Dark Side

Dark Side

Dark Side is a true crime podcast that focuses on crimes that changed laws, or law enforcement, or something positive was born of a tragedy. Also covered are first, last and landmark convictions. Why don't you join me for the ride? As always, it'll be a bumpy one!

  1. Episode 20 - The Home of the Brave

    05/12/2021

    Episode 20 - The Home of the Brave

    Today's episode is the conclusion of the Fred Korematsu story. After losing his Supreme Court case in 1944, Fred went into a life of obscurity...until a conversation with a young girl in 1967 started Fred back on the journey to right the wrongs bestowed against him, and Japanese American people...and to stop America from making the same mistakes again. Find me at: Website: www.darksidepodcast.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/319473136054221 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suze_darksidepodcast/ Email: info@darksidepodcast.co.uk   Voices: Narrator: SuZe   Sound Effects: Zapsplat.com YouTube Sound Effects Music & Sounds: Possession by Purple Planet – All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.   Sources: President Gerald Ford rescinded a Democrat Outrage Against Japanese-Americans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJyr-lkayTM FRED KOREMATSU: A CIVIL RIGHTS HERO - https://www.niot.org/niot-video/fred-korematsu-civil-rights-hero Supreme Court Landmark Case [Korematsu v. United States] - https://www.stitcher.com/show/cspan-landmarkcases/episode/supreme-court-landmark-case-korematsu-v-united-states-42674029 Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story - https://vimeo.com/118490262 A Man of Quiet Bravery - https://vimeo.com/140002761 Donald Trump seen calling for Muslim registry in new video despite denials - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-muslim-registry-video-president-islam-policies-immigration-a7424511.html President Reagan's at the Japanese-American Internment Compensation Bill signing on August 10, 1988 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaQRhcBXKY Barack Obama tells Muslim Americans the US is ‘one big family’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/jun/23/obama-iftar-dinner-ramadan-one-big-family-video Donald Trump seen calling for Muslim registry in new video despite denials - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-muslim-registry-video-president-islam-policies-immigration-a7424511.html Donald Trump surrogate cites America's Japanese internment camps as 'precedent' for Muslim registry- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-surrogate-muslim-registry-japanese-internment-camps-precedent-a7422171.html Exclusive: Donald Trump Says He Might Have Supported Japanese Internment - https://time.com/4140050/donald-trump-muslims-japanese-internment/ Student shoots video of WTC on 9/11 A former NYU student - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qiVBOqNiOs Remembering Civil Liberties Hero Fred Korematsu - https://www.aclu.org/blog/remembering-civil-liberties-hero-fred-korematsu Guantánamo Bay: 14 years of injustice - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/guantanamo-bay-human-rights US tortured detainees' after 9/11 attack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZC3yQMhPI Rasul v. Bush - https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/rasul-v-bush Essay: Remember Endo? - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/214393479.pdf A plea to cast aside Korematsu - https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/01/a-plea-to-cast-aside-korematsu/ Obama Administration Refuses Opportunity to Repudiate Japanese Internment Ruling - https://reason.com/2014/04/01/obama-administration-refuses-opportunity/ The American National Anthem — US Army Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gv8mIF7l-A Trump adviser Stephen Miller says the president's power 'will not be questioned' - https://www.washingtonpost.com/videonational/trump-adviser-stephen-miller-says-the-presidents-power-will-not-be-questioned/2017/02/13/0f772184-f14f-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_video.html SCOTUS Conservatives Repudiate Yet Echo Korematsu On Muslim Ban - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_n3EVoamA A licence to discriminate: Trump's Muslim & refugee ban - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/licence-discriminate-trumps-muslim-refugee-ban Supreme Court finally rejects infamous Korematsu decision on Japanese-American internment - https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/korematsu-supreme-court-travel-ban-roberts-sotomayor/index.html Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban, president claims vindication from 'hysterical' critics - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-n873441

    1h 27m
  2. Episode 1 of Dark Shadows - Why, FDR...WHY?

