Hi all, long term lurker and first time posting.
This thread caught my eye and sparked my intrest enough to go digging for more information.
I am always open to everything on ATS untill proof can be shown either way, but I think I have the final answer to this mystery after a few weeks
digging about.
There are two possible answers, one is that William Tager is from the future and attacked Dan Rather trying to get the frequency for the mind messages
or that William Tager has a mental illness.
As much as I would love the first to be true, the following evidence has got me believing the later is correct.
It is obvious to almost everyone that the story of William Tager closely follows the plot to the excellent movie "12 monkeys".
Now one would assume that 12 monkeys was based on William Tagers story, it was however based on an older film called La Jetée. Now my theory uses
this timeline to discribe the tager story.
nov 9th 1947 - William Tager is born on this earth
1962 - the film La Jetée is made (
www.imdb.com...)
oct 4th 1986 - William Tager attacks Dan Rather
aug 31st 1994 - William Tager shots and kills Campbell Theron Montgomery
1994 - REM release the song "Whats the frequency Kenneth?"
1995 - 12 monkeys is made (
www.imdb.com...)
I think it is highly likely that William tager had seen the film La Jetée and after suffering from a mental illness took on the story of the film, as
it clearly linked and the film did come before Tagers attack on Rather.
Just my two cents and hopefully getting this thread back on topic