Episode 99 - Frank Abagnale Jr. & A High School Speech
This week, Amber is joined by guest co-host, Michael Mullins!
Michael covers Frank Abagnale Jr. Frank Abagnale Jr. is an American security consultant, known as one of the world’s most infamous con-artists of all time. It's been reported that by the age of 19, he had committed multiple frauds and used several different identities. It is believed that he assumed no less than eight identities in his short career as a fraudster, including: an airline pilot, a physician, and a lawyer. He was captured and sentenced but in 1974 , he was released after serving about five years in prison, on the condition that he would work alongside the FBI to investigate crimes similar to those that he had committed. But how much of Frank's very public story is true?
Sources:
www.slashfilms.com / “The Fascinating True (And Not So True) Story Behind Catch Me If You Can” / Shania Russell / August 10, 2022
www.WHYY.org / “Catch Me If You Can” / December 31, 2000
SHOW: Johnny Carson / Episode aired October 4, 1978
SHOW: To Tell the Truth / Episode aired in 1977
www.youtube.com / Talks @ Google / "Frank Abagnale"/ recorded November 27, 2017
Podcast – Most Notorious / Episode 198: “Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale - Perpetrator of the Ultimate Hoax? / with Alan C. Logan” / May 19, 2021
Podcast – Pretend “The Real Catch Me if You Can” / 5-part story from July 5, 2022 – August 30, 2022
FILM: “Catch Me If You Can’ / Steven Spielberg / 2002
Photo Credits:
Michael was drinking La Crima Purpura, a red wine from Spain.
Amber was drinking Mocho Velho Pardina, a white wine from Spain. Both were robust and delicious!
Then Amber covers the high school speech of Matthew Fraser. Matthew was a student at Bethel High School in 1983, and he delivered a speech to roughly 600 of his fellow classmates nominating his friend for student body vice president. Matthew's speech resulted in a suspension and being removed from the potential list of graduation commencement speakers. So Matthew did what any normal teenager would do, he took the school district to court.
Sources:
www.famoustrials.com
www.law.cornell.edu / "Bethell School District No. 403, et al., Petitioners v. Matthew N. Fraser, a Minor and E.L. Fraser, Guardian Ad Litem."
www.usccourts.gov / Tinker v. Des Moines
Podcast – Let’s Go To Court / Episode from July 21, 2021
www.mtsu.edu / “Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)” / David L. Hudson Jr.
Photo Credits:
www.studentfreespeechrights.weebly.com
