves.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

For our 100th episode, we travel back to the thirteenth century to hear a story about the most feared killers of their age: the Order of Assassins, led by the mysterious Old Man of the Mountains.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Our 100th episode, which comes out next week, will bring us face to face with the OG assassins of yore.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Host Niall is joined this week by historian Sue Woolmans, the co-author of a book on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne who was killed in Sarajevo in 1914 - the event that sparked the First World War.

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To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books - including The Assassination of the Archduke by Sue Woolmans. You can also shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the concluding installment of our three-part investigation into the life and death of Roberto Calvi, we consider the forensic evidence from the scene of what at first appeared to be a suicide. Police eventually came to believe that he had been murdered. We go on a hunt for possible motives - a search that leads us from London, to Italy, to Poland, to Latin American … and back to London again.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

The financial scandal centered on the dodgy activities of Roberto Calvi brought with it assassination, Mafia threats, and the exposure of corruption at the highest levels in Rome. This is the second installment of a three-part series.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

This is Part 1 of our three-part investigation into the life, time, crimes, and suspicious demise of Roberto Calvi - a man dubbed “God’s banker” because of his association with the Vatican. We begin by imagining (based on first hand accounts) an initiation ceremony that Calvi might have gone through in order to join a secret society called Propaganda Due.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Soleimani was killed in an American drone missile strike at Bagdad International Airport. Many feared that the assassination would incite a major military response from Iran; however, the whole affair appeared to have been quite carefully stage-managed by both sides.

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You can contact us through the website - we love to hear your comments, questions, corrections, and general thoughts about the show. Our 100th episode is coming up soon, and Niall would love to hear any suggestions you might have for the occasion!

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

A soldier, a diplomat, the grandson of a king, and a man who helped to save thousands of people from the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, Folke Bernadotte was selected to help resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict in Palestine in 1948. It was a mission that cost him his life.

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To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com

While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a logo tee or tote bag.

You can also contact us through the website - we love to hear your comments, questions, corrections, and suggestions!

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

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For decades a leading figure in the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, al-Mabhouh was remarkably negligent in his security arrangements leading up to his assassination in 2010. An Israeli death squad was sent to Dubai to eliminate him; but they ended up making their own set of strange decisions, causing an international diplomatic incident in the process.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

We take a lighthearted narrative approach to finding out about the great Pan-American Exposition in New York, before turning to the somber matter of the assassination of President McKinley, who was shot there on September 6th, 1901.

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You can also contact us through the website - we love to hear your comments, questions, corrections, and suggestions!

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

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In the third and concluding installment of this investigation, we consider the case against Barry George, the sole person charged and convicted for the crime - only to be acquitted after six years in prison. Finally, we consider one other highly controversial potential motive for the murder of Jill Dando. 

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com 

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and hosts the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

As outlandish as it might seem, British police and the media considered whether Jill Dando might have been murdered on the orders of the Serbian government, possibly in an act of revenge for the NATO bombing of a TV station in Belgrade. We also consider some other more conventional motives in this, the second installment of our three-part look at this case.

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While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a logo tee or tote bag.

You can also contact us through the website - we love to hear your comments, questions, corrections, and suggestions!

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

The murder of journalist and television personality Jill Dando, slain outside her home in London in April 1999, sparked one of largest manhunts in British history. Many theories were considered as to who was responsible, but the case remains unsolved 20 years later. In the first episode in our three part investigation, we recreate events on the day of the killing and look in depth at one of the theories as to what might have happened.

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While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a logo tee or tote bag.

You can also contact us through the website - we love to hear your comments, questions, corrections, and suggestions!

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If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England had a rollercoaster relationship. Once a trusted ally who was awarded the highest offices of the land and even care of the monarch’s own son, Archbishop Becket became an intractable obstacle to Henry’s ambitions. This lead to one of the most notorious chapters in the long struggle between Church and Crown in the realm.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the corridors of power in Washington, DC and the plantation houses of Louisiana, there were many who sighed with relief when news broke that an assassin’s bullet had put paid to the relentless ambition of Senator Huey Long, a man described by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of the most dangerous in America.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

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To his supporters, he was a relentless crusader for justice, a people’s champion against cruel and greedy elites. To his opponents, Huey Long was a dangerously power-hungry demagogue who threatened democracy. Maybe both sides were right. Either way, he had made many enemies in American politics and in his home state of Louisiana when he was killed in Baton Rouge in 1935. Just who killed him is a another question, however …

