On the night of February 28th, 1986, an assassin shot and killed Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The murder went unsolved for 34 years. Last month, Swedish police announced they believed the Prime Minister was the victim of a lone gunman, and officially closed the case. But is that the whole story? What can Olof Palme's battle against Apartheid in South Africa tell us about who had him killed?

SOURCES:

Blood On the Snow, by Jan Bondesson: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479366/blood-on-the-snow/#bookTabs=1

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Special Report series, especially episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnY5SQYAro

and episode 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCrNQaabtlM

Peter Caselton interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmcui1mr9M

NEWS SOURCES

Eugene de Kock at Stockholm airport: https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-witness/20150413/281590944088399

Accusations from Coetzee & others: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19961018&slug=2354793

Coetzee obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/africa/dirk-coetzee-dies-at-67-led-apartheid-era-killings.html

de Kock trial: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/27/world/south-african-links-top-spy-to-the-slaying-of-olof-palme.html

Sweden aid to ANC: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/10/19/swedens-secret-anc-aid-made-enemies-in-pretoria/78985bc3-9f82-4560-9356-29332e74f3a2/

Abramoff & Red Scorpion: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/meet-conservatives-who-campaigned-apartheid-south-africa/

On Alabama's election night of 2002, it looked like Democratic governor Don Siegelman had won a second term by a razor-thin margin. Until he didn't. Thanks to a voting machine computer glitch in a single county, the election results were suddenly reversed. What really happened on the night of one of the most controversial elections in Alabama history? Patrick Winegar breaks down this conspiracy that might have actually happened. 

SOURCES: 

Dr. James Gundlach's paper:

 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Gundlach_Paper.pdf 

Glynn Wilson's account of election night: 

http://blog.locustfork.net/2007/06/how-the-2002-el/ 

Encylopedia of Alabama: 

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3300 

Tuscaloosa News interview: 

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/DA/20050703/News/606113203/TL 

AP election report: 

https://apnews.com/336c06179e9894dfc379a1044b124c53 

USA today election controversy report: 

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2002-11-07-siegelman_x.htm 

LA Times report on Bill Pryor ruling: 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-09-na-alabama9-story.html