WHO IS DANNY SCHECTER?

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Danny Schecter was a friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schechter

I will post material including documentaries he made.

Beyond JFK :The Question of Conspiracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZod18q4-Sc

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The making of SUN CITY

With assistance from ABC News journalist Danny Schechter, Van Zandt and Baker assembled a wide variety of artists from Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Lou Reed to Gil Scott-Heron, Miles Davis and Africa Bambaataa.[7] Rock critic Dave Marsh called it "the most diverse line up of popular musicians ever assembled for a single session."[12] However, the recordings quickly became an album-length project of its own,[7] and the Sun City album was recorded in summer 1985[13] at 15 different recording studios

The video

Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmJC6GcVDn0

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https://projects.kora.matrix.msu.edu/fi ... newopt.pdf


To Danny, as always, Rory O’Connor
Danny Schechter’s long-time business partner and friend, has a fascinating story that spans more than 30 years
By the time we met, in the end part of “The Sixties” that was actually the mid- Seventies, Danny Schechter was already a local legend as “The News Dissector”
on WBCN, then one of the most powerful and influential radio stations in New England. Like literally hundreds of thousands of other Baby Boomers, I had come to Massachusetts to at- tend university – as well as to join the growing youth “counter-culture” in such far-flung out- posts as Boston/Cambridge and San Francisco/ Berkeley. “Underground” FM stations like ‘BCN and its West Coast counterpart KSAN provided the soundtracks to our lives – along with news and views we couldn’t find elsewhere, all deliv- ered in a new way to a new audience desperate for alternatives to the established, straight me- dia. Danny’s distinctive on-air style of deliver- ing news – a unique blend of popular music, actualities, reports and commentary whipped into a seamless whole – made for a tasty spoon- ful of sugar that helped the often bleak news go down in an entertaining, informative and yes, most delightful way. It was serious stuff about weighty matters of war and peace, racism and nukes, which directly affected our lives. It was also great fun.
I graduated in 1972 and immediately set out to become a card-carrying member of the “al- ternative press.” In addition to WBCN, the area also boasted two excellent weekly newspapers, the Boston-based, arts-oriented Phoenix and its more progressive and political Cambridge com-
petition, the Real Paper. I began freelancing for both while driving a taxi to pay most of the rent. After two and half long years, the Real Paper fi- nally hired me as a reporter and news editor, and I gratefully left one hack business behind to join another.
My first memories of time spent with Danny involve various reporting expeditions. Often he and I were among the only journalists in at- tendance, along with Sidney Blumenthal, (with whom I had shared a Phoenix freelance desk and who became, decades later, a senior adviser to President Clinton.) The first Danny sighting – at a 1976 appearance at a local university by ex-CIA head William Colby – is still etched in mind. After finishing his speech, Colby called for questions. Danny’s hand immediately shot up. Apparently mistaking the scruffy Schechter for a student, Colby called on him first.
Danny’s “question” to Colby concerned the Chilean folksinger Victor Jara, who had been arrested, tortured and shot dead shortly after a CIA-backed coup on September 11, 1973. Instead of asking anything, however, Danny turned, faced the audience, and delivered his own lec- ture speech – a harangue, really – about Jara’s life and death. He concluded by turning back to Colby and bluntly accusing the now-apoplectic super spook of complicity in the affair. Some- how he also managed to squeeze in time to persuade a photographer to snap a still of him and Blumenthal with Colby in the background, and signed it, “To Sid, as always, Bill Colby.” As

of his remarks. Discouraged, we left the press gaggle waiting at the front and migrated in- stead to the back door, where a group of very tan Secret Service agents were clustered, just back from guarding Kissinger during a diplomatic visit to Jamaica. As huge fans of Bob Marley and all things reggae-related, Danny and I had been to the island several times, and we began to chat with the agents about their stay.
Suddenly Kissinger – anx- ious as ever to avoid the press gathered at the front – popped out the back door just three feet from us. I was speechless, an affliction to which Danny was always immune. He instantly spread his arms wide and bellowed in a welcoming voice, “Doctor Kissinger!” To my amazement, Kissinger then bear-hugged Danny, whom he
apparently had mistaken for an ardent fan. While still holding Dr. K in his arms, Danny
asked, “Sir, tell me – do you have any regrets?” Puzzled, Kissinger responded quizzically,
“Regrets? For vat?”
“Chile?” Danny responded. Kissinger, final-
ly realizing what was happening, looked over Danny’s shoulder for a way out – directly at me. “Vietnam?” I asked with a smile.
Kissinger quickly withdrew from Danny’s embrace. “Regrets? From someone as culpable as I?” he responded with his own surly smile, hugged Danny again and then whispered in his ear, “You’re such a sveet boy!” before the Secret Service whisked him away.
Coda: unbeknownst to anyone but me, Dan- ny was carrying a tape recorder in his pocket and had turned it on and miked himself and before we saw Kissinger. The whole interchange had been recorded. We immediately called WBCN and interrupted DJ Charles Laquidara’s morning show with an “exclusive interview” with Henry Kissinger . . .
“to Sid, as always, Bill Colby,” wrote danny at the top of Sidney Blumenthall’sphotograph.
Blumenthal notes, “Danny may have been de- scended from a lineage of Harpo Marx and Karl Marx.”
I remember reacting with a mixture of amusement and trepidation at Danny’s bold- ness. Still a rookie reporter, I frankly hadn’t real- ized that you could stand up in public and say or do those kind of things – at least not without being thrown out or perhaps arrested! It was a bracing early lesson in “speaking truth to pow- er,” as the hoary expression goes. Another early joint encounter with an unindicted war crimi- nal provided a further education in “participa- tory journalism,” as Schechter dubbed it.
Henry Kissinger, already the recipient of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, was chosen to receive yet another “peace medal” from something called the World Affairs Council. Naturally we found the notion of his being further lauded for his efforts in fostering “peace” to be outrageous and alarming, and we resolved to attend the event in hopes of confronting Dr. K.
Armed with press passes, we managed to make it all the way to the front door of the room where Kissinger was speaking. But given the tenor of the times, security was extremely tight, and along with other members of the Fourth Es- tate, we were unable to enter or even hear an…..

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Another doc from Danny Schecter

IN DEBT WETRUST

https://tubitv.com/movies/244635/in-debt-we-trust

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Uncovering What the FBI Had On the Supreme Court in the 1960s
March 13, 2024   |   Amber Nimocks

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Burnham has written three books and penned numerous magazine articles. Burnham’s first book, The Rise of the Computer State, was published in 1984. His investigative book on the Internal Revenue Service, A Law unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS, was published in 1990. A third book, Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice, was published in 1996.
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TRAC FBI

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Court Tells FBI It Can’t Just Take A US Private Vault Customer’s Money Without Explaining Its Actions
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from the hoisting-the-federal-Jolly-Roger-isn't-enough dept
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Another lawsuit against the FBI is moving forward again, thanks

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