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Precisely at 6 p.m., U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson (back the previous day from two months' vacation) mounted the stairs to Mossadegh's bedroom at 109 Kakh Street. Henderson stayed one hour; soon after he left, things began to happen...
What went on up in Mossadegh's bedroom? Henderson began by protesting the stoning of six U.S. citizens' cars that day, and asked assurances that U.S. lives and property would be protected. Otherwise, he would order all American women and children evacuated. That startled Mossadegh. Then the ambassador inquired politely about the legal validity of Mossadegh's regime in view of the Shah's parting decree, in which he fired Mossadegh and named General Falzollah Zahedi in his place. When Henderson quit the room, Mossadegh was firmly convinced that the U.S. was undecided whether to continue...
Died. Dr. Elmer Lee Henderson, 68, Louisville surgeon, who as president of the American Medical Association (1950-51) led its successful $4,500,000 campaign against the Truman-Ewing health plan; of cancer; in Louisville...
Back at the prison, Henderson, a man who owns 23,000 acres of Texas cattle and oil land and believes himself worth approximately half a million dollars, clung stubbornly to his old theory that young Franks was made of worthwhile stuff...
...thousands of men I've met in my years of confinement, he's the only one I had, and still have, confidence in. I'll back him up one hundred percent." Was it true that he had given $10,000 to another convict last year? Henderson admitted that he had. "I don't know what happened," he added wistfully. "I never heard from him." But Franks, he was cer tain, was different. "He was like my own son. If he squanders it away, well . . . it's his money. But I still have faith...