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keithlederhaus · 1 year ago

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Keith Lederhaus

I was born on November 21, 1983, to my parents, Janet Marie Lederhaus and Scott Charles Lederhaus. It was at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the City of Orange, CA. I am a quadruplet, which is to say I was born with 3 others, Eric Scott Lederhaus, Jeffrey Allen Lederhaus, and Kate Marie Lederhaus. My mother was taking fertility drugs at the time as it was difficult for her to get pregnant naturally. As is often the case in this situation, she had multiples. We are fraternal, and are all still healthy and alive (as we were quite premature; I was 2 lbs 9 oz as a newborn). It was required that we stay in incubators for a period of time before we were safe to go home. My parents were surprised when my mother got pregnant with my younger sister, Jenna Rose Lederhaus, on August 14, 1985. So I have a total of 2 brothers and 2 sisters. We grew up in Southern California. Specifically, a city called Claremont, which is about an hour east of Los Angeles; also known as the “Inland Empire”. My father is a retired brain surgeon, and he practiced from about the early 80’s until he retired in about 2018ish. My mother worked as a nurse, but eventually stopped working to take care of and raise all of us. My siblings and I all went to the same schools together, even up through undergrad. I went to Claremont High School from 1998 through 2002. I performed well in school and my fondest memories come from running on the cross county and track and field team, where I developed my love for running that I enjoy today. After high school, and for reasons still unknown to me, my siblings and I (including my younger sister a year later) went to the same college – UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara). We were there from 2002 through 2006. I earned my bachelor's degree in Psychology. It was after college that my siblings and I finally parted out own ways. I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2006. The reason I moved there was because a job in “wilderness therapy” was recommended to me. I worked as a staff at a program that tried to support and rehabilitate adolescents who experienced a range of mental health, behavioral, or substance abuse issues. I would live out in the woods every other week, and work with rotating staff teams to support these teenagers during their time in the program (usually 3-4 months). After a couple years working in wilderness therapy and later a residential treatment program, I decided to go back to school to get my master’s degree in social work. I was accepted to the University of Utah and was enrolled in the program from 2008 to 2010. I lived in Utah for most of my 20s, from 2006 through 2012. My love for running grew as I enjoyed running on various trails or mountain ranges throughout the beautiful state. I started to sign up for more races as I started to run with friends who were interested in the same - long, grueling but gorgeous running. After graduate school I worked for a therapeutic boarding school and later a substance abuse rehabilitation program with teenagers as an intern social worker. I did that for a couple of years before I decided to move back to California to be closer to my family. *This is where things take a negative turn, and it relates to why I am requesting your services. I am happy to elaborate more on that if you’d like, but it doesn’t make for a positive bio. I spent a couple years in southern California, but eventually made my way up to the Bay Area, where I have lived since 2014.

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renegadepharmacist · 6 years ago

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An onslaught of pills, hundreds of thousands of deaths: Who is accountable?

By Joel Achenbach, Lenny Bernstein, Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg

July 20 at 7:53 PM

Logan County, W.Va., saw more than 45 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills between 2006 and 2012, according to a DEA database. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

The origin, evolution and astonishing scale of America’s catastrophic opioid epidemic just got a lot clearer. The drug industry — the pill manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers — found it profitable to flood some of the most vulnerable communities in America with billions of painkillers. They continued to move their product, and the medical community and government agencies failed to take effective action, even when it became apparent that these pills were fueling addiction and overdoses and were getting diverted to the streets.

This has been broadly known for years, but this past week, the more precise details became public for the first time in a trove of data released after a legal challenge from The Washington Post and the owner of the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia.

The revelatory data comes from the Drug Enforcement Administration and its Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS). It tracks the movement of every prescription pill in the country, from factory to pharmacy .

[Explore The Post’s database: Find the data for where you live]

Retired from the DEA, Jim Geldhof is a consultant for plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the drug industry. (Mark Abramson for The Washington Post)

“This really shows a relationship between the manufacturers and the distributors: They were all in it together,” said Jim Geldhof, a retired DEA employee who spent his 43-year career working on drug diversion cases and is now a consultant for plaintiffs in a massive lawsuit against the drug industry. “We’re seeing a lot of internal stuff that basically confirms what we already knew. It just reinforces the fact that it was all about greed, and all about money.”

The industry has denied that vigorously, blaming criminal doctors who prescribed opioids as if they were candy and individuals who abused the drugs. The industry also contends that the DEA had all the information it needed to stop diversion of pills into the black market.

“The DEA has been the only entity to have all of this data at their fingertips, and it could have used the information to consistently monitor the supply of opioids and when appropriate, proactively identify bad actors,” said John Parker, spokesman for the Arlington, Va.-based Healthcare Distribution Alliance. “Unlike the DEA, distributors have no authority to stop physicians from writing prescriptions, nor can they take unilateral action to halt pharmacies’ ability to dispense medication.”

The DEA declined to comment this past week, citing pending litigation.

It appears that failures mark every point along the supply chain — from manufacturers to distributors to pharmacies to the doctor all too ready to write a script. The epidemic was not something out of sight, behind closed doors, under a bridge. In full view, it intensified and the companies, health care professionals, law enforcement officials and government regulators were unable or unwilling to stop it.

The Post had made public a significant portion of a government database that records the flood of prescription opioid pain pills distributed across the U.S.VIEW GRAPHIC

The Post had made public a significant portion of a government database that records the flood of prescription opioid pain pills distributed across the U.S.

“We have a tradition of trusting companies, and the [government] is kind of weak here,” said Keith Humphreys, a Stanford professor who served as a drug policy adviser to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. “Here it was misplaced trust.”

The data shows a trend in pill distribution that, according to the lawsuit plaintiffs, can’t be passed off as reasonable therapeutic medical treatment.

The industry shipped 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills across the country from 2006 through 2012, the period covered by the ARCOS data released this past week . These pills didn’t flow in a steady stream but were more like a flash flood, spiking from 8.4 billion in 2006 to 12.6 billion in 2012. As a point of comparison, doses of morphine, another mainstream treatment for severe pain, averaged slightly more than 500 million a year throughout the seven-year period, according to the data.

[Five takeaways from the DEA’s pain pill database]

The industry was supposed to self-regulate. Companies have an obligation, under the Controlled Substances Act, to report suspicious orders of prescription drugs. The plaintiffs suing the drug companies allege that the incentive structures were tilted in favor of moving more product.

A new Mallinckrodt logo is unveiled in St. Louis in 2013. (Whitney Curtis/AP Images for Mallinckrodt)

For example, in a filing released Friday, the plaintiffs alleged that Ireland-based drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt gave the sales people in charge of generic opioids “key roles” in investigating suspicious orders of drugs. The compensation scheme “was weighted heavily to favor sales over compliance,” the plaintiffs allege, adding that bonuses for the sale of opioids could exceed six figures.

“In contrast, there is nothing in the record indicating that [national account managers] were evaluated based on their compliance responsibilities” or “ever penalized for failing to stop suspicious orders,” the lawsuit claims.

[Internal drug company emails show indifference to opioid epidemic]

After the release of the ARCOS data, Mallinckrodt said in a statement that the company produced opioids only within a government-controlled quota and sold only to DEA-approved distributors.

As of September 2012, Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israeli-based manufacturer of generic drugs, didn’t have a suspicious-order monitoring system in place, according to the court filing. The company apparently decided it needed a system, and hired an AmerisourceBergen employee in 2014 to design it. He created a system called “DefOps,” short for “Defensible Operations,” which he admitted in a deposition was designed “to keep Teva out of trouble with the DEA and because it ‘sounded good,’ ” according to the court papers.

From 2013 to 2016, the papers allege, Teva reported only six suspicious orders out of 600,000.

Teva declined to comment Saturday.

