Posted on 05/19/2022 4:23:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
"I'm hit" were the last words the FBI heard from Agent Ronald Williams.
On June 26, 1975, just before noon, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, in separate vehicles, were searching for a fugitive, Jimmy Eagle. The agents followed a suspect suburban containing three individuals from a rural highway onto a dirt road leading to the Jumping Bull family farm in a remote corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The suburban stopped at a distance, as did the agents, who were now exposed in an open field.
The beginning
The unprovoked attack and what followed are undisputed. Agent Williams was on the FBI radio describing that the three individuals were getting out with rifles and were about to fire at them. As gunfire erupted, personnel in the FBI's Rapid City office heard Agent Williams trying to describe their location. The radio call for assistance ended with "I'm hit."
Unknown to the FBI, and the two agents, was the presence of an American Indian Movement (AIM) camp nearby. They had followed Leonard Peltier, who was also a fugitive at the time. When the shooting began, others from the AIM camp, with rifles, pinned the agents in a deadly crossfire. The attack didn't last long, but it ended with no fewer than 125 bullets holes in the FBI vehicles.
Agent Coler received a devasting wound to his right arm. Agent Williams, wounded three times, removed his shirt and waved it as a sign of surrender — which was ignored — and crawled to his critically wounded partner, using his shirt as a tourniquet on Agent Coler's shattered arm. Williams waited, hoping help would arrive quickly,
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I remember my thoughts and outrage when this news broke.
Now looking back over the past fifty years of FBI and federal government history, maybe I was a little harsh in my condemnation of AIM.
“However, he did grasp that dead men make poor witnesses.”
That’s disgusting. They were murdered in the process of going after a communist AIM murderer. They were both badly wounded and that trash Peltier executed the helpless agents with headshots up close.
Comey was a 10 year old out there somewhere. These were good men you are trashing.
“That’s disgusting.”
I guess it is a matter of perspective then.
Was Geronimo a freedom fighter or a terrorist?
Why wasn’t Peltier executed?
“These were good men you are trashing.”
There has never been “good men” in the FBI. It has been a corrupt criminal organization since it’s inception in 1908 when it was the BOI. Even back then there was fear and concerns that the agency would be a secret police that would get out of control, and it did from day one.
“maybe I was a little harsh in my condemnation of AIM.”
Perhaps, perhaps not. Both sides do have their issues with one another, but I suggest stirring up the Indian Wars of the past is not in anyone’s best interest. Pine Ridge patriots are probably per capita in South Dakota at least, the strongest proponents of service in the United States Marine Corps, with the documents to prove it.
In my opinion the next iteration of AIM with millions in the bank provided by various foundations. They are in league with Antifa and BLM in pursuit of their stated goals. To listen to their CEO, is a trip down the lane of white supremacy, white fragility, institutional racism, and on and on in that same vein. Race baiting at it’s finest using the now out of favor methods of a couple of famous black race baiters old enough to be out to pasture. You make up your own mind.
I agree with you. The FBI of 47 years ago is not the same as today. Not even close. They used to have some integrity.
You meant besides 25 bullets holes in the FBI vehicles, and,
Later trial testimony placed the three older AIM Indians, Leonard Peltier, Bob Robideau, and Dino Butler, at the agents' vehicles. Agent Williams faced his killer as the muzzle of Peltier's AR-15 was placed against a raised hand and fired — fingers blown through the back of his head. It was hoped that Agent Coler was unconscious as the weapon turned toward him, with two more point-blank bullets to his face.
Best to read the rest of the article.
“ They used to have some integrity.”
Cite your source. Efram Zimbalist, Jr.?
I’m 68 and I remember J. Edgar Hoover. He was a feared thug who looked fabulous in his pink chiffon evening wear. He used his agency for personal gain and had detailed files on people in order to keep them under his thumb. What agency with integrity uses agents and the full force of the agency to spy and control innocent Americans the director dislikes?
I shudder to think what J. Edgar could have done to people if he would have had the internet. Please tell me when the FBI had integrity?
One name, J. Edgar Hoover, does not rhyme with integrity.
FBI did/ does a lot of things to keep order in places. But so did the Mafia
Bad people can do good things. Bad people serve their own purpose first.
Ask Bobby and Jack Kennedy how great the FBI were. J. Edgar was a dangerous nut job.
Look how far ahead of her time she was, and being the big Hollywood leftist that she was, didn't even know it. Couldn't see the forest for the trees...
Shame in all of you FBI naysayers.
I’ll await Sean Hannity’s opinion of the FBI before I decide...
“These were good men you are trashing.”
That was when America was still America...but only hanging on by a thread.
“The agents followed a suspect suburban containing three individuals from a rural highway onto a dirt road leading to the Jumping Bull family farm in a remote corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation..”
Custer made same mistake...invading the indians home turf.
They say it was Peletier who did the deed but thats not so either.
They jailed an innocent man for the crime. The true murderer is still at large.
recall Lily Tomlin calling him “Jedgar Hoover”
I remember that also, and had not made the connection.
A case of “don’t know what you don’t know”.
I read this now, with the benefit of hindsight of Ruby Ridge, Waco, Whitmer ‘assassination’ attempt, and the activities by the FBI surrounding January 6, Hillary’s Russia! Russia! Russia! campaign, Hunter Biden’s laptop and I just don’t believe it - not anymore. Sorry.....
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