By 2:55 PM the crowd in the central pens had shifted from excited to desperate. A crush barrier in Pen 3 — old and overstrained — gave way, triggering a human cascade. Packed so tightly they couldn't expand their chests, people died of asphyxiation. The game kicked off on time at 3 PM, oblivious.
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By 2:50 PM, the situation on Leppings Lane had become desperate. With kickoff minutes away, 5,000 people were still trying to pass through 7 turnstiles — a physical impossibility. Police outside the stadium contacted match commander Duckenfield urgently, asking permission to open Gate C and bypass the turnstiles. He ignored the first call, ignored the second, and only relented on the third, near-frantic request, ordering Gate C opened at 2:52 PM. The pressure outside instantly transferred inside: a mass of people flooded through the gate and across the stadium foyer, heading straight down the central tunnel toward Pens 3 and 4 — already dangerously overcrowded. The cops on the ground were providing no directional guidance. The collision was seconds away.
With just 10 minutes to kickoff, approximately 5,000 Liverpool fans were still outside on Leppings Lane trying to get through the 7 turnstiles.
After being ignored twice, police outside finally got Duckenfield to open Gate C at 2:52 PM, releasing a mass of people directly into the stadium foyer.
Pens 3 and 4 at Hillsborough were already approximately 1,000 people over their safe capacity before the Gate C crowd even entered the tunnel.
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Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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