The Opperman Report'

Billy Hayes and the Midnight Express

Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film  directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's  1977 memoir of the same name. The film centers on Hayes (played by Brad  Davis), a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for  trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.It's a heck of a story from a man with plenty to say. And he says most of it to Ed Opperman in this archive show.William  "Billy" Hayes is an American writer, actor, and film director. He was one o...

Tim Tate – Interesting Films

Ed is joined by the founder of Interesting Films, Tim Tate.In an interview covering many topics – notably Conspiracy of Silence and Children Of The Master Race. Discussions include the Nazi scheme of WW2, Jimmy Savile, The Yorkshire Ripper, Ingrid von Oelhafen, the BBC scandal, Jeffrey Epstein & Prince Andrew, Satanic Ritual Abuse and much more  - the whole wide gamut of his work and research.He talks of censorship and difficulties getting research out there, of how the messenger is targetted and not the object of the story. He also talks in depth about the tr...

Dawn Schiller - The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes

In this archive show, Dawn Schiller joins Ed Opperman to talk about her book, The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes. A story of abuse, drugs, porn, murder and survival. It would have been so easy to give up. But she did something harder. She took a bad situation and, over time, turned it around.Painstakingly honest, this chilling  memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of  legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that moulded  her perfectly to fall for the sed...

The Trayvon Martin case was built on an elaborate fraud, with Rachel Jeantel pretending to be the girlfriend who was on the phone with Martin at the time of his death, George Zimmerman says in a new lawsuit.
The actual phone witness was Diamond Eugene, who was replaced when she would not testify, the suit says. Martin’s parents participated in the swap, it says.
Prosecutors withheld key evidence from Zimmerman, including falsely telling the defense team that Martin’s cellphone was broken, it says

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In this stunning work of investigative journalism, filmmaker Joel Gilbert uncovers the true story of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a tragedy that divided America.

By examining Trayvon’s 750-page cell phone records, Gilbert discovers that the key witness for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel, was a fraud. It was in fact a different girl who was on the phone with Trayvon just before he was shot. She was the 16-year-old named "Diamond" whose recorded conversation with attorney Benjamin Crump ignited the public, swayed President Obama, and provoked the nation's media to...

Charles Manson Now is a critical dissection of what happened forty-one years ago when Manson family members stormed the Polanski estate near Los Angeles and murdered five people, including one of America's most beautiful, beloved actresses, Sharon Tate.This book is also a collage of Charles Manson's own writing, a poetic, ironic, and disturbing account of his universe, from his childhood to his time in the 8x12 prison cell where he is condemned to stay forever. It is Charles Manson, uncensored, unedited, in his own words.When author Marlin Marynick was eight years old, he discovered a beat up copy...