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🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Zac talks to Washington Post reporter Tom Jackman about the latest in the RFK case. And then, Tom takes Zac through another of his stories about an old spy taking down a Jamaican scam... all caught on a wire.
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0:00.0 | Hey Tom, Zach Stewart Pontier. Hey man. Hey. So I just was wanting to talk to you about |
0:14.7 | your writing in the RFK case. So is it okay if I record the conversation? Absolutely, |
0:22.2 | I was going to say let me know when. Well how long have you been at the post? I've been |
0:28.0 | at the post for 20 years. This is Tom Jackman. He's a reporter at the Washington Post on the |
0:33.6 | True Crime Beat and he's written a bunch of articles recently about the RFK case. And so how do you |
0:39.3 | first get on the RFK story? Oh yeah, I had no idea I remember. So I was doing the story on the 50th |
0:48.3 | anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and speaking to his family members and folks |
0:56.3 | associated with that case who believed that James Earl Ray was wrongly convicted of being the |
1:01.8 | lone gunman in that case. And the last lawyer for James Earl Ray is a fellow named Dr. William |
1:08.0 | Pepper who lives in New York. RFK tapes listeners may remember William Pepper as Sir Hans Sir Hans |
1:14.2 | Attorney, current attorney from episode six of the season. Pepper gave Tom the brief he'd filed on |
1:20.4 | Sir Hans behalf. And I read it and began reading more and began reading the books starting with Dan |
1:27.9 | Moldeia's book and then onto the books that think that Dan Moldeia got it wrong and then took it |
1:34.8 | from there talking to both sides as tired old legacy media will do and wound up writing a four |
1:42.7 | part series about it which led with an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr who disclosed to me that he |
1:50.3 | met with Sir Hans in prison in December of 2017. |
1:59.7 | Today on the show a conversation with Washington Post reporter Tom Jackman about what's going on |
2:05.5 | with the RFK case today and then Tom tells me about one of his other recent articles. A story |
2:12.6 | about a spy and a Jamaican scammer all caught on a wiretap. |
2:18.2 | Tom's axe to her ponetier. This is the RFK tapes. |
2:29.3 | Robert Kennedy Jr told the Washington Post that once he saw the autopsy report quote, |
2:35.7 | I didn't feel it was something I could dismiss. I was disturbed. The wrong person might have been |
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