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After this pre-emptory investigation, Barnum proceeded to prepare his audience. Letters from various parts of the country suddenly began to arrive at New York newspapers, describing daily life in Montgomery, Charleston and Washington. Coincidentally, these letters all mentioned the anticipated arrival of a certain Dr. Griffin, from the Lyceum of Natural History in London, bringing with him a remarkable curiosity. Also coincidentally, the letters were all sent by close personal friends of P.T. Barnum...
Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 876-7777. Johnny Griffin Quartet on Thurs., April 6 through Sat., April 8. The Mili Bermejo quartet on Sun., April...
Three months later, Hill did pull the trigger. Twice. He killed Dr. John Britton and his escort, retired Air Force officer James Barrett, outside a Pensacola, Florida, clinic, not far from the one where Griffin had killed Gunn. Griffin too had ties to the extreme wing of the movement. The week before the Gunn shooting, Griffin had met five times with Burt, the Pensacola-based official of Rescue America. Burt showed Griffin and his wife gory videos of dismembered fetuses and a life-size effigy of Gunn with bloodstained hands and the biblical inscription, "If man sheds man's blood...
...Griffin's trial, a clinic nurse testified that she saw Burt and another protester shake hands moments after Griffin fired his gun, something that Burt denies. Though he is now a target of the Morris Dees civil suit, Burt was never charged in the murder. He defended his role on a television talk show, saying, "If I am a general with troops under me and I give them a game plan and send them out, I can't be responsible for every soldier in that army...
Within two hours of the Gunn murder, Don Treshman, the national director of Rescue America, based in Houston, was heralding the shooting in a press release that solicited donations for Griffin's family. "While we think that Gunn's death is unfortunate, the fact is that a number of mothers would have been put at risk today and over a dozen babies would have died at his hands," wrote Treshman, a former metal salesman who now devotes all his time to organizing clinic protests...