The Opperman Report'

Guest: G.H. "Hank" Harrison

Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Grateful Dead and MORE!!!!

Hank Harrison is a writer and publisher with a deep interest in Medieval History, the Celts, Neolithic Archaeology, the Star Mounds, archaic astronomy, Hermetism and sacred geometry. He began writing about human and animal psychology in graduate school in 1962. Since founding the Arkives Press in 1967, Hank has been a frequent guest on hundreds of national and international television and radio shows, including Katherine Cryer on Court TV, Geraldo Rivera and Maury Povitch. He has also appeared across Canada on CBC Radio highlighted by a historical appearance on the Jane Hauten Show. He is featured several times each year on American radio and television shows including, Tom Likus, Allen Handelman and numerous local shows.

Media Appearances

In pursuit of his work he has appeared on America's Most Wanted, Hard Copy, the National Enquirer, American Journal, Inside Edition, Unsolved Mysteries and A Current Affair and on similar radio and television talk shows in Europe. His entry in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World began with the 1976 edition.

Hank is featured in the controversial documentary film: Kurt & Courtney, by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield and in the well-known educational documentary LSD: 25. Both films were released on Video and DVD and shown on Showtime, HBO and over the BBC channels. Likewise he was featured in books such as Who Killed Kurt Cobain (1997) by Max Wallace and Queen of Noise (1996) by Melissa Rossi. In the early years of his career (1965-1976) he was mentioned in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe and was featured in Time, Life, Newsweek and the New York Times for his pioneering work with Drug Abuse intervention programs.

Hank spent an idyllic childhood on Cannery Row and the beaches of Pacific Grove before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1949. He attended Hayward High School, the College of San Mateo, San Jose State and San Francisco State University. He has lived and taught in Canada, England, Holland and Ireland. While in Ireland he worked as a consultant for the Irish department of labor. He is the author of seven books, and over 200 magazine & journal articles.

Hank holds a degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University and has attended postgraduate classes in anthropology and various seminars at Stanford. He also studied urban cultural experiments at the University of Amsterdam and is privileged to have studied renaissance and medieval topics with the late Dame Frances Yates at the Warburg Institute, London.

Awards & Honors

In 1968 he was awarded a scholarship to the Rocky Mountain Writer's Conference. In 1974 he was writer in residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California and won a six-month journalism residency in Las Vegas as feature editor for the Las Vegas Sun. In 1984 he attended the prestigious Stanford Publications course on a grant from Applied Materials Corporation. The first two books of his trilogy on the social history of the Grateful Dead have exceeded 300,000 copies in sales worldwide and have been translated into Portuguese, (Brazil) German, French and Dutch. A mass-market paperback was released in England. The long awaited Vol. 3, Dead End is in preparation.

His book: Love Kills: The Assassination of Kurt Cobain

Can only be bought through him because all avenues of publication have been shut down. Email: [email protected]

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Guest: Russ Kyle : San Francisco Crime Tours; Peoples Temple, SLA, Patty Hearst, OJ, Zodiac, Zebra Killers

Zebra Killers:
Don't believe the Hollywood hype you're gonna soon be hearing about The Zebra Killings. Ride along with Russ and you'll get the unvarnished truth about the jihad that occurred in the 70's in Baghdad by the Bay. Yeah this crime tour is not very PC, but then again, racially motivated murder never is.

Patty Hearst Kidnapping / SLA / Symbionese Liberation Army:
Slide into the limo for a fascinating look into SF's history of radical politics. Relive those heady days of the '70's when revolution was in the air and cults of personality were as common as Starbucks. Russ gives you a tour of the places touched by Patty Hearst and her wacky comrades in the gang known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hell's Angels, OJ Simpson, Charles Manson, Dan White, Zodiac Killer.....and much much more.

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Guest: Russ Kyle : San Francisco Crime Tours; Peoples Temple, SLA, Patty Hearst, OJ, Zodiac, Zebra Killers

Zebra Killers:
Don't believe the Hollywood hype you're gonna soon be hearing about The Zebra Killings. Ride along with Russ and you'll get the unvarnished truth about the jihad that occurred in the 70's in Baghdad by the Bay. Yeah this crime tour is not very PC, but then again, racially motivated murder never is.

