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Retired Marine Corps Lt Gen Charles H Chuck Pitman the branchs former Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation was atVeterans Memorial Park in Pensacola Fla on January 2 2013 Forty years ago on Jan 7 1973 Pitman volunteered to pilota Sea Knight helicopter and helped police stop Mark Essex the Howard Johnsons sniper in New Orleans risking his life and hiscareer (Photo by Michael Spooneybarger NOLAcom | The Times-Picayune contributor)
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Like most other residents of New Orleans
Marine helicopter pilot Charles H Chuck
Pitman watched the television in horror on Jan
7 1973 as authorities tried to stop a sniper or
snipers who had invaded the Downtown Howard
Johnsons Motor Lodge that morning and fatally
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in the 17-story hotel making police think there
was more than one gunman but the cops
eventually contained the killer or killers to the
roof
Though cornered whoever was on the hotel roof
was out of the NOPDs reach Disturbed Pitman
-- at the time a 37-year-old lieutenant colonel in
charge of a Marine air unit stationed in Belle
Chasse -- thought Weve got to do something
Those people need help out there
So Pitman did do something He flew a Marine
helicopter to the hotel on Loyola Avenue and
helped police officers some of them on board the
chopper kill 23-year-old Mark Essex who
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placed his career with the Marines in jeopardy
Four decades later many New Orleanians are still thankful for Pitmans actions on the
day Essex terrorized the city Without that helicopter and without his piloting it
wouldve been a lot worse Moon Landrieu New Orleans mayor at the time said
recently The city owes him a debt of gratitude
Antoine Saacks a former police officer who boarded Pitmans copter that Sunday said
I always say the true heroes were Chuck and his crew undoubtedly I have a
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On the day he resolved to help
the cops end the snipers grip of
terror on the city Pitman
ordered one of his subordinates
to contact the New Orleans
Police Department and offer
the Marine air units help An
NOPD sergeant called back
about 4 pm and accepted
asking for a helicopter with a
searchlight
Pitman his co-pilot and two
crew members immediately
prepared to fly to the scene
However in the rush to get
there Pitman had not gotten
the high-level authorization
necessary to undertake such a
mission
Though Pitman along with the
Coast Guard did have standing
permission to send helicopters
to assist local responders
rescue efforts in case of a
high-rise fire such as the
deadly one at the Rault Center
on Nov 29 1972 six weeks
earlier there were no air
rescues required at the hotel
Pitman recalled that on the day
of the sniper the Coast Guard
didnt want to dispatch a
helicopter to the Howard
Johnsons because foggy weather and low visibility made flying dangerous
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his crew he exposed himself to a court-martial He had deployed military personnel
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Braving fire from Mark Essex on a hotel balcony Times-Picayunephotographer GE Arnold took this iconic image as officer PhillipColeman died of a head wound in Duncan Plaza while his partnerchecks his pulse Wounded officer Ken Solis lies against a tree whileother police and bystanders take cover The officers were trying topush pedestrians to safety when they were hit Jan 8 1973
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Entering the fight on that
windy frigid rainy Sunday did
not frighten Pitman The
combat veteran -- who was born
in Chicago grew up in an
orphanage moved to Wisconsin
after being adopted and learned
to fly by age 14 -- had joined the
Marines in 1952
He flew some 1200 missions in
the Vietnam War His
helicopters were shot down
seven times and he suffered a
50-caliber bullet wound to one
of his legs
I enjoyed the excitement --
being in dangerous situations
Pitman said when asked why he
volunteered to fly to the
Howard Johnsons I didnt
necessarily like killing anybody
but I liked being a part of the
action I was used to the
sounds of battle the fog of war
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conditions Pitman could hover
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after departing from Belle
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Charles H Chuck Pitman was a Marine lieutenant colonel when MarkEssex invaded the Downtown Howard Johnsons Hotel Motor Lodge onSept 7 1973
(httpwwwhistorynavymilplanesch46htm) a twin rotor transport
helicopter He headed to the Mississippi River tracked its course to the Crescent City
Connection and then turned toward downtown following the expressway He landed
the helicopter in a parking lot near City Hall and an under-construction stadium now
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To meet with NOPD Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso (httpblognolacom
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instructions Pitman had to walk into the Howard Johnsons lobby where the command
post had been set up Pitman stunned that the command post was in such a dangerous
location said the only reason he walked toward the hotel entrance was that he figured
running might draw sniper fire
Giarrusso asked Pitman if he had brought an armored helicopter Pitman replied Im
not armored I cant duke it out with heavy weapons or anything Giarrusso then
requested that Pitman use his helicopter to lift a 16000-pound armored car to the top
of the roof Pitman whose Sea Knight was unable to carry half that load said I
couldnt take that up on the best day of the year
But Pitman agreed to fly a group of well-armed officers -- including Saacks 26 at the
time -- over the hotel to better see where the sniper was hiding They would try to force
the sniper out of his lair
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Retired Marine Charles H Chuck Pitman right is aboard the USANimitz in 1980 before a hostage rescue attempt he participated in
Confronting the sniper
During events chronicled by writer Chuck Hustmyre in an essay titled Under Attack
The New Orleans Police Department and the Howard Johnsons Hotel Sniper Pitman
approached the motor lodge by navigating between downtown high-rise buildings and
sweeping in over the roof Saacks remembers being impressed by Pitmans piloting
skills
His maneuvering of that helicopter was unbelievable Saacks a former Marine said
almost 40 years later When you have someone like Chuck in the drivers seat you feel
confident in what youre doing You know hes got your ass -- youre protected
Pitman shone his searchlight on a roof cubicle where it had been reported that the
gunman was lurking but no one could see anything Saacks and the other officers on
board fired volley after volley figuring that the gunman was hiding just inside the
cubicles metal door leading to a stairway or in either of two adjacent alcoves which
had cinderblock walls on three sides
Pitman passed over the roof
several times Each time Saacks
blew holes in the cinderblock
with his M-16 rifle The sniper
wasnt hurt but whenever
Pitman pulled the helicopter
away to circle back cops
positioned in neighboring
buildings said the sniper would
run out of the cubicle and shoot
at it From time to time bullets
smacked the exterior of the
copter
The cops aboard the Sea Knight
ran out of ammunition a couple
of times and Pitman had to
land so they could reload After one of those pit stops the sniper hit the Sea Knight
with gunfire but vanished when the helicopter began to pass over the hotel
Pitman lingered over the roof and focused his searchlight on the cubicle as the cops
blasted away Saacks then realized how the sniper was able to hide so well Whenever
the helicopter approached the sniper would apparently shimmy up a fire standpipe
inside one of the alcoves leaving him hidden from the officers view
The police on the helicopter then shot the pipe and split it open Pitman began pulling
away for another pass taking the searchlight off the cubicle
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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Marine Corps in 1990 Now 77 he lives in Pensacola Beach Fla with his wife Among
other things he is a consultant for an aircraft maintenance company and advises a
special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
NOPD captain on Nov 8 1991
Im glad I was able to do it Pitman who has visited New Orleans countless times to
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Beach this month It makes you feel good doing something good for the country good
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About six years after the HOJO sniper I was answering code 2s in the6th District The code 2s were basically black on black crime and we had beenbrought over to channel 6 to work on the backlog My partner in a lull asked Do you want the see the shrine Its
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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Shame that Saaks was a crook and did time for being involved incorruption
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Muslim who had converted to Islam much to his parents dismay Canthe media ever get past being politically correct Read A TerribleThunder Acknowledging this fact has even more relevance today
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Like most other residents of New Orleans
Marine helicopter pilot Charles H Chuck
Pitman watched the television in horror on Jan
7 1973 as authorities tried to stop a sniper or
snipers who had invaded the Downtown Howard
Johnsons Motor Lodge that morning and fatally
