Daniel Victor Kane was a Newspaper Editor.
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Kane Danl V (Sandra) editor Union Sun & Journal h497 Walnut
* [Dan Kane was the editor of the Union-Sun & Journal in 1991-1995 when t he following letters were received by that newspaper preceeeding the Oklahoma City bombing.]
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U.S. Domestic Terrorism - Timothy James McVeigh
February 11, 1992: Future Oklahoma City Bomber Writes Letters to Newspaper Asking if Blood Needs to Be Shed to ‘Reform the Current System’
National Guardsman Timothy McVeigh (see January - March 1991 and after, N ovember 1991 - Summer 1992, and June 1992) writes a letter (some sources will call it an “editorial”) that is published in the Lockport, New York, Union-Sun & Journal.
His letter, published under the title “America Faces Problems,” reads in part: “What is it going to take to open up the eyes of our elected officials? AMERICA IS IN SERIOUS DECLINE. We have no proverbial tea to dump; should we instead sink a ship full of Japanese imports?… Is a civil war imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn’t come to that! But it might.” McVeigh continues: “Crime is out of control. Criminals have no fear of punishment. Prisons are overcrowded so they know they will not be imprisoned long.… Taxes are a joke. Regardless of what a political candidate ‘promises,’ they will increase. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement. They mess up, we suffer. Taxes are reaching cataclysmic levels, with no slowdown in sight. The ‘American Dream’ of the middle class has all but disappeared.… Politicians are further eroding the ‘American Dream’ by passing laws which are supposed to be a ‘quick fix,’ when all they are really designed for is to get the official reelected. These laws tend to ‘ dilute’ a problem for a while, until the problem comes roaring back in a worsened form. (Much like a strain of bacteria will alter itself to defeat a known medication.)”
McVeigh then writes: “Racism on the rise? You had better believe it… ! At a point when the world has seen communism falter as an imperfect system to manage people; democracy seems to be heading down the same road.… Maybe we have to combine ideologies to achieve the perfect utopian government.… Should only the rich be allowed to live long?”
Lockport is a small town north of Buffalo, and serves McVeigh’s home town of Pendleton.
McVeigh will have a second letter published in March 1992, that one mainly focusing on the joys of hunting and extolling the “clean, merciful shot” of the deer hunter. Both letters are signed “Tim” and have a preprinted address label pasted beneath the signature.
McVeigh will be accused of detonating a massive fertilizer bomb in Oklahoma City; the Union-Sun & Journal managing editor, Dan Kane, will inform the FBI of McVeigh’s letters after McVeigh is taken into custody (see April 21, 1995) on suspicion of perpetrating the Oklahoma City bombing (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995), and reprint them. Kane will speculate: “I think the letter was triggered by something that happened in the service. Here’s a man who just got through seeing a lot of blood” in the Persian Gulf war. He was dissatisfied in general with the way the government was operating, and politicians in particular.” Kane will add: “There was one paragraph in particular that made my heart stop a little bit. It was the one that said, ‘shed blood…’ After Oklahoma City, I certainly look at it as a sort of eerie and prophetic statement.” [Los Angeles Times, 4/27/1995; New York Times, 4/27/1995; PBS Frontline, 1/22 /1996; Serrano, 1998, pp. 53; CNN, 12/17/2007] McVeigh’s letter is in response to a previous letter he wrote to US Representative John LaFalce ( D-NY), the representative of his home district, which received no response. McVeigh’s letter primarily focused on his concerns about the illegality of private citizens possessing “noxious substances” such as CS gas for protection.
