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I-81 SHOOTING
Former
firefighter
pleads in
arson case
JOSEPH CRESS
The Sentinel
A former Mechanicsburg fire-
fighter could be sentenced in
November after pleading guilty
Wednesday to setting multiple
fires in Cumberland County last
summer.
Collin Mitchell Miller, 23, was
scheduled to go
to trial in county
court this week,
but instead pled
guilty to four
counts of arson
and two counts
of recklessly en-
dangering an- Miller
JASON MALMONT THE SENTINEL
other person.
A former Silver Spring Town-
Criminal Investigation Section Commander Lieutenant Jonathan L. Mays, Troop H, Pennsylvania State Police, answers question on Monday ship resident and Washington
afternoon, September 21, 2015, about the arrest of John Wayne Strawser Jr., in the shooting death of Timothy Davison on Interstate-81 on Fire Company volunteer, Miller
January 4, 2014.

Davisons death
is scheduled to be sentenced on
Nov. 22.
The arson counts are graded as
a second degree felony carrying
a maximum sentence of up to 10
years in prison while the reck-
lessly endangering counts are
graded as a second degree mis-
demeanor carrying up to two
years in prison.
Strawsers journey killed the man affectionately
known as Asti were fired by
He may have thought about
getting back to work or rem- Please see ARSON, Page A5

through the cracks Strawser and were intended for

another person Jamie Breese,
inisced over the time he had
just spent with family during
according to Pennsylvania State the holiday season as he made
of the criminal
justice system
This week The Sentinel takes a
closer look at accused I-81 shooter
John Wayne Strawser Jr. and
Police.
Im sorry that anyone had
to be a victim that night of his,
the 1,500-mile trek from Flor-
ida back to his home in Poland,
Maine.
Army hero
JOSHUA VAUGHN
The Sentinel
breakdowns within the criminal
justice system:
Ran Friday
Jamies wife, Courtney Breese,
said while choking back tears.
... Im sorry that (Davisons)
He could never have known
that trivial decisions like where
to stop for gas, when to leave his
returns home
Having once again avoided mother lost a son and anybody familys home in Florida and how MICHAEL BUPP
prison, 39-year-old John Wayne The lead up to murder and everybody that (Davison) fast he should drive would put The Sentinel
Strawser Jr., of Terra Alta, West was friends with, or was import- him on a collision course with The Sentinel offers Graves
Virginia, re- Today ant to, suffered the loss that they Strawser. in the Valley throughout Sep-
mained free to The death of Timothy Davison did because of Johns actions. Davison made it more than 12 tember, looking at some of the
roam the streets But, Im not sorry we werent hours into his trip without inci- famous and infamous people
in the beginning Monday murdered that night. dent, passing through Georgia, buried in cemeteries of the Cum-
of 2014. The murder of Amy Lou Bucking- Tears began to flow down South Carolina, North Carolina berland Valley:
Up to that ham Courtneys face when talking and Virginia. That all changed
point, Strawser about the case with The Senti- quickly as he made his way Randall Shughart
had been accused Tuesday nel in August. through West Virginia. THE HISTORY: Army Sgt.
Strawser of stalking nu- The conclusion As Davison drove, Strawser 1st Class Randall Shughart was
merous women Roadtrip was on the hunt. He had be- born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on
but escaped any serious pun- 2014, 28-year-old Timothy Da- There is no way Davison could come obsessed with Courtney, Aug. 13. 1958, moving with his
ishment, but he had not been vison, of Maine, was shot and have known what would happen according to the Breeses, who family to the Newville area and
charged with murder. killed on Interstate 81 outside of that night as he hopped into his live in Waynesboro. later graduating from Big Spring
That was about to change. Greencastle in Franklin County. silver Mitsubishi Montero that High School. He is one of two
Shortly after 2 a.m. on Jan. 4, The bullets that struck and January day. Please see DAVISON, Page A12 of the first snipers in history to

Please see HERO, Page A5

A LETTER TO DAVISONS KILLER
SENTINEL STAFF
On Sept. 24, 2014, Timothy
Asti Davisons mother, The-
resa Allocca, posted the follow-
ing open letter to her sons killer
on the Justice for Asti Facebook
page:
Good morning.
This is Astis mother, Theresa Davison
and this is a personal message to
the person who killed my son.
I dont know if you believe in him. He has been trying to help
God or a higher you by convicting you to turn man and wont give up on you. I
power, but you yourself in. hope you do turn yourself in.
should know
that Astis spirit
has reached out
I know my sons heart. It isnt
for his justice, it is because he
knows you will never fully live
When you do, ask the police
to call me and I will try and help
you.
Graves
in the
to several people.
He knows who
your life carrying such a burden.
He would forgive you. He
That is what he would want
me to do as a final gift before he Valley
you are, that you would have taken you home, moves on.
were on drugs given you the shirt of his back, John Wayne Strawser Jr., 39,
and are feeling introduced you to all his friends & of Terra Alta, West Virginia, was
extremely guilty about killing family and given you a new start. charged with Davisons murder
My son is a tenacious young in September 2015.

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Big Spring High
School freshmen
participate in
STEM Summit
JOSEPH CRESS
The Sentinel
Christian Showaker
thought it was impossible
to scramble without break-
ing an egg.
Yet his team raced to a
first-place finish among a
group of freshmen compet-
ing in a relay at Big Spring
High School Thursday af-
ternoon.
I was surprised,
Showaker said recalling the
challenge that required a
student from each team to
walk across dozens of eggs
in bare feet and not crack a
shell. It was fun, he added.
The entire ninth grade of
about 206 students partic-
ipated in a STEM Summit
hosted by Junior Achieve-
ment of South Central
Pennsylvania. The goal was
to inspire the freshmen to
consider an academic fo-
cus on science, technology,
engineering and math as
they progress through high
school.
The one-day career explo-
ration program featured nine
hands-on learning stations
where students conducted
experiments, participated
in competitions or listened
to a panel of experts.
The class of 2020 was
divided into groups that
circulated through the sta-
tions that changed every
half-hour. Along the way the
students learned lessons on
chemistry, biology, physics,
civil engineering and elec-
trical engineering.
