Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist Kennedy Visual Search Suspended AP Photo Full Coverage Search for JFK Jr. Plane By ERICA NOONAN Associated Press Writer AQUINNAH, Mass. (AP) - Hope dimmed late Saturday for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law, as darkness descended on the waters off Martha's Vineyard where their plane went down. Debris washed ashore, but there was no sign of life. ``I can tell you miraculous stories of people surviving,'' said Rear Admiral Richard M. Larrabee, first Coast Guard district commander, at a late afternoon news conference. ``I can tell you in previous cases like this, we've searched as many as three or four days. We're not ready to give up on this yet.'' But the daylong search by planes, helicopters and boats yielded little but some fragments of Kennedy's red-and-white plane, a piece of baggage labeled with the business card of Lauren Bessette, sister of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and a prescription bottle belonging to Bessette Kennedy. State police said the visual aerial search was suspended for the night, but an Air National Guard helicopter with infrared sensors would continue searching in the dark. ``It's basically a heat seeker,'' said Massachusetts State Police Capt. Robert Bird. ``It allows articles to be located based on differences in temperatures between water and ... a body or a person in the water.'' A Coast Guard official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said searchers on the water hoped they might see an emergency beacon or search light in the darkness, or rescue ships might turn off their engines and hear faint distress calls. Authorities said National Transportation Safety Board investigators already were at work on the Vineyard. The television networks suspended their scheduled programming to focus on the search, and the nation was glued to its sets, echoing the grim fascination at his father's assassination, nearly 36 years ago. Fears mounted that the Kennedys had suffered another ghastly tragedy. The couple had been en route to Cape Cod and a Kennedy cousin's wedding at Hyannis Port - now postponed and replaced with prayers for the missing. The 38-year-old Kennedy - universally known as ``John John'' since he was a toddler in the White House, and once labeled the ``sexiest man alive'' by People magazine - had obtained his pilot's license just last year. At Philbin Beach in Aquinnah - the portion of the Vineyard popularly known as Gay Head - luggage, a wheel, a headrest and part of a plane support known as a strut had washed up, said Coast Guard Lt. Craig Jaramillo. Lt. Col. Richard Stanley of the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary said other searchers had discovered pieces of landing gear, part of a rubber pedal apparatus and pieces of seat. Erin McCarthy, 31, of Boston, said she saw the black bag with Lauren Bessette's name on it in the water. A friend, Damon Seligson, waded in to retrieve it. ``It was kind of like, 'Oh God.' It seemed like it would be pretty bad news. Everyone was shaking,'' said McCarthy. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration sent a submersible named ``Rude'' (pronounced Rudy) to aid in the search, and it began its work on Saturday evening, using sonar to look for wreckage. The FAA reported the last contact with the plane during its final approach to the airport on the island off Cape Cod at 9:39 p.m., the Coast Guard said. ``The aircraft was due to arrive at Martha's Vineyard around 10 p.m. and was later expected to fly to Hyannis Port,'' the statement said. No flight plan had been filed, and none was required. Family members were assembled in Hyannis Port for the wedding of the late Robert F. Kennedy's daughter Rory. A family friend reported the plane missing to the Coast Guard about 2:15 a.m. The Coast Guard immediately began searching for the plane and contacted FAA officials, who in turn alerted rescue personnel at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, which is in charge of searching for overdue planes. At 3:30 a.m., the Air Force got a ``positive hit'' on an emergency signal emanating from northern Long Island, said Larrabee, the Coast Guard district commander. Rescuers searched that area for three hours, but found nothing, he said. At 7:30 a.m., the Coast Guard launched an aggressive search of the area around Martha's Vineyard and Montauk, N.Y. Later in the morning, the search area was narrowed significantly when officials reviewed radar records and found the plane's last known location was about 17 miles southwest of the Vineyard. In Washington, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement confirming that the plane left the Essex County Airport in Fairfield, N.J., about 8:30 p.m. Friday. Eddie Martin, of Hyannis Port, who described himself as a friend of the family, said the plane was stopping in Martha's Vineyard to drop off Lauren Bessette, before Kennedy and his wife continued on to Hyannis Port. It wasn't clear whether the couple planned to start the next leg immediately. The Coast Guard identified the plane as a single-engine, six-seat Piper Saratoga II HP, acquired recently by Kennedy. The plane is known in the aviation industry as a high-performance airplane with a good safety record. Nonetheless, flying it at night, in a hazy sky and under visual flight rules - the reported conditions Friday night - is challenging. Kennedy was not licensed to fly on instruments. ``What the pilot wants to have is a relatively distinct horizon to see the ground and