[Albion Wilde]

I was at that Earth Day and sitting not far from him while he made his self-adoring countercultural speech, pictured at the link. One of my friends even introduced me to him, and he was so far up his own backside, he just expected me to be enthralled with him, which I wasn't.

Even though I was vaguely in favor of clean air and clean water and a good time sitting on a blanket in Belmont Plateau overlooking the City and listening to rock music with a bunch of other young people, I thought he was a disgusting creep, and the poster boy for self-righteous dirty hippie/politico anti-establishment obnoxiousness. I wasn't at all surprised that he turned out to be a homocidal maniac.

What this story doesn't detail is the incredible tenacity of Lynne Abraham, the Philadelpia Assistant District Attorney and later the District Attorney, who fought like a tiger with the powers that be in France and the U.S. to get this monster extradited.

[Albion Wilde]

See post 28.

[george76]

Thank you for your report.

Thanks for Lynne Marsha Abraham’s incredible tenacity, too.

In 1988, Fred Maddux, the once proud and gregarious ex-member of the 82nd Airborne that had parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, took his own life.

“He was depressed and angry,” says daughter Buffy. “He just finally gave up...

[Prov1322]

I wondered if you had any interactions with him back at that time...since you were so connected! GOD is so good in protecting us from those who would have planned evil for us.

Never understood why people were drawn to or would fawn all over him. My only guess is that he supplied people with supplements...natural and earth-friendly, of course!