all of them are both they are demonstrating this downside to our central trusting nature. they are showing how bad we are at decoding face to face and they are also they are expressing a correct notion that if i trust you and it works out, things are going to be so much easier. you re right, chamberlain desperately just wants this thing to go away. he s not even interested in he had never flown. before he got on a plane to see hitler, he had never flown in a plane. came b chamberlain is this very parochial, small-town english figure. he s not a man of the world. his interest is in domestic politics. this whole thing out there is confusing to him and overwhelming, and he just wants to sit down with hitler and say,
poland or do anything else. was chamberlain right to be trusting? he was wrong to base his judgment of adolph hitler on a face-to-face encounter. the paradox of chamberlain and hitler is the people who got hitler right were the ones that never met him. the people that got him wrong were the ones that did spend time with him. i m very interested in how we could be led astray by face-to-face encounters. that s a perfect story for my purposes, that chamberlain should have stayed home and read mein kampf. there was evidence about hitler s intentions and the problem with going to visit him is not that you can t gather information from a face to face encounter, but when you meet a mesmerizing and charismatic man, as hitler, face to face, you run the risk of over evaluing whatever information you get
he looked back and saw a hole in his rear window. then he saw his friend, 20-year-old jeffrey cain, slumped in his seat and covered in blood. the bullet entered the back of his head, exited out the front of his head. death was instantaneous. cain s parents were called to the scene. i couldn t understand why jeff had to be the one who was shot. maybe i m just like, there s other people, why not shoot the bad people? jeff was a computer programmer with no known enemies. the driver, rob chamberlain, said he had no idea why they were targeted. our first impression was maybe it was a drug deal gone bad, and somebody was following this young man and something had happened. we really pressed the issue, were you targeted for some apparent reason? were you involved in something? do you have any enemies? have you been involved in anything that would have led somebody to target you? not far from the site of the
memories may fade and witnesses dissemble, but circumstances never lie. and the circumstances of this case are forensic circumstances and they did not lie. a drive-by shooting on an alaskan highway. and a bomb sent through the mail. two apparently random acts of senseless violence, until forensic science discovered an important link. on an october night in 1990, rob chamberlain and his friend were driving along glenn highway in anchorage, alaska, headed to a local restaurant. as he approached the exit ramp, chamberlain heard a loud crack. he looked back and saw a hole in his rear window.
then he saw his friend, 20-year-old jeffrey cain, slumped in his seat and covered in blood. the bullet entered the back of his head, exited out the front of his head. death was instantaneous. cain s parents were called to the scene. i couldn t understand why jeff had to be the one who was shot. maybe i m just like there is other people, why not shoot the bad people? jeff was a computer programmer with no known enemies. the driver, rob chamberlain, said he had no idea why they were targeted. our first impression was maybe it was a drug deal gone bad and somebody was following this young man and something had happened. we really pressed the issue, were you targeted for some apparent reason? were you involved in something? do you have any enemies? have you been involved in anything that would have led somebody to target you? not far from the site of the shooting, police found a shell casing on the side of the