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in the 17-story hotel making police think there
was more than one gunman but the cops
eventually contained the killer or killers to the
roof
Though cornered whoever was on the hotel roof
was out of the NOPDs reach Disturbed Pitman
-- at the time a 37-year-old lieutenant colonel in
charge of a Marine air unit stationed in Belle
Chasse -- thought Weve got to do something
Those people need help out there
So Pitman did do something He flew a Marine
helicopter to the hotel on Loyola Avenue and
helped police officers some of them on board the
chopper kill 23-year-old Mark Essex who
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placed his career with the Marines in jeopardy
Four decades later many New Orleanians are still thankful for Pitmans actions on the
day Essex terrorized the city Without that helicopter and without his piloting it
wouldve been a lot worse Moon Landrieu New Orleans mayor at the time said
recently The city owes him a debt of gratitude
Antoine Saacks a former police officer who boarded Pitmans copter that Sunday said
I always say the true heroes were Chuck and his crew undoubtedly I have a
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On the day he resolved to help
the cops end the snipers grip of
terror on the city Pitman
ordered one of his subordinates
to contact the New Orleans
Police Department and offer
the Marine air units help An
NOPD sergeant called back
about 4 pm and accepted
asking for a helicopter with a
searchlight
Pitman his co-pilot and two
crew members immediately
prepared to fly to the scene
However in the rush to get
there Pitman had not gotten
the high-level authorization
necessary to undertake such a
mission
Though Pitman along with the
Coast Guard did have standing
permission to send helicopters
to assist local responders
rescue efforts in case of a
high-rise fire such as the
deadly one at the Rault Center
on Nov 29 1972 six weeks
earlier there were no air
rescues required at the hotel
Pitman recalled that on the day
of the sniper the Coast Guard
didnt want to dispatch a
helicopter to the Howard
Johnsons because foggy weather and low visibility made flying dangerous
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his crew he exposed himself to a court-martial He had deployed military personnel
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Braving fire from Mark Essex on a hotel balcony Times-Picayunephotographer GE Arnold took this iconic image as officer PhillipColeman died of a head wound in Duncan Plaza while his partnerchecks his pulse Wounded officer Ken Solis lies against a tree whileother police and bystanders take cover The officers were trying topush pedestrians to safety when they were hit Jan 8 1973
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Entering the fight on that
windy frigid rainy Sunday did
not frighten Pitman The
combat veteran -- who was born
in Chicago grew up in an
orphanage moved to Wisconsin
after being adopted and learned
to fly by age 14 -- had joined the
Marines in 1952
He flew some 1200 missions in
the Vietnam War His
helicopters were shot down
seven times and he suffered a
50-caliber bullet wound to one
of his legs
I enjoyed the excitement --
being in dangerous situations
Pitman said when asked why he
volunteered to fly to the
Howard Johnsons I didnt
necessarily like killing anybody
but I liked being a part of the
action I was used to the
sounds of battle the fog of war
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only slightly above the ground
after departing from Belle
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Charles H Chuck Pitman was a Marine lieutenant colonel when MarkEssex invaded the Downtown Howard Johnsons Hotel Motor Lodge onSept 7 1973
(httpwwwhistorynavymilplanesch46htm) a twin rotor transport
helicopter He headed to the Mississippi River tracked its course to the Crescent City
Connection and then turned toward downtown following the expressway He landed
the helicopter in a parking lot near City Hall and an under-construction stadium now
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To meet with NOPD Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso (httpblognolacom
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instructions Pitman had to walk into the Howard Johnsons lobby where the command
post had been set up Pitman stunned that the command post was in such a dangerous
location said the only reason he walked toward the hotel entrance was that he figured
running might draw sniper fire
Giarrusso asked Pitman if he had brought an armored helicopter Pitman replied Im
not armored I cant duke it out with heavy weapons or anything Giarrusso then
requested that Pitman use his helicopter to lift a 16000-pound armored car to the top
of the roof Pitman whose Sea Knight was unable to carry half that load said I
couldnt take that up on the best day of the year
But Pitman agreed to fly a group of well-armed officers -- including Saacks 26 at the
time -- over the hotel to better see where the sniper was hiding They would try to force
the sniper out of his lair
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Pitman family photo
Retired Marine Charles H Chuck Pitman right is aboard the USANimitz in 1980 before a hostage rescue attempt he participated in
Confronting the sniper
During events chronicled by writer Chuck Hustmyre in an essay titled Under Attack
The New Orleans Police Department and the Howard Johnsons Hotel Sniper Pitman
approached the motor lodge by navigating between downtown high-rise buildings and
sweeping in over the roof Saacks remembers being impressed by Pitmans piloting
skills
His maneuvering of that helicopter was unbelievable Saacks a former Marine said
almost 40 years later When you have someone like Chuck in the drivers seat you feel
confident in what youre doing You know hes got your ass -- youre protected
Pitman shone his searchlight on a roof cubicle where it had been reported that the
gunman was lurking but no one could see anything Saacks and the other officers on
board fired volley after volley figuring that the gunman was hiding just inside the
cubicles metal door leading to a stairway or in either of two adjacent alcoves which
had cinderblock walls on three sides
Pitman passed over the roof
several times Each time Saacks
blew holes in the cinderblock
with his M-16 rifle The sniper
wasnt hurt but whenever
Pitman pulled the helicopter
away to circle back cops
positioned in neighboring
buildings said the sniper would
run out of the cubicle and shoot
at it From time to time bullets
smacked the exterior of the
copter
The cops aboard the Sea Knight
ran out of ammunition a couple
of times and Pitman had to
land so they could reload After one of those pit stops the sniper hit the Sea Knight
with gunfire but vanished when the helicopter began to pass over the hotel
Pitman lingered over the roof and focused his searchlight on the cubicle as the cops
blasted away Saacks then realized how the sniper was able to hide so well Whenever
the helicopter approached the sniper would apparently shimmy up a fire standpipe
inside one of the alcoves leaving him hidden from the officers view
The police on the helicopter then shot the pipe and split it open Pitman began pulling
away for another pass taking the searchlight off the cubicle
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Pitman family
Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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Marine Corps in 1990 Now 77 he lives in Pensacola Beach Fla with his wife Among
other things he is a consultant for an aircraft maintenance company and advises a
special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
NOPD captain on Nov 8 1991
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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Shame that Saaks was a crook and did time for being involved incorruption
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Hmmthanks for that I was thinking it was a 5 rounddetachable magazine
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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And 3000 cops and 5000 armed solders with rocketlaunchers assaulted the building bring down thegang of 12 mercenarys located on 5 buildings justin that area
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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On the day he resolved to help
the cops end the snipers grip of
terror on the city Pitman
ordered one of his subordinates
to contact the New Orleans
Police Department and offer
the Marine air units help An
NOPD sergeant called back
about 4 pm and accepted
asking for a helicopter with a
searchlight
Pitman his co-pilot and two
crew members immediately
prepared to fly to the scene
However in the rush to get
there Pitman had not gotten
the high-level authorization
necessary to undertake such a
mission
Though Pitman along with the
Coast Guard did have standing
permission to send helicopters
to assist local responders
rescue efforts in case of a
high-rise fire such as the
deadly one at the Rault Center
on Nov 29 1972 six weeks
earlier there were no air
rescues required at the hotel
Pitman recalled that on the day
of the sniper the Coast Guard
didnt want to dispatch a
helicopter to the Howard
Johnsons because foggy weather and low visibility made flying dangerous
So when Pitman flew his helicopter to the hotel (httpgooglmaps0oX7B) with
his crew he exposed himself to a court-martial He had deployed military personnel
and resources to quell a civil matter and he did not have permission to do so before
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Braving fire from Mark Essex on a hotel balcony Times-Picayunephotographer GE Arnold took this iconic image as officer PhillipColeman died of a head wound in Duncan Plaza while his partnerchecks his pulse Wounded officer Ken Solis lies against a tree whileother police and bystanders take cover The officers were trying topush pedestrians to safety when they were hit Jan 8 1973
