[piasa]

I think this is it
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943322/posts

[Fedora]

Thanks, I am pretty sure Thompson was one of the characters I had in mind, though I may be conflating him with another similar incident around the same time--wasn't there a Wilkerson/Wilkinson thing, too?

BTW an update on Thompson, who has crawled back out of the woodwork: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/57068