Posted on 09/17/2004 9:42:16 AM PDT by kcvl
Coming up at 12:00 Central Time on Fox News
So, what happened at noon? i'm stuck at the office.
WATCHING!
Thanks, Howlin!
DO.....NOT......SEEK........THE TREASURE!!!
It is about the book Stolen Valor and how some vietnam vets lied about war atrocities and CBS did the story without checking the facts in 1988.
all these worlds...
Patrick Sherill
The worst post office massacre took place on 20 August 1986, at Edmond, Oklahoma.
Patrick ‘Sandy’ Sherill, a forty-four-year-old part-time postal worker attached to the main post office in this suburb of Oklahoma County, had been warned the day before his killing spree that he was facing a dismissal for unsatisfactory work. It was not the first time Sherill had been in trouble, and reports from the postal authorities claimed that he had already been under suspension once in the year since he joined as a postman in 1985.
Sherill was always prepared to tell anybody that with an inclination to listen that he was a Vietnam veteran, which was quite untrue. However, he was a member of the Oklahoma National Guard, and a considerable marksman with their competition team. In this position of trust, Pat Sherill was able to withdraw guns from the ONG arsenal for the purpose of entering shooting competitions, and on 5 April 1986 he borrowed a .45-calibre automatic pistol. On 10 August he borrowed another, identical, weapon and three hundred rounds of ammunition.
On the hot Wednesday morning of 20 August, Patrick Sherill, wearing his regulation postman’s uniform, drove to work as usual, taking with him the two .45s plus his own .22-calibre handgun and the ammunition. He walked towards the post office, stopping just once to shoot dead a fellow-worker who was crossing the car park, before passing through the employees’ entrance into the single storey building. After locking several doors in order to maximise his kill, Sherill began, in the words of the police, ‘shooting people as though they were sitting ducks’. Although FBI marksmen were deployed around the building after an employee escaped and raised the alarm, Sherill refused to speak to the specially trained siege negotiators.
When the police eventually stormed the building they found the bodies of fourteen men and women, and seven other badly wounded victims. Patrick Sherill lay dead where he had put a single bullet through his own head, his arsenal of guns and ammunition beside him.
Thanks! Watching now. Glena Whitley is co-author of Stolen Valor, isn't she?
Oh, good. Liz Trotta on now!
The National Review wrote an excellent article about this very CBS story from 1988 that is being reported on now by Vester.
It was heart wrenching. Vietnam vets said they saw friends walk deliberately into helicopters to kill themselves. They skinned innocent Vietnamese alive. They snuck into villages and killed women and children and made it look like the North Vietnamese did it.
The only problem is that not one of those guys in the CBS 1988 special had even been in Vietnam.
an episode of 60 Minutes entitled "The Wall Within" reported that a disturbingly high number of Vietnam veterans had become homeless scavengers in the forests of Washington State. Thanks to Burkett's and Whitley's annotated case-by-case corrections to these stories, CBS's credibility takes a substantive hit.
Trotta is good!
Putting the smackdown on Mike Wallace over a phony 'Nam vet who was actually a clerk on Okinawa...
This is just sickening.
CBS is dead.
"Likewise, an episode of 60 Minutes entitled "The Wall Within" reported that a disturbingly high number of Vietnam veterans had become homeless scavengers in the forests of Washington State. Thanks to Burkett's and Whitley's annotated case-by-case corrections to these stories, CBS's credibility takes a substantive hit."
"Film at 11."
That film is on old and on a perpetual loop.
The log lady killed Laura Palmer, then danced with the midget.
Is that the same Burkett?
Well I suppose it only goes downhill from there.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.