Feds hunt author of threats to bank CEO
ABC News Oct 23, 08 6:50 AM CDT
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A flurry of letters threatening the life of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, as well as an Oklahoma City-style bombing of a bank facility, are being investigated by the Postal Investigation Service. ABC News reports a $100,000 reward has been posted for information about the 45-plus letters, all postmarked last week in Amarillo, Texas.
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Denver Post Oct 20, 08 7:55 PM CDT
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Several Chase banks in Detroit and Oklahoma were evacuated today after receiving threatening letters containing white powder, the Detroit Post reports. The letters "basically indicated that the person who opened the letter was going to die" because of "an action the bank may have taken," an FBI spokesman said. Medics checked out bank workers but officials said the powder did not seem dangerous.
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Compares herself to "an elephant," talks wedding frenzy
Daily Mail (UK) Sep 23, 08 10:27 AM CDT
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Four letters written by Princess Diana to her nanny could fetch $18,500 at auction later this month, reports the Daily Mail . In them, a teenage Diana confesses her insecurities—“watching me dance is like watching an elephant”—and talks of her upcoming nuptials to Prince Charles—“six months of being engaged is…definitely to be avoided. All the family in complete overdrive!”
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Readers' response sets record for volume, though not for vitriol
Women's Wear Daily Jul 15, 08 1:00 PM CDT
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Readers really responded to Vanity Fair ’s now-infamous Miley Cyrus photo spread—but not in a bad way. The 915 letters were by far a record, but editor Graydon Carter tells Women's Wear Daily he's seen much worse on the outrage scale: “They were much kinder than the letters we got when Christopher Hitchens took on Mother Teresa. I got angry letters from staff members on that one."
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Elisabeth wrote to friend just before her imprisonment
BBC May 8, 08 11:08 AM CDT
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Elisabeth Fritzl intended to leave home just before her father imprisoned her, letters published in the Oesterreich newspaper show. “After the exams … I'm moving in with my sister and her boyfriend,” the 18-year-old wrote to a friend in 1984. “Cross your fingers for me. When you get this letter, it will all be over,” she wrote just weeks before she disappeared.
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In the 1960s, he begged London not
to deport his wife
Independent (UK) Apr 6, 08 3:40 PM CDT
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Robert Mugabe's hatred of the British may have stemmed from an affair of the heart, reports the Independent. Newly released letters from the 1960s show the future tyrant openly begged London not to deport his then-wife, Sally Mugabe, who had fled Rhodesia in the 1960s when he was jailed for anti-colonial activities. "It is certainly unfair for the British government to add to the misery of her already broken life," Mugabe wrote.
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Letter contains Lincoln's reply to kids' plea to free slave children
CNN Apr 4, 08 10:08 AM CDT
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An 1864 letter from Abraham Lincoln to Massachusetts schoolchildren fetched a record $3.4 million at auction yesterday, a record for an American manuscript, CNN reports. In the letter, Lincoln responded to a petition from 195 youngsters asking him to "free all the little slave children of this country" with a heartfelt reply saying it was God's will that they be freed. An anonymous American collector bought the letter.
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They were sent to Capitol Hill; bomber remains unknown
Associated Press Mar 6, 08 9:25 PM CST
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As many as 10 Capitol Hill offices received letters today with a photo of a man standing in front of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was struck by a small bomb. A message with the photo reads, “Happy New Year, We Did It,” the AP reports, but it remains unclear who sent the letters. Also in the envelopes were an apparent manifesto against the Iraq war and an unidentified booklet, a Democratic aide says.
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Private Harry Lamin's letters appear in real time online
Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 6, 08 5:38 PM CST
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Does he live, or lose his life to "liquid fire and bombs"? That question is keeping tens of thousands glued to a site that is posting the letters of a World War I soldier in real time, 90 years after they were written. The soldier's grandson, who collected the letters, prefers to leave readers in the dark: "That is the way it would have been at home," he said.
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Suspected he was planning brake failure, 'serious head injury'
Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 20, 07 11:26 AM CST
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Princess Diana feared Prince Charles was trying to kill her so he could marry their sons' nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, according to a handwritten letter admitted into evidence in the ongoing inquest into her death. "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy," the letter says.
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Deeply self-critical
open letter says he'll 'never forgive myself'
Associated Press Dec 16, 07 7:43 PM CST
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The "crazy man with the bomb" charged with holding hostage workers at Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire headquarters released a passionately worded apology, reports the AP. A keenly remorseful Leeland Eisenberg wrote that "I want to fully and sincerely acknowledge the fear, pains, and lasting effects my senseless actions caused you."
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'Filthy' correspondence leads to suspension of volunteer program
Ottawa Citizen Dec 14, 07 12:17 PM CST
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Letters from Santa distributed to at least 10 children in Ottawa are smearing the good name of jolly old St. Nick, the Citizen reports: They contain vulgar messages written by an unidentified “rogue elf.” The head of Canada Post says the country's postal service is "shocked and heartbroken" by the letters, which have shut down the Write to Santa program.
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Doomed royal's correspondence
refers to 'heart-felt joy'
BBC Dec 14, 07 11:18 AM CST
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Letters from Princess Diana to Dodi Al-Fayed produced at the inquest into the couple's 1997 deaths show that they were in a serious relationship, according to his father's lawyer. In one letter, Diana thanks "darling Dodi" for "bringing such heart-felt joy into this particular chick's life," the BBC reports.
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Singer's spotted roaming streets in bra
New York Post Dec 10, 07 3:04 AM CST
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Troubled singer Amy Winehouse's mother has written an open letter to her hot mess of a daughter begging her to come home and get well. The letter, which appears in the London tabloid News of the World , was written shortly after Winehouse was photographed recently wandering the streets before dawn in jeans and a bra, mumbling incoherently.
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