The BulleTin • Wednesday, March 31, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Wednesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2021.
There are 275 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute
Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of a TWA plane in Ba-
zaar, Kansas.
In 1814, Paris was occupied by a coalition of Russian,
Prussian and Austrian forces; the surrender of the French
capital forced the abdication of Emperor Napoleon.
In 1917, the United States took formal possession of the
Virgin Islands from Denmark.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emer-
gency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
In 1943, “Oklahoma!,” the first musical play by Richard
Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.
In 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast ad-
dress on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned
listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not
accept, the nomination of my party for another term as
your President.”
In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen
Ann Quinlan, a young woman in a persistent vegetative
state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quin-
lan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)
In 1995, Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pe-
rez, 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the
founder of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar.
In 2005, Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas
Park, Florida, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed
in a wrenching right-to-die court fight.
In 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Israel’s new
prime minister after the Knesset approved his government.
In 2019, rapper Nipsey Hussle was fatally shot outside the
clothing store he had founded to help rebuild his trou-
bled South Los Angeles neighborhood; he was 33.
Ten years ago: Moammar Gadhafi struck a defiant
stance after two high-profile defections from his regime,
saying the Western leaders who had decimated his mili-
tary with airstrikes should resign immediately — not him.
Five years ago: A 34-year-old Illinois man fatally shot a
Virginia state trooper at a busy bus terminal in Richmond
before being killed by other troopers.
One year ago: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan
officially stepped down from duties as members of the
royal family.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor William Daniels is 94. Actor
Richard Chamberlain is 87. Musician Herb Alpert is 86.
Actor Christopher Walken is 78. Comedian Gabe Kaplan
is 77. Rock musician Mick Ralphs (Bad Company; Mott the
Hoople) is 77. Former Vice President Al Gore is 74. Author
David Eisenhower is 73. Actor Rhea Perlman is 73. Actor
Robbie Coltrane is 71. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/
DC) is 66. Actor Marc McClure is 64. Actor Ewan McGregor
is 50. Actor Erica Tazel is 46. Actor Judi Shekoni is 43. Rap-
per Tony Yayo is 43. Actor Kate Micucci is 41. Actor Melissa
Ordway is 38. Jazz musician Christian Scott is 38. Actor
Jessica Szohr is 36.
— The Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
FBI enlisted Proud Boys leader to
inform on antifa, says defense attorney
Associated Press
FBI agents recruited a Proud
Boys leader to provide them with
information about antifa networks
months before he was charged
with storming the U.S. Capitol
with other members of the far-
right extremist group, a defense
attorney says.
Proud Boys “thought leader”
and organizer Joseph Biggs agreed
to provide the FBI with informa-
tion about anti-fascist activists
in Florida and elsewhere after an
agent contacted him in late July
2020 and arranged to meet at a
restaurant, Biggs’ lawyer, J. Dan-
iel Hull, wrote Monday in a court
filing.
The two agents who met with
Biggs wanted to know what he was
“seeing on the ground,” Hull said.
Over the next few weeks, Biggs an-
swered an agent’s follow-up ques-
tions in a series of phone calls.
“They spoke often,” added Hull,
who is petitioning a judge to keep
Biggs out of jail pending trial.
Biggs also received “caution-
ary” phone calls from FBI agents
and routinely spoke with local and
federal law enforcement officials
in Portland about rallies he was
planning there in 2019 and 2020,
according to Hull.
FBI Director Christopher Wray
has said there was no evidence
that antifa was to blame for the
Jan. 6 violence. But that hasn’t
stopped some on the right from
making the claims.
The FBI would not comment
on why agents were meeting with
Biggs or why the bureau was try-
ing to solicit information about
antifa through the Proud Boys.
Noah Berger; Carolyn Kaster/AP file
ABOVE: Joseph Biggs, center right in
green hat, marches with members of
the Proud Boys and other right-wing
demonstrators during a 2019 rally he
organized in Portland
LEFT: Biggs walks toward the U.S.
Capitol in Washington Jan. 6 in
support of then-President Donald
Trump. Biggs’ lawyer, J. Daniel Hull,
wrote Monday in a court filing that
Biggs agreed to provide the FBI with
information about antifa networks in
Florida and elsewhere after an agent
contacted him in late July 2020.
Biggs, 37, of Ormond Beach,
Florida, wouldn’t be the first
Proud Boys informant. The
group’s chairman and top leader,
Enrique Tarrio, previously worked
undercover and cooperated with
investigators after he was accused
of fraud in 2012, court documents
show.
