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from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2006 2:16 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 3/6/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I walked down to a lake, but the lake was fenced off. There was a chain link fence surrounding the lake and I could only look at it. The lake looked familar, Greason maybe, but I also recognized some CDA features. Some other stuff happened around the lake I can't quite remember. There were a few people there I didn't know, the people I think of as familiar strangers, they look like they know me but I don't know them.
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 3 – Correlation of Forces
MOSCOW, R.S.F.S.R.
"How are we to go about it?" Rozhkov asked.
"Red Storm," the Marshal replied simply. Red Storm was the plan for a mechanized attack into West Germany and the Low Countries. Constantly updated for changes in the force structures of both sides, it called for a two-to three-week campaign commencing after a rapid escalation of tension between East and West. Despite this, in accordance with standard Soviet strategic doctrine, it called for strategic surprise as a precondition for success, and the use of conventional weapons only.
"At least they aren't talking about atomic arms." Rozhkov grunted. Other plans with other names applied to different scenarios, including many for the use of tactical and even strategic nuclear arms, something no one in uniform wished to contemplate. Despite all the saber-rattling of their political masters, these professional soldiers knew all too well that the use of nuclear arms made only for ghastly uncertainties. "And the maskirovka?"
"In two parts. The first is purely political, to work against the United States. The second part, immediately before the war begins, is from KGB. You know it, from KGB Group Nord. We reviewed it two years ago."
Rozhkov grunted. Group Nord was an ad hoc committee of KGB department chiefs, first assembled by then-chief of the KGB Yuri Andropov in the mid-1970s. Its purpose was to research means of splitting the NATO alliance, and in general to conduct political and psychological operations aimed at undermining Western will. Its specific plan to shake the NATO military and political structure in preparation for a shooting war was Nord's proudest example of legerdemain. But would it work?
The two senior officers shared an ironic look. Like most professional soldiers, they distrusted spies and all their plans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Force_Reconnaissance
United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance
The Force Reconnaissance Companies (abbreviated as either 'Force Recon' or FORECON), are one of the United States Marine Corps's special operations "capable" forces that provide pertinent military intelligence to the command element of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF); supporting the landing or joint task force commanders, and their subordinate operating units of the Fleet Marine Force (FMF), either the expeditionary/amphibious forces of the Pacific (FMFPac), or Atlantic (FMFLant).
Green Operations
The principal mission of Force Recon is reconnaissance, to collect any pertinent intelligence of military importance, observe, identify and report adversaries to MAGTF commanders. Like Division Recon (also known as the Marine Recon Battalions), they imply a mixed element of amphibious reconnaissance and ground reconnaissance. These missions are known as green operations. This practice fundamentally covers a wide spectrum of reconnaissance but primarily the FORECON operators conduct deep reconnaissance.
File:USMC - Divers Insignia.png, from internet
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/unthinkable_2.html
tru TV
By Rachel Pergament
The Letter
It was a mild October night in Union. Susan had been driving around for the last hour, trying to calm herself. She drove along Highway 49 and followed the signs to John D. Long Lake. Before driving to the lake on this evening, she had never before been there. Susan preferred to take her sons to the pond at Foster Park, which was closer to her home. At Foster Park, Susan and her sons would feed breadcrumbs to the ducks.
Once she arrived at the shore of John D. Long Lake, Susan drove across a portion of the seventy-five-foot boat ramp and parked in the middle of the ramp. The ramp was unpaved and consisted of gravel and stones. Susan sat quietly behind the wheel of her 1990 burgundy Mazda Protégé, listening to the sounds of her two young sons sleeping. Michael, her oldest son had celebrated his third birthday two weeks earlier and Alex was fourteen months old. Susan was twenty-three, with long, sandy blond hair that she tied in a ponytail. She wore wire-rimmed glasses and was in the best physical shape she had been in since before becoming pregnant with Michael.