I like the fact that we are
exploring, said freshman
Samuel Pope, adding that
the summit touches on areas
not typically seen in class-
room instruction. It really
put my mind into it.
I thought it was fun and
kind of neat, classmate
Joseph Aulenbacker said.
I want to do engineering
before this, but this kind of
reinforces it.
Biology teacher Travis
Barnes saw the value of hav-
ing the freshmen experience
different areas of STEM early
on. Maybe it will spark an
interest, he said. Its a great
way to allow the kids to have
that hands-on experience
that would stick with them
for quite some time.
This is the second year
Big Spring School District
arranged to have Junior
Achievement host a summit
in the high school. A lot of
the students who took it last
year are excited about telling
the kids this year, Barnes
said.
It is too early to tell
whether the summit held
last year influenced mem-
bers of the class of 2019 to
focus on STEM courses. If it
had, that influence should be
more apparent in the junior
and senior years when the
students have more flexi-
bility to schedule electives,
Barnes said.
Lisa Black, career coor-
dinator at the high school,
helped Junior Achievement
organize the summit. She
hoped the freshmen made
the connection of how cur-
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Joshua Russell, left, and
Hunter Rickrode try to put
a sharp stick through an
inflated balloon without
popping it.
rent classwork in biology
and math can relate to re-
al-world jobs.
Ninth-graders have high
energy, Black said. We
want to keep them busy.
They were engaged in every
area.
Summit activities in-
cluded a civil engineering
competition where students
had 20 minutes to build the
highest tower possible us-
ing 26 pieces of spaghetti, a
yard of masking tape and a
marshmallow.
In chemistry, freshmen
made a model of their hand
using different colored poly-
mers while, in electrical en-
gineering, they raced against
time to complete a circuit to
switch on a light bulb.
We help them under-
stand their future resides in
their own hands, said Tom
Russell, president of Ju-
nior Achievement of South
Central Pennsylvania. We
use science, technology,
engineering and math as a
vehicle for helping students
realize the importance of a
high school education.
Often students go through
high school unsure of a ca-
reer path or even a clear di-
rection, so they do not cap-
italize on the opportunities
presented to get ready for
life after graduation, Rus-
sell said. A lot of kids dont
ever connect to what they
are going to do. If they dont
connect, they dont focus
as much attention on high
school.
An important part of the
summit is the panels of ex-
perts who talk to students
about their career journey,
Russell said. We find people
who didnt know where they
wanted to go but discovered
it along the way.
Its OK to be clueless,
Russell added. You just
need to take advantage of
every opportunity to learn
as much as you can. He
said society today is paying
youths a disservice when
they tell them the only path
to success in life is through a
college education.
What that does is con-
vince large numbers of stu-
dents to give up on their high
school education because
they realize they are not col-
lege material, Russell said.
According to the U.S. Bu-
reau of Statistics, STEM jobs
are projected to grow twice
as quickly as jobs in other
fields over the next five years.
The majority of high paying
jobs in the future will have
some STEM component.
Email Joseph Cress at jcress@ Technology, Engineering and Math Summit.
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Man convicted
of drug delivery
resulting in death
SENTINEL STAFF the indictment.
Newville man has been
A Palsons girlfriend,
found guilty of multiple who died in Silver Spring
criminal charges, includ- Township, was killed in an
ing drug delivery resulting automobile crash that was
in death, for providing the caused by the use of heroin
fatal dose of heroin to three Palson gave her, the grand
people. jury found.
Corey Palson, 26, was An investigation into the
convicted Friday of three womans death by Silver
felony counts each of drug Spring Township Police
delivery resulting in death Detective Jared Huff helped
and drug possession with tie the deaths together.
intent to deliver, as well as I went and actually
one felony count of con- contacted her boyfriend,
spiracy to commit drug which was Corey Palson
possession with intent to at the time, and he didnt
deliver, according to court have anything to say to
records. me, Huff told The Senti-
On Nov. 18, a grand jury nel in January. I thought
handed down an indict- it was a little weird because
ment against Palson al- his girlfriend had just died
leging he provided heroin and maybe he would want
that resulted in the death to help me find out where JOSHUA VAUGHN, THE SENTINEL
of three people, including this heroin had come from. Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed discusses the Kids for Cash scandal Thursday during a panel discussion at
his girlfriend. It was my thought that she Penn State Dickinson School of Law hosted by the Cumberland County Bar Association. He is joined by, from left, Chief Public
Palson told police in June had overdosed on heroin at Defender Michael Halkias, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Sam Miller and Judge Kevin Hess.
that he had been trans- the time of the crash.
porting more than 1,200
bags of heroin labeled
MOB into Cumberland
Huff found the other
deaths related to MOB
heroin when he searched
Bar hosts seminar on Kids for Cash scandal
County from Philadelphia a criminal database after JOSHUA VAUGHN We think its always rel- During the session, the Law Professor Lucy John-
multiple times per week, speaking to Palson. The Sentinel evant to keep remembering film Kids for Cash was ston-Walsh.
according to the indict- Palson was taken to It was a scandal that
what happened then that shown to the room, with One of the first legal is-
ment. Cumberland County rocked a community and could happen somewhere breaks intermittently to al- sues raised by the film was
The deaths occurred Prison on Nov. 19, where changed the way Pennsyl- else, Cumberland County low for a panel discussion of the lack of legal representa-
in Middlesex, Hamp- he has been ever since. vania handles court cases Bar Association President the concerns raised. tion for juveniles during the
den and Silver Spring He is awaiting sentenc- involving juveniles. Hubert Gilroy said. (We This whole concept, court proceedings.
townships, according to ing. In 2008, it was discovered also want to) address some when this was going on, Many of the youths ap-
that two judges in Luzerne of the legal issues that were was so foreign to us, Cum- peared for their hearing
County received financial presented on that in a forum berland County District At- without an attorney. This
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Midday 2-6 Evening2 is now known as the Kids Roughly 100 lawyers were watch this film and realize they appear in court with-
Straight $50 Treasure Hunt for Cash scandal. in attendance. that these kids were getting out one, Hess said.