The new details have made more nuanced and complex the familiar narrative of the pharmaceutical industry’s role in the drug epidemic. Many Americans knew about the role of Purdue Pharma, which in 1996 introduced the slow-release opioid painkiller OxyContin. The new formulation of oxycodone was heavily marketed by Purdue as being less likely to become addictive because, the company said, it didn’t give patients such a jolt of a high.

Experts trace the epidemic to the appearance of Oxy, its heavy marketing, and its migration into the illicit drug trade along with other opioid painkillers.

[How have opioids affected your community? Share your story.]

The public’s search for accountability has centered on Purdue and its owners, the Sackler family. Protesters gathered last year at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, as well as other institutions that received support from Sackler family members. Earlier this year, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow rejected a demand by activists that the university remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from a museum collection, saying that the Sackler family had made the donation to the school before the introduction of OxyContin and noting that Sackler himself had passed away by that point.

Family and friends who lost loved ones to opioid overdoses leave protests on bottles outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Conn., in 2018. (Jessica Hill/AP)

In an earlier statement, Purdue denied the claims brought in the lawsuit and said they are based on mischaracterizations and without merit.

“We live in an age when assigning blame has become a national obsession, especially when it comes to the horrors of the opioid crisis,” Jillian Sackler, president of the Dame Jillian and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities wrote in an op-ed in The Post in April.

Now Purdue is just one character on a crowded stage. During the height of the crisis, from 2006 to 2012, Purdue’s sales represented only 3 percent of the market. It was not even one of the three biggest companies manufacturing the opioids.

At the top were generic drug companies many Americans have never heard of: Actavis, a product of U.S. mergers, and now owned by Teva; Par Pharmaceutical, since acquired by Endo Pharmaceuticals of Ireland; and a generics subsidiary of Mallinckrodt, now known as SpecGx. They manufactured 88 percent of the opioids in those seven years.

Generic drug companies have been on an endless quest for steady profits because the prices of their drugs are unstable and generally declining, said David Amsellem, a managing director at financial firm Piper Jaffray and an expert on specialty pharmaceuticals. He calls these companies “low-market businesses that are looking for pockets of high margins.”

[As lawyers zero in on drug companies, a reckoning may be coming]

That situation has contributed to constant churn in the business. Companies are routinely bought and sold, divisions spun off, names changed. That’s part of the reason the firms responsible for the vast bulk of sales from 2006 through 2012 are virtually unknown to most of the nation. The generic companies don’t promote drugs on television, like the big-brand pharma companies.

“They’re order-takers,” Amsellem said.

The CVS in Norton, Va., population 4,000, received 1.3 million opioids from 2006 through 2012, according to the DEA database. (Charles Mostoller for The Washington Post)

The city’s Walmart received more than 3.5 million of the pills in those same seven years, according to the database. (Charles Mostoller for The Washington Post)

Less obscure are the big distributors: McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen. Also mentioned in the ARCOS data are retailers who distributed drugs. They are some of the most familiar names in America, including Walgreens, CVS and Walmart.

In statements to The Post on Tuesday in response to the release of the DEA database, several drug companies issued broad defenses of their actions during the opioid epidemic, saying they were committed to providing a legal product to legitimate pain patients while combating the diversion of drugs.

The drug epidemic is a case of supply and demand, and the newly released data makes clear that supply was never in doubt. The demand side is a more complex public health issue that brings into play the ongoing challenges of communities where the social fabric has been frayed. The new data shows that pills surged most dramatically into central Appalachia, particularly coal country, and bordering areas where the economy has been depressed.

In rural Virginia, 'ground zero' for America's opioid crisis

Norton, Va. was flooded with 306 pain pills per person per year from 2006-2012, according to previously undisclosed data obtained by The Washington Post.

Many people in those areas have endured hardship and job injuries. They need painkillers, including the powerful kind provided by derivatives of the opium poppy. Almost lost in the national controversy over the opioid epidemic is that some people need them badly. In the 1990s, amid extensive drug industry marketing, the medical community seized on a big idea: that freedom from pain was a fundamental human right. As a result, some of the stigma associated with opioid painkillers, which are cousins of street heroin, dissipated.

Within a decade, the pills became their own self-sustaining industry, a black-market and even street-corner product. The painkillers arrived in bulk at small-town pharmacies. That trend is parallel to a rise in the death rates in those communities. Prescription opioid overdoses have claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people in the United States since 1996.

A crackdown on indiscriminate doctors and pharmacists — commonly known as pill mills — as well as tighter prescription guidelines by the medical community have helped drive down the number of overdoses due to prescription drugs. This past week, in a rare drug-statistic bulletin delivering good news, government officials said the overall number of fatal drug overdoses in the country had dropped 5.1 percent from 2017 to 2018, the sharpest decline involving prescription opioids.

But the drug epidemic has hardly abated. Deaths from fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that is being illicitly manufactured abroad and smuggled into the United States, continue to increase. There has also been a rise in deaths from cocaine and methamphetamine.

Just cutting off the supply of one type of drug, or focusing on treating people with addiction and throwing drug dealers in jail, won’t be enough to solve the underlying problem, said Paula Masters, vice president of population health for Ballad Health, which operates hospitals in some of the hardest-hit areas, including Southwest Virginia.

“All you’re doing is squeezing that balloon. If you only squeeze it one way, all you’re going to do is put the air in the other side,” Masters said.

Joseph Mastandrea, chairman of the now-defunct drug distributor Miami-Luken, testifies before Congress in 2018 about opioids. (Alex Brandon/AP)

The accountability question is now being played out in courts across the country. The big event is in Cleveland, where a federal judge is overseeing roughly 2,000 separate lawsuits filed against a rash of drug companies by counties, cities and towns across the country. Opening arguments are supposed to begin this fall in two test cases involving counties in Ohio. Thousands of records remain under seal, but may be released in coming weeks and could include depositions, internal company emails and internal company policies.

The outcome in Cleveland could be a massive, industry-wide settlement along the lines of what happened with the tobacco industry many years ago. But the drug companies have denied wrongdoing. Several executives have testified before a congressional subcommittee under oath that they did not believe their companies contributed to the epidemic.

John Hammergren, then chairman, president and chief executive of McKesson, the nation’s largest drug distributor, testified last year that overprescribing by doctors was the “key driver of the crisis.” He added, “At the same time, there clearly were certain pharmacies in West Virginia that were bad actors that McKesson itself terminated. In hindsight, I would have liked to have seen us move much more quickly to identify the issues with these pharmacies.”

George Barrett, then executive chairman of Cardinal Health, testified: “Pharmaceutical wholesale distributors do not and should not have visibility into the medical judgment or the patients for whom prescriptions are written. However, we can play a role by raising awareness of the dangers of overprescribing, which we are doing.”

The companies have said they remained within established guidelines for opioid distribution. They have argued that state regulators or the DEA should have stepped in if there was a problem.

“The ARCOS data show that distributors have consistently reported sales of opioid-based medications, along with the quantity of the order and the identity of the receiving pharmacy to the DEA. Distributors only recently received access to the full set of data with information about the total shipment of opioid medicines a particular pharmacy received from all distributors,” said Parker, of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance.

The DEA, with limited resources, relied largely on corporate self-regulation.

Some DEA agents and investigators tried to hold the industry accountable, and in 2005 and 2006, as the pill flood was building, they sent letters to drug distributors and manufacturers saying that they needed to comply with federal law and work harder to prevent their pills from being diverted to the black market.

Despite these warnings, diversion continued. The DEA began making cases against some of the biggest drug companies. The industry fought back. Some members of Congress pushed a new, more industry-friendly law, making it harder for the DEA to penalize companies for failing to report suspicious shipments of narcotics.

When companies did face penalties after government investigations, the fines were trivial compared with corporate revenue. The fines were essentially just one cost of doing business.

For example McKesson, the drug distributor, was fined a record $150 million in 2017. Its net income reported that year was $5 billion.