Patty Hearst Kidnapping / SLA / Symbionese Liberation Army:
Slide into the limo for a fascinating look into SF's history of radical politics. Relive those heady days of the '70's when revolution was in the air and cults of personality were as common as Starbucks. Russ gives you a tour of the places touched by Patty Hearst and her wacky comrades in the gang known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hell's Angels, OJ Simpson, Charles Manson, Dan White, Zodiac Killer.....and much much more.

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Guest: Russ Kyle : San Francisco Crime Tours; Peoples Temple, SLA, Patty Hearst, OJ, Zodiac, Zebra Killers

Zebra Killers:
Don't believe the Hollywood hype you're gonna soon be hearing about The Zebra Killings. Ride along with Russ and you'll get the unvarnished truth about the jihad that occurred in the 70's in Baghdad by the Bay. Yeah this crime tour is not very PC, but then again, racially motivated murder never is.


Patty Heart Kidnapping / SLA / Symbionese Liberation Army:
Slide into the limo for a fascinating look into SF's history of radical politics. Relive those heady days of the '70's when revolution was in the air and cults of personality were as common as Starbucks. Russ gives you a tour of the places touched by Patty Hearst and her wacky comrades in the gang known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hell's Angels, OJ Simpson, Charles Manson, Dan White, Zodiac Killer.....and much much more.

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Guest: David McGowan

David McGowan was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, where he still resides. After graduating from UCLA in 1983 with an unused degree in psychology, he went to work in construction and now works as a general contractor. He is the proud father of three daughters and is a lifelong music fan.

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is close to my heart. But what really set the hook was discovering, early on in my research, that there were a number of aspects of the Laurel Canyon scene that didn't really seem to fit in with the prevailing image of a hippie utopia that was ostensibly all about peace and love.

Having grown up right alongside this scene, I was shocked to learn that I didn't even know that it had existed at all! And after asking around, I discovered that no one else that I know in this city did either. After the passage of nearly 50 years, it seemed that this was a story that was long overdue for greater exposure. Even more overdue, it seemed to me, was an expose of some of the hidden truths of Laurel Canyon.
Though a few books exploring the scene have popped up over the last several years, all of them have a certain sameness to them, with the same stories told in much the same way. I felt it was time to tell a different version of the story - the one that can be found hiding in the details that are usually left out.

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Vegas Mobster Frank Cullotta, Lawman Dennis Griffin
"Casino" The Real Story

Guest: Frank Cullotta
Frank Cullotta was born in Chicago in 1938. As a youth he embarked on a decades-long criminal career, hanging around with some of the toughest kids on the Windy City’s streets. Frank and several of his associates went on to become accomplished thieves, arsonists, and killers. One of those was Frank’s friend, Tony “the Ant” Spilotro, who gained notoriety as a ruthless Chicago Outfit enforcer. Tony was the mob’s top man in Las Vegas during the 1970s and through the mid-1980s. Frank was his main man for much of that time. Together, they and their gang ruled the Vegas underworld.
In 1982, the two men had a falling out that resulted in Frank rolling and becoming a government witness. His testimony was instrumental in putting a number of mobsters behind bars and causing the Outfit to lose its control over Las Vegas. Although the mob issued a contract on his life, Frank survived his time in prison and the Witness Protection Program. He is now a free man. His tell-all biography, Cullotta, is due to be released in May 2007.
http://www.amazon.com/Hole-Wall-Gang-Frank-Cullotta/dp/1936759217/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=2KJKEWILBKXOWNET&creativeASIN=1936759217
Las Vegas mafia

Guest: Dennis N. Griffin
Dennis N. Griffin retired in 1994 after a twenty-year career in investigations and law enforcement in New York State, and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada later that year. In 1996 he wrote his first novel, The Morgue, based on an actual case he investigated. He currently has six mystery/thriller books in print.
In 2002, Dennis turned his attention to non-fiction. Policing Las Vegas (Huntington Press, April 2005) follows the evolution of law enforcement in Las Vegas and Clark County from 1905 thru 2005. That successful debut was followed by The Battle for Las Vegas – The Law vs the Mob (Huntington Press, April 2006).