Eric Ward, executive director of
the Portland-based Western States
Center, which tracks hate groups,
said it was “deeply concerning”
to learn that Biggs had worked
with the FBI, particularly because
law enforcement has “frequently
maintained inappropriately close
relations with far-right groups.”
The Proud Boys actively pro-
moted violence and street brawl-
ing at the rallies in Portland, he
said, and Biggs “called for violence
in the streets.”
“Law enforcement has no credi-
ble reason for working with some-
one like Biggs,” Ward wrote in an
email.
Biggs and three other Proud
Boys leaders were indicted
March 10 on charges that they
planned and carried out a coor-
dinated attack on the Capitol on
Jan. 6 to stop Congress from cer-
tifying President Joe Biden’s elec-
toral victory. At least 20 others
in the group have been charged
in federal court with offenses
related to the riots out of about
350 people charged so far in the
deadly riot.
The disclosures are reminiscent
of an earlier collaboration between
law enforcement and a right-wing
group in Portland during repeated
clashes between left- and right-
wing demonstrators. The far-right
group Patriot Prayer staged multi-
ple rallies and marches in the lib-
eral city, drawing out hundreds of
residents to oppose its message in
standoffs that sometimes ended in
violence.
In 2019, Portland opened an
internal investigation after more
than 11,500 text messages be-
tween Patriot Prayer founder Joey
Gibson and Police Lt. Jeff Niiya
became public. Niiya was cleared
in the investigation, but the epi-
sode led to training and changes
in the way liaison officers com-
municate with groups before and
during planned protests.
Please Join Us In
Celebration of the
Easter Season
T RINITY E PISCOPAL
C HURCH
Holy Week &
Easter Services
All services are on-line only.
Find links on our website:
www.trinitybend.org
The Rev. Jedediah D. Holdorph,
Rector
541.382.5542 | trinitybend.org
Love God, love your neighbor, love yourself.
St. Thomas
Roman Catholic Church
Redmond · 1720 NW 19 th Street
541-923-3390
Holy Thursday April 1
7 pm Evening Mass of the
Lord’s Supper
Good Friday April 2
12:10 pm Stations of the Cross
7 pm Service
Holy Saturday April 3
8 pm Easter Vigil Service
Easter Sunday April 4
Masses: 8 and 10 in English
Noon Misa en Español
St. Edward the Martyr
Roman Catholic Church
123 Trinity Way • Sisters
541-549-9391
www.stedwardsisters.org
Holy Thursday, April 1
Mass of the Lord’s Supper • 7:00 PM
Good Friday, April 2
Stations of the Cross • 6:30 PM
Celebration of the
Lord’s Passion • 7:00 PM
Easter Vigil, April 3
Mass • 8:30 PM
Easter Sunday, April 4
Mass • 9:00 & 11:00 AM
Easter Schedule 2021
Holy Redeemer
Roman Catholic Parish
541-536-3571
Holy Thursday, April 1
6:00 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Holy Redeemer Church, La Pine
Good Friday, April 2
Stations of the Cross - 12 Noon
6:00 pm Veneration of the Cross
Holy Redeemer Church, La Pine
Easter Vigil, April 3
8:00 pm Vigil Mass
Holy Trinity Church, Sunriver
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11:00 pm Vigil Mass
Holy Redeemer Church, La Pine
Easter Sunday Masses,
April 4
8:00 am Holy Trinity, Sunriver
10:00 am Holy Redeemer, La Pine
12:30 pm Our Lady of the Snows,
Gilchrist
3:30 pm Holy Family,
Christmas Valley
2021 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
Palm Sunday – March 28
Normal Mass Schedule
Holy Thursday – April 1
7:00 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Bilingual),
27th Street Church
Good Friday – April 2
12:00-3:00 p.m. - Devotions at the Historic Church
2:00 p.m. - Stations of the Cross, 27th Street Church
7:00 p.m. - Passion of our Lord (Bilingual), 27th Street Church
Holy Saturday – April 3
8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil (Bilingual), 27th Street Church
Easter Sunday* – April 4
Masses at 27th Street Church - 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m.,
11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Mass at the Historic Church: 10:30 a.m.
*Reservations are required for ALL Easter Sunday Masses
Livestream: stfrancisbend.org (except Mass at Historic Church)
Main Church: 2450 NE 27th Street -
Historic Church: Corner of Franklin and Lava, Downtown
541-382-3631 | stfrancisbend.org