By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com One out of five voters said that the Supreme Court was the most important issue of the Presidential campaign. They voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. The President-elect has published two lists of about 20 possibilities for his Supreme Court appointees. “Appointees” plural since there is one vacancy and three of the…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com One out of five voters said that the Supreme Court was the most important issue of the Presidential campaign. They voted overwhelmingly for…
Dallas Morning News Editorial Fifty years is a relative blip on the grand timeline, barely a rounding error between your genesis point and the end of life as we know it. Yet in human terms, 50 years is longer than many life spans, past and present. In Dallas terms, 50 years is five decades of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Clint Hill remembers running toward the back of the limousine where President John F. Kennedy was just shot. Hill was a Secret Service agent who was in the motorcade surrounding the president and first lady on Nov. 22, 1963. “I think about it every day,” Hill told a crowd Tuesday night at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new documentary, “JFK: The Smoking Gun,” explores the theory that an under-qualified Secret Service agent delivered the shot that killed President John F. Kennedy, the Toronto reports. The documentary, which aired Sunday on Discovery, is based on the work of retired Australian police detective Colin McLaren, who said, “This is not…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who worked in the Kennedy assassinations believes the conspiracy theories may have resulted from suspicions after the FBI decided to initially withhold some information, reports the Salem News. He still believes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Former agent Jim Graham of Overland, Ks., says the FBI withheld…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON— J. Edgar Hoover for president? Well, Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty, apparently thought it was a good idea in the 1950s, according to an essay Hoover wrote that was included in the newly released FBI files on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. In a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– A former office manager for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy was indicted Tuesday in a scheme to get more than $75,000 extra in salary and bonuses, the Justice Department said. Ngozi T. Pole, 39,of Waldorf, Md., was charged in a six-count indictment that alleged that as office manager for…