This latest book tells the inside story of Chicago Outfit enforcer Tony Spilotro’s reign in Vegas, and the war law enforcement waged to remove him. The Hollywood version of that era was reflected in the 1995 movie Casino, in which actor Joe Pesci played a character based on Spilotro.
Mr. Griffin is an active member of the Henderson Writers Group, Wizards Of Words, and the Public Safety Writers Association.

http://www.amazon.com/Cullotta-Chicago-Criminal-Mobster-Government/dp/0929712455/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=GFAWKK3G4PCWHQGO&creativeASIN=0929712455

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Stayed tuned in for this week's aftershow as Ed Keeps the coversation going with Cult Expert, David Conn

David Conn is a recognized expert on cult mentatlities and coauthored the book, THE CULT THAT DIED, published by G. P. Putnams’s Sons, New York, 1980. David has interviewed many of the people he has chosen to fictionalize in his new novel, LEDNORF'S DILEMMA, including professors, theologians, politicians, and numerous technical people within private industry and the Department of Defense. David Conn joined the Defense Department as a liaison among West Coast Navy and Air Force bases, the Defense Department and several industrial transportation companies. Prior to that Conn was a lead analyst with Chevron’s environmental laboratory. When he’s not uncovering some new cult, David enjoys singing and acting and has had lead roles in several musicals, including having played the part of Captain Von Trapp in Contra Costa Civic Theater’s “Sound of Music.” jim jones

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Guest: David Conn: Cult Expert, Jim Jones, Peoples Temple, Jonestown Guyana

David Conn is a recognized expert on cult mentatlities and coauthored the book, THE CULT THAT DIED, published by G. P. Putnams’s Sons, New York, 1980. David has interviewed many of the people he has chosen to fictionalize in his new novel, LEDNORF'S DILEMMA, including professors, theologians, politicians, and numerous technical people within private industry and the Department of Defense. David Conn joined the Defense Department as a liaison among West Coast Navy and Air Force bases, the Defense Department and several industrial transportation companies. Prior to that Conn was a lead analyst with Chevron’s environmental laboratory. When he’s not uncovering some new cult, David enjoys singing and acting and has had lead roles in several musicals, including having played the part of Captain Von Trapp in Contra Costa Civic Theater’s “Sound of Music.”

http://www.amazon.com/The-Specific-Density-Of-Scientists/dp/1477207732/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=EY7KDEZU67OK6JEQ&creativeASIN=1477207732

http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Fiends-Orthodox-Meaning-Jonestown/dp/0989912108/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=J3BHMWH3TJKY7BS4&creativeASIN=0989912108

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Cindy Sheehan, aged 56, is an internationally renowned peace and social justice activist.

Sheehan’s oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004 and many came to know about her and her work when she set up a peace camp near the faux-ranch of then president George W. Bush in Crawford, TX in the summer of 2005.

Since then, Cindy Sheehan, has traveled the world working with fellow activists demanding peace and working with others to help create a world that is peaceful and more economically secure and equal.

Cindy Sheehan is a native Californian who was raised in a California where education was excellent and other social safety nets were not as small and filled with holes so big, millions of Californians fall through while the rich and corporations keep exploiting more of this state's wealth and resources.

Sheehan majored in California History at UCLA and envisions a state that leads the world in peace, economic stability and equality, environmental sustainability and delivering high-quality public education from pre-K through university. She knows it can be done because it has been done before.

Cindy Sheehan has published seven books, been arrested for peace about 21 times, is currently a resident of Vacaville, CA and the mother of three surviving children and four grandchildren who are her love and her inspiration.

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Stephen Jimenez : The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard

Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He is a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting (Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism), an Emmy, and several fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. Jimenez lives in Brooklyn, New York.

What role did crystal meth and other previously under reported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=UP3KAX24Y7M3FL4J&creativeASIN=1586422146

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