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crimeandsafety · 6 years ago

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Useful Crime Data for Kane County in Illinois

Felony filings in Kane County, Illinois (IL) were up 3% in 2018 in the last year, while juvenile cases saw a 19-percent spike, according to preliminary year-end figures from the state's attorney's office. Over the past decades, crime total and violent crime, specifically, is down. That is true of suburban regions nationwide, it's true of this state of Illinois and it's true of Kane County communities. We spoke with the Law Offices of Andrew Nickel, who practices law in Kane County about the emerging trends he sees as a private lawyer. Kane County is one of many counties in Illinois, U.S. In accordance with the latest census report, it has a population of over 500,000 making it the most 5th-most populous county in Illinois. The county seat is Geneva, IL, and its largest city is Aurora, Illinois. The cities at Kane County who have been affected the most by violent offense are Elgin,South Elgin,Bartlett,Aurora,Montgomery,St. Charles,Geneva,Carpentersville,North Aurora,Batavia Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbing, and assault with a weapon. Kane County, IL violent crime is 32.4. , the US average is 31.1. Aurora, IL has the highest number of violent crimes of any community in Kane County, but the number of violent offenses in Aurora has steadily decreased over recent years. According to the FBI, one of counties in IL, Kane County reported the ninth-highest variety of violent offenses in the year 2014. A list of property crime generally contains the criminal charges of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and intentional fire. The object of the theft-type crimes is the stealing of financial assets or property, however there is no force or threat of force against the victims. Kane County in Illinois, near Chicago property crime is 30.7. the average across all states is 38. Lawyers, Courts, and Laws at Kane County, IL Kane’s County Bar Association is an association of more than 1,200 legal professionals and 28 committees. It was set up in 1858. KCBA members and the general public can call contact with the The Kane County Bar Association (KCBA) by phone. An internet contact form is also available. The Kane County Courhouse is home to the Civil Division of the Sixteenth Circuit courtroom. Services offered include civil court cases associated with arbitration, minor claims, probate laws, and foreclosures. Many cases like family law, personal injury, criminal and juvenile are heard inside Kane County Courthouse. Kane’s County Circuit Court Services is divided into three divisions: Probation, Juvenile Justice, and Psychology. The Chief Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit administers Court Services. The assignment of Court Services is to assist the public by fostering positive behavior change using proven approaches to boost public safety. If you're involved in a legal issue at the Kane County Court at Kane County, the state of Illinois, it is important that you receive experienced and effective representation. The Law Offices of Andrew Nickel feature Kane County lawyers who were previously Kane County prosecutors. The Future of Crime & Safety in Kane County, Illinois Last year brought resolutions to a number of court cases in Kane County, IL and seeing new legal actions and offenses. Future inmates of Kane County could see themselves not only getting booked into prison but also into drug rehab for a consequence of the enlarging opioid crisis. Sherriff Hain intends to lease 18,000 to 20,000 ft of space in the Kane County Sheriff's Building in St. Charles, IL into a rehabilitative group to conduct treatment programs for both walk-in patients and jail residents. Joe McMahon, Kane County State’s Attorney said that he sees domestic violence, drug-involved offenses and drug trafficking as the top three offenses people are in jail for from the county. Kane County expects the rehab center, along with much more schooling and job training plans he is putting into place, will help keep inmates from returning to jail once they are published. Kane County, IL Sheriff Ron Hain announced he'd spend the night in prison several times over the coming months to find a better comprehension of life at the Kane County in Illinois Adult Correctional Center. Ron Hain grew up in Elburn and graduated from St. Charles High School in 1994. When Ron was 4 years old, he told his mother that he was likely to become a Kane County, Illinois Sheriff's Deputy. He never lost sight of the goal during youth and is currently Kane County in Illinois Sheriff. Sheriff Ron Hain has proceeded in the local police force for twenty-two decades and has been credited with hundreds of major criminal arrests. The top complaint about the food comes from Muslim detainees who have asked kosher meals, Sheriff R. Hain said. The residents argue about the flavor of the food, that there aren't enough calories, and that it does not conform to religious criteria.

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brookstonalmanac · 4 years ago

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Events 7.29

587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple. 238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor, the sixth emperor of the year. 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week. 923 – Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany). 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6. 1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen. 1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes. 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade. 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1567 – The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands. 1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army. 1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light. 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. 1848 – Great Famine of Ireland: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. 1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. 1871 – The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States. 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed. 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement. 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened. 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project. 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. 1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. 1937 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians. 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London. 1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn. 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. 1957 – The Tonight Show - Tonight Starring Jack Paar premieres on NBC with Jack Paar beginning the modern day talk show. 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. 1965 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. 1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. 1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead. 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. 1973 – Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. 1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution. 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London. 1981 – After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran. 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel). 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues. 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad. 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. 2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people. 2019 – The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.

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keithlederhaus · 1 year ago

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Keith Lederhaus

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thekillerblogofkillers · 7 years ago

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Charles Cullen (1960-?)

Charles Cullen is an American serial killer who confessed that he had killed up to 40 of his patients during a 16-year nursing career, psychiatrists later came to believe it was many more, with experts estimating that Cullen may be responsible for up to 400 deaths. If this is true, it would make him the most prolific serial killer in American history.

Charles Edmund Cullen was born in West Orange, New Jersey, in 1960. He was the youngest of 8. His father was a bus driver and died when Cullen was just 7 months old. Cullen has described his early years as miserable, and at the age of 9 attempted suicide for the first time by drinking chemicals that came in a chemistry set. This was just the first of many suicide attempts throughout his life, even fantasising about stealing drugs from the hospital where he worked as a nurse and using them to end his life. In December 1977 Cullen’s mother died in a car accident – his sister was the driver. 4 months later, and devastated by his mother’s dead, Cullen dropped out of school and joined the Navy. He was assigned to the submarine service, serving aboard ballistic missile submarine USS Woodrow Wilson. Cullen was promoted to petty officer 3rd class and was part of the team that operated the sub’s Poseidon missiles. It was at this point that Cullen started showing signs of mental instability and he was quickly transferred to the supply ship USS Canopus. Cullen tried to kill himself a further 7 times over the next few years, eventually receiving a medical discharge from the Navy on March 30, 1984. The same month he enrolled at the Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing in Montclair, New Jersey – he was the only male student. He was later elected president of his nursing class and graduated in 1987 before taking a job at the burn unit of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey.

The first murders that Cullen would later confess to occurred while he was working at St. Barnabas. On June 11 1988 he gave Judge John W. Yengo, Sr. a lethal overdose of IV medication. Cullen also admitted to killing several other patients at St. Barnabas, including a patient with AIDS who died after being given a lethal dose of insulin. He left St. Barnabas in early 1992 after hospital authorities discovered he may have contaminated IV bags. An internal investigation at St. Barnabas determined it was more than likely that Cullen was responsible for this, resulting in dozens of patient deaths. He was not arrested for these crimes. A month after leaving St. Barnabas, Cullen began working at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where he murdered 3 elderly women at the hospital by giving them overdoses of digoxin (a heart medication). His final victim told family members that a “sneaky male nurse” had injected her in her sleep, but they and healthcare providers dismissed these comments as there was no evidence. A year later, Cullen moved into a basement apartment on Shaffer Avenue in Phillipsburg after an acrimonious divorce from his wife – they shared custody of their daughters. He later claimed that he wanted to leave nursing in 1993 but the court-ordered child support payments forced him to continue working there.

