1422 WHO MURDERED NIKOLA TESLA? The Death Ray, the Missing Files & a Deadly Conspiracy

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So what happened to the 20 truants? The death rate is working and it's working today. John Lear, who was a CIA operative and son of Bill Lear, who was the Lear jet magnet, he confessed in 2021 that Tesla's technology that he saw from our government was 40 years ahead of time and there's no way they could have understood it. So who comes out with it now all of a sudden? With these classified projects? You know, the things that they took that weren't worth taking? Well, okay, now it's coming out, right? When Trump went in to see Iran in February, they had this new laser weapon that's attached to ships. And guess what it's doing? It's knocking down drones by the hundreds.

And here we go.

So you want to know what was in the 20 trunks? Well, apparently that was because here it is. But it took this long to figure out the missing piece that Tesla died and typically was graveless.

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Hey there, welcome to Strange Planet. He helped electrify the world. He dreamed of transmitting power without wires. And he claimed he could build a weapon capable of bringing down entire fleets of enemy aircraft. But when Nikola Tesla died alone in a New York hotel room in January 1943, the verdict was coronary thrombosis. An old man's heart had finally given out. Case closed.

Our guest says that's where the real story begins. Behind the door of room 3327 lies a mystery involving wartime spies, a breached safe and scientific papers the American government moved quickly to secure. What was Tesla working on in his final years? Who wanted it? And had the man who helped illuminate the world stumbled into something worth killing for?

Returning to Strange Planet is author and historical investigator Stephen B. Ubaney. His Who Murdered series challenges the accepted accounts of the deaths of Elvis Presley, Franklin Roosevelt and Princess Diana. Now in Who Murdered Tesla? He turns his attention to an extraordinary inventor whose final secrets may have been as explosive as his greatest discoveries.

Steve, welcome back to Strange Planet. How are you, buddy?

Stephen B. Ubaney (3:41)

I'm Richard Syrett, the Prince of Podcasts. It's nice to be back on your show. Spend some time.

Richard Syrett (3:48)

It has. It has. Before we investigate his death, who was Nikola Tesla and why do you believe history has never given him his proper due?

Stephen B. Ubaney (4:00)

Good question. I think to the victor go the spoils.

And of course, as you know, the people with the money always usually wouldn't.

And the people with the money, you know, being JP Morgan, being teamed up with Thomas Edison, you know, they won in the end. And I think that they went to great lengths to squash the competitor. And I think with so many of these history books, they're not factual. I think that they're, they're contrived. And I think that Nikola Tesla, the name Tesla went, nobody talked about him for decades until the power company came out. And then all of a sudden, there's this new vigor into Nikola Tesla to who he is and that. I think that like so many other people, he got, he got buried in time. And I think it's unfortunate because he deserves a lot of credit.

Richard Syrett (4:58)

Yeah, I think I, my sense also is that he was obviously a brilliant inventor, but not much of a businessman.