The Assassination of Alex Odeh

Alex Odeh was well known in the Arab community in Santa Ana, California. He was often on TV or writing into newspapers, talking about discrimination against Arabs in the US or about his beloved homeland, Palestine. But on the morning of October 11th 1985, he stepped through his office door and a pipe bomb exploded. He died hours later. From the beginning, the FBI had strong leads and a list of suspects. But decades later, Alex Odeh’s murder is still unsolved. This episode was produced by Alex Atack and edited by Dana Ballout. Fact checking by Deena Sabry and sound design by Mohamad Khreizat. Our team also includes Zeina Dowidar, Nadeen Shaker and Finbar Anderson. You can read David Sheen’s story for The Intercept here . Find a transcript for this episode at our website, kerningcultures.com/kerningcultures . Support this podcast on patreon.com/kerningcultures for as little as $2 a month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Assassination of Alex Odeh is an episode from Kerning Cultures by Kerning Cultures Network.

This episode is 41:34 long.

This episode was published on Dec 8, 2022.

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