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Discovery Channel Hostages Tell Oprah of Their Ordeal

CHICAGO (Sept. 16) - Two employees of Discovery Communications described to Oprah Winfrey for her show on Thursday how they were taken hostage after walking into the company's headquarters near Washington and finding a gunman who had them lie on the marble floor. George Burns, Harpo Productions Inc. / AP Oprah Winfrey...

Gunman Carefully Planned Attack on Discovery Channel

(Sept. 2) -- The attacker who held three employees hostage at the Discovery Communications headquarters before being shot to death by police told an NBC producer during the siege that he had spent about a month planning the attack. "I did a lot of research. I had to experiment," James J. Lee told the producer, according...

'My Ishmael': The Book That Inspired the Alleged Discovery Channel Gunman?

(Sept. 2) -- "My Ishmael," a 1997 novel by American author and environmentalist Daniel Quinn, gets top billing in the manifesto of Discovery TV gunman James Jae Lee, which is being widely circulated online after Lee held the company's Washington headquarters hostage on Wednesday. "The Discovery Channel and it's [sic]...

Discovery Channel Gunman Took Call From NBC News During Hostage Situation

(Sept. 2) -- Apparently he was not too busy to pick up the phone. In the midst of Wednesday's tense Discovery Channel hostage situation -- during which an armed suspect identified as James J. Lee held three men at the network's Silver Spring, Md., headquarters for several hours before police fatally shot him around 5...

Discovery Channel Gunman's YouTube Clip Surfaces

(Sept. 1) -- Was it an anthem or an omen? As details about the life of James J. Lee, the man who was killed by police Wednesday after allegedly taking hostages at a building owned by the Discovery Channel, have continued to surface, a YouTube video that the environmental activist posted in 2008 was uncovered. Set to...

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The Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis occurred on September 1, 2010 at the headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, when 43-year-old James Lee, armed with two starter pistols and an explosive device, took three people hostage in the building's lobby.

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