In honor of both Halloween and the current US presidential election campaign, we take an offbeat look at one of history’s most notorious assassinations. After leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy, in 1865 President Lincoln was struck down by John Wilkes Booth. Just as “Honest Abe” loomed like a colossus over the nation during the Civil War, so in death it seems that he continues to cast a long shadow over the White House, where rumors of his ghostly presence have echoed through the decades.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

The seventh season of Assassinations Podcast will be a “potpourri” of subjects - some cases that host Niall has wanted to cover for a while, as well as cases suggested by listeners. The first episode of the new season, which comes out next week, will be Halloween/US election special on the legend of Abraham Lincoln’s ghost, which is said to stalk the corridors of the White House.

The closer Don Bolles got to the truth of criminal activities in Arizona, the deeper he entered into a world of danger. On the verge of exposing a massive money laundering operation by the Mafia, with links to the political and business elite of the state, he was seriously wounded in a car bombing, dying eleven days later. The following year, another Arizonan was found dead - with links to the very same criminal activities that Bolles had been investigating.

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While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a logo tee or tote bag.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Author Andy Thomas joins the show once again this season, helping us to consider what might really have happened to David Kelly. The conclusion of the Hutton Inquiry was that the British weapons inspector had committed suicide, but there are many indicators that this was an unsound verdict. This is the last installment of our look at the case.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Kelly’s death was looked into not by a coroner’s inquest but by a judge, Lord Hutton, who was specially appointed by the government. This meant evidence could be given in secret and witnesses protected from cross examination. The verdict raised more questions than answers, leading several doctors to question the plausibility of the claim that Kelly had committed suicide. Part 2 of 3.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

We begin our deep dive into the case of Dr David Kelly by considering the finding of the inquiry into his death in the summer of 2003: suicide. But were there any signs that the British biological weapons inspector, who found himself at the center of an almighty political and media storm, was suicidal? Were there aspects of his death, and the official investigation into it, that pointed to something rather more sinister? We start to consider the evidence in the first episode of a three part series.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Willie McRae’s campaigning work made him enemies, no doubt. But did he posses information so explosive that people would be willing to kill him? In the conclusion to our investigation, we consider just what McRae might have known. And we find out about an extraordinary revelation made in 2018, which, if true, would turn upside down the official investigation into his death.

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Willie McRae led a remarkable life: a scholar, a naval officer, a lawyer, a politician, and an activist. Yet it is the strange circumstances of his death - and the dodgy investigation that followed - for which he is best known in his native Scotland. This is the first episode of a two-part investigation.

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Fred Hampton was a leading member of the Black Panther Party, a self-proclaimed revolutionary socialist organization, which was founded in 1966 in order to fight back against police brutality. Hampton’s death during a raid on his apartment by the Chicago police and the FBI was initially ruled a justifiable homicide; however, subsequent revelations posed the question - was he the victim of an assassination?

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

A high-level Republican political consultant and media strategist, Michael Connell was killed in a plane crash in 2008. Officially an accident, many have claimed that Connell was killed to prevent him testifying in a lawsuit over alleged election fraud in the 2004 US presidential election.

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And to listen to the show we promoted this week, A Flatpack History of Sweden Podcast, head on over to their website: flatpackhistorysweden.podbean.com

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Hour of the Assassin, the latest book by best-selling novelist Matthew Quirk, is a romp through a dangerous world of dark money, dirty secrets, political manipulation, and murder. Matthew speaks with Niall about his work, and his own experiences of life inside the Beltway.

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To find out about Matthew Quirk and his new book, Hour of the Assassin, go to his website: matthewquirk.com

And to listen to the show we promoted this week, Southern Gothic Podcast, head on over to their website: southerngothicmedia.com

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

When the Prime Minister of Sweden was murdered on a freezing cold sidewalk in Stockholm in 1986, a nation unused to political violence was thrown into a state of shock. But could it be that the truth of who lay behind the assassination is even more disturbing than anyone had imagined?

