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FBI files show KFC founder received death threat
Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2011 | BRUCE SCHREINER

Posted on 04/14/2011 12:40:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- As it turns out, Colonel Harland Sanders wasn't the only one keeping secrets.

Newly released documents from the 1970s reveal the FBI investigated a death threat against the KFC founder and pitchman, creator of the secret recipe for the chain's fried chicken.

The warning came from someone identified as "The General."

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To: Free ThinkerNY; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
Newly released documents from the 1970s reveal the FBI investigated a death threat against the KFC founder and pitchman, creator of the secret recipe for the chain's fried chicken. The warning came from someone identified as "The General."

Sounds like some kind of skirmish.

21 posted on 04/14/2011 7:55:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: MNDude; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
anyone else remember the episode of Little House on the Prairie when he made a cameo appearance?

No, but I vividly recall seeing him in Blast Off Girls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dIGxU__Aq4

22 posted on 04/14/2011 8:01:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: niteowl77

Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!


23 posted on 04/14/2011 8:12:12 PM PDT by retrokitten (It took so long to see that truth was all around me- Ray LaMontagne)
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The warning came from someone identified as "The General."

...Tso?

24 posted on 04/14/2011 10:56:56 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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