Some interesting stories I’ve found so far.

* A Russian soldier holed up in a farmhouse during the Russian invasion of Poland went outside to go to the bathroom to do number 2. In the process, he was shot in the leg. He ran back to the farmhouse and didn’t go the bathroom for another 7 days.

* A woman waiting for rationed food in the blockaded city of Leningrad had her food stolen by a man in line behind her. The starvation had reached such a crisis point that she reached down his mouth and pulled out what was left of the food in order to take it home for her family.

* In order to combat the problem of desertion in the Russian army, Stalin devised a strategy where Russians would approach the German line with their hands raised in a “surrender” position. Then, when they got close to the Germans, they would throw grenades. The Germans began responding to surrendering Russians by shooting them. Russian soldiers learned this, and what their fate would be if they surrendered to the enemy.

It was in Birmingham in the spring of 1963 that Mr. Shuttlesworth, an important ally of Dr. King, organized two tumultuous weeks of daily demonstrations by black children, students, clergymen and adults against a rigidly segregated society.

Graphic scenes of helmeted police officers and firefighters under the direction of Eugene “Bull” Connor, Birmingham’s intransigent public safety commissioner, scattering peaceful marchers with fire hoses, police dogs and rattling nightsticks, provoked a national outcry.

The brutality helped galvanize the nation’s conscience, as did the Ku Klux Klan bombing of a black Birmingham church that summer that killed four girls attending Sunday school. The events led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, after the historic protest march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, organized in part by Mr. Shuttlesworth, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The measures were the keystones of civil rights legislation.

Thanks to the work of Fred Shuttlesworth, America overcame.

It seems like it was just yesterday, and often when I see images or sounds of 9/11 all the feelings come back and I get a lump in my throat. All of those people, right here in the heart of America.

I don’t personally know anyone who died on 9/11, but they were our friends and neighbors. Struck down at random, the only “reason” they died because they were Americans.

Even though we have avenged them in a very concrete way – killing Bin Laden and disrupting the Al Qaeda network – they are all gone forever. Their families never saw them come home the way they left, smiling faces and love in their hearts. No military action can change that.

Time and politics have made us less unified than we were on that day and the subsequent weeks as we collectively mourned. But we have a spirit that still lies right below the surface. When push comes to shove, Americans can and will stand together.

We must honor those who died, remembering how it happened and never let the memory fade. Two giant towers were collapsed, the heart of our military was pierced, and a field in Pennsylvania was shaken to its core.

But America prevails, lives on, fights, and remembers.

September 11, 2011.

The grave holding the remains of Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess has been destroyed to stop it being used as a pilgrimage site by neo-Nazis.

Hess’s bones were exhumed at the graveyard in the town of Wunsiedel, southern Germany, early on Wednesday.

The remains will be cremated and then scattered at sea.

Hess was captured after flying to Britain in 1941 and sentenced to life in prison. He killed himself in a Berlin jail in 1987 at the age of 93.

It doesn’t help that they have banned the swastika. Doing that just gives it power.

The answer now is not “cut the deficit.” It never has been. Sometimes you just want to take our leaders and turn their heads away from cable news and the op-ed columnists and say, “Look, dammit, this problem needs fixing and people don’t give a crap if the Wall Street Journal editorial board is happy!”

The really sad thing is, like many of the problems affecting America, we know what the right thing to do is. There are many national problems screaming for us to fix them. We were able to do this in the past, but a witch’s brew of conservatism and Democratic paralysis is contributing to our ship sinking while we slap ourselves on the back for arranging the deck chairs in an impressive orientation.

On problems like employment, economy, education, health care, the environment, national security, etc., we know what has to be done but there hasn’t been the political will and leadership to do them. Our failures to act on the most important issues of today are damaging America in ways we will feel for generations.

This country fought and defeated a depression, the British monarchy, and the Nazis. This country landed on the moon, cured Polio, and created one of the most powerful economic engines in the history of man. We ought to be able to handle the problems we’ve got today.

