Up first, Investigative journalist and veteran true crime author, Cathy Scott will discuss the investigation into the murder of multi-millionaire George Kogan, who was gunned down by a hitman in broad daylight on the streets of New York City. The case boggled detectives for nearly twenty years until the investigation honed in on Kogan’s wife, Barbara, who was the beneficiary of millions of dollars of life insurance. This spectacular case is riddled with a lurid affair, conspiracy, perjury, a crooked lawyer, and murder for hire. Cathy investigated and chronicled the entire case in her March 2012 true crime book The Millionaire’s Wife.
Cathy Scott will also discuss the violent murder of one of the world’s most popular rappers, Tupac Shakur on September 7, 1996. Tupac had just left the Mike Tyson/Bruce Sheldon boxing match at the Las Vegas MGM when he assaulted rival gang member Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson in retaliation for robbing a member of Tupac’s entourage earlier in the year. Ten minutes later, Tupac was dead. The case remains unsolved, but there are many theories about who is responsible. Cathy investigated his violent death and chronicled the life of the rapper in The Killing of Tupac Shakur. She takes us on a journey from Tupac’s early days as a voracious reader and choir boy to his rise to fame as a poet of violence, imprisonment, ghetto life, prostitution, and gangs.
On the second hour, veteran White House reporter, Don Fulsom, reveals that our 37th president was even more sinister and haunted than we knew. Richard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of his demons, deceptions, paranoia, prejudices, hatreds, and chicanery. Calling on his work in covering Nixon, scores of interviews with members of Congress, White House staffers, and others close to our nation’s thirty-seventh president, and invaluable, newly declassified documents and recordings, veteran journalist Don Fulsom sheds new light on “Tricky Dick.” The author’s revelations include:
- That the future president sabotaged the 1968 peace talks for political gain
- By the time Nixon became president in 1969, he had linked to the mob for more than two decades and, as president, had a close connection with New Orleans boss Carlos Marcello, the most powerful Mafioso in the nation
- The president had a drinking problem and top aides referred to him as "Our Drunk" Nixon had a misogynist streak and was abusive toward first lady Pat Nixon
- The intimate and possibly homosexual nature of Nixon's relationship with confidante Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, a banker with mob ties
- Testimony alleging that the president had ordered the killing of White House reporter Jack Anderson Fulsom’s examination of these and other startling aspects of Nixon’s personal and political dimensions paint an unflinching portrait of a leader who was once the most powerful man in the world.
Fulsom’s examination of these and other startling aspects of Nixon’s personal and political dimensions paint an unflinching portrait of a leader who was once the most powerful man in the world.
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