Boxed $25 01-11-12-13-24 On Thursday, Midstate Thursdays event was locked up. I cant imagine the situ-
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TOUR THROUGH TIME
An image from circa 1961 showing an area near the intersection of Spring Garden and High streets in Carlisle.
Spring Garden
intersection
then and now
MICHAEL BUPP
The Sentinel
This weeks Tour Through
Time takes a look at then and
now images of the intersec-
tion of Spring Garden and
High streets in Carlisle.
The then image shows the
intersection in 1961.
The now image shows the
progress over the years.
Tour Through Time will
run Saturdays in the Senti-
nel as a joint project with the
Cumberland County Histor-
ical Society. Sentinel pho-
tographers will work with
staff at the historical society area through the years.
each week to offer a look at
Carlisle and the surrounding berland County Historical taining to these images. cumberlink.com.
County to invest shopsteading
funds in New Cumberland
ZACK HOOPES
The Sentinel
he county is planning to
T panys offices. The property
invest $105,000 of local de-
velopment funding into the
rehabilitation of 206 Third
St. in down-
town New
Cumber-
land, which
is slated to
become the
new head-
quarters of
market re-
Molinaro
search com-
pany FieldGoals.US.
The Cumberland County
Housing and Redevelopment
Authorities proposed the
loan, part of the authorities
shopsteading program,
during Thursdays county
commissioners meeting.
This is a program we run
for the relocation or startup
of businesses trying to move
somewhere within the
county, said CCHRA Com-
munity Development Direc-
tor Kate Molinaro.
The loan would help Field-
Goals.US owner Lori Mader
purchase and refurbish 206
Third St., the building ad-
Mechanicsburg Weis now selling wine
SENTINEL STAFF
Weis Markets announced
Thursday it has begun a pi-
lot program to sell wine in
its in-store caf in Mechan-
icsburg, where beer is cur-
rently sold.
The company said it plans
to sell wine in all 49 of its
Pennsylvania cafes by late
November.
The Mechanicsburg caf
will have a selection of ap-
proximately 80 varieties of
wine during the pilot pro-
gram and will also include
The intersection of Spring Garden and High streets in Carlisle today.
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jacent to the space she cur-
rently leases for her com-
would house expanded fa-
cilities for FieldGoals.US, as
well as a multi-purpose event
space.
The company performs
market research and con-
ducts focus group studies for
a number of corporate clients
across the nation, Mader said.
Well have improved fo-
cus group facilities, and we
also want to expand into the
event business, Mader said.
This will be our first venture
into real estate.
The $105,000 loan would
come from the countys pool
of Community Development
Block Grant funds, which are
apportioned by the states
Department of Community
and Economic Development
for local jurisdictions to
spend on revitalization and
stimulus projects.
The shopsteading initia-
tive is one of many that pull
from block grant funds, with
roughly two to five such loans
made per year, Molinaro said.
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year term with two percent
a chilled section, according
to the news release.
Ultimately, the cafes are
expected to sell up to 400
varieties of wine. The Me-
chanicsburg caf will offer
more than 900 varieties of
beer, including an extensive
selection of craft and local
craft beers.
Weve sold beer in our
Pennsylvania cafes for more
than 10 years and through-
out this time, weve been
repeatedly asked one ques-
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interest, according to the
CCHRA. The financing also
comes with a stipulation for
job creation of one full-time
position for every $35,000
advanced.
Mader plans to add one po-
sition for market research and
two positions specifically for
the event space, which could
be used by existing research
clients as well as for nonprofit
galas, childrens parties, and
other events.
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cus groups but we have a lot
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see whats going on in those
rooms. Weve probably done
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year.
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answer, said Kurt Schertle,
Weis Markets chief operat-
ing officer. Starting this
week, we are selling wine
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roll the program out to all of
our licensed cafes in Penn-
sylvania over the coming
months. We want to offer
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Theatre to stream
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When Hillary Clinton
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 The Sentinel
Pardoned felon starts law firm
He seeks to
improve futures
of ex-cons
CARL PRINE
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
PITTSBURGH On
Sept. 21, 1994, Duquesne
University junior Casey
Mullen scaled the stairs
to the schools law school
library.
The 19-year-old Law-
renceville mans backpack
held nine 1-ounce plastic
bags filled with powdered
cocaine a delivery he
was making to a woman
he barely knew, part of his
daily effort to sell enough
narcotics to feed his own
addiction.
She was an undercover
narcotics detective. It was
his first and only arrest.
Its a constant hustle.
Its being consumed by a
quest. Prior to getting ar-
rested, my focus was on
getting high. But then I got
arrested and thought that
my life was over, Mullen
told the Tribune-Review.
So it all became about
oblivion feeling nothing.
That was my daily quest.
Heroin was a really good
numbing agent.
Less than 18 months
later, Allegheny County
Judge Raymond Novak
slammed Mullen with a
mandatory minimum sen-
tence: three to 10 years at
the former State Correc-
tional Institution Waynes-
burg.
Mullen did his minimum
three years and then em-
barked on a very different
quest back up the 17 steps
of the law school library.
He became a stellar stu-
dent and, later, an increas-
ingly prominent criminal
defense attorney.
Very few judges, law-
yers, cops or even his cli-
ents know about Mullens
past. Hes breaking his
self-imposed silence for
three reasons: 1) Criminals,
especially those who are
struggling with addiction,
must see that its possible
to become a respected pro-
fessional; 2) society must
see the need to start tak-
ing more chances to rein-
tegrate convicted felons;
3) policymakers should re-
think what a prison can be
less punishment, more
rehabilitation, job training
and programs designed to
ensure that every inmate
leaves jail with the belief
that they can move beyond
this and contribute again
to society.
For those of us who col-
lectively have done well,
we need to quit hiding this.
That only perpetuates the
stigma of once a drug ad-
dict, always a drug addict;
once a criminal, always a
criminal. Thats not the
case, said Mullen, 41, of
Aspinwall.
At SCI Waynesburg,
Mullen became Depart-
ment of Corrections
Number CY 5333, one of
450 inmates in the general
population. For the next
26 months, he played pi-
nochle in the yard, toiled
in the kitchen, and at night
listened in his bed rack to
cassettes from the prison
Arson
From A1
A string of arson fires last
summer had residents and
business owners in Mechan-
icsburg Borough and Silver
Spring Township worried
their property might be
next on the list of potential
targets.