In March of 1993, Cullen broke into the home of a co-worker while she and her young son were asleep, but left without disturbing them. He began to stalk the woman, who filed a police report against him. He subsequently pled guilty to trespassing and was given 1 year’s probation. The day after he was arrested, Cullen tried to commit suicide again. He took 2 months off work and was treated for depression in 2 different psychiatric facilities. He attempted suicide twice more before the end of 1993 before quitting his job at Warren Hospital. He then began a 3 year residency in the intensive care/cardiac care unit of Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington. He later claimed not to have harmed anyone during the first 2 years, but conveniently, the hospital records for that time had been destroyed by the time of his arrest in 2003. He admitted to murdering 5 patients between January and September 1996, using overdoses of digoxin. Cullen then began working at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey. He was fired for poor performance. Throughout the 2nd half of 1997, Cullen was unemployed and stopped making his child support payments. He sought treatment for depression in the Warren Hospital emergency room and ended up admitted to a psychiatric facility. He left a short time later. In February of 1988, Cullen began working at the Liberty Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania where he was head of a ward of respirator-dependent patients. Whilst there, Cullen was accused of meddling with the patients drug schedules and was fired after being seen entering a patients room with syringes in his hands. The patient ended up with a broken arm but managed not to receive any injections. Cullen caused the death of a patient while working at Liberty but it was blamed on another nurse. After leaving Liberty Nursing and Rehab Center he worked at Easton Hospital in Easton, Pennsylvania between November 1998 to March 1999. On December 30, 1998 he murdered another patient using digoxin. A coroner’s inquest detected digoxin in the blood in lethal amounts but an internal investigation was inconclusive and nothing pointed to Cullen as the murderer.

Despite his history of mental instability and the amount of deaths that occurred during his shifts at various hospitals, Cullen continually managed to find work as a nurse due to a national shortage. At the time, no reporting procedures or systems existed to identify nurses with mental health issues or employment problems. Cullen began working in the burn unit of Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania in March 1999. During his time there he murdered 1 patients and attempted to kill another. In April of the same year Cullen voluntarily resigned before beginning to work at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the cardiac care unit. Within the next 3 years Cullen is known to have killed at least 5 patients and to have attempted to murder 2 more. On January 11, 2000, Cullen attempted suicide yet again by putting a charcoal grill in his bathtub, lighting it, and hoping the carbon monoxide fumes would kill him. However, Cullen’s neighbours smelled the smoke and called the fire department and the police. Cullen was taken to a hospital and a psychiatric facility but was released the following day. Nobody suspected that Cullen was killing patients at St. Luke’s Hospital until a co-worker found vials of medication (some used, some not) in a disposal bin. The drugs were not worth any money outside the hospital and weren’t used by drug addicts so the theft seemed strange. An investigation ensued and showed that Cullen had taken the medication. He was offered a deal by the medical facility – resign and be given a neutral recommendation or be fired. He resigned and was escorted out of the building in June 2002. 7 of his co-workers at St. Luke’s later met up with the Lehigh County district attorney to alert authorities to their suspicions that Cullen had been using the drugs to kill patients. Investigators didn’t look into Cullen’s past and the case ended up being dropped 9 months later due to lack of evidence.

In September 2002 Cullen began working at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey in the critical care unit. Around this time Cullen began dating a local woman, but his depression got worse, leading him to kill 8 patients and attempt at least 1 other murder by June 2003. His drugs of choice were digoxin, epinephrine and insulin. On June 18, 2003, Cullen tried to murder Philip Gregor, a patient at Somerset Medical Center but Gregor survived and was discharged before dying of natural causes 6 months later. Not long after this event, Somerset Medical Center began to notice things that indicated Cullen’s activities. The computer system showed that Cullen had been looking at the records of patients that weren’t his, co-workers began seeing him in the rooms of patients that his, and the hospital’s computerised drug-dispensing cabinets showed that Cullen was requesting medications that his patients didn’t need and had not been prescribed. His drug requests were odd, many orders were immediately cancelled and many repeat requests were made within minutes of each other. In July 2003 the executive director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System warned Somerset Medical Center officials that at least 4 suspicious overdoses meant that an employee was killing patients. The hospital did not contact authorities until October 2003 and by then Cullen had killed at least 5 more patients and attempted to kill another. When a patient in Somerset died due to low blood sugar in October 2003 the medical center finally alerted state authorities. That patient was Cullen’s last victim. State officials severely reprimanded the hospital for failure to report a nonfatal insulin overdose, administered by Cullen, in August. An investigation into his history revealed past suspicions about his involvement with prior deaths. Somerset Medical Center fired him on October 31, 2003, using the fact he had lied on his job application. Colleague and fellow nurse Amy Loughren called the police after becoming concerned about Cullen’s records of accessing drugs and his links to patient deaths. Police put him under surveillance for several weeks until their investigation had concluded.

Charles Cullen was arrested at a restaurant on December 12, 2003. He was charged with 1 count of murder and 1 count of attempted murder. 2 days later Cullen told detectives Dan Baldwin and Tim Braun about the murder of Rev. Florian Gall and the attempted murder of Jin Kyung Han (both patients at Somerset). Cullen also admitted killing as many as 40 patients over his 16 years as a nurse. In April 2004 Cullen pleaded guilty to killing 13 patients and attempting to kill 2 others by lethal injection while working at Somerset. As part of his plea agreement he agreed to cooperate with authorities if they took the death penalty off the table. 1 month later, he pleaded guilty to the murder of 3 more patients in New Jersey. In November 2004, Cullen pleaded guilty in an Allentown, Pennsylvania court to killing 6 patients and trying to kill 3 others. In July 2005 Cullen was in the Somerset County Jail in New Jersey as authorities continued to investigate the possibility of his involvement in other deaths.

Cullen is currently serving a sentence of life without parole for over 100 years to be served consecutively with his other sentences in Pennsylvania. On March 2, 2006, Cullen was sentenced to 18 consecutive life sentences in New Jersey and is not eligible for parole until 2403. He is currently held at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey. On March 10, 2006, Cullen was brought into the courtroom of Lehigh County President Judge William H. Platt for a sentencing hearing. Cullen kept repeating “Your honour, you need to step down” for 30 minutes until Platt ordered Cullen to be gagged with cloth and duct tape. Even after being gagged Cullen continued to try and repeat the phrase. He was given another 6 life sentences. As part of a plea agreement Cullen was working with law enforcement officials to identify additional victims. Cullen originally told authorities about 40 patients he specifically remembered killing during his career. In August 2006, Cullen donated a kidney to the brother of a former girlfriend.

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How Safe is it at Kane County in Illinois

