Art Bell opens the phone lines as the FBI standoff with the Montana Freemen dominates national headlines. The broadcast begins with a live report from "Madman Bob" Crane, calling from a Sanjean radio factory in Taipei, Taiwan, where he describes the post-election mood following President Lee's landslide victory amid Chinese military threats. Art Bell dedicates much of the program to the escalating Freemen crisis near Jordan, Montana, after NBC devoted the first ten minutes of its evening… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-27-1996-open-lines