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WGN Radio
"swampy woods" Discussed on WGN Radio
"All right, America, welcome back, rich Valdez Valdez with an S, by the way, looking forward to speaking with you guys tonight open phone America and 8 three three four 8 two 5 three three 7 8 three three four valdes is the phone number. Now one of the stories that we were talking about a moment ago was how the police are saying there's no foul play here, here's the headline from NBC News, a black man was found dead after he told his mother he was being chased. Police said there's no reason to suspect foul play. Raheem Carter's mother said that he disappeared in October, he called in a panic to say white men were chasing him in trucks and hurling racial slurs. It continues. The family of this black man who was found dead in Mississippi after he warned his mother and he was being chased. According to federal investigators on Monday and local authorities, I'm stunned at this that there's a quote, no reason to suspect foul play in the man that. Now this gentleman mister Carter regime car to 25 years old was reported missing back in October after his mother said he'd sought help from police and frantically called her to say white men were chasing him in a truck. Again, the details of the story are, you know, hearsay, I get that. And maybe he was chased, maybe he wasn't chased. The bottom line is, if you find a dead body, and again, maybe this is one where if you're on the job you're a cop or a federal investigator, please call. And let me know if this is like jargon that maybe I'm just not familiar with it. I'd never heard before, but I've been doing this stuff for a while. I'd never heard of no foul play. The guy, the guy who was found dead, his remains were found in a wooded area south of taylorville, Mississippi, and I mean, this is, to me, how could you not, how could you say there's no foul play? I mean, that's really the issue for me. How could you just go on and say, yeah, no, no. And he called, he said he was being chased. We found the dead body, but we don't have any reason to believe. What do you think he died of natural causes and ended up in this wooded area? Carter's front teeth were missing from the top and bottom rows of his mouth. So they say that they, his family says, they believe he was assaulted before he died. Well, genius, yeah, I would agree with that too. Either assaulted or they killed him and they took his teeth out so they couldn't identify him, which clearly didn't work because they did identify him. Anyway, the Laurel police department, which put out Carter's missing missing persons report, worked on the case early that afternoon after the Carter family asked for assistance and chief Tommy Cox told this to NBC News. Cox said that the Carter that mister Carter had not contacted his department for help before he went missing and that the Laurel police department handed its investigation over to Smith county once it was clear it was outside of its jurisdiction. Cox and his department pulled some phone records and may have interviewed some of Carter's coworkers, but he declined to elaborate further, saying, we tried to put ourselves in their shoes. It didn't hurt us to do a little bit of work on it, Cox said. We did what we considered to be the right thing and then it when it became obvious which jurisdiction would be the lead we turned it over to them. The Mississippi bureau of investigation, which is assisting the sheriff in its probe, said Carter's autopsy was completed on February 2nd, but declined to comment further citing the open and ongoing investigation. The FBI is not currently involved in the case, but the family is pushing for a federal investigation. Three members of Carter's family said authorities told them wild animals may have torn his body apart. So again, if the theory that he was driving in his truck and he was being chased by these other people's true, then maybe he ran into the swamp and was torn apart by some sort of Mississippi gator or something like that. Again, I don't know. The whole thing doesn't make sense to me that they say no foul play. I guess unless is that what you say when you find somebody in a swampy wooded area and they're dead and you just presume that this guy is 20 something years old just happened to die there. I mean, how do you not suspect any of that? I'm just I'm just not it's not working for me folks. This one's not working for me. Let's go to your calls. Jennifer in Aberdeen South Dakota. Jennifer, welcome, you're on with rich valdes. Go right ahead. Jennifer in hi, Jennifer on and are you there? Yes, I'm here. Go right ahead. Can you hear me? Loud and clear. Please speak. Can you hear me? Hi. I do hear you and I'd like you to talk. Okay, great. She must have had her radio on. Well, let's go to Paul in zanesville, Ohio. Paul, welcome Iran with Richard. Let's go right ahead. Yeah, I would like to talk about the recreation there out in California. Yes. Don't you think that the money could be spent a lot better, maybe clean up the homelessness out there? You know, I see the thing on the TV the other day that it's just atrocious. In the street. And I think that gas or Newsom would have something better to do or spend his money rather than try to duel out 5 million a piece for whoever qualifies for these reparations, but he's got problems out there that I think he should concentrate on a little more. I mean, don't you? I mean, listen, guys, horrendous. I agree with you, but let me just give you a little context here. So this proposal, these are part of a hundred different recommendations that were made by the city appointed reparations committee. So this is a citywide effort for the city of San Francisco and their board of supervisors. It's different than the reparations that was being proposed at the state level by governor Newsom. All that being said, he could definitely weigh in as governor and so can Nancy Pelosi there. Congressperson, who used to be mayor in San Francisco. And yet we're not seeing any of that stuff actually happening. But you're right, there's a huge problem with the homelessness in that part of town. And it's fascinating to me that nothing's happening despite despite the onslaught of homelessness. I mean, property values have to be going down. The other day we talked about how half of all homeless