Susan shifted the Mazda into neutral and felt the car slowly begin to roll down the remaining length of the boat ramp. The car only traveled a few yards before Susan stepped on the brake. With a shift tug, Susan pulled the emergency hand brake, stopping the car from further rolling forward. She opened her door and stepped out of the car. Susan stood outside of her car, on the boat ramp, on the banks of John D. Long Lake and thought about suicide. Susan looked around and saw only black. The lake was not illuminated and she stood alone thinking about her life. The darkness and loneliness of the deserted lake mirrored how Susan felt.
Susan wanted relief from her loneliness and the problems in her life. Susan and her husband, David, were in the middle of a divorce and her boyfriend, Tom Findlay, had just rejected her the week before. She wanted to commit suicide, but she did not want her sons to suffer. Susan believed if she killed her sons first and then committed suicide, that her sons would suffer less, rather than if she committed suicide and left them on their own. Yet, something was stopping her from surrendering to her depression and loneliness. She did not want to commit suicide, what she wanted was relief from all the stresses and burdens that overwhelmed her. She felt that her life was filled with loss and rejection, and that the responsibilities of being a single mother were overwhelming.
Susan's next decision will never be forgotten. Attempts to explain it will always fall short and continue to leave the question "why?" open to further speculation.
Susan Smith released the emergency brake and softly closed the driver's side door. Michael and Alex were asleep in the back seat, strapped into their car seats. As the car drifted into John D. Long Lake, the headlights were on. The car entered the water slowly and did not submerge immediately. Instead, it remained on the surface, bobbing peacefully, while slowly filling with water.
Susan watched the car submerge into the lake. She turned away from the sinking car and began to run toward a small house. The story that Susan would tell would capture the nation's sympathy. Susan's story would also raise doubts in some and cause a community to question some of its own citizens, based solely on the race of those citizens.
After the truth was revealed, many would try to imagine the thoughts running through Susan Smith's head the night of October 25, 1994, when she took the lives of her children.
From 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 12985 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/22/2001 ( premiere US TV series episode "Seven Days"::"Born in the USSR" ) is 12985 days
From 11/11/1969 ( premiere US film "Doppelgänger" ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 11/4/1962 ( John F. Kennedy, 35th President of USA: Statement by the President on the Conclusion of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in the Pacific ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From 9/26/1971 ( Susan Smith ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 2/24/2022 ( ) To 11/4/2024 ( Susan Smith eligible for parole in South Carolina ) is 984 days
984 = 492 + 492
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/9/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Devil in the Dark" ) is 492 days
From 5/22/1991 ( premiere US film "Backdraft" ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 11236 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/7/1996 ( Bill Clinton, 42nd President of USA: Remarks on the Possible Discovery of Life on Mars and an Exchange With Reporters ) is 11236 days
From 5/2/1945 ( the Berlin city garrison surrenders to Soviets ) To 8/24/2001 ( premiere US film "Ghosts of Mars" & the Microsoft antitrust proceedings by Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ) is 20568 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 20568 days
From 4/21/1926 ( Britain's Queen Elizabeth II - from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my biological genetic paternal grandmother ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere US film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 20568 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 20568 days
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-24-22-intl/h_6b42ef21fbc2684426583983fdd94d8e
CNN
Russia invades Ukraine
By Aditi Sangal, Meg Wagner, Adrienne Vogt, Melissa Macaya, Rob Picheta, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Ed Upright, Maureen Chowdhury and Fernando Alfonso III, CNN
Updated 4:28 p.m. ET, February 24, 2022
It's 11 p.m. in Kyiv. Here's where things stand as the Russian invasion continues.
From CNN's Aditi Sangal and Maureen Chowdhury
The tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalated after Russian forces invaded Ukraine from three sides, while explosions rang through a number of cities, including the capital Kyiv, in a broad attack that began before dawn on Thursday. The West condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for this invasion.
