Word: griffin
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Timothy S. Griffin, a carpenter and member of the Carpenters Local Union 40 who often did work at Harvard over the past year, was fired in late April by General Building Services Corporation. In his complaint, filed May 19, Griffin accuses Harvard of violating the National Labor Relations Act by pressing the contractor to release...
...shooting seemed equally ill-suited for his performance. Born and raised in Pensacola, Michael Griffin graduated from high school and enlisted in the Navy without anyone thinking he was anything but well-spoken and quiet. After serving five years as an electrician, he returned home and later married Patricia Ann Presley on June 10, 1981, in Brewton, Alabama. (A few years earlier, David Gunn had worked in the local hospital there, delivering babies.) The Griffins had two daughters and moved back to Pensacola in 1987; he got a job as a chemical operator on a polymer-casting line with Monsanto...
...wife filed for divorce, charging in court documents that her husband was "verbally and emotionally abusive to both our minor daughters and myself." A year later the suit was withdrawn, and the couple reconciled. For a time the Griffins kept their children out of school and educated them at home, although both enrolled in a private academy last September. Griffin had no known private or public involvement with Pensacola's strident antiabortion factions until a month or so before he murdered Gunn...
During that time, though, he had drawn close to John Burt of Rescue America and Burt's wife Linda, who, with her husband, runs a halfway house just outside Pensacola for unwed mothers, called Our Father's House. Griffin volunteered to do work around the place, fixing a leaky faucet, repairing a doorjamb, installing a security system. He was gentle with the babies of visitors and told the Burts of his hope that his wife could have her tubal ligature undone so that they could have more children. He also, according to Linda, complained about his long shifts at work...
That morning he went to church with the Burts at the Whitfield Assembly of God in nearby Berrydale. During the service, Griffin offered a prayer. "He just offered his hope that David Gunn would meet Jesus Christ and stop killing babies," recalls Burt...