But we can’t. Or, more honestly, we won’t.

What the Hell?

In 1919, a soldier in Munich discovered that he could galvanize small groups of fellow trench warfare veterans with virulently anti-Semitic oratory. A superior officer, impressed with the soldier’s oral skills, asked him to commit his ideas to paper.

Thus came into existence the first written record of Adolf Hitler’s obsessive hostility toward Jews, an embryonic form of the worldview that would later lead to the Holocaust and millions of deaths.

Now, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has acquired what it believes may be the original version of the document, known as the Gemlich letter. In July, the center plans to put it on public view for the first time, at its Museum of Tolerance, making the letter the centerpiece of its Holocaust exhibit.

The text of the letter is well known to scholars. It is considered significant because it demonstrates just how early in his career Hitler was formulating his anti-Semitic views.

“It is his first written statement about the Jews,” said the historian Saul Friedlander, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his study of the Holocaust. “It shows that this was the very core of his political passion.”

The other people who know this: Every American child.

Sarah Palin said that Paul Revere warned the British during his midnight ride in 1775. Historians beg to differ.

“He didn’t warn the British,” said James Giblin, author of “The Many Rides of Paul Revere.” “That’s her most obvious blooper.”

During her “One Nation Tour” last week, the former Alaska governor uttered a now-infamous recounting of the Revolutionary War hero’s midnight ride, telling reporters that Revere “warned, uh, the … the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells.” She defended her explanation on “Fox News Sunday,” saying “Part of his ride was to warn the British that we’re already there — that, ‘Hey, you’re not going to succeed. ‘”

Experts agree that warning the British — Revere was an American patriot, remember, he was against the folks across the pond — was not crucial to the midnight ride.

“Revere’s assignment that night was to go to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were moving in that direction from Boston,” explained Kristin Peszka, director of interpretation and visitor’s services at the Paul Revere House, which Palin visited Thursday. (Peszka noted that Palin offered her convoluted account before touring the historic site.)

“People did ring bells that night,” she added. “It was a common way of alerting people to come out. But Revere was not the person ringing the bells.”

Conservatives are tying themselves in knots trying to extricate Palin’s foot from her mouth, but the problem is IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY.

This is the prayer President Roosevelt read over the radio as Allied troops were landing on the beach of Normandy for the D-Day invasion. That was 67 years ago today.

On May 8, 1945 the Nazis surrendered. On August 15, 1945 the Japanese surrendered.

My Fellow Americans:

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest — until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home — fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them — help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too — strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment — let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace — a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt – June 6, 1944

Chicago Tribune July 2, 1969: The Medicare hospital trust fund faces bankruptcy by 1976 and taxes must either be raised or benefits reduced the senate finance committee was told today.

New York Times July 7, 1981: Medicare payroll taxes already imposed by Congress, including two increases scheduled for 1985 and 1986, will only be able to keep the hospital insurance system solvent for eight to 10 more years, three Cabinet officers informed Congress. Even under the Reagan Administration’s highly optimistic economic projections, the fund will be bankrupt before 2000, the three said.

Washington Post,March 6, 1983: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici warned the nation’s governors the other day, “Medicare can be bankrupt in 2 1/2 years,” unless some way is found to put the brakes on its burgeoning costs.

Chicago Tribune: June 25, 1983: Medicare is in danger of bankruptcy as early as 1986, the system’s trustees declared Friday.

Chicago Tribune, March 10 1984: To avert Medicare’s expected insolvency, a federal advisory council proposed Friday raising the eligibility age to 67, taxing employer paid health insurance benefits and boosting the tax on alcohol and tobacco… the Congressional Budget Office said Medicare may be insolvent in 1989

New York Times, January 20, 1985: In the last few years, when it appeared that the Medicare trust fund would run out of money in 1987-89… But the need seemed less urgent after the Congressional Budget Office issued new estimates last September indicating that the Medicare trust fund would not go bankrupt until 1994.

