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 Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:52 pm Post subject: July 2001 Suicided: GWB Burnt book author |
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| Quote: | In 1999, St. Martin’s Press published “Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President,” by James Hatfield. Bush had not yet been elected in 1999; Hatfield began researching his book in 1998, just as public speculation was ramping up that George W. would enter the presidential fray. The meticulously researched book was a hard-hitting biography, and included the fact that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession in 1972; it was thought that this drew the ire of the Bush administration upon his election.
Soon, news outlets began receiving tips that Hatfield had gone to prison for hiring a hitman to kill his boss (unsuccessfully) in the Eighties, and had served five years in prison- but the character assassination was just beginning. Jim, for his part, was unconvinced that the cocaine revelation would be sufficient to bring down the response it did. “I don’t know what it is about this book,” he said, “but they sure don’t want it out there.”
Among other things, the book called attention to foreign intelligence assessments warning of an impending terrorist attack, and of the Bush family’s business ties to the bin Ladens (before that was fashionable.) In 2000, ostensibly in light of Hatfield’s status as a convicted felon (which seemed to be all that the media wanted to discuss in relation to him or his book,) St. Martin’s Press withdrew 70,000 copies of “Fortunate Son” from bookstore shelves, and literally burned them.
A year later, in July of 2001, Hatfield was found dead in his home of a drug overdose. And while his wife confirmed that his suicide notes were in his own hand, the timing (about a month after a new edition of his book by a different publisher hit the shelves; two months before 9/11) and Hatfield’s own reporting of death threats leveled against him earlier that year by his book’s sources suggest an alternate theory- that he was compelled to take his own life by way of threats against his family, which Hatfield himself suggested might happen in an interview months before his death. |
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-questionable-deaths-ruled-suicides.php |
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