people are located in one state. California. And the overall homeless population in California grew by 6%. So it's just fascinating to me because I would have thought that they would have kind of been sprinkled around the country in different states. Turns out half or a third, at least of the entire homeless population, and half of all unsheltered homeless people live in California. So clearly they have a problem like no other state has a problem, and you're right, and they want to give away 5 million bucks to people in terms of in the name of reparations, Paul. Yeah, and who would pay for that too? Who would pay for those reparations? I just think that's something that sounds like one of those big old pork things that they put in these bills. Yeah, well, somebody in California, the people that own property and pay a ton of money and property tax to live in San Francisco, they're the ones that are doing it. And you know, the emphasis here is on unsheltered homeless. And the reason being is because they create their own shelters. In particular in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, where they have these huge tent communities where they are more than happy, more than happy to just live on the street, defecate in front of your home, do their drugs right in front of your children. And the big problem here, reparations. You know, just blows me away, blows me away. The whole thing is bizarre to me. I think you raise an excellent point. And this seems to be the issue that we've seen throughout. From when Biden launched his campaign, and this is part of why I probably have so much disdain for this administration, but Biden launches a campaign when we're in the middle of so many things, right? American families, household, median household income is going up, unemployment is going down. And Biden launches his first campaign ad with a bunch of guys who marched in Charlottesville with tiki torches, shouting the Jews will not replace us saying that, you know, because of Donald Trump, we have more Nazis or neo Nazis. And I think that that couldn't be further from the truth, but that was, in fact, the way he launched his campaign and it's been one gaslighting after another from this administration and all in the name of some sort of social inequity. It's a shame, but what are you going to do? Paul, I appreciate
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"swampy woods" Discussed on SoFlo Weird Show
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They just released their fifth studio album Street survivors with the iconic hits Freebird Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home, Alabama and gimme Back My Bullets when their career would come to a dog Rupt all just three days later in a tragic plane. Crash at the time Lynyrd Skynyrd was headlining the most ambitious tour of their career. Traveling in a convair cv-240 a thirty-year-old plane at the time with questionable safety issues. In fact, the band Aerosmith had looked into renting the same plane earlier and passed on it due to the safety concerns off. And the Readiness of the flight crew, this turned out to be an eerie premonition. Lynyrd Skynyrd, were traveling from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when they're playing, apparently ran out of fuel, the pilots attempted to land, but the bottom of the plane, clipped some trees, and the aircraft went down in a swamp. In gillsburg. Mississippi keyboardist, Billy Powell describes the harrowing off. The plane went down in the following report from news for Jacksonville, unless always Treetops. And I looked at my windows in the middle of the airplane on the right-wing, I try to get close to the back of the airplane, dog. Possible but it got in the middle of the airplane right wing and all I saw was Treetops and at first it wasn't so bad but then when I hit the you know, the middle of the trees it was horrible. I was an experience. Nobody wants to ever experience, never according to a report from the national Transportation safety board, the probable cause of the accident was fuel exhaustion and total loss of power from both engines. Due to crew in attention to fuel supply. Contributing to the fuel exhaustion, where inadequate flight planning, and an engine malfunction of undetermined nature, in the right engine, which resulted in a higher than normal fuel consumption. So did the members of Aerosmith have an uncanny psychic ability to foresee this tragedy or was this just an accident waiting to happen? This disaster instantly killed singer Ronnie, Van Zant guitarist. Steve Gaines vocalist Cassie Gaines assistant, Road manager, Dean Kilpatrick pilot, Walter mcreary and co-pilot William Gray. Other band members off road crew suffered various injuries, mostly serious drummer Artimus Pyle and two crew members crawled from the wreckage and hiked through the swampy Woods until they finally flagged down. A local farmer who suck for help Street survivors became Lynyrd Skynyrd. Second platinum, album out of respect for the band and their family members MCA recalled. The album's original cover which depicted the bath members engulfed in flames. The final resting place for the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd are right where this story began in Jacksonville Florida, it is at their grave site where this story takes another job. Strange term. This is an excerpt from Charlie Carlson's book weird, Florida. Ronnie Van Zant and the gaines's were buried in the Jacksonville Memory Gardens in Orange Park. The site is easily recognizable from a large Mausoleum etched. With the bands. Free bird symbol in the summer of two thousand. Someone vandalized the graves. Pulling out the casket of Ronnie Van Zant and dumping Steve Gaines, ashes on the ground as a result. The Freebird musicians were moved to a secret resting place today. You can see the mausoleum and the other markers were fans placed flowers but no one is buried there. Musician and singer songwriter, Charlie, Daniels wrote a poem on his way to Ronnie Van Zant's funeral. It was carved onto a bench, that sat at Ronnies gravesite and it reads A Brief candle. Both ends burning, an endless mile, a bus wheel, turning a friend, to share a loan, sometime a handshake and a sip of wine. Say it out loud and let it ring. That were all part of everything, the future present and the past fly.
