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