Posted on 07/27/2024 6:47:26 PM PDT by CFW
For years, former CNN Anchor Lynne Russell was the familiar face of Headline News for the country. She may soon be making headlines again as the lead plaintiff in what could prove a major Second Amendment challenge in Washington, D.C. Russell is challenging the city’s prohibition on “off-body” carrying of weapons, including keeping a handgun in a purse. That type of off-body carry is precisely what may have saved Russell’s life in a shootout with an armed assailant in 2015. Russell’s nightmare began when the armed assailant grabbed her outside of their motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico and forced her into her room. He then threw her across the room on to the bed as her husband, Chuck De Caro, a former CNN correspondent, was coming out of the shower.
Russell then had the amazing calmness and control to suggest to her husband that there might be something in her purse that the man would want. Inside was her gun and De Caro pulled it out and exchanged fire with the man. He was shot three times but survived. The assailant did not.
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There’s a blast from the past.
Not the same but I was reminded of Felix Pappalardi the producer for Eric Clapton’s group Cream and who was the bass player for Mountain (hits like Mississippi Queen).
His wife Gail Collins wrote the Cream songs Strange Brew and World of Pain plus several songs for Mountain.
She got word that Pappalardi had been cheating on her. She came up to him, opened her purse, and pulled out a gun and shot him. He died on the floor.
Mississippi Queen by Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEnF6EB-yMs
Cream. Strange Brew on Disraeli Gears album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0FFTd3bS_8
I sorta remember that story now that you mention it. And I loved Eric Clapton’s Cream and especially “Mississippi Queen”.
Turley’s right about the left reaching too far on the Second Amendment. Each big win we have gotten over the past few years is due to their overreach. The people have regained many of their rights given away by “moderate” Republicans due to the left pushing way too far.
Taken the red pill and donned a red shirt to boot.
I contend that Leslie West’s guitar on Mississippi Queen is the quintessential rock guitar tone.
More cowbell!
She and her husband survived a shootout when an armed intruder broke into their motel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2015.
-PJ
I remember her.
Used to watch her on KENS in San Antonio. Never thought she was all that great. But, what do I know?
Albuquerque
Russell attended the University of Colorado, where she majored in nursing. In 1971 she became program director and host of an interview show at WKAT-TV in Miami. She left in 1978 to become an anchor and reporter at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville. After a year working at a TV station in Honolulu, Russell became evening news anchor at KENS-TV in San Antonio. In 1983 she joined CNN Headline News as prime-time weekday anchor, becoming the first woman to be a regular solo anchor of a daily prime-time newscast on network television. She left CNN in 2001. A licensed private investigator and bodyguard, a Fulton County deputy sheriff, and a holder of two black belts in Choi Kwang Do, Russell is the author of How to Win Friends, Kick Ass & Influence People.
https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/art-entertainment/lynne-russell
“Lynne Russell” —> Big Naturals?
Russell left CNN in 2001.......became a licensed private investigator and bodyguard,
a Fulton County deputy sheriff, and is a holder of two black belts in Choi Kwang Do.
Russell is the author of How to Win Friends, Kick Ass & Influence People.
“I contend that Leslie West’s guitar on Mississippi Queen is the quintessential rock guitar tone.”
I wouldn’t waste a lot of time arguing with you. It’s certainly right up there at the top of the list.
I wish we had music like that once again. The absolute amazing talent of the musicians of the 70s is something we will probably never see again now that everything is computerized. It’s much like the natural sultry voices of the blues singers in the 30s 40s and 50s. Most of it is gone.
She seemed just like the rest of them, but we kept hearing these rumors the she was a “registered Republican.”
My late father adored her. He said, “I don’t care what she reads.”
Probably at least former lefty nut case but began carrying when something happened to a friend or relative that unnerved her.
I would have watched her if all she did was read the phone book!
And, if I’m not mistaken, her husband was SF.
From AJC:
Chuck de Caro, a former CNN special assignments correspondent and member of the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) of the U.S. Army.
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