Chicago Tribune February 6, 1985: Medicare is still expected to go bankrupt in 1991, and a new flood of red tape is not helping America’s hospitals.

New York Times, March 27, 1985: Reagan Administration officials said tonight that new projections showed the Medicare trust fund would not go bankrupt until late in 1990′s.

Chicago Tribune, Nov. 17 1985: Last spring, the government estimated that the Medicare trust fund would run out of money by 1998. Given less optimistic assumptions about the economy, it could happen as soon as 1992

Washington Post, April 1, 1986: The Medicare hospital insurance program faces bankruptcy by 1996, two years earlier than projected last year.

Chicago Tribune, June 29, 1986: Dr. Jerald Schenken of Omaha, an AMA trustee, said the doctors have worked for more than two years on formulating the plan, because they fear the current Medicare system will go bankrupt by the end of the century.

New York Times, May 22, 1988: Reflecting the view of the Reagan Administration, Dr. William L. Roper, the head of the Federal Medicare and Medicaid agency, said, ”With the Medicare Trust Fund expected to go insolvent shortly after 2000, it is hard for us to sign on for a major expansion of the Medicare program beyond the catastrophic care bill.”

New York Times, January 22, 1989: The fund that pays all Government reimbursement for hospital care of Medicare patients is projected to become insolvent in the next decade or so.

Washington Post May 4, 1990: Control of health costs is considered by many experts to be the number one health problem in the United States. Such costs are expected to bankrupt Medicare by the year 2003.

Washington Post December 13, 1994: The trust fund that finances Medicare is projected to become insolvent in the year 2001

Los Angeles Times May 31, 1995: For weeks, Republicans have been talking about a report that warns that Medicare is in danger of going bankrupt in the year 2002.

Chicago Tribune April 25, 1997: Medicare trustees said Thursday that the program providing health care to more than 38 million senior citizens is still headed for bankruptcy in 2001.

Chicago Tribune, January 7, 1999: [The National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare] was created in 1997 to deal with Medicare’s projected bankruptcy in 2008.

Medicare is always about to go belly-up. Always.

Barack Obama matters to black America for many reasons, but his most symbolic role is that he’s a living role model for black children. As I’ve noted many times before, you can tell someone that they can make it with hard work and studying, but it’s a whole other notion to show black Americans that you really can go as high as the highest office in the country.

Here’s Obama at a high school graduation for Booker T. Washington High School, and the reaction of the students.

There isn’t anyway to quantify what this does for black Americans.

Race is the one ingredient that’s indispensable to understanding America, yet it’s the one ingredient we’re always trying to take out. As recently as the 2009 “beer summit” — when President Barack Obama intervened in the dispute between a black Harvard professor and a white police officer — many in the media expressed wonder that we still had not moved “beyond race.”

There was another time in America when the majority felt it was time to move “beyond race.” And that act of national forgetfulness is what connects the Civil War to the Freedom Rides.

“Why was the war fought — was it about slavery or states’ rights?” asked Glenn McConnell, a South Carolina state senator, at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the assault on Fort Sumter.

McConnell continued, “What does the Confederate battle flag stand for? Is it a symbol of bigotry or a memorial to the valor of fallen soldiers? … Many of the emotional issues still rage.”

They rage, in part, because people who ought to know better keep alive the fiction that the Civil War was not fought over slavery. McConnell’s use of fair-and-balanced rhetoric reframed our nation’s darkest hour as just another battle of opinions, like everything you see on TV. And it worked. A widely reprinted April 12 Associated Press story about the war’s outbreak mentioned slavery precisely once — in the quote from McConnell.

Public officials were not always so ambivalent about the war’s origins. In his 1861 inaugural address, the new pro-slavery governor of Missouri, Claiborne Fox Jackson, served notice to the federal government that any interference with slaveholders’ rights would be cause to take the state into the Confederacy.

Missouri must “stand by her sister slaveholding States, in whose wrongs she participates and with whose institution and people she sympathizes,” Jackson thundered.

