Posted on 06/03/2002 5:16:38 AM PDT by GailA
I goofed in the early post it's OC Smith..not Pleasant. Our Election commissioner is OC Pleasant.
Smith said at the time that he had not received any letters himself but was taking the threats "very seriously."
Workman's attorneys had challenged the validity of Smith's ballistics and laboratory tests. Smith said the tests proved Workman's bullet killed Memphis police Lt. Ronald Oliver in 1981.
In one letter, the writer called Smith a liar and said, "Long have I waited for my HOLY ORDER to fight against the DOCTOR-KILLER abortionists but now I know OUR LORD was saving me for something larger."
I posted my theory about this yesterday, but no one seemed to think it had much relation:
Medical Examiner Attacked, Tied to Bomb Outside Office [Memphis, again!] |
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Posted by cgk to KissOfTheSith On News/Activism Jun 2 1:14 PM #28 of 62 In some article I read by Jim Garrison -- the real life DA from NO Stone made JFK about -- Garrison asserted that when "the Establishment" wanted to infiltrate and "control" an area, they would make it a priority to get one of "their people" in the position of medical examiner because the position has so much power in a real world way. The position can label deaths accidental/murder, etc. Perhaps there's more to this guy than meets the eye... Here's another story, significant only because the accused murderer's birthday is the day Smith was attacked: Saturday, June 1st.: They are accusing the Shelby County medical examiner of purposefully withholding evidence that could have helped them defend Workman."That X-ray was absent from the record for one reason: the Medical Examiner's Office suppressed it," the attorneys wrote yesterday in the motion to reopen the case. Dr. O.C. Smith, Shelby County medical examiner, did not return a request for comment yesterday. from this Death Row Inmate's Case History page, which I neither support, nor am against... just remember it from Court TV: Interesting coincidence, if that's all it is. I wonder how much more can be found about Smith? Mrs Kus Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies |
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Posted by cgk to KissOfTheSith On News/Activism Jun 2 1:24 PM #31 of 62 I forgot this one in the last post: With drama befitting a John Grisham novel, the day before their client's last-chance clemency hearing, Minton and Dorsey uncovered a missing autopsy X-ray taken by the Memphis/Shelby County medical examiner, O.C. Smith. He says that he just forgot about the X-ray's existence, and that it "just got lost" over years of refiling. Monday, 10 out of the 12 jurors went on record saying they would not have recommended the death penalty knowing the new information. from Salon News:Dead Man Talking Mrs Kus Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies |
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Could the letter calling Smith a liar possibly be referring to, in his own words, forgetting & losing an x-ray crucial to the case, even the jurors' decision? Just another theory to throw out there. Mrs Kus |
The mob [*outfit* in the environs where I worked in the newspaper racket] is not at all so generally disposed, but has cooperated in the past with US Government intelligence agencies requiring either local talent or no direct links to a death that may be required, as with that of Fidel Castro at the hands of former Havana casino operators, or of Martin Luther King by crooked cops on the payroll of the Carlos Marcello family of New Orleans...which took place in Memphis. Just a coincidence, I'm sure....
I could also well imagine that the mob, which has long held interests in certain legitimate businesses such as hotels, waste removal and the liquor distribution business might easily diversify into pharmaceuticals, and at least one way of preventing a breakthrough advantage by a competitor might be to remove the individual responsible for that advance, if he could not be bought off. Do you reckon that Dr. Wiley was the sort of fella who could have been bought off easily? If not, a local cop on the outfit's payroll could have handled the job neatly, and that might easily explain the Memphis PD determination to write off the physician's disappearance as a suicide or accident.
Such a drastic step would of course not be likely if but a few thousand dollars were involved, though certainly men have been murdered for less, but if a multimillion-dollar breakthrough drug or treatment were involved, I might be wary about selling life insurance to those involved.
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And of course, of the Secret Service agent killed that day as well.
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See also this related news story/announcement. *Just a coincidence, I'm sure....*
A research establishment, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, comes out with a breakthrough, just shortly after a leading researcher at a facility working along similar lines elsewhere is killed while away from his home area where a more exhaustive investigation might have been demanded by his family, friends and neighbors. And he's one of 15 or so in the world who meets a similar end in the last half year. After the recent terrorist/ post office anthrax scare, how much do you think an anthrax *cure* or preventative medicine might be worth? Millions? Certainly. Billions? Over the long run, almost certainly.
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