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Entering the fight on that
windy frigid rainy Sunday did
not frighten Pitman The
combat veteran -- who was born
in Chicago grew up in an
orphanage moved to Wisconsin
after being adopted and learned
to fly by age 14 -- had joined the
Marines in 1952
He flew some 1200 missions in
the Vietnam War His
helicopters were shot down
seven times and he suffered a
50-caliber bullet wound to one
of his legs
I enjoyed the excitement --
being in dangerous situations
Pitman said when asked why he
volunteered to fly to the
Howard Johnsons I didnt
necessarily like killing anybody
but I liked being a part of the
action I was used to the
sounds of battle the fog of war
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conditions Pitman could hover
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Charles H Chuck Pitman was a Marine lieutenant colonel when MarkEssex invaded the Downtown Howard Johnsons Hotel Motor Lodge onSept 7 1973
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Connection and then turned toward downtown following the expressway He landed
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instructions Pitman had to walk into the Howard Johnsons lobby where the command
post had been set up Pitman stunned that the command post was in such a dangerous
location said the only reason he walked toward the hotel entrance was that he figured
running might draw sniper fire
Giarrusso asked Pitman if he had brought an armored helicopter Pitman replied Im
not armored I cant duke it out with heavy weapons or anything Giarrusso then
requested that Pitman use his helicopter to lift a 16000-pound armored car to the top
of the roof Pitman whose Sea Knight was unable to carry half that load said I
couldnt take that up on the best day of the year
But Pitman agreed to fly a group of well-armed officers -- including Saacks 26 at the
time -- over the hotel to better see where the sniper was hiding They would try to force
the sniper out of his lair
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Retired Marine Charles H Chuck Pitman right is aboard the USANimitz in 1980 before a hostage rescue attempt he participated in
Confronting the sniper
During events chronicled by writer Chuck Hustmyre in an essay titled Under Attack
The New Orleans Police Department and the Howard Johnsons Hotel Sniper Pitman
approached the motor lodge by navigating between downtown high-rise buildings and
sweeping in over the roof Saacks remembers being impressed by Pitmans piloting
skills
His maneuvering of that helicopter was unbelievable Saacks a former Marine said
almost 40 years later When you have someone like Chuck in the drivers seat you feel
confident in what youre doing You know hes got your ass -- youre protected
Pitman shone his searchlight on a roof cubicle where it had been reported that the
gunman was lurking but no one could see anything Saacks and the other officers on
board fired volley after volley figuring that the gunman was hiding just inside the
cubicles metal door leading to a stairway or in either of two adjacent alcoves which
had cinderblock walls on three sides
Pitman passed over the roof
several times Each time Saacks
blew holes in the cinderblock
with his M-16 rifle The sniper
wasnt hurt but whenever
Pitman pulled the helicopter
away to circle back cops
positioned in neighboring
buildings said the sniper would
run out of the cubicle and shoot
at it From time to time bullets
smacked the exterior of the
copter
The cops aboard the Sea Knight
ran out of ammunition a couple
of times and Pitman had to
land so they could reload After one of those pit stops the sniper hit the Sea Knight
with gunfire but vanished when the helicopter began to pass over the hotel
Pitman lingered over the roof and focused his searchlight on the cubicle as the cops
blasted away Saacks then realized how the sniper was able to hide so well Whenever
the helicopter approached the sniper would apparently shimmy up a fire standpipe
inside one of the alcoves leaving him hidden from the officers view
The police on the helicopter then shot the pipe and split it open Pitman began pulling
away for another pass taking the searchlight off the cubicle
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Pitman family
Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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other things he is a consultant for an aircraft maintenance company and advises a
special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
NOPD captain on Nov 8 1991
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Braving fire from Mark Essex on a hotel balcony Times-Picayunephotographer GE Arnold took this iconic image as officer PhillipColeman died of a head wound in Duncan Plaza while his partnerchecks his pulse Wounded officer Ken Solis lies against a tree whileother police and bystanders take cover The officers were trying topush pedestrians to safety when they were hit Jan 8 1973
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Entering the fight on that
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in Chicago grew up in an
orphanage moved to Wisconsin
after being adopted and learned
to fly by age 14 -- had joined the
Marines in 1952
He flew some 1200 missions in
the Vietnam War His
helicopters were shot down
seven times and he suffered a
50-caliber bullet wound to one
of his legs
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being in dangerous situations
Pitman said when asked why he
volunteered to fly to the
Howard Johnsons I didnt
necessarily like killing anybody
but I liked being a part of the
action I was used to the
sounds of battle the fog of war
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conditions Pitman could hover
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Charles H Chuck Pitman was a Marine lieutenant colonel when MarkEssex invaded the Downtown Howard Johnsons Hotel Motor Lodge onSept 7 1973
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helicopter He headed to the Mississippi River tracked its course to the Crescent City
Connection and then turned toward downtown following the expressway He landed
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instructions Pitman had to walk into the Howard Johnsons lobby where the command
post had been set up Pitman stunned that the command post was in such a dangerous
location said the only reason he walked toward the hotel entrance was that he figured
running might draw sniper fire
Giarrusso asked Pitman if he had brought an armored helicopter Pitman replied Im
not armored I cant duke it out with heavy weapons or anything Giarrusso then
requested that Pitman use his helicopter to lift a 16000-pound armored car to the top
of the roof Pitman whose Sea Knight was unable to carry half that load said I
couldnt take that up on the best day of the year
But Pitman agreed to fly a group of well-armed officers -- including Saacks 26 at the
time -- over the hotel to better see where the sniper was hiding They would try to force
the sniper out of his lair
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Retired Marine Charles H Chuck Pitman right is aboard the USANimitz in 1980 before a hostage rescue attempt he participated in
Confronting the sniper
During events chronicled by writer Chuck Hustmyre in an essay titled Under Attack
The New Orleans Police Department and the Howard Johnsons Hotel Sniper Pitman
approached the motor lodge by navigating between downtown high-rise buildings and
sweeping in over the roof Saacks remembers being impressed by Pitmans piloting
skills
His maneuvering of that helicopter was unbelievable Saacks a former Marine said
almost 40 years later When you have someone like Chuck in the drivers seat you feel
confident in what youre doing You know hes got your ass -- youre protected
Pitman shone his searchlight on a roof cubicle where it had been reported that the
gunman was lurking but no one could see anything Saacks and the other officers on
board fired volley after volley figuring that the gunman was hiding just inside the
cubicles metal door leading to a stairway or in either of two adjacent alcoves which
had cinderblock walls on three sides
Pitman passed over the roof
several times Each time Saacks
blew holes in the cinderblock
with his M-16 rifle The sniper
wasnt hurt but whenever
Pitman pulled the helicopter
away to circle back cops
positioned in neighboring
buildings said the sniper would
run out of the cubicle and shoot
at it From time to time bullets
smacked the exterior of the
copter
The cops aboard the Sea Knight
ran out of ammunition a couple
of times and Pitman had to
land so they could reload After one of those pit stops the sniper hit the Sea Knight
with gunfire but vanished when the helicopter began to pass over the hotel
Pitman lingered over the roof and focused his searchlight on the cubicle as the cops
blasted away Saacks then realized how the sniper was able to hide so well Whenever
the helicopter approached the sniper would apparently shimmy up a fire standpipe
inside one of the alcoves leaving him hidden from the officers view
The police on the helicopter then shot the pipe and split it open Pitman began pulling
away for another pass taking the searchlight off the cubicle
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
NOPD captain on Nov 8 1991
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Charles H Chuck Pitman was a Marine lieutenant colonel when MarkEssex invaded the Downtown Howard Johnsons Hotel Motor Lodge onSept 7 1973
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Connection and then turned toward downtown following the expressway He landed
