Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind the Headlines: a new podcast featuring an explosive new story every episode. First-hand accounts of adventures and events which have shaped our world . The real stories behind the headlines you know, told by the heroes you don’t. Hosted by NYT and international bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo.
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Breaking Story: CIA Whistleblower Reveals The Foreign Attack On Our Elections
Heroes Behind Headlines
10/21/24 • 85 min
Retired CIA Operative and government whistleblower Gary Berntsen reveals the results of a four-year investigation into election tampering. His team’s conclusion: Enemies of the United States including Venezuela, Cuba, China and Serbia have been determining the results of elections in the U.S. since 2006 through the use of electronic systems that they have developed. Using these systems, they now manipulate the results of elections in 72 countries around the world.
Gary Berntsen is arguably the most decorated CIA operations officer in modern times. He is the man who recruited and led the combined CIA-Special Forces teams that helped overthrow the Taliban after the attack of 9/11 and had Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda fighters trapped in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan. He also served as a CIA Station Chief in three counties; led the Hezbollah working group; investigated the East Africa embassy bombings in 1998; and stopped various terrorist attacks around the world.
Gary and his team are now going public with a criminal investigation that will shock the world. The evidence they have assembled is described in a new book by Ralph Pezzullo titled "Stolen Elections: The Plot to Destroy Global Democracy" published by Skyhorse Publishing.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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CIA Pilot Describes School Of Illusionary Warfare With Lee Harvey Oswald
Heroes Behind Headlines
02/03/25 • 67 min
This is the first part of a series of interviews with 87-year-old CIA contract pilot William “Tosh” Plumlee in which he describes being recruited into a top-secret military intelligence unit with other juvenile delinquents at the age of 16. Among the colorful incidents he relates are supplying weapons to Fidel Castro in the mountains of Southern Cuba at age nineteen, and attending the School of Illusionary warfare with Lee Harvey Oswald.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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WWII Japanese Spy In The Heart Of Hollywood
Heroes Behind Headlines
12/09/24 • 52 min
Frederick Rutland was nothing short of a navy hero in the UK following WWI, but his own charisma, quirks, and opportunism led him to Hollywood to spy for Japan in the years leading to Pearl Harbor, playing a key role in the Japanese attack. Though British officials knew what he was doing, they quietly sidelined him to avoid the public embarrassment of revealing one of their own as a traitor. Author Ron Drabkin shares the outrageous story of Rutland, including his friendships with Hollywood stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Boris Karloff, from his book "Beverly Hills Spy."
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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JFK Secret Service Agent Speaks
Heroes Behind Headlines
12/16/24 • 60 min
When he joined the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, Jerry Blaine thought that that his service in the underwater demolition teams (UDTs) would be his life's biggest adventure. Instead, he returned stateside to a career as a Secret Service Special Agent accompanying Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and LBJ. Jerry shares his memories, including his closeness with the Kennedy family and that fateful trip to Dallas.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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Part Two: CIA Whistleblower Reveals The Foreign Attack On Our Elections
Heroes Behind Headlines
10/28/24 • 58 min
Retired CIA Operative and government whistleblower Gary Berntsen continues to share insights and details from the results of a four-year investigation into election tampering.
His team’s conclusion: Enemies of the United States including Venezuela, Cuba, China and Serbia have been determining the results of elections in the U.S. since 2006 through the use of electronic systems that they have developed. Using these systems, they now manipulate the results of elections in 72 countries around the world.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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Part Two: 300 Huey Combat Missions in the "Secret War" in Vietnam
Heroes Behind Headlines
01/14/25 • 46 min
Part two of our interview with Don Haase: Don joined the U.S. Army in 1966, and ultimately became crew chief with the 195th Assault Helicopter Company in the 2nd Platoon (“Ghostriders”) that —beginning in December 1967 — supported top-secret MACV-SOG Recon teams during the deadly secret war fought during the Vietnam War. Don received 12 Air Medals over 300 combat missions, and the Presidential Unit Citation. Don and his unit participated in the defense of Plantation Airfield during the 1968 Tet offensive and the subsequent counterattack. Don shares some of his adventures.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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A True Crime Case Solved By Defense Attorney's Son
Heroes Behind Headlines
12/23/24 • 48 min
A riveting account of a true crime, the criminal justice system, and unlocking a decades-old cold case: In 1964, David Miraldi's father Ray L. Miraldi was a prominent Ohio former city prosecutor and then a private attorney when he jumped at the chance to defend tavern keeper Caspar Bennett of the lurid bathtub murder of his wife, Florence Bennett, believing him to be innocent.
