Word: minichiello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue surrounding J. Edgar Hoover and his bureau. In a speech delivered at Lewis-St. Francis College in Lockport, Ill..., Senator George McGovern accused the FBI of attempting to "destroy the career" of a Trans World Airlines pilot who had criticized the bureau's handling of the 1969 Minichiello hijacking case. Damning the FBI as the "Federal Bureau of Intimidation," the Senator said: "Despite Mr. Nixon's words, I cannot believe that he can any longer with a straight face profess his confidence in Mr. Hoover." In fact, the mounting campaign against Hoover has probably forced the White...
...last romantic, as Rome's daily Il Messagero put it last week, is the way most Italians still think of Raffaele Mi-nichiello, the disgruntled U.S. Marine who commandeered a TWA Boeing 707 at carbine point all the way from California to Rome in 1969. Minichiello's 6,900-mile, 17-hr. 48-min. record for long-distance hijacking still stands, as does his unique place in the folklore of Naples which claims him for its own, though he was born 80 miles away in the mountain town of Melito Irpino. Last week Minichiello set yet another outrageous...
Throughout the three-day trial in Rome's crowded criminal court last week, it was difficult to distinguish the prosecution from the defense. Both sides, in a torrent of rhetoric, apparently considered the U.S. the real culprit and not Defendant Raffaele Minichiello. A lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, Minichiello, now 21, set a still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken...
...Raffaele Minichiello is a good, hardworking boy, a frightened boy," said Prosecutor Antonio Scopelliti. "Life took him from the small, calm town of Melito Irpino, where he was born, to the inferno of Viet Nam, and from the fields of Melito to the chaotic city of New York. We believe in the Minichiello who fought bravely in the rains of Viet Nam and earned a medal...
...Italy's penal code does not yet recognize skyjacking as a crime, Milnichiello faced a possible 32-year prison term on charges of assault, kidnaping and bringing into the country a "weapon of war"the Ml carbine with which he commandeered the plane. Convicted on all counts, Minichiello was sentenced to only 7½ years in prisona year and a month more than the sympathetic prosecution had requested. He has already served one year of the sentence in Rome's bleak Queen of Heaven jail while awaiting trial. The penalty will be reduced...