Richmond, Indiana place
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George Rogers Clark founded
Richmond, Indiana book_quoted
“The community of Richmond, Indiana, had been settled in 1805 by soldiers of George Rogers Clark, the Revolutionary General and brother of the Northwest Explorer Clark. But it was a band of Quakers who gave the town its distinct character by…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 24:54
E. Gurney Hill founded
Richmond, Indiana book_quoted
“E. Gurney Hill had built 30 acres of hothouses and sent fresh roses around the country. But even half a million rose bushes near the city limits didn't brighten Richmond. One mayor pointed out in a slogan, Richmond the beautiful. Most peopl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 28:02
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countries how to torture people. So it literally had nothing to do with public safety, unless you want to consider safety of the government public safety. The guy that makes the star appearance in this story is Dan Mitteroni, and I've talke…
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classmate, like from elementary school, of Jim Jones from Indiana, Richmond, Indiana, specifically. Dan Mitteroni is basically FBI slash CIA. He became the chief of police in Richmond, Indiana. He has quite an interesting background. But th…
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Now, I just want to stop there for a second and remind you, this was the chief of police in Richmond, Indiana. During the sessions, you were supposed to keep the subject from losing all hope of life because this can lead to resistance. You …
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And then other facets of it, for example, Guyana, that played host to Jonestown, which most people don't realize was actually a terrorist training camp for Gladio operators throughout South America before it was ever Jonestown as in Jim Jon…
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In my research, we came across Jim Jones, who we all think of as the Kool-Aid drinker. His church that was started, as you probably know, in Richmond, Indiana. There's something about Indiana. I don't know what it is. The Eucharist conventi…
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All along, go ahead. Hi. Yeah. I just want to make a quick point about, you have probably touched this on other shows, but you mentioned the mayor of, I'm sorry, the police chief of Richmond, Indiana, who was killed in Uruguay. I'm sorry, w…
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Okay, sorry. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to point out, he was involved in the policing for Richmond, Indiana, where Jim Jones is from. He was involved in the CIA Office of Public Safety program, which, as you probabl…
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He also was eyeing the windows, and Mitterrand basically said they were all bulletproof, so don't worry about it. In March of 1970, his family in Richmond informed him that his mother's condition was deteriorating, and he basically let them…
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communications back and forth with his family. And by late March, he did have to return to Richmond. He went by himself to see his mother for the last time. To his closest friends from the Richmond Police Department, he confided something o…
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On the third day, give him water mixed with urine. In Richmond, Indiana, it was hardly credible that Dan Mitterrand would advocate this type of behavior. You know, because he was a good upstanding Catholic. Also, standing guard at the local…
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Jim Jones and Dan Meterone went to elementary school, junior high and high school together in Richmond, Indiana. Jim Jones started a church and I'm going to use air quotes for church in Richmond, Indiana. And he was doing some very nefariou…
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And then go into the actual kidnapping. But the book is not written that way. So you'll just have to bear with me. All right. So it starts off with his body being brought back to his hometown, Richmond, Indiana. And I didn't realize this un…
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In kind of the southeastern quadrant of Indiana. Now, you guys know I'm originally from Indiana. We used to go up there all the time. My last time up there visiting my relatives, we came back in our motorhome through Richmond, Indiana. And …
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two years now, because I have pictures of the downtown area. The architecture, the old big houses in the downtown area is absolutely beautiful. We even looked at real estate up there because at the time when we went through there, it was di…
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There was another wreath from the Secretary of State. Now, that's a lot from some guy that supposedly was down in the bowels of the Office of Public Safety. And again, he was killed in a foreign government. But we have lots of people that a…
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casket maker for a coffin. Richmond had been one of the centers of the coffin industry for a very long time. They also needed a hacksaw to try to saw open the metal casket that was sealed inside of the wooden casket. All the while, they wer…
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He had bought this cabin only a few months earlier and had been urging his brothers to make the cabin their retreat as well. Dom could come up on his days off from work as a greenskeeper, and Dan would relax there when he came home on leave…
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Sometimes he would take items from it, but Ray loved that because he loved his big brother. After he fixed his flat tire, he headed back to the cabin. He was sorry to think that this was the last day of July and his vacation was almost half…
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Ray did not have a telephone at the cabin, but as he pulled into the yard, he found his neighbors waiting to flag him down. His sister Rosemary had called long distance from Richmond. Ray first thought of his mother, who was 77, and she bas…
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The message had specifically said there was no emergency and for Ray not to worry, but that he needed to call Richmond right away. Ray got through to Rosemary. She asked him, you haven't heard from Dan? As she spoke, Rosemary was dazed. She…
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So she called Washington herself for confirmation. For the moment, Ray was still more curious than alarmed. No, I haven't heard a thing. The neighbor then said, Dan's been kidnapped. Usually the drive south to Richmond took him three hours.…