What happened overnight
CNN teams heard explosions in and near multiple Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, the second-largest city Kharkiv, Odessa, and distant firing from Zaporizhzhia. Images released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office showed large explosions to the east of the capital Kyiv with huge columns of smoke rising into the air.
Ukrainian officials said more than 40 soldiers and as many as 10 civilians had been killed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began shortly before dawn.
The Devil In The Dark [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 9 Mar, 1967
(from internet transcript)
[Cavern]
SPOCK: Murder. Of thousands. Devils! Eternity ends. The chamber of the ages. The altar of tomorrow! Murderers! Stop them. Kill! Strike back! Monsters!
(McCoy runs in)
MCCOY: What in the name of? What is Spock doing?
KIRK: It's wounded. Badly. You've got to help it.
MCCOY: Help that?
KIRK: Go take a look.
(McCoy kneels by the wound and gets out his tricorder.)
SPOCK: The end of life. Murderers.
MCCOY: You can't be serious. That thing is virtually made out of stone!
KIRK: Help it. Treat it.
MCCOY: I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer.
KIRK: You're a healer. There's a patient. That's an order. Mister Spock. Tell it we're trying to help. The mechanism.
SPOCK: Understood. It is the end of life. Eternity stops. Go out into the tunnel. To the chamber of the ages. Cry for the children. Walk carefully in the vault of tomorrow. Sorrow for the murdered children. The thing you search for is there. Go. Go. Sadness. Sadness for the end of things.
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Storm-Rising-Tom-Clancy/dp/0399131493
amazon
Red Storm Rising [Hardcover]
Tom Clancy (Author)
Product Details
Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition edition (August 7, 1986)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1385857.Red_Storm_Rising
goodreads
Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy's second classic No 1 bestselling thriller -- a chillingly authentic vision of modern war -- now reissued in a new cover. Three Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petrochemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom. What they had done, unknowingly, was fire the first shots in World War III. Desperately short of oil, the Kremlin hawks see only one way of solving their problem: seize supplies in the Persian Gulf. To do that, they must first neutralise NATO's forces and eliminate their response -- and so they develop Red Storm, a dazzling master plan of diplomatic subterfuge and intense rearmament.
Hardcover, 656 pages
Published August 7th 1986 by Putnam Publishing Group
https://public.doc.state.sc.us/scdc-public/inmateDetails.do?id=%2000221487
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101393/quotes
IMDb
Backdraft (1991)
Quotes
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?
RED STORM RISING
Tom Clancy
PRINTING HISTORY
G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition / August 1986
Berkley mass-market edition / August 1987
The camera closed in. "Falken" was reading in a monotone from a script, his eyes seldom rising to the cameras. Behind the glasses on one side was a large bruise. His hands shook slightly when he changed pages of the script.
"Looks like they beat up on him some," Lowe observed.
"Interesting," Toland replied. "They're letting us know that they work people over."
Lowe snorted. "A guy who blows little kids up? You can burn the bastard at the stake, and who'll give a good Goddamn? Some serious thought went into this, my friend."
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950728&slug=2133742
The Seattle Times
Friday, July 28, 1995
Vastly Different Pictures Painted Of Susan Smith
By Jesse J. Holland
AP
UNION, S.C. - Life in prison with the memories of her two drowned boys is torment enough for Susan Smith, her lawyer told jurors today, after a prosecutor portrayed her as a selfish, manipulative killer who should be executed.
"You have a choice, and you can make a better choice than what she made," defense lawyer David Bruck told jurors during closing arguments in the sentencing phase of the trial.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/phase_10.html
tru TV
By Rachel Pergament
The prosecution showed the jury two-videotape re-enactments of Susan Smith's burgundy Mazda rolling down the boat ramp and into the water. During the showing of the videotape of the car filling with water, Prosecutor Keith Giese commented that the rear of the car was rising while the front of the car was filling with water and that Michael and Alex would have faced the lake's water before the water engulfed them. The videotape re-enactment of Susan's Mazda submerging into the lake showed that it took a full six minutes for the car to fill with water before it became completely submerged, because the car's doors and windows were closed.
