Jad Abumrad
speaker
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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He goes home, home to his fourth floor walk-up, and there's a reporter there waiting for him.
But he just wants to sort of be left alone, and he told this reporter, quote, I'm a coward.
I don't know why I did it.
It was the thing to do at the time.
And then even after that, he just keeps getting phone calls from reporters, and some of them
Learned that he was a Marine, and so they would ask him questions like, oh, was it your, you know, was it your training?
Is that why you did this heroic thing?
But he said like, oh, you know, listen, don't mention any of that stuff about the Marines.
You know, let's keep that under wraps.
Quote, I'm no hero or nothing.
But...
Oliver's story shot across the country.
His name's on television.
That Marine, Oliver Sipple.
On the front page of newspapers, where there's headlines like, ex-Marine deflects weapon as woman shoots.
That's the LA Times, Chicago Tribune.
Hero tells how he deflected woman's arm.
And so despite his best efforts, Oliver becomes a national hero.
For a day.
And it appears that he sort of thought that would be it.
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