Episode 99 - Frank Abagnale Jr. & A High School Speech

This week, Amber is joined by guest co-host, Michael Mullins!

Michael covers Frank Abagnale, the inspiration for the movie "Catch Me If You Can". Frank Abagnale is now an American security and fraud consultant, but is better known as one of the  most infamous con-artists of all time. It's been reported that by the age of 19, he had cashed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks while using several different identities. It is believed that he assumed no less than eight identities in his short career as a fraudster, including: an airline pilot, a physician, a lawyer, and a professor. He was captured and sentenced in 1974, but was released after serving about three and a half years of his 12 year sentence, on the condition that he would work alongside the FBI to investigate crimes similar to those that he had committed.  But how much of Frank's very public story is true?

Sources:
www.slashfilms.com / “The Fascinating True (And Not So True) Story Behind Catch Me If You Can” / Shania Russell / August 10, 2022

www.WHYY.org / “Catch Me If You Can” / December 31, 2000

www.en.wikipedia.org 

SHOW: Johnny Carson / Episode aired October 4, 1978

SHOW: To Tell the Truth / Episode aired in 1977

www.youtube.com /Talks @ Google "Frank Abagnale"/recorded November 27, 2017

Podcast – Most Notorious / Episode 198: “Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale - Perpetrator of the Ultimate Hoax? / with Alan C. Logan” / May 19, 2021

Podcast – Pretend “The Real Catch Me if You Can” / 5-part story from July 5, 2022 – August 30, 2022

www.abagnale.com

FILM: “Catch Me If You Can’ / Steven Spielberg / 2002

Michael was drinking LaCrima Purpura, a red wine from Spain.
Amber was drinking Mocho Velho Pardina, a white wine from Spain. Both were robust and delicious!


Then Amber covers the high school speech of Matthew Fraser. Matthew was a student at Bethel High School in 1983, and he delivered a speech to roughly 600 of his fellow classmates nominating his friend for student body vice president. Matthew's speech resulted in a suspension and being removed from the potential list of graduation commencement speakers. So Matthew did what any normal teenager would do, he took the school district to court.

Sources:
www.famoustrials.com

www.law.cornell.edu / "Bethell School District No. 403, et al., Petitioners v. Matthew N. Fraser, a Minor and E.L. Fraser, Guardian Ad Litem."

www.usccourts.gov / Tinker v. Des Moines

www.en.wikipedia.org 

Podcast – Let’s Go To Court / Episode from July 21, 2021

www.mtsu.edu / “Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)” / David L. Hudson Jr. 

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