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	Samuel Byck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byck married and had four children, but he experienced a number of business failures and admitted himself to a psychiatric hospital, citing depression, for two months in 1972.
		Since Byck was already known to the Secret Service, and because legal attempts to purchase a firearm might have resulted in increased scrutiny, Byck stole a.22 caliber revolver from a friend of his to use in the hijacking.
		Byck is also one of the (failed) assassins portrayed in Sondheim's and Weidman's musical Assassins (1991), which, like the movie that followed, also focused on the tapes sent to Leonard Bernstein.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Byck (1136 words)

	Samuel Byck info here at en.53of100b.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since Byck was first absent confessed to the Secret Service, 'n as judged attempts to investment a firearm resulted in increased scrutiny, Byck stole a.22 caliber revolver from a fellow of her to advantage in the hijacking.
		As a result, Byck 'n her assassination plot remained comparatively incognito a sending emails picture based on her story, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, was released in 2004, starring Sean Penn as Bicke (the touring was changed to dodge offending live relatives).
		Byck is solitary of the (failed) assassins portrayed in Sondheim's 'n Weidman's musical Assassins (1991), which, approximative the sending emails picture that followed, cored on the tapes sent to Leonard Bernstein.
	en.53of100b.info /Samuel_Byck (1246 words)

	AVC ASSASSINS SAMUEL BYCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born into a economically distressed family in Philadelphia, Byck dropped out of high school and served two years in the U.S. Army, where he was trained in firearms and explosives.
		Byck spent two months in a psychiatric hospital to be treated for depression and began to blame his problems on a government conspiracy to keep the poor man down.
		David Wright (Sam Byck) began acting in 1973 at AV College, and holds a B.A. in Theatre.
	www.noexitrecords.com /avcassassins/avc_assassins_samuel_byck.htm (250 words)

	NewsRegister.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first was Samuel Byck, an American who attempted a similar act of terrorism in 1974 from Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
		Byck's story is told in first-time director Niels Mueller's engrossing "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," one of last year's best films.
		As Byck, he's a white-collar Travis Bickle, at first disillusioned, then enraged and ultimately unhinged by the injustices of American society.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story_print.cfm?story_no=202997 (264 words)

	The Plot to Kill Nixon (2005) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Samuel Byck was an unemployed tyre salesman with a failed marriage and severe depression.
		Byck decides to strike out by hijacking a commercial airliner at BWI airport, ordering the pilots to fly over the White House, then killing the pilots and steering the plane into the executive mansion incinerating President Nixon.
		Byck grabbed a female passenger as a human shield before a heroic policeman was able to shoot him twice in the chest.
	imdb.com /title/tt0393599 (682 words)

	FILM REVIEW; Hey, You Talkin' to Me? - New York Times
		On Feb. 22, 1974, Samuel Byck, a onetime tire salesman and failing family man, entered the ranks of pseudo-celebrity by trying to commandeer a commercial airliner and crash it into the White House.
		Byck protested outside the White House dressed as Santa Claus and made tape-recordings of his rants, sending copies to the likes of Jonas Salk and his idol, Leonard Bernstein.
		Byck is just lonely, depressed and fixated on his wife, on the bureaucrat he hopes will grant him a business loan and, finally, on Nixon, a gargoyle hovering on every television in view.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E0D8153AF93AA15751C1A9629C8B63 (571 words)

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		Samuel doesn't hate money; he just hates having to lie to get it, and at this particular point, he's decided he will sacrifice his integrity no more.
		This man's name was Samuel Byck, and he's been entirely forgotten by the history books.
		The Assassination Of Richard Nixon is a bit of a misnomer of a title; Nixon's life was long, and this paltry attempt on it was quickly overshadowed by the subsequent scandal that brought down his administration.
	www.road-dog-productions.com /reviews/archives/2005/01/the_assassinati_1.html (861 words)

