MEDIA INTERVIEW HISTORY and SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

MICHAEL C. RUPPERT
MEDIA INTERVIEW HISTORY
& SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

THE EARLY DAYS

The L.A. Herald Examiner (front page story in two parts) Sun Oct. 11 & Sun Oct. 18, 1981 by Randall Sullivan

PEROT CAMPAIGN (1992)

I served as the L.A. County Press Spokesman for the Perot Petition Committee in 1992, which became, by default, the State media hub. (I CAN ONLY ESTIMATE 50-60 INTERVIEWS total.)

PEOPLE Magazine, 6/22/92 p.42, a story on me and my relationship with Perot.
NIGHTLINE - Producers Jay Weiss & Peter Demchuk a 2 part series after Perot’s withdrawal.
The TODAY Show (6/92)
The L.A. Times - approx. 10 times
CBS Evening News, 2x, Producer Cinny Kenard
ABC Evening News, opening segment the day Perot withdrew
CNN Inside Politics, approximately 7 times
CNN Live the day Perot withdrew, LIVE with Ed Rollins
All L.A. TV stations, approx. 20-30 times between March and July 1992.
All major foreign networks including ITN, BBC & Japan.
Plus The N.Y. Times, Wash. Post, TIME, NEWSWEEK & U.S. NEWS

FEATURE FILM

THE LAST PARTY, Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Director Marc Levin. A feature documentary on the ‘92 campaign featuring segments of me in long discussion with Sean Penn and Downey. This one’s still playing a lot on cable,
SINCE THE SAN JOSE MERCURY, GARY WEBB STORIES OF AUGUST, 1996

10/18/96 KCAL CH 9 - KIM MAROE
11/15/96 - AT THE LOCKE HIGH SCHOOL TOWN HALL MEETING WHERE I CONFRONTED CIA DIRECTOR JOHN DEUTCH (EVERYBODY, EVERYWHERE - CNN, CSPAN, ABC, CBS, NBC, ALL LOCAL STATIONS, BBC, ITN, etc.)
12/4/96 - KCAL 9 (MAROE)
12/4/96 - FOX-11 (AL NAIPO)
12/?/96 - FOX-11 (AL NAIPO)
2/22/97 - FOX-11 (FEMALE REPORTER)
1,2,4,7 & 11/97, 2/98 - GLENN LYNCH, OVER THE SHOULDER, half hour cable TV shows to 100+ stations through century cable. The second show drew a call from Marlon Brando.
6/27/97 - DATELINE NBC - A segment on CIA and drugs included a full replay of my confrontation with John Deutch plus interviews with Sen. John Kerry, Celerino Castillo (DEA) & Gary Webb.
7/5-7/97 - A&E "Conspiracies", a one hour documentary. Included my confrontation with John Deutch. Ran three consecutive days.

RADIO (more than 100 Talk Radio appearances since 1996)

WMNF-FM, Tampa-St. Petersburg
KPFK, Los Angeles
KPFA, San Francisco
KJLH, Los Angeles
KBET, Los Angeles
KABC, Los Angeles
WCR, Washington, D.C.
KFI, Los Angeles
KBET, Los Angeles
KIEV, Los Angeles
KFJC, San Jose
WOL/WOLB, Baltimore-Washington- Richmond
KKNV, Las Vegas
KPFI, Palm Springs
KVMR, Sacramento
KALX, Berkeley
WFMU, New York
KXCL, Kansas City
KKUP, Santa Cruz
WRFL, Lexington, KY
WCBN, Ann Arbor, MI
CITR, Vancouver, BC
KKFI, Kansas City
KYSG - Little Rock
KQSB - Santa Barbara
KTMS - Santa Barbara
KOTK - Portland, OR
KRKO - Seattle
KTKK - Salt Lake
KCOL - Ft. Collins, CO

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
(Does not include approx. 15 engagements for private groups)

2/20/97 - THE GRANADA FORUM, a conservative public forum.
2/22/97 - CRACK THE CIA! RALLY - a 4,000-person demonstration. I followed immediately after Maxine Waters and Dick Gregory.
3/15/97 - FAIRFAX HIGH - SYMPOSIUM ON CIA DRUG DEALING. I shared the podium with The Hon. Maxine Waters, Peter Dale Scott, PhD, Jonathan Marshall (The San Francisco Chronicle), John Mattes (former attorney for the Kerry Committee), Cele Castillo (DEA) and Gary Webb.
4/6/97 - SAN JOSE STATE (for the Green Party).
4/8/97 - VENTURA COLLEGE (criminal justice and forensics)
4/9/97 - UCLA - Dept. of History Prof. James Wilkie plus 80 grads and seniors. Lecture & Q&A. Video oral history & documents added to archives. Wilkie said my presentation was "as good as any U.C. Professor." - (3 HR TAPE AVAIL.).
5/3/97 -THE AZTLAN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER - East Los Angeles, a 3-hour lecture co-sponsored by the Crack the CIA Coalition
5/15/97 - CAL POLY POMONA - for The Black Student Union.
6/97 - LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL - for student activist groups at a symposium on human rights in Peru.
8/30/97 - THE GREEN PARTY NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Lawrence, MA.
10/04/97 - THE GREEN PARTY, CALIFORNIA STATE CONFERENCE.
10/21/97 - SANTA MONICA COLLEGE for the Associated Student Government.
2/24/98 - LANEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Oakland, CA. - for the Assoc. Student Union.
4/17/98 - NATIONAL STUDENT AFRICAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, Santa Monica College. Mainline Speaker with Dick Gregory to a standing room only audience of five hundred.
6/5/98 - 30th Anniversary of the RFK Assassination with Larry Teeter (Attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, Adele Sirhan (brother) and Lynn Mangan (Chief Researcher) to discuss CIA connections to LAPD operations before, during and after the assassination. At the Unitarian Church of Santa Monica.
6/13/98 - University of California, Berkeley (UCB - Upward Bound) 2x. Noon for national high school student leadership conference. Evening for Crack the CIA Coalition organization program for political leaders.
9/16/98 - The Los Angeles County Commission on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. - Testimony of the CIA/Drug investigations and their impact on L.A. County.
12/12/98 - Los Angeles Public Library
12/19/98 - Crenshaw Christian Center

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