The Beatle Bandit [2]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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[Part 2 of 2] The shocking conclusion to this historical Canadian crime saga.
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| 0:00.0 | My classroom isn't just a classroom. It's a launch pad, a runway, a place where ideas fly on the back of paper planes. |
| 0:07.1 | Sure, there are other ways to get students to speak up, but this is mine. All it takes is a bit of |
| 0:11.8 | creativity and soon they're all joining in. It gives me a lot of joy to see one of my ideas working in the moment, |
| 0:17.2 | and the class learning something new together. That's when you know a lesson is really taken off. |
| 0:22.1 | Every lesson shapes a life. |
| 0:24.1 | Start shaping yours with a minimum starting salary of 32,900 pounds. |
| 0:28.7 | Search, get into teaching. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:34.3 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. So I've |
| 0:46.1 | gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby. |
| 0:58.8 | Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday. |
| 0:59.9 | Atul protected. |
| 1:05.4 | This is part two of a two-part series. |
| 1:12.9 | Where we left off, 24-year-old Kerry Smith was ramping up his plans to get cash that would fund his violent uprising, his revolution. He had selected his next bank, a C-IBC branch in a predominantly Jewish |
| 1:20.4 | neighborhood north of Toronto. His getaway car had been stolen, and he'd rigged it with a contact |
| 1:26.6 | switch that would start the ignition |
| 1:28.5 | without a key, a strategy that he hoped would help him make a faster getaway. |
| 1:33.9 | He had decided to conceal his military-grade FN semi-automatic rifle in a guitar case, but |
| 1:40.5 | the barrel was too long to fit, so he painted the barrel bright pink and poked it out of a hole he drilled in the guitar case. He was ready. The next day, he was going to rob another bank. Thank you. Friday, July 24th, 1964. |
| 2:10.5 | It was a day that dawned bright and sunny in Toronto, but there was darkness coming. |
| 2:16.6 | In the afternoon, Kerry Smith loaded the stolen Ford |
| 2:20.2 | Galaxy with his two firearms. Then he threw in his disguise items and two canvas backpacks that |
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