Weeks of anxiety came
to a close on Aug. 6, 2015,
when police arrested Miller
who lived in the first block of
North Locust Point Road in
the township.
Miller was charged with
multiple felony and misde-
meanor counts tied to a fire
at a residence on Millers
M Gap Road in the township
1 and some of the other re-
Casey Mullen was convicted of drug dealing two decades
ago. He went to prison, got clean and became an attorney.
library.
Its the dumbest thing
ever, but I heard a quote
that changed my life. ... Its
simple: Got to kick at the
darkness til it bleeds day-
light. Its a Bruce Cock-
burn line, but I heard it
first in a U2 song, Mullen
said. I thought to myself,
Yeah. Im gonna kick the
darkness until it bleeds
daylight. Im not coming
back here. Ill do whatever
I have to do.
His first goal: Finish an
undergraduate degree at
the school where he got
arrested.
Others believed in him
The two scariest days
in my life were the day I
entered (jail) and the day I
left. And the day I left was
actually the scariest. Be-
cause I knew in jail that, as
far as an addiction issue, I
could stay clean. In jail, I
could have positive rela-
tionships with my family.
I could have hopes, dreams
and aspirations, Mullen
said. I didnt know if I
could do that in the free
world when I was offered
opportunities to go off the
correct path.
For 10 months, he
lived in a halfway house,
worked at a Strip District
fudge confectioner, began
counseling Central Cath-
olic High School students
to make smart choices and
attended 12-Step meet-
ings. The latter he refers to
as a weekly tune-up that
he continues so he doesnt
slip back into addiction.
Central Catholics
Christian Brothers ar-
ranged for a meeting with
Duquesne officials, and the
university readmitted him.
He majored in sociology,
minored in psychology and
graduated with honors in
late 2001, but he still had
five years to go until his pa-
role ended. So he labored
as a millwright and applied
to law schools.
And he kept getting re-
jected. Ex-cons can be-
come attorneys in Pennsyl-
vania, but they cant sit for
the bar exam until a board
of inquiry is convinced
they can become ethical
officers of the court.
To Donald J. Guter, then
dean of Duquesne Law, it
was unfair to take Mullens
money if hed never be al-
lowed to become a lawyer.
But I was flooded with
calls and letters from Ca-
seys supporters, said
Guter, now chief executive
officer of the Houston Col-
lege of Law in Texas. Even
ported arson fires.
Investigators on Aug. 6 re-
sponded to the Millers Gap
Road fire and ruled it arson.
Township police said sho-
eprints found at the scene
linked the fire to Miller who
was reportedly seen in the
vicinity by firefighters when
they arrived at the residence.
Detectives from Mechan-
icsburg and Silver Spring
interviewed Miller who ad-
mitted to breaking into the
residence and setting it on
fire, court documents state.
He was also charged in con-
nection with a July 3 fire in
a vacant home in the 200
block of East Main Street,
Mechanicsburg, and a July
15 fire at D&S Auto on East
Simpson Street, which is
also in the borough.
NEWS
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
the judge who sentenced
him to prison spoke on his
behalf.
Guter summoned Mul-
len to a face-to-face and
was won over.
I thought, I believe in that. Popular GOP gov-
him. He deserves a second
chance, said Guter, a re-
tired Navy admiral. Casey
was humbled because his
arrest and imprisonment
were humbling experi-
ences. But he didnt let all
of that crush him. He was
humbled, but he stepped
up.
At Duquesne Law, Mul-
len starred on the schools
nationally renowned Trial
Competition Team, re-
ceived the Honorable Jo-
seph Ridge Award from
the Allegheny County
Bar Association and was
named the top student by
the faculty. Yet the hard-
est legal training was on
his own case.
When I started law
school, I was still a con-
victed felon. I hadnt been
pardoned yet, Mullen
said.
In 2008, Mullen argued
his case before the Penn-
sylvania Board of Pardons,
a five-member panel that
included then-Attorney
General Tom Corbett.
They voted unanimously
to recommend to Gov. Ed
Rendell that Mullen re-
ceive clemency. In 2009,
Rendell pardoned him and
Mullens criminal record
was expunged, triggering
the state Board of Law Ex-
aminers to let him finally
take the bar exam.
He passed in 2011 and
became a lawyer, joining
Downtowns Blackwell
Law Firm before moving
to the North Shore firm of
Burns White in 2014.
Most attorneys moving
into a new office unpack
their framed diplomas, but
David B. White, a Burns
White partner, recalled
Mullen pulling out his
pardon letter.
I told him, Casey, I
think this is what you
should be most proud of.
Display it front and center,
White told the Trib.
White said that he found
Mullen not only to be
an outstanding attorney
with integrity beyond
reproach, but called him
the poster child for whats
possible in life.
Wanting to specialize in
criminal defense, Mullen
left late last year to found
his own Downtown firm.
Nationwide, about 4.7
million Americans are in
The fire at the vacant
home charred some of the
timbers in one corner of the
historic Frankenberger Tav-
ern, one of the oldest build-
ings in Mechanicsburg.
Soon after the arrest, the
Washington Fire Company
issued a statement assuring
its full cooperation with law
enforcement into the inves-
tigation involving Miller,
who was suspended from
the company. We will not
let the actions of one indi-
vidual define who we are and
what we do, the statement
read. The Washington Fire
Company will continue to
serve Mechanicsburg and
the surrounding commu-
nities and its citizens with
honor, dignity and devo-
tion.
Saturday, September 24, 2016|A5
some form of community
supervision behind bars,
on probation or on parole, The
according to the Bureau of gravesite
Justice Statistics. About of Ran-
seven of every 10 of them dall
were convicted of non- Shughart
violent drug or property at West-
crimes, like Mullen. When minister
they get out, theyre barred Memo-
from many jobs, public rial Gar-
housing, education loans dens in
and in 31 states the Carlisle.
ballot box, sometimes per- MICHAEL
manently. BUPP,
About one third of all THE
SENTINEL
men and women behind
bars are recidivists who
never made it through pa-
role or probation, accord-
ing to the White House.
