In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe

In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe - October 20 - October 22, 2016

J.W. Mitchell High School

Dossier

General Idi Amin

In 1971, General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government of Milton Obote and declared himself president of Uganda, launching a ruthless eight-year regime in which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred. His expulsion of all Indian and Pakistani citizens in 1972—along with increasing military expenditures—brought about the country’s economic decline, the impact of which lasted decades.
D.B. Cooper

A media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located.
Josef Mengele

was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Mengele was a notorious member of the team of doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life.
Jimmy Hoffa

An American labor union leader and author who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union from 1958 until 1971. He vanished in late July 1975 at age 62. Hoffa became involved with organized crime from the early years of his Teamsters work, and this connection continued until his disappearance in 1975.
. Lefkowitz

A ghostwriter for the Montage Agency, a publishing house headquartered in New York City. His whereabouts are currently unknown.