    05/05/2021 · BONUS

    Episode 1 of Dark Shadows - Why, FDR...WHY?

    On this very first episode of Dark Shadows, Why FDR, WHY? We're taking a deep dive into what led Franklin Roosevelt to make the decision to intern an entire ethnic population of the USA, treated them like criminals, locked them up like animals, and removed their civil liberties. Yes, I’ll be tackling the internment of the Japanese Americans during world war two in the United States and just how and why a Government could turn on its’ own citizens in the supposed land of the free.  Are you ready for the deep dive?  Excellent...here we go... Voices: Narrator: SuZe Kotsui Korematsu: Hieu Tieu   Music by: Possession by Purple Planet All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.   Sources: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) - Our Documents - https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=26 Mexican-American War - https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-American-War The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts, Summary & Video – HISTORY - https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849 ECONOMIC PANIC OF 1873 -https://www.historycentral.com/rec/EconomicPanic.html Chinese Exclusion Act - https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882 Extending a beacon of hope to all who seek refuge - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/extending-beacon-hope-all-who-seek-refuge/ Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History - https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/japanese/ Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00745.x Gentlemen's Agreement - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen529 Closing the Door on Immigration - https://www.nps.gov/articles/closing-the-door-on-immigration.htm

    25 min
  3. Episode 19 - The Land of the Free?

    05/04/2021

    Episode 19 - The Land of the Free?

    Fred Korematsu was a law abiding, loyal citizen of the United States. He held no criminal record and loved his homeland so much so, that he wanted to don a uniform to defend her. So, why then did his country turn on him and treat him like a criminal? Convicting him, incarcerating him, interring him, and leaving him with a criminal record? Fred would spend a lifetime trying to defend the injustice bestowed against him, and the thousands of others in his position. Find me at: Website: www.darksidepodcast.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/319473136054221 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suze_darksidepodcast/ Email: info@darksidepodcast.co.uk   Voices: Narrator: SuZe Kotsui Korematsu: Hieu Tieu   Sound Effects: Zapsplat.com YouTube Sound Effects Sources: Pennsylvania Polka - The Andrews Sisters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92rmDlhgPqk Possession by Purple Planet All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.   Sources: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) - Our Documents - https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=26 Mexican-American War - https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-American-War The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts, Summary & Video – HISTORY - https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849 Pearl Harbor Attacks - As It Happened - Radio Broadcasts (1941) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Buw4XYc8E Supreme Court Landmark Case [Korematsu v. United States] - https://www.stitcher.com/show/cspan-landmarkcases/episode/supreme-court-landmark-case-korematsu-v-united-states-42674029 ECONOMIC PANIC OF 1873 - https://www.historycentral.com/rec/EconomicPanic.html Chinese Exclusion Act - https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882 Extending a beacon of hope to all who seek refuge - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/extending-beacon-hope-all-who-seek-refuge/ Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History - https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/japanese/ Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00745.x Gentlemen's Agreement - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen529 Closing the Door on Immigration - https://www.nps.gov/articles/closing-the-door-on-immigration.htm Second Generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) before WWII - http://picturethis.museumca.org/timeline/depression-era-1930s/second-generation-japanese-americans-nisei-wwii/info Karl Bendetsen - https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Karl_Bendetsen The Munson Report - https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/munson_report.cfm Kenneth Ringle - https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Kenneth_Ringle/ FRED KOREMATSU: A CIVIL RIGHTS HERO - https://www.niot.org/niot-video/fred-korematsu-civil-rights-hero Pearl Harbor & Executive Order 9066 | And Then They Came for Us - https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pearl-harbor-executive-order-9066-video/korematsu-institute/ Executive Order 9066 - https://www.fdrlibrary.org/executive-order-9066 A Look Back at the Executive Order that Cleared the Way for Internment - https://www.nbcnews.com/video/a-look-back-at-the-executive-order-that-cleared-the-way-for-internment-865872451965 Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story - https://vimeo.com/118490262 A Man of Quiet Bravery - https://vimeo.com/140002761 Japanese American internment - https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment

    1h 7m
  4. Episode 17 - A Cry for Help

    04/06/2021

    Episode 17 - A Cry for Help

    In June 2016, 20-year-old Michael Sandford from sleepy, rural Dorking, Surrey, UK had made an epic journey of over 5000 miles in total, on a mission. Michael was known for how polite, articulate, kind, compassionate, and sweet he was. So, how did this sweet young man go on to almost change the course of history with an attempted crime that aimed to murder one of the most influential people in the Western World? Find me at: Website: www.darksidepodcast.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/319473136054221 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suze_darksidepodcast/ Email: info@darksidepodcast.co.uk   Voices: Narrator: SuZe Voice in Head: TH   Sound Effects: British phone sound - Telephones: Ringing Cadence - US v UK - https://www.youtube.com/ch?v=pK-euL_PukY USA Chants - The three times Trump’s SOTU speech drew chants of ‘USA, USA’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5dIMEYafiU Trump Chants - Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump's Crowds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9YPYRaeTW0 Music by: Possession by Purple Planet All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.   Sources: The Brit who tried to kill Trump Full Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8sQCoAW6XY That Trump Assassination Attempt Was A Big Deal - https://www.bustle.com/articles/168385-yes-that-donald-trump-assassination-attempt-shouldve-gotten-more-attention Why isn’t the Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump Bigger News? - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/21/why-isnt-the-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump-bigger-news/ Donald Trump: We have some bad hombres here - Final Presidential Debate - Hillary Clinton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NveATfcxta4 `We`re going to build the wall,’ Trump says at RIR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJ4TFQ8JBI Plot to kill Donald Trump: New details on the suspect - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnrLrPwhKdU My son 'tried to shoot Donald Trump' BBC News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n07qzH4Qpc4&t=202s Man who tried to kill Trump from Hoboken: Feds say - https://www.fox5ny.com/news/man-who-tried-to-kill-trump-from-hoboken-feds-say Brit Michael Sandford who tried to shoot Donald Trump with cop’s gun at election rally reveals voices in his head told him to assassinate US President - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3513071/michael-sandford-donald-trump-rally-cops-gun-voices-kill-president/ Donald Trump Wins Presidential Election, Sending Shockwaves Around the World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO-LR_fEwfQ He’s not a bad person’ Mother of man who attempted to shoot Trump defends crowd-funding - https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/695706/Donald-Trump-shoot-assasinate-mum-crowdfunding Mother of jailed Briton in Trump attack pleads for son's return - https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/mother-of-jailed-briton-in-trump-attack-pleads-for-sons-return Sandford Parents Speak Out On Their Son's Sentencing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrRjW03d9HU WARM WELCOME: Crowd cheers for President Trump - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHTeLp-qTU

    1h 5m
  5. Episode 16 - What Goes Around...

    03/23/2021

    Episode 16 - What Goes Around...

    Arek Hersh was a 10 year old boy when he was taken from his family and thrust into a terrifying world. He was beaten and starved, he ate grass and chewed on his shoes to abate hunger. He was worked almost to death, toiling for long hours in often sub-zero temperatures. He lived in this perpetual hell for years…until, one day, he was randomly chosen for an experimental project in another country. And this project would go onto have repercussions that would benefit society today, and change the way child development is conducted across the world. Find me at: Website: www.darksidepodcast.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/319473136054221 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suze_darksidepodcast/ Email: info@darksidepodcast.co.uk   Voices: Narrator: SuZe Arek Hersh: Himself   Music by: Possession by Purple Planet All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.     Sources: My Jewish Learning - https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/holocaust-survivors/ Harrogate High School - Arek Hersh full interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmr8g7DEhY Arek Hersh - UTC Holocaust Film Project - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0qRRpxouhI Escaping Death at Auschwitz - https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2019/march/arek-hersh-holocaust-centre-huddersfield/ When "Holocaust" Became "The Holocaust" - https://newrepublic.com/article/121807/when-holocaust-became-holocaust Kindertransport - https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/about-us/kindertransport The Boys - https://45aid.org/45-aid-society/

