Billy Hayes and The Midnight Express

Billy Hayes and the Midnight ExpressMidnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film  directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's  1977 memoir of the same name. The film centers on Hayes (played by Brad  Davis), a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for  trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.It's a heck of a story from a man with plenty to say. And he says most of it to Ed Opperman in this archive show.William  "Billy" Hayes is an American writer, actor, and film director. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign  jails serving drug charge sentences, following a drug-smuggling  crackdown by foreign governments.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Tim Tate – Interesting FilmsEd is joined by the founder of Interesting Films, Tim Tate.In an interview covering many topics – notably Conspiracy of Silence and Children Of The Master Race. Discussions include the Nazi scheme of WW2, Jimmy Savile, The Yorkshire Ripper, Ingrid von Oelhafen, the BBC scandal, Jeffrey Epstein & Prince Andrew, Satanic Ritual Abuse and much more  - the whole wide gamut of his work and research.He talks of censorship and difficulties getting research out there, of how the messenger is targetted and not the object of the story. He also talks in depth about the tragic case of Troy Bonner.BACKGROUNDMr Tate’s work has been seen and commissioned by all major British television, including the  BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 networks – as well as the Discovery Channel, A&E Networks & Al Jazeera International.Several of these films have won awards, including honours from: Amnesty International, Royal Television Society, New York Festivals, National Academy of Cable Broadcasting (US), UNESCO, Association for International Broadcasting and International Documentary Association.Book Links : Hitler’s Forgotten Children, The Yorkshire Ripper – The secret murders,Website : Interesting Films Personal SiteTwitter : Tim TateBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Dawn Schiller - The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John HolmesIn this archive show, Dawn Schiller joins Ed Opperman to talk about her book, The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes. A story of abuse, drugs, porn, murder and survival. It would have been so easy to give up. But she did something harder. She took a bad situation and, over time, turned it around.Painstakingly honest, this chilling  memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of  legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that moulded  her perfectly to fall for the seduction of “the king of porn,” this  autobiography recounts the perilous road that Dawn Schiller  travelled—from drugs and addiction to beatings, arrests, forced  prostitution, and being sold to the drug underworld. After living  through the horrific Wonderland murders of 1981, she entered protective  custody, ran from the FBI, and turned in John Holmes to the police. This  is the true story of a young girl’s harrowing escape from one of the  most infamous public figures, her struggle to survive, and her recovery  from unthinkable abuse.Website and book (a proportion of the price goes to empowering teenagers) can be bought here Recorded circa 2014Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

The Trayvon Martin case was built on an elaborate fraud, with Rachel Jeantel pretending to be the girlfriend who was on the phone with Martin at the time of his death, George Zimmerman says in a new lawsuit.The actual phone witness was Diamond Eugene, who was replaced when she would not testify, the suit says. Martin’s parents participated in the swap, it says.Prosecutors withheld key evidence from Zimmerman, including falsely telling the defense team that Martin’s cellphone was broken, it saysBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

In this stunning work of investigative journalism, filmmaker Joel Gilbert uncovers the true story of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a tragedy that divided America.By examining Trayvon’s 750-page cell phone records, Gilbert discovers that the key witness for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel, was a fraud. It was in fact a different girl who was on the phone with Trayvon just before he was shot. She was the 16-year-old named "Diamond" whose recorded conversation with attorney Benjamin Crump ignited the public, swayed President Obama, and provoked the nation's media to demand Zimmerman's arrest.Gilbert's painstaking research takes him through the high schools of Miami, into the back alleys of Little Haiti, and to finally to Florida State University where he finds Trayvon's real girlfriend, the real phone witness, Diamond Eugene. Gilbert confirms his revelations with forensic handwriting analysis and DNA testing.After obtaining unredacted court documents and reading Diamond's vast social media archives, Gilbert then reconstructs the true story of Trayvon Martin's troubled teenage life and tragic death.In the process, he exposes in detail the most consequential hoax in recent American judicial history, The Trayvon Hoax, that was ground zero for the downward spiral of race relations in America. This incredible book has the potential to correct American history and bring America back together again.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Charles Manson Now is a critical dissection of what happened forty-one years ago when Manson family members stormed the Polanski estate near Los Angeles and murdered five people, including one of America's most beautiful, beloved actresses, Sharon Tate.This book is also a collage of Charles Manson's own writing, a poetic, ironic, and disturbing account of his universe, from his childhood to his time in the 8x12 prison cell where he is condemned to stay forever. It is Charles Manson, uncensored, unedited, in his own words.When author Marlin Marynick was eight years old, he discovered a beat up copy of Helter Skelter - the bestselling true crime book of all time written by Vincent Bugliosi, the lead prosecutor at Charles Manson's trial. Bugliosi's portrait of Charles Manson as an icon of unbridled evil haunted Marynick for years, well into his career as a psychiatric nurse and ultimately culminated when he met Manson behind the tightly locked doors of California's Corcoran State Prison. In Charles Manson Now, Marynick challenges the official version of events.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.