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instructions Pitman had to walk into the Howard Johnsons lobby where the command
post had been set up Pitman stunned that the command post was in such a dangerous
location said the only reason he walked toward the hotel entrance was that he figured
running might draw sniper fire
Giarrusso asked Pitman if he had brought an armored helicopter Pitman replied Im
not armored I cant duke it out with heavy weapons or anything Giarrusso then
requested that Pitman use his helicopter to lift a 16000-pound armored car to the top
of the roof Pitman whose Sea Knight was unable to carry half that load said I
couldnt take that up on the best day of the year
But Pitman agreed to fly a group of well-armed officers -- including Saacks 26 at the
time -- over the hotel to better see where the sniper was hiding They would try to force
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Retired Marine Charles H Chuck Pitman right is aboard the USANimitz in 1980 before a hostage rescue attempt he participated in
Confronting the sniper
During events chronicled by writer Chuck Hustmyre in an essay titled Under Attack
The New Orleans Police Department and the Howard Johnsons Hotel Sniper Pitman
approached the motor lodge by navigating between downtown high-rise buildings and
sweeping in over the roof Saacks remembers being impressed by Pitmans piloting
skills
His maneuvering of that helicopter was unbelievable Saacks a former Marine said
almost 40 years later When you have someone like Chuck in the drivers seat you feel
confident in what youre doing You know hes got your ass -- youre protected
Pitman shone his searchlight on a roof cubicle where it had been reported that the
gunman was lurking but no one could see anything Saacks and the other officers on
board fired volley after volley figuring that the gunman was hiding just inside the
cubicles metal door leading to a stairway or in either of two adjacent alcoves which
had cinderblock walls on three sides
Pitman passed over the roof
several times Each time Saacks
blew holes in the cinderblock
with his M-16 rifle The sniper
wasnt hurt but whenever
Pitman pulled the helicopter
away to circle back cops
positioned in neighboring
buildings said the sniper would
run out of the cubicle and shoot
at it From time to time bullets
smacked the exterior of the
copter
The cops aboard the Sea Knight
ran out of ammunition a couple
of times and Pitman had to
land so they could reload After one of those pit stops the sniper hit the Sea Knight
with gunfire but vanished when the helicopter began to pass over the hotel
Pitman lingered over the roof and focused his searchlight on the cubicle as the cops
blasted away Saacks then realized how the sniper was able to hide so well Whenever
the helicopter approached the sniper would apparently shimmy up a fire standpipe
inside one of the alcoves leaving him hidden from the officers view
The police on the helicopter then shot the pipe and split it open Pitman began pulling
away for another pass taking the searchlight off the cubicle
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Retired Marine Charles H Chuck Pitman right is aboard the USANimitz in 1980 before a hostage rescue attempt he participated in
Confronting the sniper
During events chronicled by writer Chuck Hustmyre in an essay titled Under Attack
The New Orleans Police Department and the Howard Johnsons Hotel Sniper Pitman
approached the motor lodge by navigating between downtown high-rise buildings and
sweeping in over the roof Saacks remembers being impressed by Pitmans piloting
skills
His maneuvering of that helicopter was unbelievable Saacks a former Marine said
almost 40 years later When you have someone like Chuck in the drivers seat you feel
confident in what youre doing You know hes got your ass -- youre protected
Pitman shone his searchlight on a roof cubicle where it had been reported that the
gunman was lurking but no one could see anything Saacks and the other officers on
board fired volley after volley figuring that the gunman was hiding just inside the
cubicles metal door leading to a stairway or in either of two adjacent alcoves which
had cinderblock walls on three sides
Pitman passed over the roof
several times Each time Saacks
blew holes in the cinderblock
with his M-16 rifle The sniper
wasnt hurt but whenever
Pitman pulled the helicopter
away to circle back cops
positioned in neighboring
buildings said the sniper would
run out of the cubicle and shoot
at it From time to time bullets
smacked the exterior of the
copter
The cops aboard the Sea Knight
ran out of ammunition a couple
of times and Pitman had to
land so they could reload After one of those pit stops the sniper hit the Sea Knight
with gunfire but vanished when the helicopter began to pass over the hotel
Pitman lingered over the roof and focused his searchlight on the cubicle as the cops
blasted away Saacks then realized how the sniper was able to hide so well Whenever
the helicopter approached the sniper would apparently shimmy up a fire standpipe
inside one of the alcoves leaving him hidden from the officers view
The police on the helicopter then shot the pipe and split it open Pitman began pulling
away for another pass taking the searchlight off the cubicle
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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other things he is a consultant for an aircraft maintenance company and advises a
special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Muslim who had converted to Islam much to his parents dismay Canthe media ever get past being politically correct Read A TerribleThunder Acknowledging this fact has even more relevance today
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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The gunman scrambled out to the roof to squeeze off a few more rounds at the
helicopter Pitman suddenly reversed course reappearing over the hotel and scanning
the roof with the searchlight Suddenly the light illuminated the gunman He was
several yards from the cover of the cubicle
The sniper fired once at the helicopter Pitman observed a flash and a red streak
speeding toward him
When he fired at me the helicopter jumped Pitman joked explaining that he
instinctively jerked back on his controls The bullet struck a little bit above the cockpit
hitting the transmission casing
Pitman steadied the helicopter and kept the searchlight on the sniper Saacks his
colleagues in the helicopter and the officers in surrounding buildings emptied their
weapons at the figure on the roof The sniper collapsed and died He was struck more
than 200 times
It was 9 pm about 10 hours after the hotel had come under attack but it wasnt until
the next day that police finally recovered the snipers body and decided there were no
other gunmen in the hotel or on the roof Though officials concluded that Essex was a
lone killer even today many of those who worked to stop him believe that he had at
least one accomplice
Cops hotel employees guests were among victims
A native of Emporia Kan Essex had been discharged from the Navy because of
unsuitability of character and behavior disorders An African-American man he was
enraged about racism he experienced in the Navy He sympathized with radical Black
Panther politics loathed cops and came to New Orleans to meet up with a like-minded
friend
Essex actually committed his first slayings on Dec 31 1972 when he shot police cadet
Alfred Harrell Jr at Central Lockup with a 44-caliber Magnum carbine and later
officer Edwin Hosli Sr who was investigating a warehouse burglary alarm tripped by
Essex at the corner of South Gayoso and Euphrosine streets Harrell Essexs only black
victim died immediately Hosli who was white died two months later
Essex eluded authorities for a week Then on the morning of Jan 7 wielding his 44
carbine he shot and wounded a grocer he surmised was helping the police stole a car
at gunpoint and drove to Howard Johnsons He killed the hotels general manager W
Sherwood Collins the assistant manager Frank Schneider and two guests Dr Robert
Steagall and Betty Steagall a Virginia couple who had been married just seven months
Essex also killed a pair of NOPD officers Phil Coleman and Paul Persigo and the
departments deputy superintendent Louis Sirgo In all Essex had killed nine people
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Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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Good story Heroic Marine officer This is good journalism
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Hmmthanks for that I was thinking it was a 5 rounddetachable magazine
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Wow That puts a whole new spin on things Formonths I have been absolutely furious with Serpasover the way he gave Hosli a free pass for hismisdeeds I am not saying that this excuses thatbut it really changes my perspective on thingsAgain wow
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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Charles H Chuck Pitman now 77 retired from the Marines in 1990 asa lieutenant general
and wounded 13 others on Dec 31 1972 and Jan 7 1973
There could have been many more victims had Pitman not gotten involved when he
did according to Moon Landrieu The fact that we had a helicopter gave us a
tremendous advantage because we didnt know where (Essex) was on the roof We
suspected we would get the upper hand (with the helicopter) and we did the former
mayor said
Chuck put everything on the line
Pitman soon learned that his actions could lead to a court-martial But he said the issue
was dropped after his commander sought out longtime US Rep F Edward Hebert a
