----- Original Message ----- From: > To: <Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: [CTRL] AP: BUSH BIOGRAPHER FOUND DEAD (fwd) > -Caveat Lector- > > [Note the last line of the below post. Can anyone verify or add to this? > The below news excerpt is supposedly from The Globe and Mail via Associated > Press. The Globe and Mail is published in Toronto and is Canada's > "national" newspaper, like the New York Times in the U.S. -MS] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:18 PM > Subject: Ah... It's getting interesting now: ---> BUSH BIOGRAPHER FOUN D > DEAD > > > BUSH BIOGRAPHER FOUND DEAD > > BUSH BIOGRAPHER'S DEATH A SUICIDE > > Bush Biographer's death a suicide, Police say Saturday, July 21, 2001. > > > Little Rock, Ark.-James Howard Hatfield, whose biography of U.S. President > George W. Bush won national attention before its publisher withdrew it over > the author's criminal past, died in a motel in what police called a suicide > yesterday. Police said Mr. Hatfield, 43, died of an apparent drug overdose. > His body was found on Wednesday in a motel in Springdale, about 320 > kilometres northwest of Little Rock. Mr. Hatfield wrote the unauthorized > biography, Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American > President. > > ---------------------------------- > > Mark Vallen of Yahoo group Change-Links writes: > > I'm NOT a conspiracy theorist... but. In the immediate aftermath of the > violence at the Democratic National Convention, Mr Hatfield wrote a > personal e-mail to me requesting the use of a Photograph I had taken and > posted on my Website. He graciously offered to pay me by sending me a copy > of his book "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American > President." Upon it's arrival I read the book from cover to cover. > Hatfield's main allegation was that Bush Jr. had been arrested for > possession of Cocaine in 1972... and the author cited three anonymous > sources verifying the charge. Further, Hatfield claimed that the Bush > Family's influence had any record of this arrest expunged. ST. MARTIN'S > PRESS published 104,000 copies of Hatfield's book, and just prior to that > publisher recalling the books... it hit the New York Times hardcover > nonfiction best seller list. The Bush Family was outraged and denied the > allegations. Hatfield then became the target of a public campaign to > discredit him. The Dallas Morning News and The Washington Post both > reported that Hatfield was convicted in 1988 of plotting to kill a > co-worker. TEXAS prison officials confirmed that a man named James Howard > Hatfield went to prison in 1988 for such a crime (and was paroled in 1993). > Hatfield insisted that he was not that man, and that it was a case of > mistaken identity meant to destroy his reputation. He stuck by his > allegations and found another publisher (Soft Skull Press). His book was > printed once again and put back into circulation... but on a much smaller > scale. In 1999, Bush Jr., continuing his pleas of innocence said of > Hatfield, "I may not be finished with this yet, It's outrageous." > > > ================================================================ NSP Lista isprobava demokratiju u praksi ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrBE8.bVKZIq Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
