Episode 227: The North Hollywood shootout - Part Two
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the second half of our episode on the North Hollywood Shootout, I would just like to remind everybody of the fact that paid requests are reopened. And you can always listen for that information in the previous episode. You can also support the podcast through PayPal, Venmo, Cash app, or on Patreon. |
| 0:23.8 | Those of you who are on Patreon already are listening to this episode early and you're listening |
| 0:27.9 | to it ad-free. |
| 0:28.8 | So good for you. |
| 0:30.4 | And thank you very much for supporting the podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | I would also like to remind people that because this is a mass shooting, I will not be using the names |
| 0:38.7 | of the two shooters more than once in this episode. I believe I don't use them at all in this |
| 0:44.5 | particular half. I will instead be referring to them by their occupations or what passed for them, |
| 0:49.8 | the real estate agent and the engineer. And again, if you haven't already seen Heat, you should go on |
| 0:57.5 | Netflix and watch Heat. You really, really should. Or at least the scenes that I mentioned in the |
| 1:02.4 | previous episode, if you haven't already. It really is a good movie. I can't recommend it enough. |
| 1:07.2 | With all of that taken care of, thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area. |
| 1:20.4 | Episode 227, The North Hollywood Shootout, Part 2, February 28, 1997. Two deceased, 20 injured. |
| 1:33.1 | So, first things first. Let's remember one thing about Los Angeles in the 90s from our episode |
| 1:39.1 | on the 92 riots. The moment local news stations sniffed out a possible story, their helicopter crews would fly out |
| 1:45.6 | to record and report on whatever was going on. It didn't matter how violent the incident might be, |
| 1:51.4 | the camera feeds went live from the helicopters and straight onto local news stations. That had come |
| 1:57.0 | back to bite them in the butt on some other occasions in the past, and in the future, |
| 2:04.9 | it would do so again. But in this particular instance, they send these helicopters there, |
| 2:09.5 | and then those feeds end up being passed on from the local news stations to national networks |
| 2:15.8 | like NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN. If it's a big enough |
| 2:19.5 | story, it ends up showing up as live feeds on these networks. A YouTube video from the LA News |
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