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This week’s episode is an interview with Andy Thomas, the author of a new book called Conspiracies: The Facts. The Theories. The Evidence. His book focuses on some of the most popular conspiracies of our times, including high-profile assassinations, and he asks why it is that people so often look for explanations that go beyond the official narrative.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

From the moment news of his death broke, theories abounded as to what happened to the controversial media magnate: heart attack, accident, suicide, or murder? Part 2 of 2.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Soldier, businessman, politician … spy? Robert Maxwell went by many names and wore many hats in the course of his flamboyant life. But did he meet his end at the hands of one of the intelligence agencies that he might have been working with? This is the first installment of a two-part investigation.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

A militant activist during the Great Depression and a ruthless fixer inside the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa rose from humble origins to became one of the most powerful men in America. After serving time in prison, Hoffa fought to regain control of the union - even though it brought him into conflict with forces that seemingly “disappeared” him in 1975.

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week’s bonus is a review of the film The Irishman, in which Niall speaks with Gordon Brown, host of For Streaming Out Loud, a podcast focused on movies exclusively released on streaming services.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Though one man, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was convicted of the murder of Senator Robert F Kennedy, there were clear signs that others might have been involved. Yet the LAPD, prosecutors, and perhaps federal authorities as well, all focused on the lone shooter theory - even if that meant discounting other evidence. Part 2 of 2.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the first of a two-part investigation, we look at the death of Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed in the summer of 1968 while campaigning to become the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. The man convicted of his murder was Sirhan Bishara Sirhan; however, there are some who believe that he was a brainwashed patsy playing a role within a larger plot.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Season 6 commences on March 16th. For the next few months we will be exploring the stories of people whose deaths remain shrouded in mystery: murders unsolved, disappearances unexplained, and official verdicts cast into serious doubt. We begin our season with the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, who was shot to death in California during his run for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.

In the concluding part of this case, and the final episode of the season, we watch as Harvey Milk’s ceaseless campaigning finally sees him elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors - thanks in no small part to the help of Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. Within a year of his election, Milk was shot and killed by Dan White, a former political ally who went berserk in City Hall.

avoid scandal and possible ruin. But Milk’s chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself - sometimes from one extreme to another - was remarkable, and a key asset in his rise to become America’s first openly gay elected official. Part 1 of 2.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Harvey Milk wore many masks. As a gay man in postwar America, it was necessary to hide his true self in order to avoid scandal and possible ruin. But Milk’s chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself - sometimes from one extreme to another - was remarkable, and a key asset in his rise to become America’s first openly gay elected official. Part 1 of 2.

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Find out about the movie we mention in this episode, Lawrence: After Arabia, by going to its website: www.lawrencethemovie.com

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Bantu Stephen Biko was the foremost figure of the Black Consciousness Movement in apartheid-era South Africa. A determined opponent of white-minority rule, he was tortured to death by police officers in 1977.

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Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the concluding part of our study of life and ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, we trace his long fight for freedom. Considered the father of the nation, he would only live in his liberated homeland for a matter of months before he was assassinated.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Gandhi helped to end British imperial rule over India, leading a mass non-violent movement of civil disobedience, often in the face of brutal repression. Episode 1 of 2.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

A hero to the poor and dispossessed, a villain to the conservative ruling class, Emiliano Zapata became one of the most powerful leaders of the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century. A farmer, a skilled horseman, and an effective military commander, Zapata fought to advance the rights of the common people against the depredations of the landed elite.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the fourth and final episode of our investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear additional, extraordinary claims about just who - other than James Earl Ray - might have been behind this terrible crime. We follow a trail that leads us from the Lorraine Motel in Memphis all the way to the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the third part of our investigation into the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we consider the wealth of evidence that undermined the conviction and incarceration of James Earl Ray as the sole assassin. Despite confessing to the crime, Ray quickly recanted. By the 1990s, numerous witnesses had come forward to challenge the official version of events, leading members of the King family to believe that they had never received justice. We have added an extra episode to our investigation in order to deal with this evidence - we conclude next week.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

We walk with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his last day, as he campaigned alongside striking municipal workers in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. We witness his assassination and then we follow the international manhunt for the man who would be convicted of King's murder - James Earl Ray. But there was much, much more to this case than came out during the sentencing of Ray in 1969. Part 2 of 3.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

For the first investigation of Season 5 of the show, which will focus on civil rights leaders, we find out about the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Not only the foremost advocate for the rights of African Americans, King was also a leading voice against war and poverty. In this episode we trace the converging paths of King and James Earl Ray, the man who would be convicted - rightly or wrongly - for the assassination. Part 1 of 3.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Season 5 commences on November 11th. The theme for this season is civil rights - people who were assassinated because of their struggle for freedom and equality. We begin our season with the life and death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the leader of the US civil rights movement and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War. We will then move on to explore cases from within the United States and around the world, including Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and gay liberation activist and politician Harvey Milk.

