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http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-4225 (this is part of a transcript that Pat Ramsey did - she talks about the Amerikids Pageant in 1996 just before Christmas - she is PR: below)

TD: I am particularly interested in the Amerikids performance, and that was only a few days before Christmas, right?

PR: (nodding)

TD: A short period before Christmas?

PR: This was which one, at the mall?

TD: That’s the Southwest Plaza Mall?

PR: Right.

TD: Is that out in the open? Are there walkways at the mall?

PR: It was an atrium sort of an area, in the mall. Where they apparently had activities going on.

TD: Right so people that are shopping in the mall can walk by and see the show?

PR: Correct.

TD: So that was offered to anybody just walking by?

PR: Right.

TD: So there wasn’t any sense of – there wasn’t any security and control of who was observing this particular performance?

PR: Uh-uh.

TD: In other words, anyone walking by and they saw JonBenet, could they find out who she was and where she lived?

PR: I don’t think so. No.

TD:… Did JonBenet ever complain of anyone at the pageant, did she ever tell you somebody bothered her?

PR: No.

TD: Anybody act peculiar around her show?

PR: No.

TD: She was also in the Christmas parade, right?

PR: Uh-hum.

TD: She was on a float with a couple of other girls?

PR: Yes, it was a car.

TD: Okay. Oh, she was sitting in a car?

PR: Yeah.

TD: Was her name displayed anywhere?

PR: Yes.

TD: And who was she in the car with?

PR: My car with the driver, it was a BMW, and JonBenet- and I wasn’t there, I was in New York at the time, John and I were out of town, but my parents took her, and there were these little girls from Amerikids.

TD: So there were maybe four or five girls?

PR: Yes.

TD: Sitting up on the back of the beemer?

PR: Yeah, right. I can’t remember their names. I would if I saw a picture somewhere.

TD: Okay, now were all of their names displayed on the side of the car?

PR: I believe so?

TD: Okay.

TH: How about birthday, Christmas, any time of the year JonBenet had been sick, had she gotten any get well cards, birthday cards, Christmas cards? I mean not a family, a regular, somebody that you would expect to have her get a card from? I know that’s covering a lot of territory, but –

PR: Well, the only one that comes to mind is a letter that she – after we had come home from the lake, there was, you know, some mail there and there was a letter from Bill McReynolds.

TH: That was in ’96?

PR: Uh huh, in ’96.

TH: At the end of the summer then?

PR: Right?

TH: Okay.

PR: And of course, I opened it and it said that he was – I believe he was about to go into the hospital for open heart surgery, some kind of pretty major surgery, and he was going to take along with him, the bottle of sprinkle dust, prayer dust that she had given him when he was at our house at Christmastime, and –

TH: Christmas 95?

PR: The previous year, right. And just that meant a lot to him, and I guess he just wanted us to know he was going to surgery. I mean I thought – I mean I was surprised that he was going into surgery and I thought it sweet that he sent us a card.

TH: Announcing his surgery or –

PR: Yeah. I Kind of got the feeling like if I don’t make it through surgery and I don’t see you again, I always enjoyed being with you all, you know, something like that.

TH: But it was addressed to –

PR: JonBenet.

TH: JonBenet?

PR: Well, I don’t remember exactly whether it was- was written to me or to her or –