Slaveholding Missouri stayed in the Union, but the ideology of slave power permeated one secession document after another — the “sovereignty” of states to turn human beings into private property.

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world,” declared the Georgia secessionists.

If the Civil War began with one side’s need to enslave African-Americans, it ended only after the other side had enlisted nearly 200,000 black men equally determined to crush the institution.

Why were the Nazis entitled to due process, but accused terrorists aren’t? Nazis killed millions of innocents and were convicted at the much-celebrated Nuremberg trials. Yet, many insist bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders must be executed or detained without a similar trial because a courtroom drama would supposedly generate a circus (this, as if Nuremberg were some low-key affair).

As roadkillrefugee notes on Twitter: “Remember D-Day, when the Allies landed at Normandy with 1000′s of process servers to issue arrest warrants to the Nazi troops?”

This is embarassing. I didn’t sleep through history class, so I know that the Nuremberg Trials came after we defeated the Nazis in the biggest war ever fought in human history. The most egregious charge – crimes against humanity – didn’t even really exist before the war was mostly over.

The vast majority of Nazis who committed their atrocities weren’t punished at Nuremberg (only 24 Nazis were charged at Nuremberg). They were punished on the field of battle, when Allied soldiers shot them in the face (and other body parts).

The height of all this was the 2004 election, when the GOP essentially ran a campaign that all but accused Democrats of working hand-in-hand with Al Qaeda, an extension of the 2002 affair. They believed they owned this issue, and acted accordingly.

They never really did. Al Qaeda didn’t just attack Republicans, after all. But they behaved as if only their opinions mattered, only their strategies were worth pursuing in a global war against terrorism. Even when they made mistakes that led to the deaths of thousands and the escape of Bin Laden, they presented themselves as the party of 9/11 (even when Rudy Giuliani attempted to disappear the attack while smearing President Obama).

But now, thanks to history, they’ve lost it. Bin Laden was killed not on the orders of their “popular wartime president” but rather the signal to shoot Bin Laden in the eye was given by the “socialist” “muslim”. It drives them batty.

That’s why they push crazy, nonsensical theories.

They’ve lost the control of 9/11 they envisioned in their minds. It was never theirs to begin with.

23% sympathize with the Confederacy.

42% say slavery wasn’t the main cause of the war.

What is wrong with people?

Really?

I’m inclined to quote Chris Rock here:

N—– always want credit for some shit they supposed to do. A n—- will brag about some shit a normal man just does. A n—- will say some shit like, “I take care of my kids.” You’re supposed to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? “I ain’t never been to jail!” What do you want, a cookie?! You’re not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having motherfucker!

That slavery was behind the Civil War isn’t a radical notion. I don’t care if the concept is unpopular in the south. It’s a fact, it is basic U.S. history. Haley Barbour, who is no good on race, shouldn’t get credit for noting something everyone with a brain knows.

The Secret Service has released audio of the Secret Service command post during the attempted assassination of President Reagan.

Transcript: (“Rawhide” was President Reagan’s Secret Service code name)

Monday, March 30, 1981, 2:27 p.m. EST:

00:08 SPECIAL AGENT WILLIAM GREEN: “[Inaudible] Green. Coming out.”

00:16 ASSISTANT TO THE SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE RAY SHADDICK:
“Horsepower, Shaddick.”

00:18 HORSEPOWER: “[inaudible]”

00:19 SHADDICK: “Advise, we’ve had shots fired. Shots fired. There are some
injuries, uh, lay one on.”

00:26 SHADDICK: “Parr, Shaddick.”

00:29 VOICE: [Inaudible]

00:32 SHADDICK: “Stagecoach, Shaddick.”

00:35 SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE JERRY PARR: “Rawhide is okay, Follow-up.
Rawhide is okay.”

00:40 VOICE: [Inaudible] [OVERLAPPING}

00:41 SHADDICK: “Halfback, roger”

00:46 SHADDICK: “You wanna go to the hospital or back to the White House?”

