-Caveat Lector-
Yikes! AP left out Dr. West's MKULTRA, CIA mind control program
leadership! What injustice!
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From: FightBack2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 5:33 AM
Subject: Dr. Louis Jolyon West, RIP
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr. Louis Jolyon West, a psychiatrist and
cult expert who conducted court-ordered examinations of Jack Ruby and
Patricia Hearst, has died of cancer. He was 74.
West, who died Saturday at his home here, headed the psychiatry
department and the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of
California at Los Angeles for 20 years. He retired in 1989, but remained
active in research and mentoring students.
West began studying torture and brainwashing during the Korean
War, and eventually expanded his research to include post-traumatic
stress syndrome, alcohol and drug abuse, pain, sleep problems, dreams
and hypnosis.
West frequently served as a court-appointed expert
psychiatrist. He testified that Ruby, killer of President Kennedy's
assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, suffered from ``major mental illness
apparently precipitated by the stress of his trial and its aftermath.''
That opinion forestalled Ruby's death sentence, and he died of cancer in
prison.
West was also one of four psychiatrists who examined Hearst, the
kidnapping victim turned bank robber, before her 1976 trial. The panel
found she was sane and able to stand trial but ``psychologically damaged
as a result of torture.'' It recommended she should be treated before
the trial, a recommendation ignored by
the court.
In a speech after Hearst's conviction, West said, ``The
government finished the destruction of her life started by an
anti-government group.'' Her sentence was eventually commuted.
West was sought out by the news media for insight on cults as
recently as 1997, when the group Heaven's Gate staged a mass suicide in
San Diego.
A civil rights activist, West was the first white psychiatrist
to go to South Africa to testify on behalf of black prisoners during the
attempt to end apartheid. He was a member of the White House Conference
on Civil Rights in 1966, and he worked for years to abolish the death
penalty.
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