M. Wesley Swearingen

M. Wesley Swearingen

1927-05-20
92 (2019-11-13)
Steubenville, Ohio, USA

Mont Wesley Swearingen was an FBI Special Agent from 1951 to 1977. He wrote two books drawn from his experience: FBI Secrets (1995), and To Kill a President (2008), an examination of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Steubenville, Ohio, USA

Mont Wesley Swearingen was an FBI Special Agent from 1951 to 1977. He wrote two books drawn from his experience: FBI Secrets (1995), and To Kill a President (2008), an examination of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon 2006 (6.674)

A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
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Bastards of the Party 2005 (5.4)

Surrounded by death and the brutal lifestyle that feeds it, a Los Angeles gangbanger explores the history of Southern California street gangs from the 1950s through the 1990s in an attempt to fully understand his existence. Bastards of the Party humanizes the staggering casualties of the LA gang wars.
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Who Bombed Judi Bari? 2012

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.