In response to
"What's the Frequency, Kenneth? 35 years ago today, NBC news anchor Dan Rather is attacked with a hammer by someone asking that.... -- nm"
by
zeitgeist
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Speaking of....the guy who attacked Rather late killed an NBC stagehand. Guy sounds schizophrenic but got 12.5 - 25 yqears in prison?
Posted by
ty97
Oct 4 '21, 10:20
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"n 1997, a TV critic writing in the New York Daily News solved the mystery, publishing a photo of the alleged assailant, William Tager, who received a 12½-to-25-year prison sentence for killing NBC stagehand Campbell Montgomery outside The Today Show studio in 1994.[130] Rather confirmed the story: "There's no doubt in my mind that this is the person."[130] New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said "William Tager's identity as the man who attacked Mr. Rather was established in the course of an investigation by my office."[132] Tager claimed he thought television networks were beaming signals into his brain.[133] When he murdered the stagehand, Tager was trying to force his way into an NBC studio with a weapon, in order to find out the frequency the networks were using to attack him, so that he could block it. Tager was paroled in October 2010.[134]"
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