Many critics believe that
harsh post-sentence im-
pediments blocked their
chances to reintegrate in
society. Hero Graves in the
But a bipartisan consen-
sus is forming to change
From A1 Valley
receive the Congressional Following the theme of
ernors such as Mary Fal- Medal of Honor. our Building Blocks
lin of Oklahoma and Matt A farm boy from North and Name Game se-
Bevin of Kentucky have Newton Township, ries, our goal is to dig a
joined with the NAACP Shughart gave his life in little deeper into the vast
and the American Civil defense of a downed heli- history of Cumberland
Liberties Union intend- copter crew during the Bat- County with the Graves
ing to revamp the criminal tle of Mogadishu, Somalia, in the Valley series.
justice system, reforms on Oct. 3, 1993. The U.S. Sentinel Chief Photog-
they think not only will Army Ranger was awarded rapher Michael Bupp
slash recidivism but save the Congressional Medal compiled a series of
taxpayers from high costs of Honor for his heroism profiles on famous (and
that come with incarcer- during battle in Somalia in infamous) people bur-
ation. Federal efforts have 1993, actions later featured ied in the Cumberland
stalled in a divided Con- in the book and movie, Valley, and then tracked
gress, however. Black Hawk Down. down their grave sites
If he can win over a According to pbs.org, for photos to accompany
tough judge, an admiral, a during the battle, Shughart the profiles.
governor and a legal wizard and his team leader vol-
such as David White, Mul- unteered to be inserted We will run one profile
len thinks he might be able on the ground to protect a day on page A1 in
to persuade a few senators wounded soldiers, and af- September and compile
to ease the burdens on for- ter his third request they them in a collection on-
mer felons, too. received permission. Once line at www.cumberlink.
Im not saying that they reached the crew com.
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sequences. Im saying his team leader continued about and a location for
that the consequences to offer protective fire until an interesting grave site
shouldnt be perpetual, he depleted his ammunition in the Cumberland Val-
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MIDSTATE
Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys. He is serving a 30- to
60-year prison term.
Penn State, insurer settle fight
that revealed scandal details
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HILADELPHIA Penn State
P As part of the legal tussle
has settled a court fight with its
insurer over payments to vic-
tims of the Jerry Sandusky child
sex abuse scandal, a case that
revealed new details about how
early Penn State football coach
Joe Paterno knew of accusations
against his assistant coach.
A one-page document filed
with a Philadelphia court on
Thursday stated the action
against the Pennsylvania Manu-
facturers Association Insurance
Co. was settled.
Terms of the deal and the
amount of payment are con-
fidential by mutual consent, a
Penn State spokeswoman said
Audit faults states largest online charter
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARRISBURG Poor gov-
H Charter School in Midland, Bea-
ernance and financial conflicts
of interest have
plagued Penn-
sylvanias largest
online charter
school, which
collects tens of
millions of dol-
lars from nearly
every school dis-
DePasquale
trict in the state,
a state audit found.
The performance audit, re-
leased Thursday by Auditor
General Eugene DePasquale,
in an email Friday.
over whether the insurer would
have to cover Sandusky-related
claims, both sides obtained
sworn depositions from key
witnesses and other documents
that hadnt previously become
public.
The presiding judge, after
requests from The Associated
Press and other media outlets,
released some of that informa-
tion in July.
Among the notable new reve-
lations were allegations Paterno
fielded a complaint about San-
dusky in 1976. The documents
include portions of the accus-
ers deposition in 2014 saying
found the Pennsylvania Cyber
ver County, failed to provided
adequate oversight of business
dealings involving Nick Trom-
betta, the founder and CEO, who
is due to be sentenced in Novem-
ber on a federal tax conspiracy
charge.
In the case of PA Cyber Char-
ter School, publicly elected
school boards from nearly ev-
ery school district in the state
are sending state and local tax
dollars to the cyber school with
zero input and accountability,
said DePasquale, who used the
Paterno, when told that a boy
had been molested, responded
that he didnt want to hear about
it and had a football season to
worry about.
A Paterno family lawyer has
lambasted the allegations, saying
they are untrue and impossible
to prove.
Penn State made $92 million
in total payouts to settle 32 civil
claims in the Sandusky sex mo-
lestation scandal, and sued to
have the insurer cover them.
In May, a judge found that
Penn State had to assume the
costs of settlements stemming
from claims over most of the
1990s because its insurance
policies did not cover abuse or
audit to call for reforms of the
states charter school law, which
he called the worst in the nation.
Trombetta created a number
of entities that provided services
to the school, and took advan-
tage of every flaw in the law to
get rich off the backs of students
and taxpayers, DePasquale said.
Trombetta left the school in
2012, and Pennsylvania Cyber
disputed many of the findings in
its response to the audit. Brian
Hayden, PA Cybers board presi-
dent, said the school has worked
to change how it operates.
This isnt the same orga-
ABBY DREY, CENTRE DAILY TIMES
molestation.
When Sandusky abused chil-
dren at his home or at events
held by the childrens charity he
started, he was still a PSU as-
sistant coach and professor, and
clothed in the glory associated
with those titles, particularly in
the eyes of impressionable chil-
dren, Judge Gary Glazer wrote.
By cloaking him with a title
that enabled him to perpetuate
his crimes, PSU must assume
some responsibility for what he
did both on and off campus, he
said.
Sandusky was convicted of
sexually abusing 10 boys. He is
serving a 30- to 60-year prison
term.
nization as it was under Nick
Trombetta. It is not, Hayden
told the Beaver County Times.
Were learning. Were trying,
and were really committed to
moving away from those bad
practices.
The online school enrolls
nearly 10,000 students state-
wide.
The audit, which covered the
period between May 2011 and
March 2016, found problems
with the curriculum and man-
agement company and said the
board failed to govern, among
other failings.
The Sentinel
Spate of
clown
reports
raises
alarm
JOE MANDAK
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH Police are en-
couraging caution amid a rash of
public complaints and social me-
dia reports in a number of states
of people dressed like clowns
and acting suspiciously, even if
they think many are knucklehead
pranksters or simply bogus.
Real clowns are just plain
miffed.