The two women who seemingly thought they were taking part in a hidden camera prank show were charged instead with the murder of Kim Jong-nam. However, the court case turned into a fiasco that threw everything that had previously been said about the killing of the North Korean exile into doubt. We consider the fate of the women and the role that the assassination played in global events. Part 2 of 2.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In 2017 Kim Jong-nam was killed by two women who thought they were taking part in a prank video, but who were inadvertently smearing a chemical weapon on his face. Was he the victim of an ingenious scheme hatched by his half-brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un? And who was he secretly meeting in the days before his bizarre murder? Part 1 of 2.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Delving into the underworld of Italian-American organized crime, we look at Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano, the gangster who became the most powerful Mafia boss in America in the mid-20th century. By means of murder, political skill, and business acumen he transformed the Mob from a loose group of rival criminal families into a nationwide syndicate that engaged in legal business activities and even worked with the US Government.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

We are joined once more by Mike Corradi from A History of Italy Podcast to look at the lives, loves, and crimes of the Borgia family. This week, we focus on the the beautiful Lucrezia, the daughter of Pope Alexander VI, who allegedly lured men to their deaths. We then find out about the fate of the infamous dynasty.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

We join with our good friends at A History of Italy Podcast to bring you a two-part investigation into one of the most notorious dynasties of the Renaissance, the Borgias. This week, we focus on the priest-turned-warrior Cesare Borgia, who used murderous conspiracies and battlefield tactics to attempt to forge a new state during the Italian Wars.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Set fire to Rome, burning the capital of the known world to the ground? Check. Poisoned your step-brother and heir? Check. Bumped off you mother, your tutor, and your pregnant wife? Check, check, check. Oh, well, you must be Emperor Nero, then! We spend time with history's most infamous ruler and ask: was he really such a monster?

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

And get $20 off your first box of Winc wine by using code "assassinations" at winc.com.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Was he the craziest ruler in the ancient world or the best satirist in Rome? Maybe he was both. We continue our look at the Julio-Claudian dynasty, witnessing the strange goings on in the court of Emperor Caligula, whose behavior scandalized the Roman nobility and led to claims that he was mad.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

Make sure to check out our sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

And get $20 off your first box of Winc wine by using code "assassinations" at winc.com.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

The second and last part of our look at the case of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator killed in 44 BC. We watch as Caesar, defying ill omens, enters the Senate House to be killed in a frenzy of knife blows. Though it looks like a deal might be struck between his supporters and his assassins, the situation rapidly changes. In the civil war that follows, the fate of the Republic hangs in the balance.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Season 4 of the show will focus on murderous schemes within powerful families throughout history. In the first episode of the season, we look at the most famous assassination of all time - the murder of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate in 44 BC. He had won glory and riches conquering the Gauls before going on to defeat his Roman foes. But as dictator for life, it was in Rome itself that the great man would meet his doom. We conclude this case next week.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

This episode includes a trailer for our brand new sister show, Fab Figmentals! Fab Figmentals is hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Season 4 is going live on August 5th! The theme for this season is dynasties - assassinations by and within powerful families through the ages. We'll travel from Ancient Rome to Renaissance Italy, and from 20th century New York right up to one of the most infamous dynasties of the present day. We hope you’ll join us on this epic journey into the world of history's most frightening families.

In the concluding installment of our two-part look at the case of Daphne Caruana Galizia, we find out about the investigations she was working on for her blog, Running Commentary, at the time of her death. This journalistic work made her powerful enemies in her homeland, Malta, and likely led to her murder.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

This episode includes a trailer for our brand new podcast, Fab Figmentals, launching July 10th! Fab Figmentals will be hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it will explore the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts. Check your feed next week; we'll be sharing the first episode of Fab Figmentals with you right here.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Assassinations Podcast is dark this week, but we’re bringing you a sneak preview of a brand new show launching this week on our network: Fab Figmentals, a podcast that explores the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts! Each week, host Lindsey Morse (the producer of Assassinations Podcast) explores a different legendary creature by looking at its history and folklore. If you enjoy this episode of Fab Figmentals, you can listen to additional episodes and subscribe here.