New Orleans Democrat and at the time the powerful chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee It also worked in Pitmans favor that he didnt cause more
casualties by for example being shot down or crashing the Sea Knight into a building
Saacks -- who later became the NOPDs deputy chief but was fired in 1994 because of
allegations involving a private security enterprise he ran on the side -- said he will
always admire Pitman for what he did to help the NOPD foil Essex Chuck put
everything on the line -- not only his life but his career Saacks said
Pitman was transferred out of
New Orleans in June 1973
Seven years later he was in
charge of the helicopter crews
that participated in Operation
Eagle Claw an attempt ordered
by President Jimmy Carter to
rescue 52 Americans being held
hostage in Iran The mission
ended in disaster when a
helicopter collided with a
transport plane killing eight
American servicemen
Pitman considers Eagle Claw
one of the most difficult
moments of his career But
better days were ahead for him
He became the Marine Corps
deputy chief of staff for aviation
in 1987 and attained the rank
of lieutenant general in 1988
Pitman who has two sons and
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Marine Corps in 1990 Now 77 he lives in Pensacola Beach Fla with his wife Among
other things he is a consultant for an aircraft maintenance company and advises a
special weapons and tactics training group based in Weatherford Texas
During his nearly four decades in the Marines he earned numerous honors among
them a Silver Star for valor four Distinguished Flying Crosses a Bronze Star with
Combat V a Purple Heart and 65 air medals Nonetheless he says he is perhaps most
proud of having served alongside the New Orleans police during their clash with Essex
on one of the darkest days in the citys history for which he was made an honorary
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LTG CHARLES H PITTMAN IS NOT ONLY A MILITARY HERO BUT MYHEROA AWESOME FRIENDALWAYS I posted this to my Facebook for all to see thank you for beingwonderful human being Chuck Linda K Foreman
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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Shame that Saaks was a crook and did time for being involved incorruption
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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Good story Heroic Marine officer This is good journalism
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Hmmthanks for that I was thinking it was a 5 rounddetachable magazine
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Muslim who had converted to Islam much to his parents dismay Canthe media ever get past being politically correct Read A TerribleThunder Acknowledging this fact has even more relevance today
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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My thanks to Ramon and also to you Kansan for the siterefernce How well I remember that horrible day Ramonthank you for the site references below How well Rhett andI remember that terrifying day However after all theseyears the hatred continues It is time to make some drasticchanges In unity will come a Nouvelle New Orleans
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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Marines dont have bases do they They have Camps andAir Stations and such but we ground pounders and theflyboys are the only ones that still claim the term baseanymore no Thanks CC
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Hmmthanks for that I was thinking it was a 5 rounddetachable magazine
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Muslim who had converted to Islam much to his parents dismay Canthe media ever get past being politically correct Read A TerribleThunder Acknowledging this fact has even more relevance today
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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And 3000 cops and 5000 armed solders with rocketlaunchers assaulted the building bring down thegang of 12 mercenarys located on 5 buildings justin that area
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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About six years after the HOJO sniper I was answering code 2s in the6th District The code 2s were basically black on black crime and we had beenbrought over to channel 6 to work on the backlog My partner in a lull asked Do you want the see the shrine Its
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nearby I really didnt know what he meant but sure enough he went aroundtwo corners and we walked to the back of a building It was a shrine toMark Essex that was maintained No one showed themselves as wewalked in a looked at the grafitti walls We made no comments as we walked around that small room We had to leave An old black lady had been beaten up by hergrandson for the money she had been saving I looked at my partnerhis red hair close cropped and so Marine as he tenderly helped thatpoor old lady I went outside to meet the amulance coming to pick her up We wouldfollow that amublance to Charity to make the report of this terriblebeating of a fragile old woman Being a police officer is unreal
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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Good story Heroic Marine officer This is good journalism
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Hmmthanks for that I was thinking it was a 5 rounddetachable magazine
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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And 3000 cops and 5000 armed solders with rocketlaunchers assaulted the building bring down thegang of 12 mercenarys located on 5 buildings justin that area
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was there people may have cheered in the streets but notin those streets
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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Why doesnt the title of this article have the heroes name in it Letsquit giving the murderers their minute of fame and instead remember
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A really good article These heroes deserve to be remembered
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Good story Heroic Marine officer This is good journalism
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It would make perfect sense that the killer would set the Rault fire justto see how the police and firemen would respond so he could betterplan his massacre later at the HJ but without proof who knowsAnd was he a lone murderer without proof who knows
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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on the weapon and focus our attention on the killers Most often theyare not unknown to LE and we should be interdicting them beforethey take up a hunting rifle and commit mass murder
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Hmmthanks for that I was thinking it was a 5 rounddetachable magazine
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No wonder the feds are after you You nailed it Your info is100 correct and reasoning likewise
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Wow That puts a whole new spin on things Formonths I have been absolutely furious with Serpasover the way he gave Hosli a free pass for hismisdeeds I am not saying that this excuses thatbut it really changes my perspective on thingsAgain wow
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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This was a great story on a day of infamy in the local lore It providesan interesting look back in time and provides us a way to look forwardin a time when mass shootings are again in the headlines It reminds us that madmen and killers have always been with us andthey have always exacted a heavy toll This case is an important studyin that it teaches us some valuable lessons as this nation rushesheadlong into a false cure in the form of gun control In our panicwewill disrupt the property and constitutional rights of peaceful citizensfor a bogus remedy which will do nothing to stop or stem the murdersand mayhem We are often told that we should not have assault rifles becausethey are killing machines and that we should only be allowed to ownhunting rifles which will be protected Although assault rifles wereeasily available back then he chose an ordinary simple hunting rifleThe very type gun we hear is OK to own The Ruger 44 Magnum carbine was the quintessential deerbrushgun It was small compact efficient and packed a wallop with the44Mag This is the cartridge made famous in all the Dirty Harrymovies( feeling lucky punk) The same gun used by Essexvirtually unchanged is still sold today Without getting too deeply intophysics and ballistics suffice it to say that it fires a projectile about 4times the size of the Bushmaster AR 15s 556 round and about twicethe size of an AK47s 762x39 Ladies and gents its a scientific factthat a big bullet makes a big hole every time There was no detachable high capacity magazine that we are toldmakes our modern killings so possible It was an integral 5 ROUNDtube magazine built in the gun Each round had to be individuallyloaded in to a maximum of five Despite all this this single man(officialstory) held off the entire NOPD and a number of alphabet agenciesfrom the state and federal government for many hours exacting aterrible toll in life and limb Out of respect for the families I wontdetail that carnage but it was gruesome and ghastly It didnt come toan end until the Marines landed As I recall this wasnt even a scoped weapon He did it the oldfashioned way iron sights He made shots that would be difficult withscoped weapon especially firing into Duncan Plaza where some werekilled or mortally wounded The lesson here is we need to stop uselessly obsessing and focusing