00:50 PARR: “We’re going right… we’re going to Crown.”

00:52 SHADDICK: “Okay”

00:56 VOICE: [Inaudible]

00:58 SHADDICK: “Back to the White House. Back to the White House. Rawhide is
okay.”

01:07 CROWN: “Halfback, Crown”

01:12 VOICE: [Inaudible]

01:14 CROWN: “Halfback, Halfback, Crown”

01:17 HALFBACK: “Crown, Halfback.”

01:18 CROWN: “Halfback, Crown. We have Muratti requesting a status report on
Rawhide.”

01:22 HALFBACK: “Tell him to stay off the air for now. Rawhide’s alright.”

01:27 CROWN: “Thank you so much.”

01:32 SPECIAL AGENT THOMAS DREW UNRUE: “Gordon, Unrue.”

01:37 UNRUE: “Gordon, Gordon, Unrue.”

01:44 GORDON: “Go ahead. Gordon.” [OVERLAPPING]

01:44 UNRUE: “Gordon, Unrue.”

01:46 SPECIAL AGENT MARY ANN GORDON: “Go ahead, Drew.”

01:47 UNRUE: “Roger. We want to go to the emergency room of George Washington.”

01:53 GORDON: “That’s a roger.”

01:57 UNRUE: “Go to George Washington fast.”

01:58 GORDON: “Roger. Sergeant Bell, Gordon.”

02:03 SHADDICK: “Parr, Shaddick.”

02:06 SHADDICK: “Parr, Shaddick.”

02:09 PARR: “Shaddick, Parr. George Washington.”

02:13 SHADDICK: “Roger.”

02:15 VOICE: [Inaudible]

02:18 PARR: “Get an ambulance, I mean get the, um, stretcher out there.”

02:24 SHADDICK: “Horsepower, Shaddick. You copy, GW?”

02:27 HORSEPOWER: “Correct. We’ve made the call.”

02:32 VOICE: [Inaudible]

02:38 HALFBACK: “Horsepower, Horsepower, [inaudible].”

02:40 PARR: “Let’s hustle.”

02:43 HORSEPOWER: “This is Horsepower. Go ahead.”

02:45 VOICE: [Inaudible, sirens] “…Connecticut Avenue en route Central Cell Block”

02:59 HORSEPOWER: “Ah, this is Horsepower. You’re terribly broken. I just caught
the tail end. Say again?”

03:07 VOICE: “Horsepower this is [inaudible] “

03:11 VOICE: “Agent, Horsepower. Go ahead.”

03:13 VOICE: (Sirens)….. “Roger. I have suspect in custody. I’m in an MPD vehicle,
heading for, taking him to [inaudible] Central Cell Block. Can I get support
please?

03:26 HORSEPOWER: “Okay, let’s send some agents up there to help.”

03:32 SHADDICK “Horsepower, Shaddick.”

03:33 VOICE: “Shaddick from…”

03:36 VOICE: “[Inaudible], Halfback.”

03:40 VOICE: [Inaudible]

03:45 VOICE: “Horsepower, we’re on… en route to the location.”

03:50 VOICE: [Inaudible]

03:54 HALFBACK: “Horsepower, Halfback. We have an arrival at GW.”

03:58 HORSEPOWER: “Confirm, roger.”

03:59 HALFBACK: “Would you, uh, contact WFO or some other divisions and get
additional people sent to this location.”

04:06 HORSEPOWER: “Roger that.”

04:10 VOICE: “Horsepower, [inaudible].”

04:12 HORSEPOWER: [Inaudible]

04:14 VOICE: [Inaudible, sirens] …suspect in custody at Central Cell… [inaudible].

04:22 HORSEPOWER: “[Inaudible] …repeat it.”

04:26 VOICE: [Noise and loud sirens in the background.] “Be advised I have suspect
in custody in an MPD vehicle arriving at Central Cell Block. Taking him to
central booking and [inaudible], copy?”

04:37 HORSEPOWER: “Repeat it one last time, over.”

