Hollister resident John Patrick Bedell, 36, was shot and killed last night after pulling a handgun at the Pentagon entrance and firing at guards. Bedell held a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (we're going to guess he was at Kresge), and also attended San Jose State University to study biochemistry.

Bedell, it seems, had a strong "distrust of the federal government.," and suspected that "a criminal enterprise run out of the government could have staged the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks" -- a bizarre, though possibly true, line of thought typically held among straight white men.

The DimeWars Research staff obtained some of John Patrick Bedell's rants on Wikipedia.

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