Authorities in Greenville,
South Carolina, were among the
first to report a clown-related in-
cident in recent weeks. Late last
month, some children reported
clowns trying to lure them into
the woods with money. Sheriffs
deputies found no evidence,
however, not even a prankster in
a clown suit.
But for whatever reason, since
then, people in Alabama, Geor-
gia, Maryland, North Carolina
and now, Pennsylvania, have
reported scary or suspicious
encounters with people dressed
like clowns.
When people report these
things it should be someone
dressed like a clown, because a
real clown would never dress or
do anything to scare anyone,
said Tricia Manuel, 55, who runs
Mooseburger Clown Arts Camp
in Buffalo, Minnesota. The camp,
named for her alter ego, Pricilla
Mooseburger, trains about 100
clowns each year.
She said she has been follow-
ing the reports closely because
they are hurting business.
In South Carolina, two of the
clowns were afraid to go out and
perform, and theyre two of my
customers, said Manuel, whose
two children are also clowns. If
they dont perform, they dont
need supplies.
Union sets
strike date,
talks continue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARRISBURG The union
representing faculty and coaches
at 14 state universities in Penn-
sylvania has set a strike date.
The Association of Pennsylva-
nia State College and University
Faculties says its members will
strike on Oct. 19 if a new contract
settlement is not reached.
The Pennsylvania State Sys-
tem of Higher Education during
negotiations this week proposed
raising faculty pay by 12 percent
while seeking other contract
changes.
The unions president says
they remain at odds on a number
of proposals, including faculty
workloads.
The union represents about
5,500 faculty and coaches at uni-
versities including Bloomsburg,
East Stroudsburg, Kutztown and
Shippensburg, among others.
State System spokesman Kenn
Marshall says a strike by faculty
runs counter to everything that
higher education stands for.
The two sides say theyll re-
turn to the bargaining table.
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OUR VIEW

Newspaper
storytelling Taking on the drug wars
W
hat newspapers still do best is tell a complete story, giving
proper background and context to better understand a news
event.

A
For over a year now our staff has cranked out weekly Closer gony. dealers and concern for addicts legal, regulated drug market
Look packages. At the August South lies a trail of petty crimes that that prohibited and thereby
Over three or four days, we present a current news story, but Middleton meeting spon- fund the self-treatment for ended the lethal mixing of syn-
rather than just hit the highlights that make it news- sored by the Cumberland-Perry problems and that terrorize the thetic opioids with heroin that
worthy, our staff digs deeper to present a full ac- Drug & Alcohol Commission community. is creating a growing list of dead
counting of the who, what, when, where, why and the agony was palpable. So, too, All this, coming in the midst addicts, dead family members.
how. were frustration, helplessness of a lethal heroin epidemic that A legal market would sell safe
The Closer Look package that began in Fridays edi- and anger. follows a severe and continuing drugs and would sell them only
tion Sentinel is the first of a four-part series on John Audience member after au- prescription opioid epidemic, to adults, constraints your local
Wayne Strawser Jr., the West Virginia man who was dience member which follows a methamphet- dealer is not likely to observe.
SENTINEL recently convicted of one murder and will soon be stood to describe amine epidemic that came on the Hari notes that childhood
PUBLISHER tried for a second. their experiences heels of a crack cocaine epidemic trauma is the No. 1 predictor
While the stories of the murders are well known, as addicts or loved that was spawned by a powder of adult addiction. Indeed, one
Sentinel reporter Joshua Vaughn tells for the first time ones of addicts or cocaine epidemic, should give addict at the South Middleton
how systemic failures within the criminal justice system that filled neighbors. They us pause in our continuing, and event pointed to that as the
Strawsers criminal history. felt powerless to continually ineffective, war on cause of his addiction. Hari also
Sept. 25 is the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. halt the scourge drugs. notes that perhaps the most re-
If there is any way to honor those lives lost to murder, it is to repair a ALAN of drugs in their Johann Hari, in Chasing the liable cure for addiction is con-
HOWE Scream: The first and last days nection to families and friends
broken system that allowed a man like Strawser to possess weapons area and felt dis-
and stay on the street in spite of violating the terms of his probation. appointment of the war on drugs, notes that and communities. The war on
My hope is that the families of the victims will find some comfort bordering on dis- the war on drugs created as well drugs instead condemns and
in not only seeing Strawser punished, but in seeing the system that gust that law enforcement could a war for drugs. The illegality imprisons and isolates addicts
failed their loved ones fixed. make no sure promise to relieve means only criminals can satisfy who already feel ashamed and
As Vaughns first story showed Friday, officials in Garrett County their suffering. a continuing need. That leads ostracized. We are not on a path
Maryland didnt return calls and the probation department in Pres- Cumberland County District to unregulated markets and re- to resolving this crisis.
ton County West Virginia refused to comment when contacted Attorney David Freed noted that lentless violence to claim market I recommend Haris book to
about their apparent role in allowing Strawser to remain free and when a drug dealer is taken off share. It means more suffering anyone concerned with this
armed. the streets another takes his for addicts, families and com- agony. And I suggest we expand
Our hope in the telling of this seemingly impossible story of bu- place. Demand finds a supply. munities. our conversation.
reaucratic bungling is that changes will be made to fix our broken Meanwhile, recovering addicts Perhaps it is time maybe Alan Howe lives in Carlisle. He
system. asked to be treated like human well past time that we gave se- is an Air Force veteran with two
I hope you will take the time to read this important and timely beings. We are not bad people. rious thought to how we address decades of overseas experience,
series. They want their families and the pain and suffering that seeks and a lifelong student of history,
neighbors, and especially the relief through drugs available governance and the Letort. When
police to understand that while only from criminals. No one can not offering his opinions here, he
LETTERS their coping mechanism may prove a counter-factual, to show sits on the boards of the Carl-
be frowned upon by society and that the legalization of drugs isle Area Dog Park Association,
More work needed Not only will Rep. Reeses leg- our laws, they nonetheless have to take one option would lead Letort Regional Authority and
islation provide the convenience problems that drugs seem to to a better situation than we Cumberland Valley Chapter of
for liquor system consumers demand, but it also ease. have now. Trout Unlimited. The opinions
Dear Editor: will protect countless jobs cre- Between the concern about However, we can imagine a stated here are his own.