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In the first installment of our two-part look at Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, we look at the sequence of events culminating in her assassination in 2017. She was killed in a car bombing, allegedly carried out by three men with links to the criminal underworld on the island.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

This episode includes a trailer for our brand new podcast, Fab Figmentals, launching July 10th! Fab Figmentals will be hosted by our very own Lindsey Morse, and it will explore the realm of curious creatures, magical monsters, and beautiful beasts. Check your feed next week; we'll be sharing the first episode of Fab Figmentals with you right here.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the second installment of our two-part look at themassacre at the newspaper Charlie Hebdo in 2015, we look at the biographies of the two men who committed the crime and follow them as they lead French security forces on a massive manhunt. We also find out about a third man who committed a string of coordinated attacks across Paris, culminating in a murderous hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the first of a two-part look at the mass shooting at the office of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in 2015, we learn about the controversy surrounding the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed. The images, originally published in a Danish newspaper and added to by the illustrators at Charlie Hebdo, upset many Muslims, who said some of the depictions were both disrespectful and racist. As protests grew, some Islamist groups threatened bloody retribution for those who had published the cartoons.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In Part 2 of our two-part look at the case of Anna Politkovskaya, we learn about the official investigation into her death, which bore the hallmarks of a carefully planned contract killing. We also ask - who might have commissioned the hit on this journalist and human rights campaigner? She was a prominent critic of the administration of Vladimir Putin, and many people blamed the Russian president for her death. But there were others who might have been responsible, including people she had confronted during her work in Chechnya.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Do you like wine? Check out Winc! Winc recommends personalized bottles and sends them direct to your door. For $22 off your first box, use code assassinations.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In Part 1 of a two-part study of the life and death of Anna Politkovskaya, we look at her work as a journalist covering the brutal Chechen wars in Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s. She exposed war crimes and gave voice to the many civilian casualties of the conflict between separatists and the federal government. She also sought to expose corruption and criminality elsewhere in Russia, in the process making powerful enemies. Her assassination in 2006 led some people to point the finger of blame at President Vladimir Putin; but as we shall hear, Ms Politkovskaya kicked several hornets' nests in the dangerous world of Russian politics and big business.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

Do you like wine? Check out Winc! Winc recommends personalized bottles and sends them direct to your door. For $22 off your first box, use code assassinations.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Born in China in 1932, Henry Liu fled to Taiwan after the Communist Revolution in 1949. He worked as a journalist before moving to the United States, where he became a prominent critic of the Taiwanese government. Lui had written a controversial book that criticized the rulers of Taiwan, and at the time of his death he was working on a new project that threatened to expose more secrets. In 1984, Liu was shot to death in his home in California by a triad gang with links to the government in Taipei.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

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This episode features a promo for Beyond Bizarre True Crime Podcast, available on iTunes.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Martin O'Hagan went from being a Republican militant, fighting the British in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, to a well-respected journalist. Even though he had put down the gun, his investigative work meant that he still risked death at the hands of the IRA and Loyalist groups. In 2001, he was assassinated in his hometown of Lurgan, the victim of a paramilitary gang that wished to silence him.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

This episode features a promo for Murder Mile Podcast, available on iTunes.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In this episode, we conclude our two-part investigation into the life and assassination of Ruth First. A journalist working in South Africa during the era of apartheid, Ruth exposed the brutalities of life for blacks living in the country. With her husband, Joe Slovo, she became a leading member of the South African Communist Party and a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

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This episode features a promo for Presidencies of the United States Podcast, available on iTunes.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

This is the first installment of our two-part investigation into the life and assassination of Ruth First. A journalist working in South Africa during the era of apartheid, Ruth exposed the brutalities of life for blacks living in the country. With her husband, Joe Slovo, she became a leading member of the South African Communist Party and a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

This episode features ads for Free Your Tea and Shaker & Spoon. Get 10% off a subscription to Free Your Tea by visiting freeyourtea.com and entering code ASSASSINATIONS at checkout. You can also get $20 off a cocktail box subscription by visiting shakerandspoon.com/assassin.

This episode features a promo for French History Podcast, available on iTunes.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

As a journalist working for the anti-corruption website Tiger Eye Private Investigations, Ahmed Divela helped expose a multi-million dollar corruption scandal in the national soccer association of Ghana. The exposé led to resignations and criminal proceedings, and it implicated a powerful Ghanaian politician named Kennedy Agyapong. Agyapong denounced the team at Tiger Eye as "troublemakers" and indicated that he wished his supporters to attack or kill Divela. A few months later, the journalist lay dead, gunned down on a street in Accra.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

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This episode also features a promo for the podcast Nordic True Crime, available on iTunes.

Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

We take a break from our season on journalists in order to look into the murder of Sergio Rojas. A leader of the indigenous rights movement in Costa Rica, Rojas was shot to death in his home in March. Land disputes between tribal peoples and non-indigenous farmers have been ongoing for decades, and violent incidents have occurred in the past. The perpetrator of the killing of Rojas remains unknown; however, those who knew him believe this was an assassination. The case was brought to our attention by Russell Davis, a bar consultant who has worked on the TV show Bar Rescue. Davis is also the Chief Cocktail Officer for our program sponsor, Shaker & Spoon. Russell was studying drinking culture with indigenous peoples in Costa Rica when he heard about the killing of Rojas, and we interview him to get his insight into the situation.

A special thanks this week to Russell Davis, as well as the Costa Ricans who spoke with us off the record to provide their knowledge and insight into this case.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

If you’d like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, a monthly livestream, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast You can also interact with us on Twitter. You’ll find us @AssassinsPod.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

In the final installment of our three-part investigating into the death of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, we find out what the US Central Intelligence Agency knew about the gruesome events that took place inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he was killed. In January of this year, eleven men were put on trial in Saudi Arabia for their alleged involvement in the crime. But other people who might have been involved - indeed, those who may have organized the assassination - seem to have escaped justice. Meanwhile, we ask what, if anything, will change as a result of the international furore over the killing of Khashoggi?

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Part 2/3. In the second installment of our three-part investigating into the death of Jamal Khashoggi, we find out about the circumstances that led him to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. When he failed to come out of the building, the Turkish government launched an investigation, prompting the Saudi authorities to issue an evolving stream of explanations for what might have happened. As more gruesome details came out, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came under international scrutiny for his potential role in the killing.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Part 1/3. In October, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, was killed during a seemingly routine visit to a Saudi consulate. A prominent critic of the Saudi government, Khashoggi's death became a major news story that brought international attention to human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and cast a pall over the kingdom's relations with the rest of the world. In this, the first installment of a three-part investigation, we find out about Khashoggi's complex relationship with the Saudi elite.

To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag.

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Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you’d like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band Remember Remember. You’ll find them on iTunes.

Threats against journalists pose a threat to the democratic right of free speech. In the third season of our podcast, trailed here, we’ll look into cases of assassinations and alleged assassinations of journalists from around the world.

In the last episode of our second season, we re-examine the case of Alexander Litvinenko. A vocal critic of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, he died of poisoning in London in 2006. It took the British ten years to release a report into his apparent assassination, which gathered a huge quantity of evidence relating to his death. However, the inquiry was riddled with inconsistencies— and it kept Litvinenko's relationship with British intelligence in the shadows.

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Part 3/3. In the third and final part of our look at the case of Sergei Skripal & the Poisoned Perfume, we find out about recently made claims of a connection between the Salisbury poisonings and an alleged assassination attempt against a Bulgarian arms dealer. We wade through the informational battleground between Britain and Russia, where claims, counterclaims, propaganda, and "fake news" all compete - but where evidence can be hard to identify from disinformation. And we consider the most tragic aspect of the case - the fate of Dawn Sturgess.

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Part 2/3. Far from retiring after his move to Britain in a spy swap, Sergei Skripal was still actively engaged in intelligence work. He met with his MI6 handler, Pablo Miller, and continued to work with British and American agencies until at least 2017. In Part 2 of this three-part episode, we find out about Miller's connection to a private company called Orbis Business Intelligence, which prepared the "Trump-Russia Dossier.” We also look at the two Russian suspects in the Salisbury poisonings, and discover that they may have entered the UK using aliases.

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Part 1/3. Sergei Skripal was a Russian military intelligence offer who betrayed his country to work for the British in the 1990s. He later moved to England, where he seemingly lived in retirement in the quaint cathedral city of Salisbury. But it appears that Skripal had not entirely left the world of spies behind him. Was this why he, with his daughter, was poisoned in March 2018? In Part 1 of a three-part episode, we follow the Skripals on the day they fell ill, and we find out about the exotic substance that might have been used against them.