On Wednesday, July 27, 1995 the prosecution showed the jury pictures taken of Michael and Alex after they had been removed from the Mazda. Judge Howard only allowed photographs showing the brothers' discolored and decomposing legs and arms. The judge would not allow several photos showing the full effects of the nine-day submersion to be shown to the jury. After the presentation of the photos, the prosecution rested its case
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 11:05 PM Sunday, May 22, 2011
Bat*21 (1988)
For most of the morning earlier today and through the afternoon I had been thinking about something that I was thinking happened in the year 1995. These are new thoughts that only started happening earlier today. The line of thought is that I, as Kerry Burgess, was in court of law of the United States and I was there in my capacity at the time as a Chief Deputy United States Marshal. I tripped up the scumbag defense lawyer right from the start and, to make a long story short, after we returned from a private meeting with the judge, who called us in for the private meeting, and remembering how that scumbag lawyer always stood at a certain place near where the witness left the stand, I left the witness stand after we had returned to court and I walked towards him and then with a full shoulder throw I threw my fist and I knocked him out right there in the court. The judge had earlier warned me of being in contempt and then he ordered me taken out of court and then he ordered me confined in a cell in that building. My brother came in later that night and he was able to take me out of jail on his recognizance but I had to stay with him during the 3 days I was supposed to be confined in jail. My brother also told me I was fired from the United States Marshals Service. I hated to even have to set that up but that was the plan. In 1994 I was given orders that went to my capacity as a United States Marine Corps officer.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950728&slug=2133742
The Seattle Times
Friday, July 28, 1995
Vastly Different Pictures Painted Of Susan Smith
By Jesse J. Holland
AP
UNION, S.C. - Life in prison with the memories of her two drowned boys is torment enough for Susan Smith, her lawyer told jurors today, after a prosecutor portrayed her as a selfish, manipulative killer who should be executed.
"You have a choice, and you can make a better choice than what she made," defense lawyer David Bruck told jurors during closing arguments in the sentencing phase of the trial.
Holding a Bible in front of jurors and recalling a passage, Bruck said: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
From 12/16/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Borderland" ) To 1/28/1995 ( ) is 11366 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/15/1996 ( ) is 11366 days
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F01.html
Lisa's Date With Density
Original Airdate in U.S.: 15-Dec-96
(from internet transcript)
Back in class, the note is passed to Nelson.
Nelson: [reading] "Guess who likes you." [turns around]
[Milhouse wiggles his fingers at him]
-- That won't help, "Lisa's Date With Density"
Next thing he knows, Milhouse is rushed out the school on a gurney, his glasses wrecked and his nose leaking a stream of blood.
Lisa: Milhouse, I'm so sorry!
Paramedic: He can't hear you now. We had to pack his ears with gauze.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19941104&slug=1939831
The Seattle Times
Friday, November 4, 1994
Small Town, Nation Ask: Why? -- Boyfriend Wrote That He Didn't Want Smith's Kids, Say Police
By Jim Clarke
UNION, S.C. - She spun a heartbreaking tale of being dumped on a lonely road by a carjacker who abducted her two young sons. Today, she was jeered by spectators and covered her face as she headed for the courthouse.
Susan Smith, whose tearful pleas for her sons' return inspired a nationwide vigil, was charged with killing 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex. And the nine-day search by authorities and hundreds of volunteers ended where their mother's story began: at John D. Long Lake, where a car with two small bodies was found.
CNN, citing an unidentified source, said Smith became a strong suspect when investigators found a letter from a boyfriend telling her he wanted to be with her but he "did not want any kids around."