Pennsylvania lawmakers and ated by Pennsylvania distilleries.
Gov. Tom Wolf took steps this The commonwealths distilling
year to modernize the common- industry is undergoing tremen-
wealths liquor system, but work dous growth, but the current
remains. State Rep. Mike Reese system puts it at a major disad-
Rose case shows deck is still stacked
A
(R-Westmoreland) recently vantage because sales are limited womans life is about to be- This is how we shame women It should be noted that the
introduced legislation, House to state stores. come a virtual hell, thanks who allege sexual assault. It often judge has put Rose and his legal
Bill 2357, which will help expand Its time to support these to the legal maneuverings works because the public will be team on notice for shaming.
consumer access and protect Pennsylvania businesses and of NBA star Derrick Rose. more than willing participants, Defendant Rose appears to
jobs. their employees. We look for- She can count on it because consuming the details like gossip suggest that women who pub-
Rep. Reese would create a ward to working with Rep. Reese, the public still reacts with scorn and rendering spot judgments licly portray themselves as sex-
spirit expanded permit, which the Pennsylvania General As- toward women who accuse fa- about the victim. ual are less likely to experience
would allow restaurants, taverns, sembly and Wolf administration mous athletes, Hollywood stars That being said, there is also embarrassment, humiliation and
grocery stores and hotels to sell to pass this important legislation and politicians of sexual assault. a forceful argument that shield- harassment associated with gang
up to three liters of spirits for that will give the PLCB the tools Rose won the le- ing the identities of sexual as- rape, the judge wrote in an ear-
carryout. This is important be- it needs to serve the consumer by gal right to use the sault victims mutes the public lier order.
cause consumers want to make expanding outlets without addi- womans name in a response to such crimes. That But in the decision to allow the
one stop when shopping for beer, tional costs. civil trial in which argument was made most force- plaintiff to be named, other fac-
wine and spirits. Right now, David Wojnar he is accused of fully in 1989 by Geneva Over- tors also had to be weighed: the
many have to go to three differ- Washington D.C. rape, scheduled to holser, the brave editor of the publics interest in the case, and
ent locations to purchase what Mr. Wojnar is vice president of begin Oct. 4. The Des Moines Register, published a the possibility that a pseudonym
they need. the Distilled Spirits Council MARY pseudonym Jane column arguing that anonymity at a civil trial would be perceived
SANCHEZ Doe will cease to harms rape victims and mutes by the jury as a comment on the
shield her. The public outrage at the crime. harm caused by the alleged ac-
PUBLIC OFFICIALS 30-year-old col- She wasnt wrong, but she was tions of Rose.
lege student will be identified in writing before the advent of viral The judge can only control so
President proceedings, which opens her social media. much: the actions of defendant
Barack H. Obama, White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, to levels of scrutiny and fury Her arguments continue to and plaintiff, jurors and those
D.C. 20500. that Rose will not face. That fact be persuasive. She wondered in who attend the proceedings.
alone takes a moment to digest. 2003 whether the medias hesi- What the public does to the
Vice President
The woman has accused Rose tancy to name names indeed it woman, particularly on social
Joseph R. Biden Jr., Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C.
of raping her in 2013 along with is an institutionalized rule has media, is where the threat lies.
20501.
two buddies after she passed out. prolonged the stigma and fed This is the sad reality behind
U.S. senators Rose and the woman had been the underreporting. Overholsers long-held opinion
Robert Casey, 393 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. in a consensual, non-exclusive The myths about rape con- that society does more harm
20510. Toll-free number, 866-802-2833. Harrisburg office, 22 S. Third sexual relationship for nearly tinue partly because truths about than good by shielding the iden-
St., Suite 6A. Toll-free number, 866-461-9159. casey.senate.gov. two years. But, she alleges, that the crime are shielded as well. tities of rape victims. Nearly 30
changed in August 2013 after she And when its victims are name- years later, were still struggling
Pat Toomey, 248 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510.
had left the New York Knicks less and faceless, that leaves a with the notion.
202-224-4254. Harrisburg office, U.S. Federal Building, 228 Walnut St.,
rental house in Los Angeles vacuum for assumptions. For all of the ethical, legal and
Suite 1104. 717-782-3951. toomey.senate.gov.
drunk and possibly drugged. In a less sexist world, a woman sensitivity questions raised, the
Her name exposed, the woman could make an allegation and narratives of sexual assault be
OUR LETTER POLICY will soon be easy prey for any expect the known facts either to they criminal charges or lawsuits
slug with an Internet connec- prove or disprove the contention. or journalistic reporting still
We welcome letters from our readers. tion. She will be called a slut and What the woman wore, how divide the public in unhelpful
a greedy whore for seeking mon- much she drank that evening, ways. Some people are so uneasy
To be considered for publication, letters can be mailed or emailed and must
etary compensation. She will if she had previously agreed to with the details that they prefer
be under 300 words and signed. Your name, address and a daytime tele-
probably receive death threats. sex with that man or any other, the muting of anonymous vic-
phone number must be included. We routinely edit for length, accuracy, and
The womans parents are im- would be of no consequence. tims. Others take to social media
clarity. We do not publish copies, form letters or letters addressed to anyone
migrants from Mexico, so shell Sexual assault would not be and eagerly attack the victim
other than the editor. Letters will be verified before they are printed. Writers
also be treated to assumptions among the most underreported further.
may criticize others actions, but personal attacks will not be printed. Writers
about her familys immigration crimes if these notions ceased to And that leaves victims won-
are limited to one appearance per calendar month.
status and all sorts of other eth- exist. dering if theyre better off not
Send your letter to: Letters to the Editor, The Sentinel, Carlisle, PA 17013 nic hatred. Only what happened would coming forward to seek justice.
or deliver to our offices at 457 E. North St., Carlisle. Roses legal strategy appears matter. Was there consent or Mary Sanchez is an opin-
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A8|Saturday, September 24, 2016
Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby has been charged with
first-degree manslaughter in the death of Terence Crutcher.
She has been suspended without pay.
