• Side Quest - Botched Assassinations: Big Momma and the Agents of SCUM

  • Nov 10 2021
  • Length: 2 hrs
  • Podcast

Side Quest - Botched Assassinations: Big Momma and the Agents of SCUM

  • Summary

  • What do Andy Warhol and JFK have in common? They both spent a long time gawking at Marilyn Monroe. And what's more: both of them had people who wanted 'em dead! Join Alisha and Will as we talk about some of history's biggest #assassinfails. We've got it all: radical manifestos; Nazis ; toilet snipers ; Nazis; septuagenarian bombers; and of course, Nazis! So come with us as we once again Enter the Rabbit Hole... Sources: Richard Paul Pavlick Richard Paul Pavlick (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Paul_Pavlick The Person Who Tried to Kill Kennedy First (Lily Rothman, Time, Dec 2015) https://time.com/4141628/richard-pavlick-kennedy-assassination/ Years ago, the Belmont postmaster delivered (Ray Duckler, The Concord Monitor, Sep 2013) https://www.concordmonitor.com/Archive/2013/09/jfk-cm-092713 The Kennedy Assassin Who Failed (Dan Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, Dec 6, 2012) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-kennedy-assassin-who-failed-153519612/ Richard Pavlick, 88, accused of JFK threat (The Boston Globe, Nov 1975) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55122279/richard-pavlick-88-accused-of-jfk/ Valierie Solanas https://www.biography.com/news/andy-warhol-valerie-solanas-shot http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf https://www.history.com/news/andy-warhol-shot-valerie-solanas-the-factory https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/valerie-solanas-assassination-attempt-on-andy-warhol/ https://www.biography.com/artist/andy-warhol https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/untangling-andy-warhol Mossad and the Nazis Not Just Mengele | The Mossad’s Botched Assassination Attempts on Nazi War Criminals (Ofer Aderet, Haaretz, Sep. 2017) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-mossads-botched-assassination-attempts-on-nazi-war-criminals-1.5449633 Why the Mossad failed to capture or kill so many fugitive Nazis (Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Washington Post, Sep. 2017) https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-the-mossad-failed-to-capture-or-kill-so-many-fugitive-nazis/2017/09/22/e74b964c-9e30-11e7-9c8d-cf053ff30921_story.html The truth about the Mossad (Ian Black, The Guardian, Feb 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/ian-black-mossad-dubai The Daring Israeli Spy Operation to Capture Nazi Mass Murderer Adolf Eichmann (Erin Blakemore, History.com, May 2019) https://www.history.com/news/adolf-eichmann-nazi-capture-holocaust-trial-mossad How a famous former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel (Chris Woolf, The World, Mar 2016) https://theworld.org/stories/2016-03-30/how-famous-former-nazi-officer-became-hitman-israel Queen Elizabeth II What is Trooping the Colour? (royal.uk) https://www.royal.uk/trooping-colour 41 Facts About the Royal Family You Probably Didn't Know (Jack Royston, Newsweek, Apr 2021) https://www.newsweek.com/facts-about-royal-family-didnt-know-queen-meghan-harry-diana-william-1616000 Queen Elizabeth II: The Many Attempts to Assassinate the Royal (Rachel Chang, biography.com, Oct 2020) https://www.biography.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-assassination-attempts Queen Elizabeth ASSASSINATION attempt: How a TEENAGER tried to shoot the Queen (Kate Whitfield, The Express, Jun 2019) https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1135342/queen-elizabeth-assassination-attempt-trooping-the-colour-teenager-shoot-queen-horse New Zealand teen attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during 1981 Dunedin visit (Michael Walsh and Nick Fogarty, ABC News, Jan 2018) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-17/queen-elizabeth-assassination-attempt-christopher-john-lewis/9334230 The day the IRA tried to bomb the Queen: Provos' failed bid to kill Monarch at Sullom Voe is a forgotten episode in Scots history (Steven Taylor, The Daily Record, Apr 2016) https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/day-ira-tried-bomb-queen-7720396 Security lapse risked Queen's life (The Scotsman, Oct 2009) https://www.scotsman.com/news/security-lapse-risked-queens-life-2512457 MI5 blamed BP for security lapse before IRA bomb attack on Queen at Sullom Voe (Paul Riddell, The Shetland Times, Oct, 2009) https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/10/27/mi5-blamed-bp-for-security-lapse-before-ira-bomb-attack-on-queen-at-sullom-voe Families' pride in drivers who prevented disaster (Gemma Jones, The Daily Telegraph, Jan 2009) https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/families-pride-in-drivers-who-prevented-disaster/news-story/a8dce2eb34922815bafa5b115cc014c6 Revealed: the Aussie plot to kill the Queen (The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 2009) https://www.smh.com.au/national/revealed-the-aussie-plot-to-kill-the-queen-20090128-7rlo.html Sullom Voe (Explosion) (House of Commons, May 1981) https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1981-05-14/debates/a7d49041-8731-4415-aa90-9f9e9527ba26/SullomVoe(Explosion)
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