Felony filings in Kane County, Illinois (IL) were up 3 percent in 2018 in the last year, while juvenile cases saw a 19-percent spike, based on preliminary year-end figures from the nation's attorney's office. Over the past decades, offense overall and violent crime, in particular, is down. That's true of suburban regions nationwide, it is true of the state of Illinois and it is true of Kane County communities. Kane is a county in Illinois (IL) In accordance with the 2010 census collection, it has a population of over 500,000 making it the most fifth-most inhabited county in Illinois. The county seat is Geneva, IL, and its largest city is Aurora, Illinois. The cities in Kane County who have been affected the most by violent offense are Montgomery,Geneva,Elgin,North Aurora,Bartlett,Batavia,South Elgin,St. Charles,Carpentersville,Aurora Violent offenses fall into 4 main categories including homicide, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and assault Kane County, IL violent crime is 32.4. above the U.S. average of 31.1 Aurora, Illinois has the largest number of violent offenses of any neighborhood in Kane County, however, the amount of violent offenses in Aurora has steadily decreased through the years. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among counties in the state of Illinois, Kane County reported that the 9th-highest variety of violent offenses in the year 2014. A list of property crime generally includes the crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, automobile theft, and arson. The goal of the theft-type crimes is the theft of money or land, but there is not any force or threat of force against the victims. Kane County property crime is 30.7. the average across all states is 38. Legal Procedures, Courts at Kane County in Illinois, near Chicago Kane’s County Bar Assocation (the KCBA) is an association of more than 1,200 authorized attorneys in Kane County and 28 committees. It was set up in 1858. KCBA members and the general public can call contact the The Kane County Bar by phone. An online contact form is also provided. The courthouse in Kane County is home to the Civil Division of the Sixteenth Circuit courtroom. Services offered include civil court cases associated with mediation, minor claims, probate, and foreclosures. Some family law cases, juvenile cases, and personal injury cases are tried from the Kane County Courthouse.. Kane County Circuit Court Services is divided into three divisions: Probation, Minors Justice, and Psychoanalaysis. The Chief Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit administers Court Services. The mission of Court Services is to assist the public by fostering positive behaviour change using proven ways to enhance public security. If you are involved in a legal issue at the Kane County Court in Kane County, Illinois (IL), it's crucial that you obtain seasoned and efficient representation. The Law Offices of Andrew Nickel feature Kane County lawyers who were formerly Kane County prosecutors. What’s Happening with Crime in Kane County, Illinois in 2019 The year 2018 introduced settlements to many vital court cases in Kane County, IL as well as seeing new disputes and offenses. Future inmates of Kane County could see themselves not only begin their jail sentence but also into drug rehabilitation as a result of this expanding heroin crisis. Kane’s Sherrif Ron Hain plans to lease 18,000 to 20,000 ft of space in the Kane County Sheriff's Office from St. Charles, Illinois to a rehab group to conduct treatment programs for both walk in patients and prison inmates. Joe McMahon, Kane County State’s Attorney stated he sees family violence, drug-fueled crimes and drug trafficking as the top three offenses residents have been in jail for in the county. Kane County, Illinois hopes the rehabilitation centre, and much more schooling and job training programs he's putting into position, will help keep inmates from returning to jail after they are released. Kane County, Illinois Sheriff Ron Hain declared he'd spend the night in jail a few times over the forthcoming months to find a better comprehension of life in the Kane County in Illinois Adult Prison Center. Ron Hain grew up in Elburn and graduated from St. Charles High School in 1994. When Sherriff R. Hain was four years old, he informed his mom that he was going to be a Kane County in Illinois, near Chicago Sheriff's Deputy. He never lost sight of the goal during youth and is now Kane County, Illinois (IL) Sheriff. Sheriff Ron Hain has been in the local police force for 22 years and has been credited with hundreds of major criminal arrests. The top complaint about the food stems from Muslim detainees who have asked kosher meals, Sheriff Ron Hain said. The residents complain about the taste of the food, that there are not enough carbs, and that it does not conform to religious standards.

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Probation violations land Nashua woman in State Prison<

NASHUA – Although she was given a suspended jail sentence a year ago after pleading guilty to first-degree assault for attacking a man with a pair of scissors, Nashua resident Lauren Ivy Munday was also ordered to serve two years' probation which, according to court documents, she began violating just weeks later. Munday, 29, most recently of 93 Marshall St., was sentenced this month to a term of 1-3 years in the New Hampshire State Prison for Women, a disposition that came out of a plea agreement between her attorneys and state prosecutors. Although documents show Munday allegedly violated her probation on several occasions throughout 2016, her sentence is based on her plea of "true," similar to "guilty," to two counts of violation of probation, which are Class A misdemeanors. One of the violation charges, dated April 15, is tied to the probation order that was part of her plea agreement on the first-degree assault charge. The other stems from her June 27 arrest on another violation, documents state. Thomas Harrington, a Department of Corrections probation and parole officer, notes in his reports filed in court numerous failures by Munday to report to him as scheduled. She also admitted to, and tested positive for, the continued use of illegal drugs on more than one occasion, according to Harrington's report. Harrington cites an instance in early June when Munday reported to him as scheduled, but shortly after she left his office he saw her in downtown Nashua "meeting individuals that this officer did not permit" her to associate with," he wrote. Two weeks later, she again kept her scheduled appointment – but tested positive for marijuana, suboxone, cocaine, amphetamine and methamphetamine, the report states. At the time, Munday was still recovering from serious injuries she sustained on May 12, when, allegedly in an attempt to elude police, she leapt from the roof of a downtown Nashua building. Members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Nashua police, acting on two warrants for Munday's arrest, had entered the building after getting a tip that Munday was inside, officials said at the time. She ended up breaking a leg and a wrist, for which she was taken to a local hospital, where Task Force agents served the warrants. One was for violating her probation, while the other had been issued when she failed to appear in a Belknap County court to testify as a material witness in what police called "a high-profile" case in that jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Hillsborough County Superior Court South Judge Charles Temple, who presided over Munday's plea and sentencing hearing this month, attached a number of stipulations to the sentencing order. She must undergo a medical assessment regarding drug and alcohol abuse, and enroll in appropriate treatment and counseling sessions. Probation violations land Nashua woman in State Prison<

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Events 7.29

587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple. 238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor, the sixth emperor of the year. 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week. 923 – Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany). 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6. 1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen. 1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes. 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade. 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1567 – The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands. 1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army. 1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light. 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. 1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. 1871 – The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States. 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed. 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement. 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened. 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project. 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. 1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. 1937 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians. 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London. 1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn. 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. 1965 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. 1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. 1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead. 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. 1973 – Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. 1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution. 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London. 1981 – After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran. 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel). 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues. 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad. 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. 2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people. 2019 – The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.

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marymosley · 5 years ago

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News Roundup

This week North Carolina was in the national news after Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have required sheriffs to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests. The bill included a provision that would have made a sheriff’s refusal to cooperate with ICE a basis for removing the sheriff from office. Several sheriffs around the state, including those in Buncombe, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties, have a policy of not honoring ICE detainer requests. As this Charlotte Observer report indicates, political controversy over the legislation continues following the veto, with Cooper saying that it uses “fear to divide North Carolinians” and Republican lawmakers saying that Cooper irresponsibly vetoed a common sense bill. Keep reading for more news.

Blackmon Exonerated. The Charlotte Observer reports that yesterday a three-judge panel exonerated James Blackmon of the 1979 murder of Helena Payton at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh. As the Observer report explains, Payton’s death went unsolved until investigators received a tip that a mentally ill patient at Dorothea Dix Hospital had been talking about committing the murder. Blackmon confessed in a series of interviews during which he wore a Superman cape, claimed to be able to cause earthquakes, and compared himself to Dracula. Despite his confession, other evidence showed that Blackmon very likely was in New York at the time of the murder. The proceedings followed an investigation into Blackmon’s conviction by the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission.

Asheville Murder. As WLOS reports, a particularly disturbing incident in Asheville over the weekend has become a murder case after the severely injured victim died yesterday. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Larry Donnell Alston was set on fire and suffered severe burns. He was transported to the Wake Forest Baptist Health Burn Center in Winston-Salem, but he died early Thursday morning. The suspect in the case, Robert Charles Austin has been charged with first-degree murder.

Hate Mail. Last week, several African American city leaders in Charlotte, including Mayor Vi Lyles, received threatening letters filled with racist language. WCNC reports that the FBI has been asked to investigate the letters and that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is looking into the incident.

Prison for Cancer Treatment. The Greensboro News & Record recently published an unusual story about a man who wants to go back to prison so that he can complete his cancer treatment. John Earl Sturdivant disappeared from his drug trial in 1989 and was convicted despite his absence. Sentencing was delayed until Sturdivant could be located – that didn’t occur until Sturdivant turned himself in nearly 30 years later. Sturdivant apparently was undergoing cancer treatment while he was serving his 35-year prison sentence, but the Court of Appeals granted him a new trial because his trial transcript had been improperly destroyed. Last week Sturdivant seemingly entered into a plea agreement to serve 7 years in prison and, according to his attorney, “wants to go back . . . to finish his treatment.”

Transgender Inmate Moved. WRAL reports that the Department of Public Safety recently moved a transgender inmate from an all-male prison to an all-female facility. According to the report, Kanautica Zayre-Brown began a series of sex reassignment surgeries to transition from male to female in 2012. In 2017, she was sentenced to prison for insurance fraud and other crimes. She initially was held at Harnett Correctional Institution where she slept in an open dormitory with 37 men and shared community bathroom facilities. Zayre-Brown now is at Anson Correctional Institution and released a statement thanking “her community for their support and DPS for coming through with their promise.”

