Word: pensacola
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...fingers, Dr. Buck Williams, the only doctor who provides abortions in South Dakota, got a licensed .38 revolver. He jokes grimly about it now: "I figured if I had only one finger left, I could use it to pull the trigger." After he learned about the Pensacola killing, Williams upgraded his weapon...
...murder in Pensacola has already led to the resignation of two doctors at the clinic in Melbourne. Antiabortion groups had featured them on wanted posters similar to those that Gunn had appeared on before his death. Clinics elsewhere are finding themselves compelled to take expensive precautions against attack. The Houston chapter of Planned Parenthood is spending $100,000 on security devices for its new headquarters. Last week their clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, hired an armed guard...
...what was to be his last morning, Dr. David Gunn, 47, woke up in a good mood. "He was happier than I'd seen him in a long time," says Paula Leonard, his girlfriend, in whose apartment he stayed when he came to Pensacola. He did so regularly, another stop on his 1,000-mile, six-day-a-week schedule of performing abortions at seven clinics in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly...
...women he treated and worked with saw a different figure. Says Linda Taggart, director of the Ladies Center, another Pensacola clinic where Gunn worked: "In recent years, there haven't been enough doctors. But he was never too busy for the women. He was a very sweet, caring man, who was very much devoted to seeing that women kept all their rights." When he finished his clinic work in Pensacola, Gunn would drop in on the Slim Concept Weight Control center and give free counseling on diets and fitness. Says Paula Leonard: "All he wanted was to help women...
...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...