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Muslim who had converted to Islam much to his parents dismay Canthe media ever get past being politically correct Read A TerribleThunder Acknowledging this fact has even more relevance today
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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Marines dont have bases do they They have Camps andAir Stations and such but we ground pounders and theflyboys are the only ones that still claim the term baseanymore no Thanks CC
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Chuck Hustmyres essay and numerous stories done inThe T-P and the States-Item by great journalists that havepreceded me
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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Ramon thanks for the great article about an unsung hero of thisevent I was in college here and watched the coverage live on tv--willnever forget it especially as it was a few short weeks after the Raultfire Both horrible memorable events I always thought Essex was tiedto that firebombing too
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Essex and his actions can be examined dissected justified vilified etcHe is no different than Lanza Oswald or Charles Whitman No oneknows what really goes on in the head of a murderer The whole thingis just tragic People going about their day and then they are gone
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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My thanks to Ramon and also to you Kansan for the siterefernce How well I remember that horrible day Ramonthank you for the site references below How well Rhett andI remember that terrifying day However after all theseyears the hatred continues It is time to make some drasticchanges In unity will come a Nouvelle New Orleans
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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Marines dont have bases do they They have Camps andAir Stations and such but we ground pounders and theflyboys are the only ones that still claim the term baseanymore no Thanks CC
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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It is not about gun control or the debilitating effects of generationalracismIt is about human beings for whatever reason deciding to killother human beings Whether Essex was a Muslim or Oswald was apatsy for the mob it really in the end does not matter I think whatmatters is that we should face up to the fact that there are people thatwill kill for no good reason Period
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I find the rationalization of mass murder revolting Some of thesecomments come from very disturbed people There is not a corner ofthis earth where people have not been abused to horrific degreesThats a human condition Theres always someone on top andsomeone hes standing on And those on top and those who arestomped have come from every race and religion From the slums ofLondon to the slums of India to slums of New York people of everyrace have been abused For class religious reasons or physicalattributes and infirmities people have been abused Most have just endured it Some have rose to incredible heights inspite of it It has killed many And some have become extremelywicked Essex was extremely wicked Not a hero just wicked
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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My thanks to Ramon and also to you Kansan for the siterefernce How well I remember that horrible day Ramonthank you for the site references below How well Rhett andI remember that terrifying day However after all theseyears the hatred continues It is time to make some drasticchanges In unity will come a Nouvelle New Orleans
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Id like to see a few articles about the heroes who died with brokennecks at the end of ropes because of the color of their skin in thisDeep South backwater What Essex did cannot be condoned but it canbe understood For hundreds of years Black men were marginalized inthis society lynched their wives and daughters raped deniedopportunities to participate in the social and economic fiber of thisnation and targeted for destruction It is interesting to see some posters try to pretend that nothing waswrong back then The Black Panthers and Mark Essex types wouldnever have existed but for racist and depraved actions on the part ofsome individuals Glad that were in a better time these days Too bad that this nationkilled hundreds of thousands before now especially people whowere fighting for the right to vote and to have available to them whatis found in this nations Constituion - life liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness I grieve for the Essex victims as I do for the hundreds of thousands
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As you grieve for the hundreds of thousands who died bythe hands of racists dont forget the untold millions whodied because of the mindset To include all denominations ofChristians Jews Muslims Chinese by the hands of theJapanese Anglos be the hands of Japanese One tribe bythe hand of another Indians by the hands of europeonsetc Would you like me to add in the middle eastern nations andvarious religions and ethnic persuasions Maybe your planscan also include the Afro-American brothers who haveapparently declared war on themselves
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Yepthe Black Hand Americans had been concerned about the arrivalof Black Handmdashor as they thought Mafiamdashgangsters since the large influx of immigrants fromSouthern Italy in the late nineteenth centuryNational attention was drawn to the situation withthe murder of New Orleans police chief DavidHennessy in 1892 by Italian gangsters when hesided with one faction against the other A numberof Italians were arrested in the case Their acquittalat trial outraged the citizenry who went to the jailand lynched 11 Sicilian prisoners being heldthere Sosince I have Italian heritageShould I beacting like some immature jackassPostingnonsense about something which happened 100years ago
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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Does that really matter Should he have also included thathe liked sugar cookies What relevance does that have tothis story The story is about one of the good guys not ablow by blow of what led this man to do what he did
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Great re-count of what happened Mr Vargas Thanks Everyoneneeds to be reminded (nationwide) as to what happened that day However nowhere do I see it mentioned that he (Essex) was a radical
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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If I recall correctly this happened on a Sunday evening I was at theLoyola Fieldhouse watching the Harlem Globetrotters that dayMeadowlark Lemon Curley Neil etc while this maniac was on arampage There is NO excuse for murdering innocent people Somepeople just cant handle rejection life pressure etcand they areWEAK and COWARDS Essex is a COWARD and is DEAD
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Once againGreat article Ramon On a rainy Sundayit stirred my interests in an incident I rememberas a child growing up in New Orleans Its interesting to find out that one of Essexs victims was the manwho was working on fixing the race relations of the NOPDDeputySuperintendent Louis Sirgo Heres a link about the victims of theNOPD httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes- (httpwwwbestofneworleanscomgambitthe-heroes-of-howard-johnsonsContentoid=1241071)
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Wow That puts a whole new spin on things Formonths I have been absolutely furious with Serpasover the way he gave Hosli a free pass for hismisdeeds I am not saying that this excuses thatbut it really changes my perspective on thingsAgain wow
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Wow That puts a whole new spin on things Formonths I have been absolutely furious with Serpasover the way he gave Hosli a free pass for hismisdeeds I am not saying that this excuses thatbut it really changes my perspective on thingsAgain wow
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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And 3000 cops and 5000 armed solders with rocketlaunchers assaulted the building bring down thegang of 12 mercenarys located on 5 buildings justin that area
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Mr Vargas a well written article thanks LtGen Pittman - thanks for your service and efforts in this tragedy And for those who want to continue to relive the militarys past - hinthint the Marine Corps and the other services have thankfully movedon in terms of racial harmony The Marines talk about one color -desert cammies or whatever the uniform of the day is for their menand women Time for some of you to visit your local Marine Corps base
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Marines dont have bases do they They have Camps andAir Stations and such but we ground pounders and theflyboys are the only ones that still claim the term baseanymore no Thanks CC
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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I was 15 and in high school watching you in the auditorium of O PerryWalker We could hear the gunfire when the wind was right It was very scaryBack then New Orleans wasnt a killing field We were shocked by JFKand MLK the Vietnam war and never dreamed of what the city wouldevolve into Pardon General the peculiar perspective of Creole And Dickie Whenthey see a Van Gogh I am sure they miss the magnifiicent painting asthey focus on his lost ear and the tragedy of 19th century mentalhealth For those of us who appreciate what is and what it takes to havecourage beyond the keyboard we thank you You are a rare man
