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Gunman Carefully Planned Attack on Discovery Channel

By David LohrSep 2nd 2010 – 12:41PM
Chip Py, AP

Chip Py, AP

(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?

By Katie DrummondSep 2nd 2010 – 9:45AM

(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

By Carl FranzenSep 2nd 2010 – 9:40AM

(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

By David KnowlesSep 1st 2010 – 7:31PM

(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...

Discovery Channel Gunman Shot Dead by Police

By Carl FranzenSep 1st 2010 – 6:52PM

(Sept. 1) -- Discovery Channel hostage-taking suspect James J. Lee has been shot dead, according to multiple reports. Montgomery County Police confirmed today at a press conference that a man entered Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., heavily armed and may have fired a round from a handgun and detonated...

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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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