R3LLS@AKRONVM.BITNET (Larry L. Stimely) (02/07/90)
An Excerpt From "The Truth At Last", Issue #339 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Boston's financial district was shocked when Merrill Lynch office manager George Cook, 56, was gunned down in his office by black employee Lonnie Gilchrist, 42. Cook had fired him the day before for poor performance on the job, and had promised Gilchrist the use of his old office and help in finding a new job. When Gilchrist returned the next day, he went directly to Cook's office and other employees could hear him shouting, "All you want is more production out of me! I won't let a millionaire ruin my life! You fired me because I'm black! I just want you White bastard dead!" Gilchrist pulled out a pistol and shot Cook four times in the head. Then, the gun jammed and Cook staggered out into the hall with Gilchrist pistol-whipping him. Cook fell to the floor and Gilchrist followed, kicking Cook repeatedly in the head and screaming, "You White bastard!" He then shot Cook two more times before employees captured him. Believe it or not, a few days later, Lonnie Gilchrist pleaded 'innocent by reason of insanity' and was released by a liberal judge on a mere $50,000 bond! George Cook was a senior vice-president of Merrill Lynch in Boston where he had worked for 31 years. He was married to wife Marsha and had three sons, David 25, Douglas 20, a student at Colorado College, and Andrew, 18, a high school student. Cook was an Air Force veteran and active in the Shriners and president of the Weston Golf Club. Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree represented Gilchrist and argued that he had a "racial paranoia against White people and was therefore temporarily insane." The jury was composed of nine Whites and 3 blacks, deliberated for five days, and was once 'dead locked' because the blacks wanted to accept the "insanity" defense. The jury finally rendered a verdict of guilty and Gilchrist was sentenced to life imprisonment, which doesn't necessarily mean life in Michael Dukakis' Massachusetts. One Merrill Lynch employee said, "All I know is that guy deserves the electric chair." Tom Saba with Dean Witter observed, "This was cold-blooded murder, and we need the death penalty back." Still, Gilchrist's lawyer Ogletree remarked, "I am devastated by the verdict. It was a very emotional case and we're quite disapppointed that the jury did not adopt the insanity defense." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Unbelievable...but true. More of these postings are coming. Stay tuned. R3LLS@AKRONVM
mckee@TISSS.RADC.AF.MIL (DAVE MCKEE) (02/07/90)
All I can say is I volunteer to fry the basterd! If I were his son, I would try to get the bastard parolled so I could blow his head off. Just thought I'd put in my answer to a "kinder gentler nation"... DAve McKee
MJSAAREL@MTUS5.BITNET (Markku Saarelainen) (02/08/90)
Quite terrible, Larry!! Why was his performance so bad so he had to fired? Markku JS