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.
Episodes
218 episodes
The Truth Behind The War On Drugs
Award-winning journalist Bill Conroy is back dishing the inside dirt on how America's war on drugs has really turned into a complex business of law enforcement and political policy conflicts. Bill describes how the federal agencies charged with...
High Stakes Treason: Former CIA Chief Cashes In On Terrorism
Writer Ian Trottier has penned a biography of John Brennan, government intelligence figure with a stellar biography--under former president Obama, Brennan served as head of the CIA, oounterterrorism advisor; and Deputy National Security Advisor...
Bank Robber And FBI Agent Remember The Hollywood Bank Robber
Charismatic mastermind and one-time meth cook Scott Scurlock befriended Steve Meyer and pulled him into a surreal world of treehouses and crime in Washington in the early to mid-90s. Scott earned notoriety as the most prolific bank robber ever ...
Medal Of Honor Winner & MACV-SOG Legend
Colonel Robert Howard was a very distinguished member of the top-secret MACV-SOG units that fought during the Vietnam War in America’s secret war in Laos and Cambodia. Comprised of only one to a few U.S. special force team members plus a cadre ...
At Ground Zero In Nagasaki
Right after the U.S. dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, Victoria Kelly’s grandfather was sent there as part of the U.S. forces sent to occupy the city after its destruction. Victoria grew up curious about her grandfather’s experience there, as he’d ...
Born From War: A Father’s Legacy To His Son
Patrick Naughton’s father served in Vietnam when he was a child, and shared accounts of his experiences and adventures – from infantry to serving in Special Forces as part of the MACV-SOG teams doing recon and battling across the fence” in Amer...
REPRISE: SOG Green Beret legend in "The Secret War" in Vietnam: Part II
The second half of this two-part interview from 2023 with one of our favorite Americans, in celebration of Memorial Day:A living legend of MACV-SOG and the Green Berets, John "Tilt" Stryker Meyer shares some of the most daring first-pers...
REPRISE: SOG Green Beret Legend in "The Secret War" in Vietnam: Part I
We're re-airing this two-part interview from 2023 with one of our favorite Americans, in celebration of Memorial Day:A living legend of MACV-SOG and the Green Berets, John "Tilt" Stryker Meyer shares some of the most daring first-person ...
Daughter Of A Scoundrel: Karen Holt On CIA Cutout Dad Chauncey Marvin Holt
Karen Holt didn’t realize her childhood was anything other than normal--whether it was her father’s absence every Monday to Friday; their odd moves from town to town without any warning; the FBI arresting her father; seeing Detroit mafios...
Friend’s Death Reveals Web Of Arms Deals And Money Laundering
Born on a U.S. airbase in London of American parents, Geoffrey Gilson began his career writing speeches for Margaret Thatcher, leveraging his dual British-US citizenship to navigate elite political circles. With decades of front-row acces...
Attacked Outside A Bar; Arrested For Attempted Murder
Former U.S. Army Ranger, Barry Todd, was out celebrating a professional milestone with his wife and several friends at a local watering hole in Yuma, Arizona, when he was attacked by a drunken patron along with some buddies. Barry was slammed h...
Murder Of State Assemblyman’s Father
California State Assemblyman Mike Gatto was a rising star in the California Democratic Party when on November 12th, 2013, his retired father Joseph Gatto was found murdered in their family home in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. Emotionally de...
One Writer's Trudeau Nightmare
Proud Canadian and innovative thinker and author, Jeff Brown was flattered beyond when Sophie Trudeau, (his country’s “first lady” at the time.) reached out to compliment his writing and aphorisms, and engage him to think about ideas that...
Marine Recon Sniper’s Gritty Account Of Time In Iraq
Growing up in the New Hampshire mountains, country boy Brennan Morton couldn’t wait to join the military, and when 9/11 occurred, it provided the final push for enlistment. Brennan loved every minute of the training as a Marine recon sniper...
Linking The JFK & RFK Shootings With Help From Expert Mark Shaw
Mark Shaw shares his recent discoveries linking the JFK and RFK assassinations, and also the mysterious and dreadful death of famed journalist Dorothy Kilgallen who was hot on the trail to solve the mystery behind President Kennedy's death. Rip...
Risks and Challenges of Cult Deprogramming
Whether you call it brainwashing, programming, indoctrination, or something else, cult members have been taught to think, feel, and act in certain ways. The goal of the cult deprogrammer is to empower the individual to think critically, to eval...
FBI Special Agent Discovers Shocking New Evidence About JFK Assassination
Retired FBI Agent Stewart Fillmore was trained to break down evidence to solve crimes and build cases. Here, he focuses on the forensics of the JFK assassination and the likelihood that the hole in the front of the late President’s throat was a...
Beirut Bombing 1983: Start Of The War On Terror
Early in the morning of October 23, 1983 two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut Lebanon housing members of the US and French Multinational Force in Lebanon – a military peace mission in the eight-year-old Lebanese civil war. The ...
Surviving Epstein
Writer and editor Sarah McCarthy set out to write a book about her friend of 15 years and Jeffrey Epstein survivor Juliette Bryant. She reveals details about how Epstein and his powerful friends lured girls and young women into his network and ...
The Legendary First Special Service Force of WWII
In 1942, on the heels of the Pearl Harbor attack as the US entered the war, Canada and the U.S. agreed to form a special top-secret military commando unit – nicknamed by the Nazis as “The Black Devils” for their stealth, bravery and skill. Desi...
“Real 21 Jump Street” Undercover Cop & Crime-Stopper (Part 3 Of 3)
This three part-interview takes us through the amazing career and true-crime adventures of Texas native Zeke Flatten, who grew up knowing he wanted a career in law enforcement, got himself hired as a bail bondsman at 18, and became an undercove...
“Real 21 Jump Street” Undercover Cop & Crime-Stopper (Part 2 Of 3)
This three part-interview takes us through the amazing career and true-crime adventures of Texas native Zeke Flatten, who grew up knowing he wanted a career in law enforcement, got himself hired as a bail bondsman at 18, and became an undercove...
“Real 21 Jump Street” Undercover Cop & Crime-Stopper (Part 1 Of 3)
This three part-interview takes us through the amazing career and true-crime adventures of Texas native Zeke Flatten, who grew up knowing he wanted a career in law enforcement, got himself hired as a bail bondsman at 18, and became an undercove...
U.S. Govt. Whistleblower Reveals Election Fraud By World's Greatest Criminal Cartel!
U.S. Government whistleblower Martin Rodil breaks down the Venezuelan efforts to steal elections in the U.S. and also explains how that country's Cartel de los Soles–the largest criminal organization in the world–aims their drug trafficking and...
Shocking Story of CIA Station Chief Murdered in Greece
Former CIA agent and Boston native Ralph Mariani shares the real-life thriller account of the 1975 murder of his boss, Richard Welch, the then-CIA station chief in Athens, and the twenty-seven-year investigation that was only solved when two gr...