Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944 – Wikipedia) is up for parole for the first time since 2009 (NPR). Peltier was denied parole and then President Barack Obama declined to pardon him. Peltier is serving two consecutive life terms for the slaying of two FBI agents.
Mr. Peltier of the Turtle Mountain Chipewa was imprisoned in 1977. He was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents during a shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation. He was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM).
After pursuing a red pickup onto the reservation and getting in a shootout with the occupants, the two agents were killed. The conviction of Peltier relied on a witness who claimed to be his girlfriend, later declared mentally incompetent. It turns out she didn’t know him at all. Peltier’s vehicle was an orange and white suburban. The FBI’s reexamination of the casings from the scene shows no match to Peltier’s weapon. Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Amnesty International all believe(d) Peltier should be pardoned.
Currently there is a clemency appeal to President Joe Biden. Christopher Wray, director of the FBI penned a letter opposing Pelteir’s parole (fbi.gov). The parole hearing was held on June 10 and the board has 21 days to release it’s ruling.
Related
- Who is Leonard Peltier? The Hill
- American Indian Movement aimovement.org
- Native American Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Faces High-Stakes Parole Hearing DemocracyNow
- Leonard Peltier Is America’s Longest-Serving Political Prisoner. Biden May Be His Last Hope. Huffington Post
- Who Is Leonard Peltier (unreleased classified documents pertaining to the case) FOIA Actions
- !Pardon Me!
Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American Country and Rock a Billy singer songwriter. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll, Songwriters, Nashville Songwriters and Musicians Halls of Fame. His career spanned 4 decades and is placed #37 in Rolling Stones list of all time greatest artists.
He wrote songs for other artists and some of them covered his songs, including VanHalen, Linda Rondstadt, Glen Campbell and Bruce Springsteen. He was associated with Tom Petty and his bassist Howie Epstein Case Study 9.
His first wife Claudette died in a motorcycle accident and two of his sons died in a house fire. He remarried in 1969 to Barbara Orbison who became his manager. Orbison was known among friends for having stage fright and being shy. He wore dark glasses to help him deal with this and bright stage lights (smoothradio).
Orbison died of a heart attack after years of heart and weight problems at the age of 52.
This is Cody Legebokoff (born 21 January 1990), a Canadian serial killer who was convicted of murdering 4 women in British Columbia, just north of Bellingham WA. Cody prided himself on being a “country boy” and exhibited soft and quiet mannerisms. The fascist sorcerer gods don’t like music, so they destroyed him by using him.
One of his victims, 23-year-old Natasha Lynn Montgomery, has been included in the list of missing women and girls suspected as victims in the Highway of Tears murders. The Highway of Tears murders is part of an epidemic of disappearances and murders of indigenous women (MMIW) in the US and Canada. See Another Nazi Project and Case Study 63.
His youngest victim was 15 year old Loren Dawn Leslie who was legally blind.
Legebokoff was sentenced to 4 life terms for his crimes.