Jad Abumrad

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6,321 appearances 21 recordings 5 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radiolab · Oliver Sipple · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

Oliver Sipple grabs her arm.

The police wrestle more to the ground.

And then the police actually grab Oliver too, pull him inside the hotel to question him.

Because there's initially some confusion about what he was doing there and some thought that, you know, he might have been a suspect.

And so he's in this hotel trying to light a cigarette, but he just couldn't do it because he was shaking so hard.

Hmm.

Turns out Oliver had served two very rough tours in Vietnam.

Loud noises would make him very unhappy.

But when eventually Oliver started to calm down, the Secret Service were like, what are you even doing here?

It was kind of hard for him to answer because it's like he didn't even really know.

It was just like, oh, I don't know.

I was taking a walk.

And I just bumped into this huge crowd of people, asked what was going on.

And people were like, oh, like Gerald Ford is going to be here.

You know, the president is going to be here.

So he said he thought I might as well see him.

And then he was standing there for a couple hours until he saw a flash of metal, realized it was a gun, reacted quickly, instinctively.

And then you guys all pulled me in here.

That's how I came to be here.

So he's questioned for three hours.

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