-Caveat Lector- "Mental illness" or mind control?
+++++++ Thanksgiving Day Massacre, Reno, 1980. Priscilla Ford had a long history of psychiatric problems and bizarre behavior, marked by such quixotic acts as suing the Mormon Church and attempting to speak at the 1972 Republican Convention. The capper came on the Thanksgiving afternoon when she got even with the City of Reno. In front of the downtown casinos, she steered her black 1974 Lincoln onto a crowded sidewalk and mowed down the crowds of holiday gamblers and gambolers. She left six dead and 23 injured in her wake. Pulled over a few blocks later, she told police, "Sometimes I am called Jesus Christ." She later expressed a fervent hope that she'd nailed 75 people, and explained the voice of Joan (Mrs. Edward) Kennedy had told her to do it. Nonetheless, she was found legally sane and duly convicted of murder. ++++++ http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2000/Mar-27-Mon-2000/news/13228386.html Driver who killed seven in Reno awaits fate on death row CARSON CITY -- As legal proceedings are under way in Las Vegas against the motorist who drove the minivan that killed six members of a youth work crew, the case of another woman sentenced to death for running over more than two dozen pedestrians in Reno remains in limbo. Priscilla Ford, 71, has an appeal of her case pending in U.S. District Court. On Thanksgiving Day 1980, Ford intentionally drove her Lincoln Continental onto a crowded sidewalk, killing six immediately. A seventh victim died later. Twenty-two others were injured. Ford was convicted in March 1982 of six counts of murder and 23 counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to death. Appeals and questions about her mental competency have delayed Ford's execution. She is the only woman on death row in Nevada. Immediately after her arrest, Ford referred to herself as Christ and the people she ran down as beasts and pigs. At her original trial, she said she was the Holy Spirit and began life as Adam. Ford is incarcerated at the Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility in North Las Vegas while her case proceeds through the federal court system. ==== Mass Murderers: Ford, Priscilla Joyce (killed: 6) Posted on Monday, April 16 @ 09:30:54 GMT Feb. 10, 1929 - Priscilla Ford is born in Berren Springs, Michigan. 1957 - Ford, with only a high school education, takes a job as teacher in a one-room school house Dowagiac, Mich. School board officials are at first skeptical of Ford's abilities and nervous because she is the first black teacher in the area. But they are soon singing her praises as a gifted, caring teacher. She keeps the job for more than seven years and earns a bachelor's degree in education in 1966. 1970 - Family and friends report Ford's behavior has become increasingly bizarre. She reports seeing her dead husband across the street from her home in Buffalo, N.Y. and talks about having the soul of Adam and Jesus Christ. 1972 - Ford's son returns from the Army and reports she is delusional and an alcoholic. 1973 - Ford, now living in Reno, voluntarily commits herself to the Nevada Mental Health Institute, where she is treated and released. The diagnosis: passive-aggressive personality with hysterical episodes. 1974 - Ford is arrested for trespassing and is again sent for a mental health evaluation. Her daughter, Wynter Scott, 11, is taken away by social workers and placed in Wittenberg Hall. Ford considers her daughter a kidnapping victim. Ford moves back to New York, where she seeks help from Catholic Charities in Buffalo. A nun describes her as delusional. 1978 - Ford is treated at a mental hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho. 1979 Ford is treated at a mental hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., where she is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. May 1980 - Now living in Maine, Ford asks an attorney for help in getting her daughter back. She allegedly tells the lawyer that if she isn�t helped, she will "drive across the state and kill every body she saw along the way." November 1980 - Ford, en route to San Francisco, stops in Reno to cash a check and decides to remain in the city. She gets a temporary job as a package wrapper at Macy's. Nov. 27, 1980 - Ford goes on a five-block-Thanksgiving-Day-rampage in her 1974 Lincoln, killing six people and injuring 23. Arrested at the scene, she later tells a jailer she "did what she had to do" and that the people she hit were "just pigs, animals let out in a wild place." She is indicted in December on six counts of murder and 23 counts of attempted murder. January 1981 - A judge orders that Ford receive mental health treatment so that she will be competent for trial. She pleads not guilty by reason of insanity in August 1981. March 20, 1982 - A jury of seven men and five women find Ford guilty on all counts. She is sentenced to death on March 29 and says "I would like to be left alone to die in peace." For the next 18 years Ford goes through appeals process while she remains in death row in Ely, Nevada. +++++++ MARtin F. ABErnathy ---- [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --- 03/21/02 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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