Jail Suicide. Following increased public attention towards jail supervision in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in a Manhattan jail last week, WLOS reports that an inmate at the Haywood County Detention Center committed suicide this week. Zachary Nathaniel Lambright was found unresponsive at the detention center on Monday afternoon, just minutes after an officer had completed an observation round.

BOP Head Out. In continuing fallout from Epstein’s suicide, on Monday Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons. Barr reassigned Hugh Hurwitz to be an assistant director in charge of the bureau’s reentry programs. In that position he apparently will assist Barr in implementing the First Step Act. Barr named Kathleen Hawk Sawyer as the new acting head of the Bureau of Prisons.

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keithlederhaus · 1 year ago

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Keith Lederhaus

It was required that we stay in incubators for a period of time before we were safe to go home. My parents were surprised when my mother got pregnant with my younger sister, Jenna Rose Lederhaus, on August 14, 1985. So I have a total of 2 brothers and 2 sisters. We grew up in Southern California. Specifically, a city called Claremont, which is about an hour east of Los Angeles; also known as the “Inland Empire”. My father is a retired brain surgeon, and he practiced from about the early 80’s until he retired in about 2018ish. My mother worked as a nurse, but eventually stopped working to take care of and raise all of us. My siblings and I all went to the same schools together, even up through undergrad.

I went to Claremont High School from 1998 through 2002. I performed well in school and my fondest memories come from running on the cross county and track and field team, where I developed my love for running that I enjoy today. After high school, and for reasons still unknown to me, my siblings and I (including my younger sister a year later) went to the same college — UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara). We were there from 2002 through 2006. I earned my bachelor’s degree in Psychology. It was after college that my siblings and I finally parted out own ways. I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2006. The reason I moved there was because a job in “wilderness therapy” was recommended to me. I worked as a staff at a program that tried to support and rehabilitate adolescents who experienced a range of mental health, behavioral, or substance abuse issues.

I would live out in the woods every other week, and work with rotating staff teams to support these teenagers during their time in the program (usually 3–4 months). After a couple years working in wilderness therapy and later a residential treatment program, I decided to go back to school to get my master’s degree in social work. I was accepted to the University of Utah and was enrolled in the program from 2008 to 2010. I lived in Utah for most of my 20s, from 2006 through 2012. My love for running grew as I enjoyed running on various trails or mountain ranges throughout the beautiful state. I started to sign up for more races as I started to run with friends who were interested in the same — long, grueling but gorgeous running. After graduate school I worked for a therapeutic boarding school and later a substance abuse rehabilitation program with teenagers as an intern social worker. I did that for a couple of years before I decided to move back to California to be closer to my family. *This is where things take a negative turn, and it relates to why I am requesting your services. I am happy to elaborate more on that if you’d like, but it doesn’t make for a positive bio. I spent a couple years in southern California, but eventually made my way up to the Bay Area, where I have lived since 2014. I held a few random jobs from about 2012 through 2014, but returned back to social work in 2016. Since 2016, I have worked in a variety of settings, mostly with aging adults or adults with significant health issues (which also includes issues with substance abuse and complicated psychiatric conditions). Since 2016 I’ve worked as a social worker at a skilled nursing facility (Vasona Creek Health Center), a program called Homebridge (in SF, which aims to provide in-home care to struggling adults and seniors), as an intensive case manager for a nonprofit called the Institute on Aging, and finally for the City and County of SF where I work for a program called In-Home Supportive Services.

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biofunmy · 6 years ago

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He Emerged From Prison a Potent Symbol of H.I.V. Criminalization

Last week, Michael L. Johnson, a former college wrestler convicted of failing to disclose to sexual partners that he was H.I.V. positive in a racially charged case that reignited calls to re-examine laws that criminalize H.I.V. exposure, walked out of the Boonville Correctional Center in Missouri 25 years earlier than expected.

Mr. Johnson, 27, was released on parole on Tuesday after an appeals court found that his 2015 trial was “fundamentally unfair.” His original sentence was longer than the state average for second-degree murder.

Reached by phone two days after his release, Mr. Johnson said he was rediscovering freedom through convenience store snacks, cartoons and his cellphone.

“I’m feeling really, really good,” he said.

But there were periods when he felt intimidated by people who did not believe he had a right to stand up for himself, he added.

His case, which encompasses a half-dozen years of court appearances, unflattering headlines and stints in solitary confinement, has galvanized advocates working to update laws that they say further stigmatize and unfairly penalize people with H.I.V.

Mr. Johnson, who was a black, gay athlete at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., has become a public face of people who are disproportionately affected by the virus and entangled in the criminal justice system. (If current trends continue, about half of all black men who have sex with men in the United States will eventually learn they have H.I.V., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)

Mr. Johnson’s legal troubles began in 2013, when he was arrested after a white man he had had consensual sex with told the police he believed that Mr. Johnson had given him the virus.

Five other men, three of them white, would later testify that Mr. Johnson had not only failed to disclose his H.I.V. status before engaging in consensual sex, but had willfully lied about it.

Mr. Johnson has publicly maintained that he informed all six men he was H.I.V. positive before having sex without a condom.

After a weeklong trial in 2015 in St. Charles County, a conservative, predominantly white area northwest of St. Louis, Mr. Johnson was convicted on multiple felony counts, including recklessly infecting another with H.I.V., which carries a 10-year minimum sentence.

The jury sought the maximum penalty of 60½ years even though prosecutors offered no genetic evidence that Mr. Johnson had infected any of his partners, according to BuzzFeed News.

The judge ultimately sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

Today, some of the people who put him in prison say the sentencing and parts of the prosecution were mishandled.

“We’re still operating under laws that were based on views that are outdated and are proven inaccurate by science,” said Tim Lohmar, the St. Charles County prosecuting attorney, whose office’s handling of the trial has been criticized.

Missouri is one of about 34 states with laws that make it a crime to expose another person to the virus without disclosure or add additional penalties for people with H.I.V. who are convicted of separate offenses, such as sex work, according to the nonprofit Center for H.I.V. Law and Policy. In six states, a person may be required to register as a sex offender if convicted of an H.I.V.-related crime.

Many of these laws were written in the 1980s and 1990s under a fog of fear about the virus and how it was transmitted, and before the advent of effective treatments. In those years, Magic Johnson’s sweat on the basketball court and Greg Louganis’s blood on a diving board panicked fans and teammates. Parents pulled children from school in 1985 because an H.I.V.-positive boy with hemophilia was in their seventh-grade class.

Back then, an H.I.V. diagnosis meant debilitating symptoms and almost certain death.

For the last five years, Steven Thrasher, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, has chronicled Michael L. Johnson’s case for BuzzFeed News and recently completed his doctoral dissertation on race and H.I.V. criminalization.

Dr. Thrasher, who greeted Mr. Johnson outside the correctional facility on Tuesday, said he was first drawn to the case because of its parallels with the history of black sexuality and lynching.

“Black men would just get lynched anytime they had sex with white women in the Reconstruction period,” he said. “There was no consensual sex that could be had between white women and black men.”

Mr. Johnson’s wrestler’s body — he called himself “Tiger Mandingo” online — was a source of fascination for some of his partners. But when Mr. Johnson tested positive for H.I.V., Dr. Thrasher wrote, he became “the perfect scapegoat.”

“It was not that he had no agency or responsibility in the story,” Dr. Thrasher said on Thursday, but “he was really holding all of this anxiety and all of this worry about AIDS and stigma and H.I.V. and queerness in America all on his shoulders.��

Mr. Lohmar, the St. Charles County prosecutor, said on Thursday that “nothing about the trial was unfair,” except for his team’s failure to present certain evidence to the defense in time.

Because prosecutors did not disclose some evidence to the defense until the morning of the trial — recorded phone conversations Mr. Johnson made while in the county jail — an appeals court decided to overturn the conviction 17 months after the original sentencing.

