X-Message-Number: 24259
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:43:47 -0700
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: We owe some thank you's
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>Message #24252
>Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:35:17 -0400
>From: "Kevin Q. Brown" <>
>Subject: Daughter of Ted Williams drops case against Alcor
>
>Good news.  It looks like the legal wrangling over Ted Williams
>has ended, as the Ferrells have dropped their suit:
>
>   "INVERNESS, Fla. -- The daughter and son-in-law of Ted Williams
>   signed a settlement Tuesday agreeing that they will no longer try
>   to get the baseball icon's remains out of a cryonics lab in Arizona.
>   Bobby-Jo and Mark Ferrell also agreed to no longer object, or
>   encourage others to object, to Williams' remains being cryonically
>   preserved, Florida Today reported for Wednesday editions."
>
>You can get the full article at:
>   http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3423168/detail.html
>or:
>   http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/sportstoryS0616TEDWILLIAMS.htm
>
>     Kevin Q. Brown
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>

Thanks Kevin. However, I wish these reporters that were all agast and 
hep on writing volumns about how he should have been murdered and burnt 
to a crisp could now do their damn jobs and report the entire facts. I'd 
especially like to know more details as to why they've dropped it. What 
threat was so compelling? Maybe it was the possible threat of removal of 
the portion of Ted's estate that he originally did not want her, Bobby 
Jo Ferrel, having but they forced their way into getting with blackmail. 
Blackmail is essentially what their actions amounted to forcing John 
Henry and Claudia to part with a portion of thier inheritance -- only to 
have the Ferrels renig and continue their war in the guise of Mark 
Ferrel feeling he wasn't a part of the agreement Bobby Jo made.

It all stinks to high somewhere of petty greed and luddism. It had 
nothing to do with honoring a father's wishes especially since they were 
estranged. But caught up in events they felt compelled to continue and 
pushed by idiot sports fans and so called old frends they had no choice 
but to continue pouring money into it. I hope they've burned up the 
entire estate they stole. Good riddance to them.

On another note, we all owe a debt of thanks to the tireless efforts of 
the managers of Ted's estate and his lawyers who after all probably have 
no personal vested interest in Ted remaining cooled. Still they kept at 
it and did a fine job and in the end protected one of our own, as Ted 
and let's nolt forget John Henry now both are, and our other friends at 
Alcor, those chilled and those running the org.

Is there anyone that has email addresses for these folks so that we may 
all individually send a note of thanks?

James

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World Transhumanist Association	http://www.transhumanism.org/
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Nat. Resources Defense Council	http://www.nrdc.org
Act For Change			http://www.actforchange.org
People for American Way		http://www.pfaw.org

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