John Wooden person
also: Coach Wooden
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Claims (3)
John Wooden assassinated
Hermann Goring documented
“Later during a court lunch break, quote, who in the world is responsible for all this destruction if not you? You haven't taken the responsibility for anything, unquote. Goring just laughed at him. Goring feared death by the noose and he re…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 12:14
John Wooden assassinated
Wilhelm Keitel documented
“Field Marshal Wilhelm Kettel, Hitler's war minister and second highest ranking soldier after Goring, to be tried at Nuremberg, suffered the longest, thrashing around for 24 minutes. When the dead men were later photographed, they looked par…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 14:33
John Wooden assassinated
Julius Streicher documented
“most likely intentional julius stretcher defiant to the end screaming a piercing high hitler as he began climbing the wooden steps of the scaffolding as the noose was placed around his neck he spat at woods the bolsheviks will hang you one …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 15:03
Mentions (10)
▶ 1:51:53
My dad knew everything about NASCAR, every single thing. So he was also a college basketball. He didn't care about professional basketball at all. But college basketball, he knew every statistic. My mom's, I think it ended up being a great …
▶ 1:56:09
that you're related to John Wooden. If people don't know, he's one of the greatest coaches recognized across any sport of all time. Correct. So John Wooden is a legend. Correct. Yeah, Larry Bird was who I grew up idolizing from Indiana. Wel…
▶ 2:00:37
But yeah, so Steve Alford, baby, that's small world about John Wooden. That's the coolest thing I've heard in a long time. So my aunt that was, so my mom, like I said, her maiden name's Wooden. So my uncle, uncle Paul Wooden, they're from N…
▶ 2:01:09
John Wooden's dad. And so she took the whole genealogy chart. And this is back before, you know, I mean, this is like in the eighties. So there's no computers. There's no nothing. It's all her handwritten work. She made copies of everything…
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His family is because obviously they're the same family as my mom. And my mom was born in Kentucky. And then they all moved up to Indiana. And so she mailed it to him. And she had in her genealogy box when she passed away, the letter from h…
▶ 2:02:06
Anyway, I had to go over to look at, you know, obviously I knew who he was. I knew all about the legend. And so when I was stationed out in Los Angeles, I went over there because they've got like a shrine to him there. Yeah. And so it was j…
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The chief hangman, a squat, hard-drinking army master sergeant from San Antonio by the name of John Woods, was an experienced executioner with numerous hangings to his credit. But due to sloppiness or ill will, the Nuremberg hangings were n…
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most likely intentional julius stretcher defiant to the end screaming a piercing high hitler as he began climbing the wooden steps of the scaffolding as the noose was placed around his neck he spat at woods the bolsheviks will hang you one …
▶ 15:32
Grab his swinging body and yank. After the first executions, the American colonel in charge asked for a break. The soldiers on the execution team paced nervously, smoking and speaking among themselves. But after it was all over, Woods prono…
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The hangman never expressed any doubt about his historic role at Nuremberg. Quote, I hang those 10 Nazis and I am proud of it, unquote. Woods would later, a few years later, electrocute himself while repairing machinery at a military base i…