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Wow That puts a whole new spin on things Formonths I have been absolutely furious with Serpasover the way he gave Hosli a free pass for hismisdeeds I am not saying that this excuses thatbut it really changes my perspective on thingsAgain wow
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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I just want to add that back when this happened police forces werewoefully poorly armed I remember that many of the officers ran hometo get their hunting rifles All they had were 6 shot service revolversand Essex had a 5 shot Ruger 44 caliperits a version of the Mini-14No high capacity magazines and yet look what he did with a 5 shotsemi auto rifle Thats why the weapons ban legislation is useless Itgets back to mental health Until the chopper showed upEssex had the upper hand Therewere no Swat Teams back thennot in any police force not just theNOPD
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At the time LT General Pittman was entering the fight no one knewthe race of the sniper Race should not be the issue here in this story Thank you General Pittman for your many heroic deeds
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Race is the focal point of the story because Mr Essex was aracist and his goal was to kill white people which is what hedid To ignore this fact and Mr Essexs motivation is to alsoignore the victims and their families
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Actually I was in school here at the time and recall watchingthe whole thing on tv It was apparent and obvious duringthe shooting that the sniper was only shooting whitepeople---to the extent that black police officers bravelypulled people to safety and the sniper would not shoot atthem
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The author of many books on The Monkey Virus Mr Haslamdescribes a fire at the Rault Center in New Orleans He had workedthere in the summer of 1968 and he describes how the building wasowned by Joseph M Rault Jr an independent oil man and real estateentrepreneur Rault was also close to Senator Russell Long and NewOrleans District Attorney Jim Garrison In fact Rault was one of themembers of Truth or Consequences a private group set up to raisefunds for Garrisons investigation Haslam describes how he went tothe scene of the fire at the Rault Center caused by a firebomb Thescene foreshadowed the 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York but on a much smaller scale In the New Orleansfire people jumped to their deaths to avoid being burned to deathHaslam asked Was the Rault Center firebombing the result of Raultsfinancing of Garrisons JFK investigation
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A firebomb What proof does Haslam give of this
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I am sharing a link to this story It is from a 1982 documentary calledThe Killing of America At 35 minutes32 seconds into thedocumentary you can see the drama unfold [youtube (httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=lH-knbqmXn0)]
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And 3000 cops and 5000 armed solders with rocketlaunchers assaulted the building bring down thegang of 12 mercenarys located on 5 buildings justin that area
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Some of the info is wrong on this documentary and wemust keep in mind all documentary try to push an agenda
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Stirring up the division was not an issue until Essex 73forgot to flush the toilet making Mark out to be a hero
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Mr Antonio Vargas is this the same Antoine Saacks that a simplegoogle search would show to be totally corrupt Is this the upper levelNOPD man who travelled with a mafia boss to Las Vegas
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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The citizens of New Orleans need to learn the lesson of something andmove on This article reaches back into the history of a great city todig up a violent episode that does nothing but further divide thecitizens Just read the comments and you quickly see the division Focus on the building a brighter future The lesson of Forgiveness isvery much needed for some people and I am one of them NewOrleanians let 2013 be a year of forgiveness Peace
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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Very nice article I am not old enough to remember the rampage (wasborn in the 80s) but my dad has told me the story over the years Ihad a chance to work in the building a year ago as part of arenovation crew and became relatively familiar with the roof andstaircase leading to it Very eerie feeling knowing that youre standingin a spot in which so much hatred was meted out by a disturbed man This is probably the most detailed account of what happened that iveread yet thank you for posting this
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I appreciate the kind words about the piece but if youreally want to understand the incident be sure to readretrospective accounts like A Terrible Thunder The Storyof the New Orleans Sniper Chuck Hustmyres essay onMark Essex (here httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murde (httpwwwtrutvcomlibrarycrimenotorious_murdersmassmark_essexindexhtml)) as well as stories inthe TP in years past by Michael Perlstein and DennisPersica
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Wow That puts a whole new spin on things Formonths I have been absolutely furious with Serpasover the way he gave Hosli a free pass for hismisdeeds I am not saying that this excuses thatbut it really changes my perspective on thingsAgain wow
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Hey ( Yall ) yeah its me again This nightmarish stuff occurredshortly after my releasal from ( L T I - Monroe La ) I rememberwatching it all unfold on the ( T V ) in which the coverage wasprovided by ( T V Station WVUE ) which at that time was locatedin only a few blocks away from the ( Downtown Howard JohnsonHotel ) Yeah old ( Newscene 8 ) with ( Alec Gifford ) as the news -
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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A well written article except why give such a detailed account and notonly leave out that Essex was a racist hated whites planned theattack for months to kill as many white people as possible to imply hewas a victim What would motivate a reporter to do such a thing Having watched on TV someone I knew who volunteered to help andwas wounded in the process I am repulsed by your revisionistshistory An African-American man he was enraged about racism heexperienced in the Navy
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StSilaicos Thank you for taking the time to read thispiece Much has been written about Mark Essex -- I optedto use my limited space to re-examine something fewerpeople know about precisely how Lt Gen Chuck Pitmanhelped NOPD stop Essex what he risked in doing so howin a career of almost four decades in the career he wasperhaps most proud of helping to stop Essexs rampageand how people like Moon Landrieu and Antoine Saackshavent forgotten him The material you allude to is covered very well in a lot ofgreat writing done on the Essex incident -- among them ATerrible Thunder The Story of the New Orleans Sniper
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Ed Hosli Sr was the father of the Ed Hosli presently on theforce
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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I was badly bullied by black kids growing up I didnt growup to hate blacks nor would I ever think of doing harm toanyone on account of race Sympathizers of this weak man make me sick
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Its always interesting to read a book on somethingyou lived through Many years ago I did read ATERRIBLE THUNDER It was a fast read and afascinating look at the nightmare that this incidentwas Among the fascinating details that have stuckwith me all these years was the harrowing accountof how they got the sniper as recounted here byRamon The first shooter to hit him got him with afull 20 round magazine on full auto from the thighto the neck Long after he was down they pouredrounds into him Even the snipers in thesurrounding buildings took a crack Essex washated and reviled by LE and their anger andhatred were palpable He was not only shot over200 times but every major organ in his body wasdestroyed except for his gall bladder His tonguewas found on the other side of the roof and put ina Baggie Among the other interesting facts was thecommand center was amazingly in the lobby like itwas reported here Thats how those who believethere was more than shooter think he got away Itwas chaos and pandemonium on the ground floorNothing resembling a perimeter or secure areaSecurity was so lax people were freely walking inand out Many cops were off duty and rushed tothe scene Many wearing only a part to a uniformA hat shirt jacket could have easily been stolen
