Kidnapping and murder of Dan Mitterrand event
also: the kidnapping, Dan's capture, the killing
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Uruguaycountry · 9Dan Mitterrandperson · 8Tupamarosorganization · 6United Statescountry · 5Ray Mitrioneperson · 3Gerald Fordperson · 2Montevideoplace · 2Andrew Cesareperson · 1Brazilcountry · 1Charles Burke Elbrickperson · 1Henrietta Lindperson · 1USAIDorganization · 1
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▶ 43:24
That may or may not mean anything. I just think it's weird. He would do odd jobs for the manager at Sears, like washing their cars, waxing their cars. In the days following, and then this is where they break and go back to his being capture…
▶ 44:29
The mom kept asking him when he would go visit, had they heard from Dan? And Ray would lie to her and basically say, yeah, we just heard from him the other day. It pained Ray to lie to his mother, but until he had more details, he didn't wa…
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the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serious than that. Wire services reported tha…
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The State Department spokesman protested that by not getting Dan to a hospital, they had magnified the inhumanity of the act, but the Tuporero bulletin had been couched in medical language and specified that no vital organs had been damaged…
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The new city attorney tried to explain what he felt about being part of a minority. The United States was a colossus, Ciceri would say. It had great biceps, bulging thighs, but he would add, it was we Italians who gave it a big heart. Now, …
▶ 54:47
and he went to the newsroom to inspect a fax that had come over the wire. It was a note from Dan to his wife, Hank. Ray looked it over and verified that the handwriting was, in fact, Dan's. The note had been found after a tupperero called a…
▶ 56:18
There was, however, a worse effect to the delay. The kidnappers were giving signs that their patients were running out. In a note delivered to a local radio station in Uruguay, the Tuporeros said that they would wait until midnight Friday, …
▶ 56:44
that it was not clear whether the last sentence constituted a threat. I'm pretty sure it was a threat. By the weekend, there was a feeling throughout Richmond that events in Iroquois were out of control. A new note from the two Pereros accu…
▶ 57:13
that had massacred entire populations in Vietnam, Santo Domingo, and other places, unquote, which is absolutely true. Then came the explicit threat the family had been dreading. Unless the Uruguayan government agreed to release its prisoner…
▶ 57:40
At about 4.30 a.m. Monday, Ray's telephone rang in his apartment. It was a UPI reporter from Indianapolis. He had spoken with Ray on Sunday, and Ray had asked him to call back the minute they got any news. The reporter said, we just heard t…
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Be on that police force in Richmond. It made no sense at all. Now it makes perfect sense. And I found it in this crazy book. OK, break, break. OK, so we're back to the future. After the strange official silence while Dan was alive, his murd…
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Some of them even remembered to send condolences to the Mitterrand family. The two highest ranking responses did not come from men from the buildings. The White House said today, began an Associated Press account, the kidnap murder of U.S. …
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The Vatican, in an unsigned article on the front page of their newspaper, condemned crimes attempted in the name of fanatical ideologues. Pope Paul VI, a day earlier, had called political kidnappings vile. The political figure to speak at t…
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That's crazy. Although the murder had led some voices to suggest that the U.S. should not be engaged in these activities that had taken Dan to Uruguay, Ford took the murder as proof of how important it was for the U.S. to persevere in these…