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Posted on 1/8/23 at 10:33 pm to EF Hutton
Essex probably set the Rault Center fire the week before as well. Using the Marine Helicopter was a big issue after the fact. I think the pilot got in deep shite. I worked for a guy in the early 80’s who was NOPD and on the helicopter He described in detail how that day and night unfolded. I remember he got emotional talking about the friends he lost. 
Posted on 1/8/23 at 10:35 pm to rltiger
Posted on 1/8/23 at 10:44 pm to EF Hutton
quote:
Ago yesterday. Time is really moving.
Not really in this regard IMO.
That was a long arse time ago and it seems and feels like it was a long arse time ago
Posted on 1/8/23 at 10:46 pm to Havoc
quote:my grandpa and dad worked across the street - I wasn’t born yet, but they never talked about it
Not really in this regard IMO.
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:51 pm to EF Hutton
Which book is better: A Terrible Thunder or Black Rage?
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:58 pm to EF Hutton
I remember that very well. I was 14 years old. Watched the whole thing unfold on television. Early in the day we didn’t want to ride our bikes from my house to my friends house because we were afraid we would miss something. It didn’t get resolved until many hours later.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 12:42 am to rltiger
In one of those photos you can see the fire damage to the top of the Rault Center. That was a different tragedy. An ill fated cluster of buildings.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 3:06 am to Amadeo
I was a kid growing up in NO then. Between the Howard Johnson shooting and the Rault Center fire, I was leery of tall buildings for a while.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 3:47 am to EF Hutton
Watched it all on TV live. The helicopter pilot saved the day. 
This post was edited on 1/9/23 at 3:48 am
Posted on 1/9/23 at 4:18 am to geauxpurple
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Watched the whole thing unfold on television.
Remember it very well
The World of Wheels was at the Rivergate at that time.
My pop being the adventurous individual that he was, actually drove us by the HoJo on that day (Sunday)?
Like most that were adolescents at the time, I was scared shitless thinking there was going to be a race war.
eta: weren’t there a couple of NOPD shot on New Years Eve a week prior?
This post was edited on 1/9/23 at 4:20 am
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:10 am to EF Hutton
My dad was NOPD so my mom was glued to the tv - I remember watching as a kid.
Fished with a charter captain years back who was a fireman that had his hand shot off at the scene. His prosthetis was a hook-shaped clamp that could open and close, and he could grab a catfish or tie a knot with the best of them. He went by the name Capt. Hook. Great charter captain.
Fished with a charter captain years back who was a fireman that had his hand shot off at the scene. His prosthetis was a hook-shaped clamp that could open and close, and he could grab a catfish or tie a knot with the best of them. He went by the name Capt. Hook. Great charter captain.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:15 am to Bigfishchoupique
I was coming back from camping in Bay St Louis in my grandparents' motorhome. We were wondering why NOLA seemed like a Ghost Town that Sunday morning.
I remember the NOPD looking like the Keystone Cops when, after Essex was already dead, they were attacking a "Bunker," or the top of the stairwell on the roof and they thought they were being shot at by another gunman. It wound up being their own bullets ricocheting off the concrete walls of the stairwell! One officer lost part of his ear.
Also rememeber Antoine Saacks being portrayed as a hero for being the one that obliterated Essex. He would later become Police Chief.
I remember the NOPD looking like the Keystone Cops when, after Essex was already dead, they were attacking a "Bunker," or the top of the stairwell on the roof and they thought they were being shot at by another gunman. It wound up being their own bullets ricocheting off the concrete walls of the stairwell! One officer lost part of his ear.
Also rememeber Antoine Saacks being portrayed as a hero for being the one that obliterated Essex. He would later become Police Chief.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:22 am to EF Hutton
The real interesting twist to this … is that it’s more than likely was a second shooter in the hotel…
My brother and I got an interesting theory we came up … he wanted to write a book about it
My brother and I got an interesting theory we came up … he wanted to write a book about it
This post was edited on 1/9/23 at 7:24 am
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:25 am to El Tigre Grande
quote:
eta: weren’t there a couple of NOPD shot on New Years Eve a week prior?
I think he shot and killed a police officer when he was chased into a warehouse if I remember the story correctly.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:33 am to EF Hutton
watched it as it unfolded live on tv. Played hooky from school so I wouldn't miss anything.
So many reports of multiple shooters. worked with a guy who was in one of the choppers. he swears they were taking fire from multiple locations. Of course law enforcement was shooting at anything that moved. pretty sure they determined some of the injuries were from friendly fire.
So many reports of multiple shooters. worked with a guy who was in one of the choppers. he swears they were taking fire from multiple locations. Of course law enforcement was shooting at anything that moved. pretty sure they determined some of the injuries were from friendly fire.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:36 am to MorbidTheClown
I talked with a few old NOPD from when they were young officers then. Watched on line interviews conducted then. Pretty much believe it was just Essex.
The excitement of the moment, adrenaline, it’s easy to see the temporary confusion.
I’m pretty sure Antoine Saacks was in the helicopter.
The excitement of the moment, adrenaline, it’s easy to see the temporary confusion.
I’m pretty sure Antoine Saacks was in the helicopter.
This post was edited on 1/9/23 at 7:38 am
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:38 am to Zephyrius
The whole thing including the attacks carried out previous to the hotel incident… were a coordinated and planned attack by the Black Panthers Party against the NOPD… the mission worked perfectly because Mark Essex is the only one suspected of anything by the public… FBI and NOPD covered up the facts of it being a coordinated attack…
Posted on 1/9/23 at 1:35 pm to lepdagod
The Rault Center fire, the sniper shooting at the Howard Johnson Hotel and the Murder of Joellen Smith in April `73. Joellen Smith was an LSU Nursing school student volunteer who was giving insulin to an elderly woman in the Fisher Housing Project in Algiers. She was raped, shot 4 times in the head and thrown off the 10th floor. There were also numerous reports of snipers shooting at NOPD from the buildings of the projects. These were truly surreal times.
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