>[source: NativeNews; Wed, 08 Nov 2000] > >CBC Fifth Estate: Silenced- The Execution of Anna Mae..Nov 8 > >8PM EST on CBET (CBC) television station >Tapes (or transcripts) of this show may be ordered by calling 1-800-363-1281 >tapes run 55$ Canadian for the hour show > >Those interviewed include: >John Trudell >Bob Robideau >Robert Ecoffey >Troy Lynn Yellow Wood >Candy Hamilton >Dennis Banks >Paul DeMain >Norman Zigrossi >Kamook Banks >John"Graham" aka John boy Patton >Russell Means >Robert Pictou Branscombe >and Anna Mae's two grown daughters > >Historical film footage included scenes from WKII, Jumping Bull' compound >and the press coverage of Douglass Durham's speech in the mid 70s. > >The show implied that the hit was ordered by AIM because Anna Mae was >suspected of being an informant. Dennis Banks was asked if he ordered the >hit..he stated, "It was not something he could have done. He loved her." >..also, "I would have spent the rest of my life with her." > >John Boy Patton was asked flat out if he had murdered Anna Mae and >stated,"No, I did not murder her...and I didn't see who did." > >Norman Zigrossi, retired FBI agent out of Rapid City stated, "No, Anna Mae >was not an informant." reporter,"Would you have known about it if she >were?" Response," Yes, I know who was an informant, I should, he was a >friend of mine." > >Anna Mae had called John Trudell from the lockup (or hotel/motel) after >being arrested in Oregon in November. (It is also logical she called her >attorney, Candy Hamilton back in SD.) She told John Trudell she knew who >the informant was. Anna Mae walked out of the hotel room and headed to >Colorado to Troy Lynn Yellow Wood's place where she was supposed to have >been taken after a couple of days to Rapid City and interrogated. Candy >Hamilton claims to have been upstairs when this happened. > >Russell Means states that there have been grand juries called, a witness >who has confessed and yet no one has been charged or prosecuted. He says >the FBI keeps telling them the evidence is too weak to make a case. John >Boy Patton says both the FBI and RCMP has knocked on his door more than once. > >Kamook Banks (Nichols) currently employed in the film industry in >California states that she believes they suspected Anna Mae as an >informant, why else would they have had Anna come along? That she and Anna >had been very close. She had learned of the relationship between Anna and >Dennis the day before the arrest in Oregon. > >Paul DeMain shuffled stacks of papers on his lap among which could be seen >reprints of FOIA documents at the www.freepeltier.org website. He was >touted as essentially, the "expert" on the unsolved murder of Anna Mae. > >For those of you who do not get CBC, or missed this segment of Fifth Estate >copies may be obtained from CBC by calling: 1-800-363-1281
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