	MCN: The Real Sam Byck
		Samuel Joseph Byck (1930 - February 22, 1974) was an unemployed tire salesman who attempted to hijack a plane from Baltimore-Washington International Airport on February 22, 1974.
		Byck shot and killed one of the pilots on the DC-9 Delta Airlines Flight 523, wounded another, then grabbed a nearby passenger and ordered her to "fly the plane".
		Subsequently, it was discovered Byck had sent a tape recording detailing his plan to news columnist Jack Anderson, and a review of records disclosed that Byck had been arrested protesting in front of the White House, dressed in a Santa suit, the previous December.
	www.moviecitynews.com /arrays/2005/assassinaiton_byck.html (289 words)

	ireland.com // T H E T I C K E T // TARGETING TRICKY DICK
		Eerily anticipating the events of September 11th, Byck's plan was to hijack a jet plane and force the pilot to fly it into the White House.
		In Sean Penn's riveting, achingly honest and vividly detailed performance, Byck emerges as a mess of desperation, disillusionment and self-delusion - a cross between Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy, until he finally takes on intimations of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.
		The erosion of whatever self-esteem Byck may have possessed is set against radio reports of Nixon's own unravelling as news breaks of his role in the Watergate scandal.
	www.ireland.com /theticket/articles/2005/0408/2391952782TK0804NIXON.html (382 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" Movie Review
		In 1974, failed salesman Samuel Byck hatched his “Operation Pandora’s Box,” a plot to hijack an airplane and crash it into the White House, all in an attempt to kill Richard Nixon.
		Byck stormed a DC-9 plane at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport, shot and killed one of the pilots, wounded the other, and, in frustration, grabbed a woman and ordered her to “fly the plane.” Shot by police through the window of the plane, Byck put his revolver to his head and pulled the trigger, thwarting himself.
		Samuel Bicke is the kind of role that could have easily been taken over the top, but Penn executes just the right tone.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/a/assassinationofrichardnixon.htm (738 words)

	Hijacker targeted president in 1974; for George and Hattie Jean Ramsburg, the events of Sept. 11 are painful reminders ...
		Samuel Byck, a tire salesman from Philadelphia, unleashed what he called "Operation Pandora's Box," a plot to commandeer an airliner and crash it into the White House and to kill the president.
		Byck then boarded the plane, stormed the cockpit and demanded that the two pilots take off.
		Byck was known to authorities for mailing threats to the president as early as 1972 and sending strange taped messages to luminaries such as conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_23_18/ai_87917222 (932 words)

	IGN: The Stax Report: Script Review of The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		Byck also endures years of patronizing “tutelage” from his boss Jack Jones on how he to be a better salesman.
		Byck and Bonny want to run a tire delivery and replacement service using a run-down old bus as their mode of transport.
		Byck transformed, as he had to, from being one of us (the downtrodden Everyman) to one of them (the nutcases who we now live in fear of).
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/316/316761p1.html (1403 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| Buzz \| Screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pennsylvanian Samuel Byck's attempt to kill the 37th president of the United States by crashing a plane into the White House ended in obscurity.
		For writer/director Niels Mueller, Byck's failed—but prophetic—attempt is only a pretext for an examination of the waking death of the American dream during the crest of the Watergate debacle.
		Byck's intended victim, Richard Nixon, received a presidential pardon for Watergate, the worst scandal and constitutional crisis in our nation's history.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/012705/screen.html (1039 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - plot to kill Nixon by crashing a hijacked airliner into the white house... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Byck went to Baltimore/Washington International Airport carrying a pistol and gasoline bomb.
		After the crew informed him that they could not depart without removing the wheel blocks, Byck shot the pilot twice and the co-pilot three times (the co pilot later died).
		Byck fell to the floor, put the revolver to his head and killed himself.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID60/39107.html (443 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		Byck (whose name is spelled “Bicke” in the film) was a frustrated office furniture salesman who wanted to run his own business; a father of two small children, he was going through a divorce he didn’t want, and he had estranged himself from his conservative Jewish family.
		And, as if the contemporary relevance of Byck’s story needed any further illustration, Mueller informed me of a shooting that had occurred the day before our conversation outside his home town of Milwaukee during a church service held in a hotel; the shooter killed eight people, including himself, and wounded four.
		Even the similarities between Byck’s proposed mode of assassination and 9/11, those are the kinds of things I’ve been more interested in than film references.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=1836 (1371 words)

	The Assassination of Richard Nixon - Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon is about Samuel Byck, who tried to kill Richard Nixon in 1974 by flying a plane into the White House.
		Byck's desire to write himself into the great narrative of the United States failed because no one noticed.
		He even speaks like him: "A man is known for his work." Byck was also a failed salesman, frustrated with his exclusion from the American dream.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Reviews/The-Assassination-of-Richard-Nixon/2005/06/08/1118123897707.html?oneclick=true (786 words)

