Submitted by theotherbogart t3_zcs5e2 in todayilearned
He's one of my favorite parts of the musical Assassins.
Such an amazing show!
Have it your way!
I mean, not like at the height of the Cold War the White House didn't have anti-air defenses
Sean Penn played Byck in a movie called The Assassination of Richard Nixon, and they show the hijacking. Penn plays a pretty convincing psychopath, I have to say.
Bro walks a fine line in real life
The bastard is pretty good at hitting women so this isn't a stretch.
Under a more relaxed security system, his suicidal rampage might have begun when the airliner was aloft.
It probably doesn't get any more relaxed than the before times of 9/11.
This was the time before 9/11
Yeah, so what would be more relaxed than that?
The times when random people could just walk into the White House off the streets.
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OP was quoting from the Wikipedia article.
Locking the cockpit door is all that is needed to prevent an airplane hijacking, the TSA needs to be abolished.
…this was in 1974.
Yes, and it still could've prevented 9/11
That’s too bad.
He was also dressed in a Santa costume.
One of the pilots survived fyi.
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Too bad he failed.
Except that Agnew would have become President.
Yeah, okay true. That was shortsighted, but seriously fuck Nixon and his ilk.
mddleman t1_iyy5z0x wrote
Whoa, did not know this! Thanks for the post.