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The Fall Line: True Crime

Introducing My Fugitive

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious federal time, Howard went on the run and became one of the longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. As an adult, Nina picked up the trail. What ever happened to Howard Mechanic? This eight-part series is the tangled story of her search for answers. Hundreds of Freedom of Information requests. Hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. FBI surveillance and confidential informants. Cold War spies, conspiracy theories and the murder of a civil rights icon. And the sacrifices America makes in the name of national security. https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/my-fugitive-49438 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there!

0:01.4

This is Laura, host of The Fall Line.

0:03.8

I'm excited to share with you a sneak preview of the new podcast, My Fugitive, from Pineapple

0:09.9

Street Studios.

0:11.8

While searching for answers about a fugitive whose story haunted her family for decades,

0:16.6

host Nina Gulden-Ceevee came across, a Cold War spiring, a conspiracy to assassinate a

0:23.0

civil rights icon.

0:25.2

Take back jobs against activists whose lives were changed forever, and the government's

0:30.5

attempts to cover it all up.

0:33.5

As you enjoy this preview of My Fugitive, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

0:40.4

or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

0:45.0

Everybody has secrets.

0:47.2

You have secrets, and I have secrets.

0:51.0

And families have secrets.

0:53.8

For most of his life, my father was haunted by a family's secret, but not our families.

1:00.0

My dad was a civil rights lawyer in St. Louis, and he had a client, a young man, who disappeared

1:07.4

for almost 30 years.

1:09.1

I spent 10 years trying to unravel what happened to Howard Mechanic, and my journey

1:29.0

took me to places I never could have imagined, like a Cold War spiring.

1:35.6

In the Bureau itself, oh gosh, you probably had less than a dozen and a half people at

1:41.5

any one time who knew about the thing.

1:44.8

A suspected conspiracy to murder a civil rights leader.

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