04:41 VOICE: [Inaudible…Sirens]

04:45 VOICE: [Inaudible…Sirens]

04:49 [Static]

04:51 HILTON SECURITY ROOM: “Green, Hilton security room.”

04:54 GREEN: “Go ahead.”

04:59 GREEN: “Hilton security room from Green. Go ahead”

05:02 HILTON SECURITY ROOM: “This is the security room. When you have a
chance, give us a call down here.”

05:06 GREEN: “Roger.”

05:12 VOICE: [Inaudible]

05:17 VOICE: [Inaudible]

05:23 VOICE: “Go ahead.”

05:28 VOICE: “Go ahead, Brown.”

05:32 VOICE: “Go ahead, Brown.”

05:38 VOICE: “Horsepower, Fencing Master limo.”

05:44 SPECIAL AGENT JAMES VAREY: “Wanko, Varey.”

05:48 VAREY: “Wanko, Varey.”

05:49 SPECIAL AGENT ROBERT WANKO: “Go ahead, Varey”

05:51 VAREY: “Where you at, ahh, Bob?”

05:52 WANKO: “Over by the door in the front.”

05:56 VAREY: “Alright”

06:00 WANKO: “[Inaudible], you want me to meet you at the parkway there, where
you come out in the street.”

06:04 VAREY: “Negative, meet me at the first door here, uh, [inaudible]”

06:15 VOICE: [Inaudible]

06:17 VOICE: “Go ahead.”

06:19 VOICE: “What’s your location?”

06:22 VOICE: “Standing at the, ahh, entranceway into the, uh [inaudible].”

06:30 SPECIAL AGENT CAMPBELL: “Sullivan, Campbell. Come on out. [inaudible],
Campbell, please [inaudible].”

06:37 VOICE: “Coming.”

06:39 SPECIAL AGENT GEORGE OPFER: “Horsepower from Opfer.”

06:41 HORSEPOWER: “Station calling Horsepower.”

06:44 OPFER: “Roger. We’re gonna leave with Rainbow and go to that location.”

06:49 HORSEPOWER: “Station calling Horsepower, repeat please.”

06:51 OPFER: “Horsepower this is Opfer. We’re going to go to that location with
Rainbow.”

06:55 HORSEPOWER: “Roger, George”

06:57 [Static]

07:04 FIRST LADY TRAIL CAR: “Crown and Horsepower, Rainbow trail. Depart
Crown en route local stop.”

07:10 HORSEPOWER: “Horsepower copy, Rainbow trail.”

07:13 OPFER: “Horsepower from Opfer.”

07:16 HORSEPOWER: “Opfer, [inaudible].”

07:18 OPFER: “Roger, if you have any contact at this next location tell them we’re
coming in the 22nd Street entrance.”

07:24 HORSEPOWER: “Roger, 22nd Street. Break. Halfback, Halfback, Horsepower.”

07:28 HALFBACK: “Horsepower, Halfback.”

07:30 HORSEPOWER: “Roger, be advised Rainbow is coming to your location at the
22nd Street entrance. Can you make sure she gets in?”

07:39 HALFBACK: “Roger. Burns you copy?”

07:42 FIRST LADY TRAIL CAR: “Crown and Horsepower from Rainbow trail,
Rainbow arrive local stop.”

07:48 SPECIAL AGENT BURNS: “Roger.”

07:53 [Extended period of static]

09:08 VOICE: [Inaudible]

09:24 GREEN: “[Inaudible], Green”

09:28 VOICE: [Inaudible]

09:32 VOICE: “Break”

09:41 HORSEPOWER: “Halfback, Horsepower.”

09:45 HALFBACK: “Horsepower, Halfback.”

09:47 HORSEPOWER: “Roger, could you get a hold of Shaddick or Parr and have them
two-two Horsepower?

09:54 HALFBACK: “Roger. Break. Shaddick or Parr you copy two-two Horsepower?”

10:01 SHADDICK: “Roger, [inaudible]. Two-two Horsepower.”