be able to determine the aircraft's altitude by looking outside,'' said Warren Morningstar, a pilot and spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. ``At night your visual horizon is not going to be as distinct, and if it's hazy conditions, your vision is going to be obscured,'' Morningstar added. The plane's disappearance came one day before the 30th anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident, in which Sen. Edward Kennedy's car went off a bridge, killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne on a tiny island adjacent to Martha's Vineyard. It was also three years to the day after the crash on July 17, 1996, of Paris-bound flight TWA800, off the south shore of Long Island, and 35 years after Ted Kennedy narrowly escaped death in a private plane crash in which he suffered a broken back. Last Labor Day, Kennedy flew another plane - its registration number, N529JK, paid tribute to his father's May 29 birthday - up to Hyannisport for a family get-together. In an interview in May 1998, Kennedy told USA Today that he had gotten his license a few weeks before, but none of his relatives could be persuaded to fly with him. ``The only person I've been able to get to go up with me, who looks forward to it as much as I do, is my wife,'' he said. ``The second it was legal she came up with me.'' Now, ``whenever we want to get away, we can just get in a plane and fly off,'' he said Caroline Kennedy was on a rafting trip in the West, according to CNN. She is the only other survivor of the young family that transfixed the world, four decades ago. Kennedy's disappearance sent a shudder across the country. The Chicago Sun-Times printed an extra edition of its Sunday paper with the news; in New York, at Yankee Stadium, fans were asked to rise for a moment of silent prayer. JFK Jr. has lived entirely in the public eye, from his birth shortly after his father's election as the nation's 35th president, to his poignant salute on the day of his namesake's funeral, to his romances with Daryl Hannah and Madonna. Once an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, he more recently attracted attention with his political magazine, George, in which he once posed nude. One of his few private moments was his Sept. 21, 1996 wedding to Bessette Kennedy, a former publicist for fashion designer Calvin Klein. They were wed in an ultra-private ceremony on a small island off the coast of Georgia, free of hovering helicopters and paparazzi. Bessette Kennedy, 33, a doctor's daughter from Greenwich, Conn., studied at Boston University before taking the public relations job in New York, where she met Kennedy. Lauren Bessette, who is 18 months older than Carolyn, has a twin sister, Lisa Ann. A 1982 graduate of Greenwich High School, Lauren worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York City. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================== ==============RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY============== ===================================================== Dateline: 07.18.99 A REPORT ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JFK, JR BY A FORMER NAVY PILOT Thanks to Joe Jordan from the POW Strikeforce for this excellant information. Subj: Latest JFK assassination information Date: 7/18/1999 8:01:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe L. Jordan) Sherman Skolnick will be putting out a report on the shootdown later this morning. (RMNews will forward it as soon as it comes in.) Here is what we know: The plane is similar to the old "Cherokee Six" which is a very reliable aircraft. It's counterpart in a car would be a Chevy suburban. It is a pussycat to fly and you would virtually have to force it into a stall. It was equipped with a radar transponder that would transmit a 4-digit ID code and the altitude to any enquiring approach control radar. That's how they identified the plane and its very rapid descent,5,000 feet in a minute or two(Similar to TWA 800). The Textron/Lycoming 6-cylinder engine has had some trouble with wrist pin caps coming loose and taking out the engine in flight. Even if it did, the plane could ahve gone into a slow glide and made a soft-water landing. There was no mayday or voice radio communication indicating trouble. The plane had a 406 mhz satellite distress beacon which woukld have notified FAA at once along with exact latitude and longitude. This device must be activated by the pilot. It is not automatic. This leads one to believe that there was a sudden and catastrophic occurence leaving no time for calls for assistance. The fact that a severed wheel and a headrest have been retrieved indicate the airframe and cabin are disentegrated. Even if the plane had made a hard-water crash, the wings would have been torn off but the landing gear and the cabin,though crumpled, should be intact. When the Challenger went down, the cabin was intact as were the the bodies. Although JFK did not file a flight plan, he could have been under close surveillance(as Diana was in her final days) and a plan for his elimination could have been on the shelf waiting for implementation. It is rumored that the NWO will kick in at Y2k and they are slowly eliminating any personages who could rally the country to prevent tjhe takeover. The rapid descent and no distress call are consistent with a stinger or sidewinder shootdown or an on-board bomb with a descending- altuitude pressure trigger(He was descending and on approach to the yard) It seems strange that Clinton has not already dispatched Navy