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8 unusual facts about Oliver North


Christopher Helt

He stated of the case, "They move principals around like it's a Barnum & Bailey circus … When there's a problem, they blame it on the principals. The principals have become the Oliver Norths for everything that's wrong with Chicago public schools." The Chicago Tribune wrote that, in response to the suit, CPS CEO Paul Vallas said he would "declare an educational crisis at the school and seek the permanent removal of the principal and the local school council".

Gavin Hewitt

He conducted the first British television interview with Oliver North after the Iran Contra scandal, and later wrote a book about the hostage crisis in the Lebanon.

Griff Jenkins

Before being hired by Fox News, Jenkins was the producer for the Oliver North Radio Program.

Guadalajara Cartel

For its services SETCO received funds from the accounts established by Oliver North.

IBM OfficeVision

Oliver North believed he had deleted his correspondence, but the system archived it anyway.

Joyce Hens Green

But, Green's 108-page judgment had supported the FEC in two instances; when the Christian Coalition had broken FEC guidelines in their explicit advocacy of the re-election of Newt Gingrich; and when the Christian Coalition had handed over their membership list to Senate candidate Oliver North.

Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors

Based on the events of the time, the song references such topics as Willie Horton, the Iran-Contra Affair, Oliver North, the Crack epidemic and many others.

Woody Holton

In 1994 CUC waged a bipartisan campaign to defeat Oliver North's 1994 bid for Virginia's Senate seat (North lost by 3% of the vote).


Arturo Cruz, Jr.

Trips to Lt. Colonel Oliver North's office at the United States National Security Council brought him into contact with North's secretary, Fawn Hall, with whom he had a well-publicized relationship.

Edwin Bollier

As a discouragement to the prosecution, Bollier is alleged to have let it be known before the start of the trial that if he were to be charged for the PA 103 bombing he would call some high-ranking and controversial witnesses to appear, for example: former United States President George H. W. Bush, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Gerrit Pretorius, private secretary to South Africa's former foreign minister Pik Botha.


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