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Hidden Histories - Rosewood, Tulsa, Chicago
"Halfway between Tampa and Tallahassee, a hundred yards off state route, twenty four and ten miles from the next town stands a handsome Pale Yellow House with decorative white trim on the two story porch. The house was the only survivor of an episode of such extraordinary violence that it boggles the mind how quickly and completely it was swept under the rug. An entire community was burned to the ground in an incident of racist asymmetrical warfare. And most people have never even heard of it. My Name's Moxy and this is your brain on facts. The community had been or technically still is Rosewood, Florida. It was settled by both black and white people twenty years before the civil war, but the Jim. Crow segregation in the Post Bellum decades put a clear divide into the community. The town was incorporated in eighteen seventy after it got a post office on a train stop and was named Rosewood for the Pink Cedars that were also the base of its economy. Residents worked in lumber, yards, mills, and even a pencil factory. Until the cedars had been overharvested, and the factories began to close. Most of the white residents moved to nearby sumner. But one couple John and Mary right who ran the general store? They were kind to their neighbors, and were known to Slip Candy to the black kids who hung out at the store, possibly because their own children had died young. The white flight continued into the nineteen twenties when Rose Woods population of about two hundred was entirely black plus the rights. The little hamlet got by just fine. Until New Year's Day nineteen twenty-three. Over in Sumner, a woman named Fanny Taylor woke her neighbors, saying a black man had broken into her house and attacked her. Rather than alert sheriff, her husband immediately gathered a group of men. Including clansmen who were in the area for a rally and a tracking dog. the, dog, lead them to the railroad tracks, which led to Rosewood. The mob, which would grow to be three hundred strong got it in their head that they were looking for a black man named Jesse Hunter who had escaped from a chain gang. The dog ran through the open door of a house and back out with that of wagon tracks. When the homeowner swore that no one else had been in his house, the mob tied him to the back of a car and dragged him down a dirt road. Then they tracked down the owner of the wagon whose tracks the dog sniffed. When he also claimed ignorance and innocence, the mob mutilated and killed him. The mob came to the House of Sarah carrier the Taylor's laundries. Two dozen people most of them. Children were hiding inside having heard what was going on already driven out of their homes by fear. For whatever reason the mob was sure that carrier was hiding Jesse Hunter. They fired on the House and carrier. Sons returned fire. When it was over both Sarah and her son Sylvester carrier had been fatally shot, though Sylvester had managed to kill two of their assailants. Had, anyone bothered to talk to Sarah carrier about Fannie, Taylor. She would have been able to tell them about Taylor's lover. Her white lover who she had been with before the attack. As, the mob kicked in the front door of the carrier house, the people hiding inside fled out the back door to the relative safety of the nearby. Swampy Woods. Not. All were able to get away though. Carriers, other son James was found by the mob who reportedly made him dig his own grave before killing him. The newspapers of the nearby towns caught wind of what was happening. They ran exaggerated. Retailing's of the siege of the carrier House and blatantly false reports of roving bands of armed black citizens. Seeing that even more white men poured into Rosewood believing that a race war had broken out. Apparently it's only a race war when the race you're targeting fights back. The manhunt and terror campaign wasn't confined to that single night, but stretched on for nearly a week.