Attorney Miraldi won an acquittal but oddly never spoke of this professional triumph to his family. Years later while going through his father's papers, David found some important information about the crime and subsequent trial, and began his own investigation, discovering some darker truths as detailed in his book, "The Edge of Innocence."
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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Part One: 300 Huey Combat Missions In "The Secret War" In Vietnam
Heroes Behind Headlines
01/13/25 • 61 min
Don Haase joined the U.S. Army in 1966, and ultimately became crew chief with the 195th Assault Helicopter Company in the 2nd Platoon (“Ghostriders”) that —beginning in December 1967 — supported top-secret MACV-SOG Recon teams during the deadly secret war fought during the Vietnam War. Don received 12 Air Medals over 300 combat missions, and the Presidential Unit Citation. Don and his unit participated in the defense of Plantation Airfield during the 1968 Tet offensive and the subsequent counterattack. Don shares some of his adventures.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
1 Listener
The Horrors of an African-American Mental Asylum
Heroes Behind Headlines
07/22/24 • 63 min
In 1911, experts believed that the psychology of different races was distinct, and so, like other states, the state of Maryland founded Crownsville, a mental asylum administered by an all-white doctor and nursing staff expressly and exclusively for African-Americans.
From her book "Madness," author/Peabody Award-winning journalist/on-air NBC correspondent Antonia Hylton describes how the physical building was built through the labor of actual patients; how many African-Americans over the years were wrongfully sent to Crownsville, and how its medical practices didn’t expect patients would ever leave, let alone be healed. Hylton walks us through the dubious history of this institution, and the dramatic hiring of its first African-American staff.
Crownsville ultimately closed its doors only in 2004.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
U.S.C.G. Rescue Swimmers Adventures!
Heroes Behind Headlines
01/06/25 • 65 min
Prior guest Martha LaGuardia-Kotite is back with three U.S.C.G. Rescue Swimmer vets: John Whitten, Jason "Quitty" Quinn, and Ashley Ulbrich—who each share their adventures piloting helicopters over swimmers struggling to save people, leaping out of helicopters into the brink, or saving stranded folks in a hurricane. This lesser-known band of heroes are the brave people who come to our aid in often frigid or stormy seas, within 300 miles of the U.S. coastline, including Alaska.
Heroes Behind Headlines
Executive Producer Ralph Pezzullo
Produced & Engineered by Mike Dawson
Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Pop Off Sis, Kendall and Morgan pop off on all things music, entertainment, and sports
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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FAQ
How many episodes does Heroes Behind Headlines have?
Heroes Behind Headlines currently has 150 episodes available.
What topics does Heroes Behind Headlines cover?
The podcast is about News, Society & Culture, History, Interview, News Commentary, Documentary, Podcasts, Current Events and Military.
What is the most popular episode on Heroes Behind Headlines?
The episode title 'Part One: 300 Huey Combat Missions In "The Secret War" In Vietnam' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Heroes Behind Headlines?
The average episode length on Heroes Behind Headlines is 65 minutes.
How often are episodes of Heroes Behind Headlines released?
Episodes of Heroes Behind Headlines are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Heroes Behind Headlines?
The first episode of Heroes Behind Headlines was released on Jan 13, 2022.
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