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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from a dead officer or a live distracted one andthen he could have just walked out of the buildingunchallenged Police Chief Giarusso was huddled aroundblueprints and artists sketches of the roof area forhours trying to conceptualize it and amazinglyunaware that we were all watching it live on TV Itis astounding that no one told him for hours Wehad more intel then he did Of course who can forget the iconic Alec Giffordrepeatedly calling for armed citizens to bring theirhigh powered rifles to help the police who werearmed only with shotguns and 38 caliber servicerevolvers Many did come but the one who stoodout the most was that old WW I vet who shows upwearing his doughboy hemet and carrying histrusty M 1903 Springfield Rifle or P 17 EnfieldRifle I dont remember which but I remember himstanding in the street firing at the roof Then there was the sweep of the building the nextday in daylight where officers approached an entryto an elevator shaft on the roof Someone thoughtthey heard a noise Suddenly a sizable amount ofcops who stood in a semi circle in front of thatlarge heavy steel door and opened fire with M1carbines Immediately cops started falling to theground wounded or ducking for cover Fear rose aspeople thought there was a new sniper It turnedout the casualties were caused by their ownricochets and positioning It was a wild 48 hours in NOLA There has beennothing like it since
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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hands of the NOPD days before the Howard Johnsonincident He was falsely arrestedand taken to the 5thdistrict police stationwhere they beat the hell out of him forbeing a smart a$$ Back then NOPD was mostly white thefew Blacks on the force had to go alone to get alone Icompare Mark Essex to Nat Turner they both were pushedover that line that seperates the sane from the insane
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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have been a mad manBut he wasnt lacking inintelligence I will always believe he started theRault fire as a trial run for his eventual murderrampage The Howard Johnson fire appeared to bea well planned attack Not much different thansome of the horrific shootings we read abouttodaysuch as Aurora Colorado He had started multiple fires and tied firecrackersto the window curtains in order to throw the copsoff track
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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I should say I really enjoyed meetinginterviewing and writing about Lt Gen PitmanThough I was not born when this incidentoccurred I did not have to be around to knowthat Mark Essexs victims died senselessly MayAlfred Harrell Ed Hosli Phil Coleman PaulPersigo Louis Sirgo Robert Steagall BettySteagall W Sherwood Collins and FrankSchneider rest in peace
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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This is a fascinating story on so many levels Is this Hosli related tothe Ed Hosli presently on the force Were race relations really that badat the time of this shooting The picture of City Hall without the Hyatt and the Entergy building isreally something to see The city looked so different back then
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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tim9lives I too remember both incidents as if they had occurred lastweek I had just turned 12 years old and I rememberwatching with classmates from our 3rd floor classroomwindows at Colton Jr High All day we watched the circlinghelicopters and the NOPD and military deployed on the roofof the burned out Rault Center attempting to top the sniper Both events have always been connected in my mind notthat I believe that Essex had anything to do with the RaultCenter fire but because of the closeness of the horribleevents in both time and street proximity Anotherconnection that has always remained with me was thatbothevents occurred on very bleak sunless days - both onthe day of the Rault fire and the day that we watched thepolice from Coltons windows The days were both the mostbleak and dreary days that I could remember up to thattime in my life - very uncharacteristic of New Orleans andto this day whenever the weather is similar to that I amimmediately reminded of those victims of the Rault fire andthe horrible days of the Howard Johnson murders
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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Our government in Washington has made great strides since LBJ incuring the ills which caused Essex to supposedly go over the cliff Onlythe fool hardy would bite the hand who signs the check on the first ofeach month And when things begin to get a little dicey the feds know just how tohandle it Another free trinket Yesterday it was a free cellphoneTomorrow is will be the earpiece
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What Pittman did that day with his helicopter was heroic but therewas one that topped that one Helicopter intervention [at My Lai] Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr a helicopter pilot from anaero-scout team saw a large number of dead and dying civilians as hebegan flying over the villagemdashall of them infants children womenand old men with no signs of draft-age men or weapons anywhere Thompson and his crew witnessed an unarmed passive woman being
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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Another incredible fact is that there were someincluding a US congressman who wantedThompson court-martialed for his actions fromWiki Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-SC) who wereanxious to play down allegations of a massacre byAmerican troops[17] Rivers publicly stated that hefelt Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai whoshould be punished (for turning his weapons onfellow American troops) and unsuccessfullyattempted to have him court-martialedAs word ofhis actions became publicly known Thompsonstarted receiving hate mail death threats andmutilated animals on his doorstep
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There were many in the streets who cheered the sniper and were sadwhen he was defeated Many in the city today still regard him as a sortof folk hero for killing white people and especially for targeting whitepolice Just a few short years earlier many people cheered for theBlack Panthers when there was a shootout with police and a standoffwith the SWAT team Rather than focus on the heroes of the Mark
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Essex shooting perhaps the Times Picayune should invest someenergy on reporting on the attitudes of the citizenry who were clearlyNOT on the side of law enforcement or the men saving lives that daybut silently or vocally cheering for the one taking them
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Great article and its was good to learn about Chuck Pitman Iremember the Howard Johnson sniper incident but was only 13years old The interesting thing I am always left with is that both the RaultCenter fire and Howard Johnsons fire and sniper incident were so closetogether6 weeks within each other I am not sure if the Rault fire was ever solvedbut have alwaysbeen left with the feeling that Mark Essex very well may have beenpracticing with the Rault Center firemaybe he started the fire andwas taking notesplanning his Howard Johnson sniper attack
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Indeed the cause of the Rault Center fire was neverdetermined so nothing conclusively or officially links Essexto that incident However the month after Essex waskilled the Raults owner did tell the States-Item that aRault employee saw a man in the building on the morningof the high-rise fire who might have fit the physicaldescription of Essex Take that for what its worth
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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I am truly thankful for those TV stations that on the 40thanniversary of the Rault tragedy that did not showtheir filefootage of the Rault Center victims that jumped from thebuilding - those images have haunted New Orleanians fordecades and would have opened old wounds and injuries For a 12 yr old already having lived through a tough 3-4years of the often horrible realities of public school racialintegration tensions the reactions to and realities of MarkEssexs murders were shocking still It is certainly a periodand chapter that hurts many of us Both incidents were incredibly haunting and life changingOne expects that a great many the hundreds of thousandsthat lived through them still feel the same
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kicked and shot at point-blank range by Captain Medina (Medina laterclaimed that he thought she had a grenade)[17] The crew madeseveral attempts to radio for help for the wounded They landed theirhelicopter by a ditch which they noted was full of bodies and in whichthere was movement Thompson asked a sergeant he encounteredthere (David Mitchell of the 1st Platoon) if he could help get the peopleout of the ditch and the sergeant replied that he would help themout of their misery Thompson shocked and confused then spokewith Second Lieutenant Calley who claimed to be just followingorders As the helicopter took off they saw Mitchell firing into theditch Thompson then saw a group of civilians (again consisting of childrenwomen and old men) at a bunker being approached by groundpersonnel Thompson landed and told his crew that if the soldiers shotat the Vietnamese while he was trying to get them out of the bunkerthat they were to open fire at these soldiers httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre(httpenwikipediaorgwikiMy_Lai_Massacre) Instead of being tried for treason WO Thompson was awarded theDSC that day for his actions WO Thompson never accepted his DSC Thanks CC
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