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- From: rudiak@garnet.berkeley.edu
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- Subject: Re: JOHN FORD ARRESTED - Newsday 6/14/96
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:03:16 GMT
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- kathy kasten <kkasten@pathology.medsch.ucla.edu> wrote:
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- >According to the Newday (6/14/96), John Ford has been arrested in a plot
- >to kill Suffolk Long Island GOP boss and others.
-
- Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle reported it (6/14/95):
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- 2 Men Accused of Radiation Murder Plot -- Chronicle News Service
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- Hauppauge, N.Y. -- Two Long Island men were arrested yesterday and charged with
- planning to use radioactive material to assassinate several Suffolk County
- officials and political leaders.
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- Suffolk County District Attorney James M. Catterson said the targets of the
- conspiracy included the chairman of the Suffolk County Republican Committee, a
- Suffolk legislator and the chief investigator for the town of Brookhaven.
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- Catterson, a Republican who was reportedly one of the targets, said the plot was
- "something out of a novel, involving an individual obsessed with hatred for
- mainstream political figures."
-
- The two who were charged, were John J. Ford, 47, of Bellport, N.Y., a former
- Suffolk County court officer and president of the Long Island UFO Network, and
- Joseph Mazzachelli, 42, of Manorville, N.Y., who was described by Catterson as
- having a criminal record for a series of burglaries.
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- Ford and Mazzachelli, both believers in UFOs whose organization has accused the
- government of covering up the UFO sightings, were arraigned in Suffolk County
- Criminal Court in Central Islip on charges of second-degree conspiracy to commit
- murder. They were denied bail.
-
- Catterson said Ford tried to solicit people to spread radioactive mterial on the
- car seats of his intended victims, strew it about their homes and place it in
- food and toothpaste, hoping they would contract fatal diseases.
-
-
- >Comments?
-
- All I know about Ford is that he has tried to perpetrate three Long Island
- crashed saucer hoaxes dating back to 1989. He has been pretty much disavowed by
- responsible UFO organizations and individuals, such as Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who
- declared a 1992 video of a "crash" to be a hoax. Ford had been trying to sell
- the video to "Unsolved Mysteries."
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