salvage vessels which easily locate the wreckage. It is perhaps they are somewhere crashing a similar plane to have "Wreckage" to bring up that doesn't show missile or bomb damage. This event is very strange. The plane was brand new, equipped with every conceivable device and there was no turbulence, rain or gusty winds. Comments welcomed. Please distribute widely. Joe L. Jordan North Vietnam, 147 missions Join the A-Team: Each One Awakens One ===================================================== ==============The Uncensored National Rumor================= ===================================================== SUBSCRIBE TO THE RUMOR MILL NEWS ONE LIST MAILING LIST AND RECEIVE BREAKING NEWS REPORTS GIVING YOU THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS AND THE TRUTH YOU WILL NEVER GET FROM THE CONTROLLED MEDIA ONElist E-mail Communities http://onelist.com/arcindex.cgi?listname=RuMills http://www.rumormillnews.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telfax: 831.462.3949 RMNews P.O. Box 1784 Aptos, CA 95001-1784 And for those looking for an interesting connection: Kali-Yuga Genie in a Bottle Creation of a black hole on Long Island? Apocalypse Now Will the "Big Bang" Machine Destroy the Earth? A NUCLEAR accelerator designed to replicate the Big Bang is under investigation by international physicists because of fears that it might cause "perturbations of the universe" that could destroy the Earth. One theory even suggests that it could create a black hole. Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL), one of the American government's foremost research bodies, has spent eight years building its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island in New York state. A successful test-firing was held on Friday and the first nuclear collisions will take place in the autumn, building up to full power around the time of the millennium. Last week, however, John Marburger, Brookhaven's director, set up a committee of physicists to investigate whether the project could go disastrously wrong. It followed warnings by other physicists that there was a tiny but real risk that the machine, the most powerful of its kind in the world, had the power to create "strangelets" - a new type of matter made up of sub-atomic particles called "strange quarks". The committee is to examine the possibility that, once formed, strangelets might start an uncontrollable chain reaction that could convert anything they touched into more strange matter. The committee will also consider an alternative, although less likely, possibility that the colliding particles could achieve such a high density that they would form a mini black hole. In space, black holes are believed to generate intense gravitational fields that suck in all surrounding matter. The creation of one on Earth could be disastrous. Professor Bob Jaffe, director of the Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is on the committee, said he believed the risk was tiny but could not be ruled out. "There have been fears that strange matter could alter the structure of anything nearby. The risk is exceedingly small but the probability of something unusual happening is not zero." Construction of the �350m RHIC machine started eight years ago and is almost complete. On Friday scientists sent the first beam of particles around the machine - but without attempting any collisions. Inside the collider, atoms of gold will be stripped of their outer electrons and pumped into one of two 2.4-mile circular tubes where powerful magnets will accelerate them to 99.9% of the speed of light. The ions in the two tubes will travel in opposite directions to increase the power of the collisions. When they smash into each other, at one of several intersections between the tubes, they will generate minuscule fireballs of superdense matter with temperatures of about a trillion degrees - 10,000 times hotter than the sun. Such conditions are thought not to have existed - except possibly in the heart of some dense stars - since the Big Bang that formed the universe between 12 billion and 15 billion years ago. Under such conditions atomic nuclei "evaporate" into a plasma of even smaller particles called quarks and gluons. Theoretical and experimental evidence predicts that such a plasma would then emit a shower of other, different particles as it cooled down. Among the particles predicted to appear during this cooling are strange quarks. These have been detected in other accelerators but always attached to other particles. RHIC, the most powerful such machine yet built, has the ability to create solitary strange quarks for the first time since the universe began. BNL confirmed that there had been discussion over the possibility of "perturbations in the universe". Thomas Ludlam, associate project director of RHIC, said that the committee would hold its first meeting shortly. John Nelson, professor of nuclear physics at Birmingham University who is leading the British scientific team at RHIC, said the chances of an accident were infinitesimally small - but Brookhaven had a duty to assess them. "The big question is whether the planet will disappear in the twinkling of an eye. It is astonishingly unlikely that there is any risk - but I could not prove it," he said. The London Times, July 18, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to tablesaws. http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/552 eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/konformist http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications