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March 9, 1995:
Future Oklahoma City Bomber’s Sister Writes Anti-Gun Control Letter to N ewspaper
Jennifer McVeigh, the younger sister of future Oklahoma City bomber Tim othy McVeigh (see September 13, 1994, October 20, 1994, Mid-December 19 94, and 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995), writes a letter to the editor of the Lockport, New York, Union-Sun & Journal. The newspaper serves the McVeigh family home in Pendleton, New York. In her letter, McVe igh lambasts communism, gun control, permissive sex, and “the LA riots, ” apparently referring to the April 1992 riots that erupted after a California jury refused to convict police officers who beat and kicked a black motorist, Rodney King. She also alludes to Randy Weaver, the Idaho white supremacist who was arrested after a siege in which his wife, son, and a Federal Marshal were killed (see August 31, 1992 and August 21-31, 1 992), and the Branch Davidian debacle (see April 19, 1993 and April 19, 1 993 and after
“We need not change our form of government,” she writes, “we need only return to practicing the form of government originally set forth by our founding fathers. If you don’t think the Constitution is being perverted , I suggest you open your eyes and take a good look around. (Research constitutional rights violated in Weaver, Waco. Also ‘Gun Control’).” She also warns that if direaction is not taken, the US will fall under t he rule of “a single authoritarian dictatorship.” She sends a copy of t he letter to her brother, who returns it with a “grade” of an “A.”
In the days after the bombing, Jennifer McVeigh will become part of the i nvestigation into her brother’s actions and beliefs. [New York Times, 4 /24/1995; Los Angeles Times, 4/27/1995; New York Times, 4/27/1995; Stickney, 1996, pp. 170-171, 209-211] Jennifer McVeigh quotes from a document called the “Communist Rules for Revolution” as “proof” of some of her arguments. She is unaware that the “Rules for Revolution” is a fraud ( see February 1946 and after), and will later say if she knew the document was a forgery, she would not have used it as a source. [Stickney, 19 96, pp. 213]. Her brother wrote two similar letters to the Union-Sun & J ournal in 1992 (see February 11, 1992).
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After 3:00 p.m. April 21, 1995 and after:
Upstate New York Reporter begins Investigating Life of Accused Oklahoma C ity Bomber
Brandon M. Stickney, a reporter for the Union Sun & Journal of Lockport , New York, receives a frantic phone call from his editor, Dan Kane, ordering him to go immediately to an address in Pendleton, New York, eight miles away. The man identified as a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995), Timothy McVeigh (see April 21, 1995), is from Pendleton, and his family still lives there. The address is of the McVeigh family home. Stickney, who will later write a book on McVeigh entitled All-American Monster, begins interviewing friends and family members over the following days and writing articles about McVeigh for his newspaper. Initially, some of the information Stickney garners is incorrect: one of his first articles reports that McVeigh w as said to have hung out with a “less than reputable crowd” during his high school days at nearby Starpoint High, a statement that is contradicted by friends such as Pam Widner, who accurately characterizes McVeigh as an honor student. Widner steers Stickney towards people who knew McVeigh well, and the picture that Stickney compiles of McVeigh is that of a bright, personable young man with a strong interest in computers and a shy, awkward demeanor towards women, whose broken, troubled family life may have presaged his later actions (see 1987-1988). Widner “proved how easily the mass media could misrepresent McVeigh,” Stickney will later write. [Stickney, 1996, pp. 11-16, 74-75]
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May 2, 1995: Newspaper Editor Testifies about Oklahoma City Bomber’s Le tters
Dan Kane, the managing editor of the Lockport, New York, Union-Sun & Jo urnal, testifies about two letters to the editor his paper printed that w ere written by Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh (see Febru ary 11, 1992). Kane testifies before a grand jury hearing evidence of McVeigh’s involvement in the bombing. A Union-Sun & Journal employee recently told a reporter: “We have a longstanding policy; we print every l etter.… We have a fair amount of that kind of mail, and it’s probably encouraged because we allow it” to be published. [Los Angeles Times, 4/2 7/1995]
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Name: Daniel V. Kane
Birth Date: 7 Jan 1936
Address: 51 Livingston Pl, Lockport, NY, 14094-2517 (1993)
United States Public Records, 1970-2009
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Name: Dan Kane
Also Known As: Daniel V. Kane
Residence Date: 20 Oct 2006 - 29 Oct 2007
Residence Place: Lockport, New York, United States
Birth Date: 07 Jan 1936
Phone Number: (716) 434-1481
Phone Number Recorded Date: 25 Mar 2008
Address: 235 Washburn St., Lockport, New York 14094
Address Date: 20 Oct 2006 - 29 Oct 2007
2nd Address: 511 2 Livingston Pl., Lockport, New York 14094
2nd Address Date: 01 Jan 2000
3rd Address: 87 Locust St., Lockport, New York 14094
3rd Address Date: 01 Oct 1999 - 29 Oct 2007
4th Address: 51112 Livingston Plrockportr, Lockport, New York 14094
4th Address Date: 01 Jan 1997 - 01 Oct 1997
5th Address: 51 Livingston Pl., Lockport, New York 14094
5th Address Date: 01 Oct 1993 - 25 Mar 2008
Possible Relatives:
Cindy A. Kane
Deborah Aja Kane
Erin A. Kane / Erin K. Ammerman / Erin Kane
Helen E. Kane
James L. Kane
James V. Kane
Jeanette Donato
Joseph J. Kane
Mary Kane
Patricia L. Kane
Sandra L. Kane *
Susan L. Kane
Record Number: 96597811
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WLVL News
Monday, January 18, 2010
FORMER UNION SUN EDITOR PASSES AWAY
The former managing editor of the Union Sun & Journal passed away in Ohio over the weekend. Dan Kane was 74. He ran the paper for 16 years from 1983 thru 1999. Details of his death were not released by the family. K ane was a native of Lockport. He attended DeSales High School and graduated from Niagara University. He held the same job at the
Tonawanda News before accepting the position in Lockport. Kane left the U nion Sun after it was sold to Community Newspapers. He was very active i n the community serving on the Board of Managers at Lockport Memorial Hospital. He started the annual fundraiser for the Sister Mary Loretto Soup Kitchen and also served on the city's Civil Service Commission for 1 7 years.
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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
January 18, 2010
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OBITUARY
Dan Kane
Dies at
Age 74
NEWSPAPER: Former managing editor of Union-Sun grew up in Lockport and knew the city.
BY BILL WOLCOTT
billwolcott@lockportjournal.com
Daniel V. Kane, who served as managing editor of the Union-Sun from 198 3 to 1999, died in Ohio this weekend. Details of his death have not bee n released by the family.
Kane, a Lockport native, attended DeSales High School and was a graduate of Niagarea University. Before taking the position at the Lockport paper, he was the managing editor of the Tonawanda News.
Tom Rotondo Jr. , who served two terms as mayor from 1980-1985 and 1990 -1994, said of Kane, "Despite our differences, he was a hard-nosed guy and good writer. I respected his ability to be a business person. He was on top of his job. He was very progressive, very intense, and very knowledgable."
Rotondo, who is living in Clearwater, Fla., said Kane did his best for t he City of Lockport. "He grew up in Lockport and knew a lot of the people." Rotondo said, "He was very adept at writing editorials."
Kane started the Sister Mary Loretto Soup Kitchen fundraiser while he w as managing editor, and that charity's annual drive is still featured in the Union-Sun and conducted at the Salvation Army.
"Dan had a local flavor," said Dan Caswell, former US&J advertising director and publisher. "There was not much happening in Lockport that didn't wind up getting in print. Dan had an ear to the local news, and there was a cadre of local people who kept him fed. He had a lot of Lockport connections. He was very controversial."
Kane left the Union-Sun in 1999 after the paper was purchased by Community Newspapers Holding Inc.
He was active in community affairs and was on the Board of Managers of L ockport Memorial Hospital. He was on the Lockport Civil Service Commiss ion for 17 years.
When he took the Union-Sun job, Kane wrote:
"The people know we don't just report the news. They know we find it, shape it, package it and decide just what is put in and left out, where it starts and where it stops. But that is our job and our responsibility ."
Kane also worked at the Niagara Gazette and was the executive editor of t he Metro Market Pennysaver and Community News.
In North Tonawanda, he was named "Outstanding Citizen of the Year" by t he Royal Coachmen in 1976. He was the past director of the Kenmore Kiwa nis Club.
He had six children: Debra, Susan Kane-Betts, James, Joseph, Patricia a nd Cindy.
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U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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Name: Daniel Victor Kane
Last Residence: 14094 Lockport, Niagara, New York, Ohio
Born: 7 Jan 1936
Died: 15 Jan 2010
Sate (Year) SSN issued New Jersey (1952-1953.)