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John Murtha — Part 24

103 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 11, 2004 · Broad topic: Murder · Topic: John Murtha · 12 pages OCR'd
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Page 11 of43 t· OTHERS. MURTIIA SAYS ON TV THAT 75.000 wn..L DIE INSTANTLY. 20. MUCH MUCH MORE. IT WILL TAKE ME A FEW E=MAILS TO LAY IT ALL OUT FOR YOu. BY FOR NOW. MORE 5/1/04 PART TWO WHILE I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL COURlESY THE GESTAPO; I WAS SLEEPING ONE NIGHT WHEN I WAS SUDDENLY AWAKENED BY A BURNING SENSATIONINMY NOSE AND b6 MOUTH. AS I WOKE UP I FOUND THAT I WAS BEING HELD DOWN AND STRAPPED IN BY b7C SEVERAL GESTAPO. I SAW SOMEONE WHO LOOKED LIKE MURTHA AT TIIE FOOT OF THE BED WEARING A TRENCHCOAT. ONE OF THE GESTAPO GRABBED:ME BY MY THROAT AND TOLD ME TO LOOK AT A PICTURE; IT WAS A PICTURE OF A BLACKMAN HANGING BY HIS NECK IN A SMALL SPACE. THE GESTAPO SAID DO YOU SEE THIS? ITS A DEAD NIGGER HANGING IN THE CITY LOCKUP. HE'S HANGING BECAUSE HE HAD A BIG MOUTH, IF YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE CONGRESSMAN, THIS IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOu. THEN THEY LEFT. I MUST HAVE DOZED OFF LATER BECAUSE WHEN I WOKE UP IT WAS LIGHT om. I GOT UP AND TOLD A NURSE WHAT HAPPENED AND SHE SAID THAT SHE DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT A BLACKMAN HANGING IN THE CITY JAIL. LATER THEY SENT ME IN TO SEE ADOCTOR I TOLD HIM: THAT THEY WERE THREATENING TO TAKE ME TO JAIL AN! D HANG ME. NOONE BELIEVED ME BECAUSE THERE WAS NO NEWS STORY ABom A BLACK MAN HANGING IN THE CITY JAIL. THE NEXT DAY THE STORY BROKE ABOUT A BLACK MAN WHO HUNG HIMSELF BY illS SOCKS IN THE CITY JAIL. IT WAS BEING CALLED A SUICIDE. NOW PEOPLE BELIEVED. A FEW DAYS LATER THE DOCTOR CALLED ME INTO illS OFFICE AND TOLD ME THAT HE WAS RELEASING ME AND THE GESTAPO WAS COMlNG TO PICK ME UP UPON MY RELEASE. HE SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE ME TO THE COUNTY JAIL AND WHA,:: HAPP~ TO ME THERE DIDN'T MATIER TO HIM. A FEW HOURS LATER DET.~ JSHO~ UP AND TOOK:ME TO THE MAGISTRATES TO BE CHARGED AND GNED FOR 1HREATENING TO KILL CONGRESSMAN MURTHA. ONCE THERE I MET WITH THE CAPITOL HILL POLICE AND THE FBI AND TOLD THEM WHAT WAS GOING ON. THEN I WAS TAKEN TO TIIE COUNTY JAIL. I THOUGHT I WAS DEAD. AT THE JAIL IT WAS CRAZY. THERE WAS SPOOKS AND STOOGES GALORE. THE :MEDIA HAD PEOPLE EMBEDDED, SO DID THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOV. EVERYBODY WAS SPYING ON EVERYBODY. THE JAil.. SAID THAT THEY NEVER HAD SO MANY CALLS ABOUT A PRISONER IN JAN. 98 I WAS TAKEN TO FEDERAL COURT IN FRONT OF TIIEFEDERAL MAGISTRATE FOR ARRAIGNMENT. THE FBI TOOK THE STAND AND TALKED ABOUT THE BLACKMAN HANGING AND SO FORTH. THE JUDGE DIDNT FIND PROBABLE CAUSE TO SUSTAIN THE CHARGES SO I WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE JAIL ON THE STATE CHARGES. THE NEXT DAY A GRAND JURY INDICTED ME. I FOUND om LATER THAT MURTHA WAS PUSHING THE CHARGES AND I WAS GOING TO BE PROSECUTED BY WASHINGTON PEOPLE. THE LOCAL U.S. AITORNEY WITHDREW. THE DAY AFTER THE FBI TESTIFIED THERE WAS A STORY ON THE TOP OF THE FRONT PAGE IN THE LOCAL PAPER ABOUT THE HANGING OF THE BLACKMAN AND TIIE STORY ABOUT MURTHA BEING INVOLVED. EVERYBODY AT THE JAIL WAS SRITTING BRICKS. THE TENSION WAS PALPABLE. EVERYBODY WAS WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP. WE WERE ALL SURE THAT THIS WOULD BE PICKED UP BY THE NATIONAL PRESS AND THE WORLD PRESS. A WIDTE CONGRESSMAN HAS WIDTE COPS PICK UP A BLACKMAN AND TAKES HIM TO JAIL, MURDERS HIM AND HANGS HIM: WITH HIS SOCKS AND CALLS IT A SUICIDE! WOW! THE NEXT DAY THERE WAS NO MORE :MENTION OF IT IN THE 1vfEDIA. EVERYBODY WAS STUNNED. THE COVER-UP WAS ON. THE FOLLOWING 5/11/2004 L""--------- .~_ _ _ .__ ._~~~ I
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