Ed Helms
speaker
9,380 appearances
79 recordings
18 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Ed Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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By the early 1970s, Bill and other activists started hearing strange noises when they picked up their phones.
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Guys in unconvincing hippie garb were showing up at protests and taking photos.
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People who protested the war were being followed and intimidated.
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So, Bill looked at this evidence and formed a hypothesis.
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Some organization, a federal law enforcement agency, to be precise, must be surveilling the anti-war movement.
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Like any good scientist, Bill knew the next step.
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Test the hypothesis.
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If Bill was right about the FBI surveilling the peace movement, then that meant they were probably keeping files documenting that surveillance.
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Find the files, and he'd have proof that the government was suppressing free speech.
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He didn't know anything for certain, but even the possibility that this was going on was intolerable to Bill Davidon.
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So Bill decided to throw a party.
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He invited John and Bonnie Rains.
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John and Bonnie had already decided that if they said yes, they'd take this action together, which made the decision that much more serious.
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This wasn't like breaking into a draft board.
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People who'd been caught for that usually served a year, two at most, but breaking into an FBI office and stealing confidential documents?
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That was the kind of crime that came with decades of prison time.
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Their kids would lose their mom and their dad.
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They called Bill.
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They said, We're in.
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But they had no idea what they were about to unleash.
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