WIS-TV in Columbia said it received a letter today from a lawyer representing a Tom Findlay of Union, identifying Findlay as the boyfriend. According to the station, the statement said Findlay broke off the relationship with Smith on Oct. 18 because he was not ready to assume the responsibilities of being a father. It also said he knew nothing about the killings.
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of [Naval] Operations United States Navy and I referenced a special projects branch I had found on the internet.
I mailed the letter to the Chief of [Naval] Operations United States Navy and told them I should have received the Silver Star.
from my journal as Kerry Burgess
November 8, 2017
From 12/20/1994 to 3/1/2004 is 3359 days
from my journal as Kerry Burgess
February 28, 2018 at 7:25pm
From 8/1/1980 to 10/12/1989 is 3359 days
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 12/23/06 1:21 PM
I might have maintained a dual-status as an active member of the U.S. Marshals. That would make sense.
Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, Book 3, by James Corey, Kindle Edition)
Chapter 10: Holden
"What did he say?" Naomi asked. "Did it make sense?"
"No. But it was all about death. Everything he says is about death."
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 9/12/2006 11:27 AM
Was I part of the group that is known as Delta Force? That would make sense.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1995_1253193
chron Houston Chronicle Archives
National briefs
Houston Chronicle News Services
SAT 01/28/1995 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Smith lawyer confronted
YORK, S.C. -- A prosecutor accused Susan Smith's lawyer Friday of coaching her for an insanity defense in the drowning of her two young sons.
"In essence, she has spent three months in insanity training, in insanity school," Prosecutor Tommy Pope told Circuit Judge William Howard.
Smith's attorney, David Bruck, denied the allegation, which Pope made in asking the court to order a psychological examination for Smith.
Circuit Court Judge William Howard put off ruling until Feb. 28.
Smith, 23, has been jailed since Nov. 3, when she confessed to letting her car roll into a lake with 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667828/
IMDb
The Outer Limits
The Borderland
Episode aired Dec 16, 1963
S1 E12
The Outer Limits (TV Series)
The Borderland (1963)
Plot
During a séance conducted by the trickster Mrs. Palmer and her assistant Mr. Price, the scientists Ian and Eva Fraser and their assistant Dr. Russell expose the fraud to the millionaire Dwight Hartley, who hired Mrs. Palmer to contact his dead son Dion from the beyond, and to his Managing Director Benson Sawyer. Dr. Fraser explains that he has discovered a process to contacts the fourth dimension and shows his two right hands to prove his experiment.
1994 television miniseries "The Stand"
Larry Underwood: We got a message for your little tin god.
Barry Dorgan: Tin god? Tin god. Man, that's funny. I spent twenty two years on the Santa Monica P.D., and I know what happens when guys like you end up running the show. We haven't got a single addict in Vegas. Can your people say the same?
Glen Bateman: Mr. Dorgan, even a man of your apparently limited intelligence should be able to see that your experiences with a few battered babies and drug abusers doesn't justify your embrace of a monster.
Barry Dorgan: [ backhand slaps Glen Batemen knocking him to the ground ]
Larry Underwood: Oh, that's great. Very good. You get the Rodney King Humanitarian Award for the day, pal
From 2/28/1963 ( John Kennedy, 35th President of USA: Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights ) To 6/28/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: "AND LEVELS OF FORCE", USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy ) is 9252 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1991 ( ) is 9252 days
From 10/17/1975 ( premiere US film "Rooster Cogburn" ) To 3/3/1991 ( ) is 5616 days
5616 = 2808 + 2808
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/11/1973 ( premiere US film "Cahill U.S. Marshal" ) is 2808 days
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingchronology.html
The LAPD Officers' Trials: A Chronology
March 3, 1991 About 12:30 A.M., King's Hyundai is spotted speeding on the 210 freeway by two California Highway Patrol officers, Tim and Melanie Singer. The CHP officers pursue King at speeds of over 110 mph. King's vehicle is finally cut off about fifteen minutes later. As the Singers, with guns drawn, attempt to arrest King, Sgt. Stacey Koon and three other LAPD officers (Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind) intervene. From his nearby apartment, George Holliday videotapes the scene, as three officers strike King over fifty times with metal batons before finally handcuffing him. King is taken to a hospital by ambulance.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/trial_9.html
tru TV
By Rachel Pergament
The Trial
After Susan was arrested for the murders of Michael and Alex, she was held without bail at the York County Jail. On the evening that Susan was arrested, Bev and Linda Russell hired David Bruck, a Columbia, South Carolina attorney specializing in death penalty cases, to represent Susan. The Russells would eventually be forced to mortgage their home in order to pay for Bruck's services.