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		Byck's "attack" on Nixon was the first presidential assassination attempt in 24 years.
		Byck had outlined his entire plan for the hijacking and assassination on a tape he sent to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson.
		In one scene, Byck's boss points to an image of Nixon and explains that the recently re-elected President is undoubtedly the greatest salesman of all time.
	www.perspectives.com /forums/view_topic.php?id=66785&forum_id=4&page=3 (7259 words)

	The Plot To Kill Nixon - showing on The History Channel
		For years, Samuel Byck, an out-of-work tire salesman, led a secret life â“ as a would-be assassin.
		Byck left behind a 2-hour audiotape telling of his hatred of Nixon and his elaborate plan to kill him.
		In the early 1970s, Samuel Byck devised "Operation Pandoraâs Box", a plan that involved hijacking a jet airliner and crashing it into the White House in order to kill President Nixon.
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/tv_guide/full_details/Crime/programme_2928.php (288 words)

	The Projectionist - Review for December 26, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn) is a frustrated man. He and his wife (Naomi Watts) are separated.
		Samuel Bicke is a defeated man. Driven to desperation, Bicke begins a journey of self-destruction that will pit him against the forces he feels conspire against him.
		Samuel Bicke, as portrayed in the film, could be anyone who feels he has no say in what his government does or how he's treated in the world.
	www.game-assault.com /projectionist/122604.html (437 words)

	The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		Byck is played by Sean Penn who proves yet again to be an actor that is always worth watching.
		As Byck, he turns in a tightly-coiled, restrained performance which is a welcome change from his oft-used bombast.
		Byck is a failed salesman in every aspect of his life.
	www.bigpicturebigsound.com /printer_475.shtml (388 words)

	Assassins Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This was especially true for the character of Samuel Byck played by Philip Kaye, whose insane persona wears a Santa Clause costume the entire show and has the audience enraptured with every word that he says.
		Samuel Byck, played by Phillip Kaye, has an amazing character and holds it flawlessly for both of his two long monologues.
		Samuel Byck, a would be assassin of Nixon, was played exceptionally by Philip Kaye.
	www.cappies.com /occ/reviews/SH-Assassins-06.htm (8924 words)

	The Free Information Society - Samuel Byck Biography
		Samuel Byck was born on January 30, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		In a fit of rage, he shot both pilots and ordered a random passenger to fly the plane at gunpoint.
		It was not difficult for the police to determine his motives since Byck had mailed a tape recording of his plan to a news columnist, Jack Anderson, prior to the attempted hijacking.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=602 (441 words)

	Ghost in the Machine: Death of a Salesman. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Then again, Samuel Byck wasn't like most people either...in fact, that may be the biggest problem with this otherwise haunting film.
		Played for laughs in the Sondheim Assassins, Byck here is portrayed as a beaten-down American Everyman of the Willy Loman/Travis Bickle school, albeit one with a Pulp Fiction-like problem with authority and a frozen run of luck like you read about.
		For example, there's no mention of Byck's protesting outside the White House in a Santa suit here, and the whole tapes-to-Leonard-Bernstein angle is played as straight as it possibly can be.
	www.ghostinthemachine.net /002348.html (262 words)

	Astrogirl's Blog
		From September 1, 2000: Hollywood buzz is that he next portrays yet another cuckoo in Niels Mueller’s "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," based on the real-life Samuel Byck, who wanted to crash a plane into the White House.
		But I can corroborate the Samuel Byck story with the government's own documents in this White House Security Review from 1995: Samuel Byck (February 1974).
		Samuel Byck, a failed businessman with a history of mental illness, was investigated by the Secret Service in 1972 on the basis of reports that he had threatened President Nixon.
	astrogirl.com /blog/archives/000073.html (300 words)

	Amazing Journey
		After all, Samuel Byk one of the musical's title characters planned to crash a hijacked plane into Richard Nixon's White House long before similar plots aimed at ordinary citizens permeated the "chatter" overheard from Osama Bin Laden's fanatical followers.
		Sondheim's nightmarish exploration of men and women for whom assassination was a means for grabbing hold of the American Dream met with so-so critical response -- a response unmitigated by the clever lyrics and accessible Americana flavored score.
		SAMUEL BYCK (1930-74) was an unemployed, divorced salesman who picketed the White House in a Santa Claus suit and sent tapes to celebrities outlining his plan to hijack a plane and crash it into the Richard Nixon's White House.
	www.amazing-journey.com /assassins_review_curtainup404.htm (1431 words)

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