Episodes
Nearly three years after Sean’s death an arrest has been made. Senior producer Ryan Haas  is joined by reporter Jonathan Levinson to discuss why the Portland police finally charged someone with murder.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 10/31/22
We wanted to share a show which we think you’ll want to listen to. Power: Don King. In a sport famed for money and excess, what does it take to get to the top...and stay there? Rising from a life of hardship and crime, Don King became the most successful boxing promoter the sport has ever seen—and the first Black man to do so. He is his own American Dream. His flamboyant appearance and commanding personality made him a star in and out of the ring, as did his promotion of greats like...
Published 03/23/22
Hi The Fault Line Listeners, here's a podcast we think you'll love. It's called The Secret History of Flight 149, from Crowd Network. When Flight 149 departed London Heathrow on 1 August 1990, the passengers and crew had no idea of the trauma that lay ahead. A routine stopover in Kuwait turned into a hostage crisis. Hear from the hostages themselves as they recall the horrifying realisation that their holiday had taken a very dark turn. Journalist Stephen Davis delves into what's been...
Published 03/07/22
We sat down with Rose City Antifa, a different kind of anti-facist group in Portland than we've previously discussed.  We get a window into what it's like to be a member of the only antifa group with a website in Portland.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/15/21
After the largest year of protests in recent memory, an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and sometimes deadly fights between political factions at the fringes of society: What has changed? And what are the consequences of government inaction?  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/08/21
Who was Hugh Hefner? Centerfold models, Playboy Bunnies, and other women from the Playboy founder’s inner circle, like TV personality and author Holly Madison, tell journalist Amy Rose Spiegel their side of his story. We hear how Playboy changed their lives, for better and for worse. Beyond the bunny tails are darker questions: What actually went on at the notorious Playboy Mansion? How can we square Hefner's progressive legacy with his abuse of vulnerable people? What can the Playboy saga...
Published 11/01/21
Laura Kealiher doesn’t believe the state has made a good faith effort to solve Sean’s case.  We attempt to get answers from Portland’s progressive district attorney. And, we uncover a new witness who raises questions about why this case is still unsolved.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/01/21
In some ways, Sean Kealiher’s homicide has remained a mystery because people closest to him have long declined to talk publicly about what happened the night he was killed.  For the first time ever, two antifascists who were with Sean the night of his homicide tell their side of the story.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 10/25/21
The uprising of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 swept the country.  As many as 1 in 10 adult Americans attended a protest. They got a taste of the world Sean Kealiher had been inhabiting for years before he was killed.  And in Portland, the culture war over race and politics would turn deadly.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 10/18/21
Steve Kough lived many lives. He was an NFL journeyman, a male model, and one of the most well-connected smugglers in 1980’s Miami, the “Drug Capital of the World." Kough collected many souvenirs from his adventures, but his most treasured bounty – a beautiful ceramic, crafted by Pablo Picasso and gifted to Ernest Hemingway at the author’s Cuban home, the Finca Vigia... or so the story goes.  Lost during the Cuban Revolution, the artwork resurfaced when Kough took it as a payment for drug...
Published 10/18/21
Ani Raven is a longtime activist and community radio host in Portland.  She was also one of Sean Kealiher’s mentors when he joined the Occupy movement at 15 years old.  In 2011, Raven met Sean at the camps that Occupy protesters had set up in Portland city parks.  In this episode, released on the two-year anniversary of Sean’s killing, Raven discusses how she watched Sean grow as a young activist, and start to lead people in the street.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public...
Published 10/12/21
After Sean Kealiher was killed, his mother Laura was subjected to brutal harassment from conservative trolls at her home and online—and it was Sean’s antifascist friends who provided her security, not the Portland police.  Meanwhile, we ask the former head of police detectives in Portland why there has been no progress in solving Sean’s homicide.  This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 10/11/21
When Sean Kealiher and his friend Micah Fletcher began confronting racists in their community, neither one could have predicted the consequences. In 2017, Micah would nearly lose his life when he was attacked on a Portland train as he defended two teenage girls from a racist tirade. Now, he reflects on how he was lauded as a hero while his friend Sean was treated as a thug for doing the same things. This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting production.
Published 10/04/21
Oregon’s long history of racism was what brought Sean Kealiher and so many protesters like him to the streets. The fights between anti-racist skinheads and neo-Nazis in the 80s and 90s set the stage for Portland to found America’s first official Antifa chapter. And Laura Kealiher says the way police are intertwined with those past fights makes her skeptical they will ever solve Sean’s homicide. This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcast production.
Published 09/27/21
Portland, Oregon, had been a hotbed for political clashes between the far left and the far right for years before 2020. Sean Kealiher was among the people who regularly took to the streets to fight — sometimes physically — with people who opposed Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements. We look at who was in the streets leading up to one of the most significant years in American protests. This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcast production.
Published 09/20/21
Sean Kealiher was killed on Oct 12, 2019, near a popular bar for Portland’s antifascist scene. An SUV ran him over and crashed outside the Democratic Party of Oregon office. Gunshots rang out through the night, and whoever was driving fled the scene, leaving the vehicle behind. Now, almost two years later, his mother Laura Kealiher is demanding police answer why his killing remains unsolved. This is a Somethin' Else and Oregon Public Broadcast production.
Published 09/13/21
From the moment Laura Kealiher found out her son had been killed she doubted that the police would solve his murder.  There was plenty of evidence: the SUV that struck Sean was left at the scene. There were gunshots. There were witnesses and surveillance video.  So why wasn’t it solved? Laura believes it’s because her son was a well-known antifascist.  Sean was radical before all of American politics were extreme.  On this season of The Fault Line, we try to solve his murder, find out...
Published 08/30/21
Everyone’s heard of Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged partner in crime). But there’s a shadowy figure who hangs above her who you likely don’t know: her father, media tycoon Robert Maxwell. His rise from nothing to fall… from the deck of his super yacht under mysterious circumstances is straight out of a crime novel. His favorite daughter Ghislaine’s theory: her father was murdered. From Somethin’ Else, makers of ‘The Immaculate Deception’ and ‘The Faultline: Bush, Blair &...
Published 01/12/21
Published 11/24/20
After the arguments over intelligence, the debates between politicians and the meetings behind closed doors in this final episode we ask what happened next? What happened to Iraq and what happened to Iraqis after Bush and Blair sent their troops into the country in March 2003? A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/24/20