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Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British intelligence operative who participated in the Arab Revolt during the First World War. He became a celebrity upon his return to England, though he was uncomfortable with fame. After a subsequent career in the air force - and possibly as a spy - he died under strange circumstances. We interview Mark Griffin, whose upcoming film, "Lawrence: After Arabia,” explores the strange circumstances surrounding his death.

For more information on the people and music featured in today’s episode (and to learn more about Mark Griffin’s film, “Lawrence: After Arabia”), visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

In Part 2 of this episode, we find out how Ashraf Marwan was outed as a spy and we look into the events leading up to his death. Marwan fell from the window of his fifth floor apartment in London, but the investigation that followed left many unanswered questions. And we will ask: did he fall, did he jump ... or was he pushed?

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Ashraf Marwan fell from the window of his fifth floor apartment in London's exclusive Mayfair. A billionaire businessman, he'd lived a quiet life in England for many years. In Part 1 of this episode, we look into his previous work as a spy - perhaps the greatest spy of the 20th Century. An Egyptian, in the 1970s he provided huge amounts of high level government information to Israel. These intelligence reports helped to shape Israeli policy. But had Marwan been a double agent the whole time?

For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

In Part 1, we reenacted a radio interview in which Boris Korczak made remarkable claims about multiple assassination attempts that followed his being outed as a CIA agent inside the KGB. We now take a look at Korczak's background, his work for the CIA in Denmark, and his subsequent fight against the US Government.

For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Born in Polish Lithuania, Boris Korczak fled from Communism and settled in Denmark. There he became embroiled in Cold War espionage. He worked for seven years as a CIA asset operating within the KGB. After his cover was blown, Korczak sought help from the Americans, including US citizenship - but the CIA had different ideas. In a remarkable radio interview, reenacted here, WRC’s Joel Spivak interviews Boris Korcak about some of his remarkable claims.

This is part 1 of 2 about Boris Korczak. In next week’s episode, we’ll learn more about his story, investigate his claims, and unpack some of his bizarre allegations.

To learn more about Boris Korczak and the music used in this week’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Georgi Markov died following a strange encounter on the streets of London. But as we discovered in Part 2 of the episode, there were even more unusual - and disturbing - things going on. In the final part of our episode, we examine the contradictory claims associated with the case, and we ask what might really have happened.

To learn more about Georgi Markov and the music used in this week’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov died following an encounter on the streets of London - the so-called Umbrella Assassination. As the British media speculated as to what exactly caused his death, behind the scenes more strange and disturbing drama unfolded. In Part 2 of our episode, we investigate an attempted murder in Paris, which at first appeared to solve the case … but ended up raising more questions than answers.

To learn more about Georgi Markov and the music used in this week’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

In one of the most infamous moments of the Cold War, Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov died following a strange encounter on the streets of London. The incident came to be known as the "Umbrella Assassination", after the British press picked up on claims that Markov had been killed by a mysterious man carrying an umbrella. But the truth might be different - and even more shocking - than the lurid media tale. In the first part of our 3 part episode on his death, we meet Markov and learn about his assassination.

For more information about Georgi Markov and the music used in this week’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Imperial Japan had overrun much of China by the end of the 1930s. The great city of Shanghai was ruled by a puppet government with its feared secret police. Amidst the horrors of war, a beautiful young woman must use her talents to lure a dangerous and corrupt official to his death.

For more information about Zheng Pingru and the music used in this week’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

In the world of espionage, truth can be stranger than fiction. The second season of our podcast will uncover the secret plots and deadly gadgets used by spies against their foes. 

Jörg Jenatsch murdered a rival during a period of turmoil in 17th Century Switzerland. Years later, Jenatsch would pay for his crime when he was attacked by a bear with an axe at a party in a pub. Who says Switzerland is boring?

Radama, the king of the island nation of Madagascar, wanted to open up his homeland to the modern world. Supposedly strangled to death by his own troops, a legend flourished that Radama survived - and that he would return some day to reclaim his throne.

Mary's own father, King James V of Scotland, predicted that his daughter and sole heir would bring calamity upon the royal House of Stuart. Though her reign was dramatic and tragic, with scheming and murder aplenty, it actually led to the greatest dynastic triumph for the Stuarts - winning the throne of the "Auld Enemy", England.

Princess Diana's death in a car crash stunned Britain and the world. It did not take long for critics of the official police investigation to ask the question: had Diana, with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, been murdered by dark forces within the state?