Bruck was 46 when agreed to represent Susan Smith. He had attended Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude. After college, Bruck attended the University of South Carolina Law School and graduated in 1975. Before beginning his law practice, Bruck traveled throughout United States and Canada, eventually returning to South Carolina to represent clients facing the death penalty because he was convinced that these defendants did not receive adequate legal representation. Bruck was also disturbed by the fact that the death penalty population in South Carolina was made up largely of poor black men. Prior to defending Susan Smith, Bruck had represented 50 people charged with capital murder before juries or at the appellate level. Of Bruck's 50 capital clients, he has only lost three to death sentences. He has saved many of his clients from death sentences by winning new trials that have resulted in life sentences and in one case, an acquittal. Other defense attorneys praise Bruck for being shrewd and for being able to "localize his intelligence." One admirer said Bruck can be "chameleon-like, he understands that arguing a case in Columbia, South Carolina is different than arguing a case in Union."
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/phase_10.html
tru TV
By Rachel Pergament
Penalty Phase
The same jury who convicted Susan Smith of murdering her two sons would decide whether she would die in the electric chair or receive a life in prison sentence in the penalty phase. The penalty phase would be similar to the trial, except that the prosecution had more latitude in building its theory that Susan Smith was a cold-blooded murderer who killed her children in the hope of reclaiming her lover.
Keith Giese's opening statement for the prosecution during the penalty phase was similar to his opening statement during the trial. Giese reminded the jury of Susan's "nine days of deceit and nine days of trickery."
In his opening statement, David Bruck told the jury that "the greatest punishment for Susan Smith would be life in prison, not death." This argument is what Dr. Morgan, the state's psychiatric expert witness, and other witnesses said she desired during her trial. Bruck reiterated to the jury that Smith was a deeply depressed and fragile person who made serious mistakes in her life to win love.
Solicitor Thomas Pope began the state's case by showing videotapes of Susan Smith lying about the disappearance of her sons. The first videotape was her tearful plea to the phantom carjacker outside the Union County Courthouse on November 2, 1994. The second videotape was composed of segments of three interviews Susan had given to network morning programs on November 3, 1994, the day she confessed to the crimes.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1995_1286636
chron Houston Chronicle Archives
Attorneys paint different views of Smith in opener
RICK BRAGG New York Times
WED 07/19/1995 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
UNION, S.C. - The prosecution urged the jurors at the Susan Smith trial to hold on to their common sense in the weeks ahead, and they would come to see Smith as a selfish, malicious killer who sacrificed her children for the love of the son of a rich industrialist.
The defense begged them to look into their hearts and, through that softer focus, find a disturbed, childlike figure who, after a lifetime of sadness, snapped like a dry twig.
As simplistic as those opposing views might seem, they will be the crux of the next month of testimony in Smith's capital murder trial, which officially began Tuesday with opening statements in the elegant old Union County Courthouse.
"For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country in the eyes and lied," said Keith Giese, a special prosecutor and assistant to the state's prosecutor, Tommy Pope. "She begged God to return her children to safety, and the whole time she knew her children were lying dead at the bottom of John D. Long Lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_War_Medal
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 3:33 PM Pacific-time USA Wednesday 03/09/2022