    1h 29m
  6. Episode 15 - 4 Days of Hell

    03/09/2021

    Episode 15 - 4 Days of Hell

    18 year-old Kelsey Smith was at her local Target store in Kansas buying a present for her boyfriend. She called her mother and told her she'd be home soon...but Kelsey never returned home. The Police, the FBI, and the whole community were soon searching for Kelsey. Everyone, in fact, was trying to help the Smith family find their daughter...everyone except the one company that had the ability to find her. Kelsey's disappearance would start a campaign that would tackle head-on one of the largest corporations in America, and ultimately, change the way law enforcement is conducted in the USA today. Find me at: Website: www.darksidepodcast.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/319473136054221 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suze_darksidepodcast/ Email: info@darksidepodcast.co.uk   Voices: Narrator: SuZe   Music by: Possession by Purple Planet All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.   Sources:  Getting the Kelsey Smith Act Enacted – VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbFM0PEujLg Kelsey's Law (Kelsey Smith Act) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/69730170954/ Edwin Hall: 'I'm So, So Sorry' – VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyBv41qEHRg Edwin Hall Pleads Guilty In Kelsey Smith Slaying – VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93qertvdR70 Kelsey Smith Act, named after OP teen, could become federal law – VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri4rO8EkLoU Kelsey Smith Act – VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Ms9V6WPy0 The Communications Act of 1934 - https://it.ojp.gov/privacyliberty/authorities/statutes/1288 Three Days To Live: Episode 3 Bonus Clip - The Kelsey Smith Act – VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQPrbmAxcR0 The Teen Who Never Came Home From The Store - VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kr3LiOBT9U Best Places to Live in Kansas - https://livability.com/ks/where-to-live-now/best-places-to-live-in-kansas Slaying Suspect May Have Had MySpace Page - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/slaying-suspect-may-have-had-myspace-page/ Suspect in teen's killing threatened sister - https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19107235 Why is Ping a Thing? - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjhm5rB1Y_vAhVTVBUIHR2UBmQQFjABegQICBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2014-10-29%2Fwhy-is-ping-a-thing&usg=AOvVaw2do2KEsg_NP-iXduC1-IiH Locating Mobile Phones through Pinging and Triangulation - https://pursuitmag.com/locating-mobile-phones-through-pinging-and-triangulation/ What is the difference between analog and digital cell phones? - https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question31.htm Last Call: Analog Cell Phone Service Disappearing - https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=4260439 The Kelsey Smith Foundation - https://kelseysarmy.org Murder of Kelsey Smith - http://lawyer-wiki.blogspot.com/2018/08/murder-of-kelsey-smith.html Cable TV show revisits Kelsey Smith’s abduction and murder - https://jimmycsays.com/2015/02/18/cable-tv-show-revisits-kelsey-smiths-abduction-and-murder/ Should Phone Records Be Used To Find Missing Persons? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIlOQuzTnU Prepared Testimony of Melissa Smith Mother of Kelsey Smith - https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20160413/104764/HHRG-114-IF16-Wstate-SmithM-20160413-U1.pdf Nine years after Kelsey Smith’s murder, family on a quest to pass federal law - https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/joco-913/overland-park-leawood/article83853112.html Seven Communications Bills, One Gruesome Story - https://morningconsult.com/2016/04/12/kelsey-smith-act-house-energy-and-commerce-hearing/ Suspect in Teen's Murder Arraigned - https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3257590&page=1 Seawright Kelsey Smith Press Conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_kFFpvM_k Renewed push to pass Kelsey Smith Act a decade after it was introduced - https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/renewed-push-to-pass-kelsey-smith-act-a-decade-after-it-was-introduced

    1h 16m
4.5
out of 5
57 Ratings

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Dark Side is a true crime podcast that focuses on crimes that changed laws, or law enforcement, or something positive was born of a tragedy. Also covered are first, last and landmark convictions. Why don't you join me for the ride? As always, it'll be a bumpy one!