Instead of a new trial, Mr. Johnson, who previously had a clean criminal record, accepted a plea deal in which he did not admit guilt but agreed to a 10-year sentence.

Eric M. Selig, the lawyer who negotiated on Mr. Johnson’s behalf, said the original sentence was disproportionate to the crime.

“We don’t charge people with other incurable diseases, like hepatitis, with a criminal offense for exposing others,” he said.

During his incarceration, Mr. Johnson wrote thank-you notes to friends and strangers who had written to him in support, which he said helped him deal with homophobia in prison and self-doubt.

“You lose your confidence,” he said. “I kept every single letter.”

In theory, H.I.V. exposure laws are meant to encourage H.I.V.-positive individuals to disclose their status before having sex, and to practice safer sex, with the ultimate goal of preventing the spread of the virus.

But there is no evidence that these laws have reduced risky behavior or encouraged disclosure, said Catherine Hanssens, the executive director of the Center for H.I.V. Law and Policy, which provided legal support for Mr. Johnson’s case.

In the eyes of the law, an H.I.V. diagnosis is conflated with malice, she added.

“These laws effectively treat an H.I.V. diagnosis itself as evidence that the person acted with bad intentions when sex or other types of physical contact are involved in a crime,” she said.

Additionally, many laws do not reflect recent treatment options that can give patients a life expectancy almost as long as the general population. A pill taken daily can almost eliminate transmission, experts say. But there remain large barriers to eradicating the virus, including the high cost of antiretroviral drugs, access issues, medical mistrust and other social barriers in poor and black communities.

While some states, like California, have reduced penalties for H.I.V. exposure, Missouri has one of the most punitive laws in the country. This year lawmakers introduced two bills into the Legislature that would have slightly reduced the penalty, but they never made it to a vote.

Mr. Lohmar said he learned of Mr. Johnson’s release after receiving a call from one of the witnesses in the trial, who was upset that he was not notified.

Mr. Johnson said he planned to return to college, learn a second language and share his story through advocacy organizations like the Ryan White Planning Council in Indiana. Younger people especially need to learn about the virus to prevent it from spreading, he said.

“You can’t do it without education.”

Alain Delaquérière contributed research.

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NOTE: I originally published this collection of memories on February 12, 2004. It mostly consists of input from people who knew or knew of Clyde Beatty.

NOTE X 2: I mentioned on Facebook that I’d recently observed a Clyde Beatty Exhibit or Museum in a Bainbridge storefront. A friend sent me this link to the exhibit and its hours of operation. Click HERE.

Bainbridge’s Clyde Beatty

My wife is a black and white game show addict. During the night, when she can’t sleep, she often watches old reruns of What’s My Line, I’ve Got A Secret, etc. When she sees something that I may be interested in, she will frequently record it for me. Last night she was watching a rerun of What’s My Line and the featured “Mr. X” turned out to be Bainbridge’s own Clyde Beatty. If you’re too young to remember Clyde, he was a renowned animal trainer who appeared in several movies and with the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus for many years. I did a little Internet snooping and came up with the following information:

Clyde Beatty was a renowned circus owner and animal trainer known for his daring stunts involving wild beasts. He appeared in several adventure serials and feature films during the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Clyde Beatty Facts: Date of birth, June 10, 1903 Place of birth, Chillicothe, Ohio Date of death, July 19, 1965 Place of death, Ventura, California Cause of death, cancer

Clyde Beatty’s Movie Career: (1953) Perils of the Jungle (1949/1952) Abbott and Costello Double Feature – Africa Screams/ Jack and the Beanstalk (1949) Africa Screams (1936) Darkest Africa (1934) The Lost Jungle Vol 2. Chapters 7-12 (1934) The Lost Jungle Vol 1. Chapters 1-6 (1934) The Lost Jungle Besides movies, Clyde Beatty also appeared in a series of radio programs aimed at children. Titles include: C04241 # 1 The Devil Cat

2 Crisis On The Set

C04242 # 3 Danger Unrehearsed

4 Elephant Stampede

C04243 # 5 Cage Boy

6 Man Eater Of Burma

C04244 # 7 Tiger Escape

8 The Juju Stones

C04245 # 9 Beauty And The Beast #10 Leopard On The Loose

C04246 #11 Dangerous Ambition #12 Contest In Danger

C04254 #33 Daniel In The Lion’s Den #34 Kodiak Killer

C04255 #35 Amazon Adventure #36 Brush With Death

C04256 #37 Land Of The Giants #38 Death In Stateroom B

C04257 #39 The Flying Politos #40 Baquiri Bravery C04260 #45 Mystery Island #46 Wombo’s Strange Pet

C04261 #47 Oklahoma Hoax #48 Arabian Nightmare C04247 #17 Never Trust A Gilly #18 Zombie

C04248 #19 For Children Only #20 The Bear

C04249 #21 The Princess And The Tigress #22 Time Off For Trouble

C04250 #25 Ghost Cat Of Guatemala #26 The King Of Clowns

C04251 #27 The Fabulous Ike #28 Danger In The Deep

C04252 #29 The White Rogue Of Siam #30 The Wild Man From Borneo

C04253 #31 The Marvelous Marvins #32 Jungle Joe C04258 #41 Borneo Devil Beast #42 Caine Courage

C04259 #43 Jungle Medico #44 The Lost City C04263 #51 Adventure In Australia #52 Tiger Town C04262 #49 Hold That Tiger #50 In Search Of A Myth

Evidence exists that there was also a series of Clyde Beatty comic books.

Clyde Beatty’s son, Clyde Junior, has made a name for himself as a designer and builder of quality surfboards in California. To honor his father, several of his designs are named after dad or one of dad’s cats.

Clyde Beatty Circus: The Clyde Beatty Circus was founded by Clyde Beatty (1903-1965), an animal trainer. He formed his own circus in 1945 after touring with several circuses including Hagenbeck-Wallace in his early career. Beatty toured his circus in conjunction with Russell Brothers Pan-Pacific Circus in 1946, then decided to open a show under his name only. In 1956, the circus was sold to the Acme Circus Corporation, and Beatty was hired as a star attraction. In 1957, the Acme Circus Corporation acquired the Cole Bros. name and the show became Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus. Beatty remained the star of the show until his death in 1965.

I found this email exchange (dated 7/3/03) about Beatty on an Internet bulletin board. Question: Does anyone know anything about his origins/ethnic background/real name. His own son thinks that the name is made-up and is not sure of who he might have been really. Death certificates, etc. don’t have any father listed, as is usual. Any ideas? Answer: Clyde Beatty is his REAL name, he was born in Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio….he is the son of Margaret Beatty Tong, his half-sister Madelyn Tong still lives in Bainbridge.. his mother and my grandfather are brother and sister…email me and I will share what info that I have…

Clyde Beatty is buried in Forrest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. I found this photo of his tomb on the Internet.

The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus still exists and has recently been the target of several animal rights activist groups. in August 2003 they were the subject of a suit involving the expulsion of a protester from one of their shows in NYC. I’ll let you decide how serious the charges are, but there exists a multitude of charges against the Cole Bros. circus, as well as most others who maintain troops of animals.

Here’s a bulletin board posting from a person who was an assistant to Clyde Beatty:

Posted by Roger Smith on January 28, 2004: I first saw Clyde Beatty in person in 1947, in Tyler, Texas. I was 4, and remember nothing else about the circus except him. I became his assistant and apprentice in 1964, and have researched him throughout my life. I was surprised to find AFRICA SCREAMS had slipped into the public domain, and anyone can sell copies. But I have a good one. Beatty’s wry observation about Costello’s on-set prank of throwing pies into everyone’s face, except Beatty’s was, “The little bum didn’t dare.” Lucky for Lou. Mr. Beatty was likable but unassailable.

