On Friday, January 21, 2000, NBC's entertainment/gossip show EXTRA aired a segment on the untimely and suspicious death of Jim Keith. Its title - "Poison Pen" - was used by the narrator to say that Keith's poison pen may have cost his life. He went where other journalists fear to tread, EXTRA said, writing about the LSD/CIA connection, government coverups and lack of morality, political assassinations and sinister spy networks. Was he murdered because he knew too much? This question framed the segment's five minutes. Keith went in the hospital for knee surgery last year at the age of 49 and died of a "blood clot" on the operating table. The only person interviewed by EXTRA willing to go on camera was Kenn Thomas, Keith's friend and co-author. The camera scanned a copy of "The Octapus," written by Keith and Thomas. The narrator said other people interviewed were afraid to go public because they believed Keith's "blood clot" was manmade, and thus they feared for their own lives should they publicly say this. EXTRA reported that Keith told an associate a week before he died that he feared he was a marked man. The narrator then listed the controversial cases Keith was investigating at the time he entered the hospital: Was Tim McVeigh CIA mind-controlled? Was John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s death by plane crash possibly a political assassination? But the most dangerous activity of all, EXTRA said, was Keith's research into the gruesome death by car crash of Princess Diana. Keith claimed she was pregnant at the time of the accident and said he knew the name of the physician who could confirm this. Implied in this broadcast was Keith's belief that Diana's death was no accident. EXTRA ended by relating that many of Keith's associates believe a political assassin infiltrated the hospital and induced the blood clot that took Keith's life. *************** The " E" cable television show "Crimes and Scandals" broadcast last night a segment about the long-running controversy over the mysterious death of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. She was the only person to interview Jack Ruby in an unbugged environment about the assassinations of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Her manuscript on the JFK assassination, which she called "the story of the century," disappeared after her body was found in her bedroom. The bedroom scene suggested to investigators that it was staged to look like an overdose of sleeping pills. Check out the following re: the Kilgallen mystery. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/kilgallen.txt Arlene Tyner __________________________________ Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info: www.topica.com/lists/mc. ______________________________________________ Faster, stronger and able to send millions of emails in one click: the new Topica site! http://www.topica.com/t/14