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from a radio station in one of the biggest cities near Richmond, Indianapolis, and others from as close as Dayton, Ohio. The newsman had reported that Dan had been murdered, but he had already retracted the story by the time Ray got home. N…
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He knew that Dan had been in Uruguay these past 13 months advising the country's police force. Now it appeared that a band of thugs in the capital city of Montevideo had kidnapped Dan that morning on his way to work. Ray began trading infor…
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R-I-A-L. He was visiting his sister, Rial explained. She had married a teacher from Centerville down the road. She had heard that Ray's brother was working in Montevago and Rial wanted to leave his address. The next time Ray wrote, he shoul…
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The years, Maria was pregnant 14 times. That's Dan's mother. Eight children were miscarried. The other six lived. Although she had left a twin sister in Italy, Maria had never shown any interest in returning home. Economic considerations ha…
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The community of Richmond, Indiana, had been settled in 1805 by soldiers of George Rogers Clark, the Revolutionary General and brother of the Northwest Explorer Clark. But it was a band of Quakers who gave the town its distinct character by…
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After the Quakers, it was the German immigrants that came to Richmond. Eighty years later, when the Italians began to arrive in force, they found the banks and department stores in the hands of the Germans. But the land itself was hospitabl…
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Other Native daughters and sons rejected that lifelong challenge of living in Indiana and left Indiana behind. People that were from Richmond in that area included Irene Dunn, Carol Lombard, Clifton Webb, Cole Porter from nearby cities. For…
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was intolerable. Writing about the time that the Mitterrands arrived in Richmond, Irvin Cobb poked fun at the enthusiasm for which Hoosiers were embracing the Ku Klux Klan. Cobb claimed that the Klan had swept the state like a hurricane. Ri…
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E. Gurney Hill had built 30 acres of hothouses and sent fresh roses around the country. But even half a million rose bushes near the city limits didn't brighten Richmond. One mayor pointed out in a slogan, Richmond the beautiful. Most peopl…
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near the railroad tracks on the north side of Richmond. Joseph Mitterrand's children grew up in a section called Goosetown. Sixty years ago, a settlement's name could be both fond and derisive. Besides Goosetown, there was also nearby areas…
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near the railroad tracks on the north side of Richmond. Joseph Mitterrand's children grew up in a section called Goosetown. Sixty years ago, a settlement's name could be both fond and derisive. Besides Goosetown, there was also nearby areas…
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That's what they called kind of basically what we would refer to as the slums. Richmond's blacks also lived in Goosetown, but south of where the Mitterrand settled. There was more of them than there were Italians, but everyone was polite. E…
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So everyone basically knew each other. Okay. And one of the big employers in Richmond at the time was none other than International Harvester. Now, where have we found International Harvester? We found International Harvester in the middle …
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were employees of International Harvester is huge. That to me was like a bombshell. And his dad, Joseph Meterone, worked at International Harvester as opposed to the railroad in Richmond, Indiana. Okay, to fulfill the promise that the Meter…
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A new year brought World War II, and in Richmond, as throughout the country, men flocked to enlist. A Hoosier named Ross Lockridge Jr. spoke for generations of those men in a novel that was set in mythical Raintree County, Indiana. One of t…
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and attention to detail both in his dress and grooming. In the nearby town in Michigan, he also met his wife. He asked Henrietta Lind, L-I-N-D, to marry him, and she accepted. The marriage took place in Richmond, and she converted to Cathol…
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When he was discharged from the Navy, Dan had, for the moment, no better thought than to return to International Harvester. He moved his new family into his parents' wood grain house. By then, they had escaped the railroad tracks and had mo…
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So where we left off yesterday was Mitterrand's funeral. And about the only thing left of chapter one was the, it talked about, it just so happened that John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy during 1960 in April came through Richmond, Indiana.…
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The message behind his killing requires turning away from his everyday routine and looking deeper into the overall involvement. It was not considered unusual behavior for a Midwesterner at the threshold of 40 who had never traveled abroad, …
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Indiana is the home of the Ku Klux Klan, and Mississippi wasn't very far behind. By enlisting Engel, Dan Mitterrand received more money. When they contacted him, the offer was too good to walk away from. So in May of 1960, a month after Joh…
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The International Cooperation Administration interviewed Dan in Washington and basically offered him a job. In Richmond, Dan went in to speak with the mayor about a leave of absence. They decided that he couldn't have a leave of absence bas…
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We saw that same thing happening with Dan Mederon down in South America, the retired police chief from Richmond, Indiana, that he went down there and was teaching the national police in Latin America to torture people under the dictator tha…
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Around the world, Dan Mederoni, the former chief of police at Richmond, Indiana, those people went around, General Schwarzkopf's dad, General Schwarzkopf, creating and training and equipping national police forces all over the world, the Sa…