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Your list of Clyde’s movies includes “The Lost Jungle” twice, and omits “Ring of Fear” (1954), “Here Comes the Circus” (1946) and “Cat College” (1940). Curiously, the Internet Movie Database imdb.com only credits Clyde as a technical advisor on “Ring of Fear”, although he gets top billing. Of little interest to the general public, Bro. Beatty was a Freemason, initiated into Craftsman Lodge No. 521, Detroit.

Trevor W. McKeown, GH, [ [email protected] ], 2007

From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 12:07 PM

Subject: Armstrong-Beatty relationship

Dear Sir: My Great Grandmother Myrtle (Cork) Armstrong, born and raised in Bainbridge, almost raised Clyde Beatty as a young man and was best friends with my Grandfather, Tom Armstrong in Bainbridge. After a long trip, he would spend Sunday evenings with the family for dinner. My Mother (still alive and daughter of Tom) said he would take off his shirt and there was not a place on his back without a scar from claw marks. My Best Regards, Don Dewey, Saint Augustine, Florida.

From: Lori Badry [ mailto:[email protected] ] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007, 11:55 PM

What are Clyde’s ties to Peru, Indiana?

From: Bob Good [ mailto:[email protected] ] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:40 PM

Subject: comic book

I have one he gave me. There were definitely comic books.

I just found this website and decided I should tell a little about Clyde Beatty. Roger Smith, Dave Price, and others knew my Dad and knew of his close friendship with Clyde. He used to stay at our home in the 1950s and ’60s while showing in Allentown. It was always a great occasion to have Clyde around. He was a peppy, upbeat type of guy when he was around us. I was a teenager at that time and I used to bet on fights with Clyde. He loved sports.

My Dad became friends with Clyde in the ’20s when he was on the Hagenbeck Wallace show. They were both the same age and Clyde enjoyed visiting my grandfather’s drug store and eating ice cream. Harriet and Jane were both friends of my parents. I have a picture of Clyde holding me at about a year or so in the backyard of his show. That is the first show I ever saw so they say!

If you would like more information perhaps from time to time I can tell some Clyde Beatty stories. Bob Good [ mailto:[email protected] ] 2007

Clyde was born in the home of Dr. John Little of Cynthiana. His mother was a domestic worker. My wife, a granddaughter of Dr. Little Jr., heard this from her grandmother. Mother and child left shortly afterward. Your picture of Clyde is a dead ringer for my father – in – law. John S Pelzer, 2007, [ [email protected] ]

Hello, I enjoyed seeing your website on Clyde Beatty. I hope you can clear up something from one of my earliest memories. My dad took me to see Clyde Beatty sometime between 1949 and 1953 in Tacoma, Washington. My memory is that he was attacked by one of his cats that day, bloodied a bit, but he got up to control the cat, get it through the gate and turned to take a bow before leaving for treatment. A couple of guys helped him by prodding the cat with poles, but he got up to resume control. Did this happen, or did I imagine it? I don’t recall whether the lion or the tiger was the troublemaker. I was about 4 or 5. If you can clear up this mystery for me, I’d be most grateful.

Sincerely,

Bill Ransom, [email protected], http://www.sfwa.org/members/ransom 8/2/05

Hello, Clyde Beatty is the son of Margaret Beatty Tong, late of Bainbridge, Ohio. My grandfather Charles Beatty Sr. was a brother to Margaret. I spent many a time looking at pics of Clyde taken with his famous cats at my Dad’s Uncle Frank’s house, Frank is Margaret & Charles brother. Margaret was very secretive over who Clyde’s father was. Those in the family who knew would never reveal his identity. I was always proud to tell people that Clyde Beatty was my cousin. I have been in correspondence with Mr. Smith who was his assistant, who stated he was one of the finest men he ever the privilege of knowing. I do remember meeting Clyde one time when I was a young girl growing up in Greenfield., when he visited his Uncle Frank & Aunt Velma Beatty who resided on Milburn St. If in my research of the Beatty family I turn up any more info on Clyde Beatty I will gladly share it. Thanks. Karen Beatty Gander [email protected] 2/13/04

It was either 1947 or 1948. I was working at a radio station in Billings, MT (my first job out of college) when the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus came to town. Since we were the local radio station most visiting organizations came to the station for a publicity interview. Since I was the announcer on duty that day the chore fell on me to conduct the interview. Well, knowing of Clyde Beatty and being from Greenfield I jumped at the chance. I met Clyde in the studio about 15 minutes before we were to go on the air just to get acquainted with one another. And I asked him where he was from and he told me he was from Chillicothe, Ohio. I looked at him and said that I thought he was from Bainbridge and got a very startled reaction from him. I then told him I was from Greenfield and we had a great interview then and there. We discovered we mutually knew several families in the Bainbridge-Greenfield area and I also told him that we were probably very distant cousins. My Great-Grandmother (Maria Beatty McCann) was from Bainbridge also. This episode is one of the many highlights in my radio and television career and one I had cherished throughout the years. Thanks for the article on Clyde Beatty. Robert McCann Zeeck [email protected] 2/13/04

We published a full-length article on Clyde Beatty in the July-August 2002 issue of Timeline, the Ohio Historical Society’s popular-history magazine. The article also features numerous illustrations. For more information, contact [email protected] or visit the OHS Website: http://www.ohiohistory.org. Christopher S. Duckworth, [email protected] 2/28/04

Hello and a question,

My name is Steve and I live in Santa Cruz California. I can’t tell you how impressed I was with your web page and quality of your research on Clyde Beatty.

I got to see his act and his circus 5-6 times in the late ’50s and early ’60s at Palisades Amusement Park in NJ, near Manhattan.

I would like to share an anecdote that occurred, in a promotional effort. It is very impressive. In approximately 1956, Clyde’s circus would perform on the parking lot of Palisades Amusement Park in the spring. It coincided with the Ringling Brothers Circus in Madison Sq. Garden in midtown Manhattan. In a publicity stunt, Palisades Amusement Park’s PR guy connected with a publicity stunt: They had an elephant water ski (on pontoons, pulled by a high-speed craft, and had a showgirl on its back) across the Hudson River to 42nd street and up to the George Washington Bridge.

I have interviewed the PR guy almost 12 times, he is 79 and at this point, a warm friend. He was convinced it was 1956, and the date was April 17, the opening day for Major League baseball. Well, in lieu of him opening his records in storage, this is an incorrect date. Life Magazine apparently bought the photo from International News Photos or from the NY Daily Mirror.

I contacted the Bergen Record and every Life/Look magazine for 1956. It is not this year.

Do you know anything about this water skiing elephant? Can you direct me to someone who might pull out some archives on it or has a passion for Clyde Beatty as we do?

I am most appreciative, I can share all the details for your web page at any time. I am in need of a date and a picture of it for my project. Thanks.

Steve Balbo, [email protected] 6/28/2004

Hi, I enjoyed your piece on Clyde Beatty. I was a circus billposter for nine years in my youth and spent four of those years on the advance of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus 1960-1963. I wonder if you might have seen our exhibit when my wife and I brought part of our Clyde Beatty collection to the Fall Festival of Leaves in Bainbridge five times (1978, 1979, 1984, 1986 and 1988)?

I am attaching a couple of pictures of our little collection here at home. We wanted to move to Bainbridge years ago and open a museum but unfortunately, neither of us could find a job near there. This was in the late 1970s when the area was very depressed.

I am happy to see that you have Mr. Beatty’s birth date correct. Many writers list it wrong, but I wrote his mother back in the 1950s and she said he was born June 10, 1903. But, he was born in Bainbridge rather than Chillicothe. The stories written about him often said Chillicothe, I assume because they thought most people wouldn’t recognize the name, Bainbridge.

Anyway, thanks for the nice article. I like to see Mr. Beatty remembered; so many have forgotten him.

Regards,

Dave Price, 12/06/2004

Clyde Beatty – Bainbridge’s King of the Big Top! NOTE: I originally published this collection of memories on February 12, 2004. It mostly consists of input from people who knew or knew of Clyde Beatty.

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