This episode contains explicit language. For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

The most famous woman in the world died in a car crash on the streets of Paris in the summer of 1997. Diana's death caused unprecedented scenes of public mourning, with Britain stunned by the news that the "people's princess" had met such a shocking end. Conspiracies soon swirled - could it be that the death of Diana was no accident?

For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Though the economy was on the ropes and there were angry protests against him, Allende retained a strong degree of support. Crucially, he had the backing of the head of the armed forces. But when that top general was forced to resign in 1973, Allende found himself at the mercy of General Pinochet. In Part Two of this episode we look at the US-backed coup against Allende, and examine the terrible consequences of military rule.

For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Salvador Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970. Within three years, he was dead. In Part One of this episode, we witness Allende making powerful enemies in the Nixon administration and among Chilean conservatives. Through economic woes and civil unrest, Allende maintained his radical politics. But those lined up against him would never let a socialist rule in Chile.

For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

A Russian journalist living in Ukraine, Arkady Babchenko was supposedly shot to death in his apartment by an assassin operating on behalf of a mysterious Russian conspiracy. Or so the story went ... until Babchenko turned up at a press conference that had been convened to discuss his death. Rather than an assassination, the assembled media was informed that the hoax was perpetrated in order to foil a real plot. But, many have wondered if this explanation makes any sense. What could possibly account for the bizarre series of events that involved spies, an arms dealer, a monk, and a shady security consultancy in the suburbs of Washington, DC?

Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of an independent Congo. The leader of a national liberation movement, he fell victim to powerful forces that sought to control his country.

Stepping into the crisis in the Congo, Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations and one of the most brilliant diplomats of his generation, sought to bring about peace. It was a mission that cost him his life.

This episode of Assassinations Podcast will look at the machinations of Congolese politicians, Belgian imperialists, CIA agents, mercenary fighters, and the United Nations - all of which sought, in their own ways, to shape the future of the Congo and control its vast natural resources.

For more information about the people and music featured in this episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Trotsky was a devoted Marxist and the co-leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Pushed out of the Soviet Union that he had helped to create, Trotsky was condemned to death.

Granted asylum in Mexico, Trotsky was hunted by Stalin's henchmen before being assassinated by a Soviet agent who had posed as a political supporter.

In this episode of Assassinations Podcast, we explore the extraordinary and tragic life of Leon Trotsky and witness the brutal death of a revolutionary martyr.

For more information about Trotsky and the music used in this week’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website.

Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was unpopular in Viennese society and hated by the Serbian nationalists. Though he wanted a quiet life with his beloved family, he accepted his role as heir to the throne - and all the dangers that came with it. But an official visit to Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 was so poorly planned that one aide described the archduke's safety as having been left “in God's hands".

Young Serbian revolutionary zealots wanted to strike a blow against the hated House of Habsburg, the imperial rulers of Bosnia. The visit of Franz Ferdinand to Sarajevo gave them the perfect opportunity.

Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie survived a bomb thrown at their open-top car as they travelled through Sarajevo. But then - remarkably - they returned via the same route, giving assassins another opportunity to strike.

This week on Assassinations Podcast, we explore the history and conspiracies surrounding the murder of the heir to the Austo-Hungarian throne.

Grigori Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, was a mystic layman. He had a deep faith and many believed in the power of his prayers. But others saw him as a charlatan who had weaseled his way into the royal household.

As his legend spread across Russia, those who were suspicious or jealous of his "powers" castigated him as a sex maniac, a huckster and even a heretic.

Rasputin was fiercely loyal to the Romanovs. However, his link with the royals brought scandal to the palace.

This week on Assassinations Podcast, we explore his relationship to the royal family, and how his closeness to the Romanovs brought him both fame and, ultimately, destruction.

Are you fascinated by the darker side of history? Do you love uncovering conspiracies and delving into political intrigue?

If so, then join me on April 30th when Assassinations Podcast launches its first season by investigating the killing of Gregori Rasputin— a man whose life and death were shrouded in scandal and mystery.

Our first season will explore the assassinations of six of the 20th century’s most fascinating figures. I won’t spoil the full lineup just yet, but expect to see a few of history’s most famous assassinations featured this season. We’ll also be taking a look at some of the lesser known, but equally compelling killings that left their mark on history.

Thank you for checking out this teaser, and I hope you'll join me next Monday, April 30th when our first episode goes live.