Tulsa officer had de-
escalation training
Woman charged in
shooting had cool
head on shoulders
SEAN MURPHY &
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS
Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. The
Tulsa police officer ac-
cused of manslaughter in
the fatal shooting of an
unarmed black man took
a roundabout path toward
her dream job of joining
law enforcement, with
stops as a convenience
store clerk, an Air Na-
tional Guard member and
a teaching assistant.
Family members and
colleagues say Betty Jo
Shelby, 42, was an en-
gaged community mem-
ber, a churchgoer and
cool-headed enough to
be tapped as a field-train-
ing officer even though
she didnt join the Tulsa
County Sheriffs Office un-
til 2007 and the citys force
until 2011.
Despite completing
de-escalation training,
Shelby reacted unreason-
ably when she confronted
40-year-old Terence
Crutcher on Sept. 16 as he
ignored her and walked to-
ward his SUV thatd been
abandoned on a street,
prosecutors said in court
documents. Shelby, who
posted bond early Friday,
faces up to life in prison if
convicted.
Shelbys attorney, Scott
Wood, said Friday that she
had a reputation of having
a cool head on her shoul-
ders.
This wasnt her first
week on the job, Wood
said. Betty is a field-train-
ing officer. The department
has picked her to train new
officers, and people will tell
you this isnt Betty Shelby
to overreact to a situation.
He also said Crutcher
escalated the situation
by not communicating
with her, disobeying her
commands and walking
away from her. One thing
about de-escalation, thats
a two-way street, Wood
said. You have to at least
have some open commu-
nication. There was none
with Mr. Crutcher.
Mark Sawa, a retired
major with the Travis
County Sheriffs Office in
Austin, Texas, who trains
police officers on use of
force, said: If somebody
is not contained, if theyre
walking away from you,
your opportunity to defuse
that encounter is greatly
diminished if theyre mo-
bile and not stationary.
He cautioned that he
couldnt fully assess how
the situation got out of
hand, as no video is avail-
able until after Shelby al-
ready has her gun drawn
and Crutcher is walking
away from her with his
hands in the air. Shelby
did not activate her dash-
board camera when she
first came across Crutcher
and his SUV.
Crutcher died of a gun-
shot wound to the chest,
the state medical exam-
iners office said Friday,
adding that the full au-
topsy and toxicology re-
ports were not finished.
His funeral is scheduled
for Saturday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Crutchers twin sister,
Tiffany Crutcher, disputed
he was behaving belliger-
ently toward Shelby.
At the time he was shot,
his hands were up, there
was daylight, everyone can
clearly see that he had no
weapon in his hand what-
soever, Tiffany Crutcher
told The Associated Press
in an interview Friday.
Shelby joined the Tulsa
County Sheriffs Office in
2007 and stayed until 2011,
resigning with a salary of
$39,516. Records show one
use-of-force report in
2010, drawing but not fir-
ing a gun while searching
for a suspect.
Her sheriffs office appli-
cation shows she said she
smoked marijuana twice
as a teenager and had two
protective orders taken out
against her once when
she was about 20 after a
breakup when her and her
ex-boyfriend took a shovel
to each others cars in an-
ger. The second incident
in 2000 followed one of
Shelbys two divorces; she
alleges her ex-husbands
new wife sought a protec-
tive order in an attempt
to discredit my character.
In both cases, Shelby said
a judge agreed to dismiss
the orders.
Shelby joined the Tulsa
Police Department in De-
cember 2011; her husband
David works there, too.
Her salary was $53,747 as
of May 31, according to a
city spokeswoman; she
was placed on leave with-
out pay Friday.
The department refused
the APs repeated requests
to release her personnel re-
cords, but said the officer
has not been subject to any
disciplinary proceedings in
her nearly five years.
She has garnered acco-
lades due to her work in the
community, said Sgt. Pat-
rick Stephens, a spokesman
with the Tulsa Fraternal
Order of Police Lodge 93,
of which Shelby is a mem-
ber. On Aug. 28, she was
featured in a TPD Facebook
post after she located and
returned property stolen
from two residents; theres
a photo of her posing with
the pair, who brought her a
bouquet of flowers.
Shelbys pastor, Benja-
min Williams of the Glen-
pool Church of Christ in
suburban Tulsa, described
her as quiet, reserved and
someone who doesnt fit
the stereotype of an ex-
trovert police officer.
It was big news to me a
couple years ago that she
was even in law enforce-
ment, said Williams.
Shes not brash or any of
those things. Id imagine
her in a church pew any-
where in the country.
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Video shows deadly encounter
between man, Charlotte police
MEG KINNARD & JONATHAN
DREW
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Video of a deadly encounter
between Charlotte police
and a black man shows his
wife repeatedly telling of-
ficers he is not armed and
pleading with them not to
shoot her husband as they
shout at him to drop a gun.
The video, recorded by
Keith Lamont Scotts wife
and released Friday by his
family, does not indicate
whether Scott had a gun.
Police have said he was
armed, but witnesses say
he held only a book. The
2-minute video does not
show the shooting, though
gunshots can be heard.
Scotts wife, Rakeyia
Scott, tells officers that
he has a TBI, or traumatic
brain injury. At one point,
she tells her husband to get
out of the car so police dont
break the windows. She also
tells him, dont do it, but
its not clear exactly what
she means.
As the encounter esca-
lates, she repeatedly urges
police, You better not
shoot him.
After the gunshots, Scott
can be seen lying face-down
on the ground while his wife
says he better live. She
continues recording and
asks if an ambulance has
been called. The officers
stand over Scott. Its unclear
if they are checking him for
weapons or attempting to
give first aid.
In the footage, Scotts
wife states the address and
says, These are the police
officers that shot my hus-
band.
Representatives for the
police department and the
mayors office did not im-
mediately return emails
from The Associated Press
seeking comment.
The video emerged af-
ter a third night of protests
over the shooting gave way
to quiet streets Friday. The
largely peaceful demonstra-
tions in the citys business
district were watched over
by rifle-toting members of
the National Guard.
Protesters called on po-
lice to release video that
could resolve wildly differ-
ent accounts of the shoot-
ing earlier this week. Char-
lotte-Mecklenburg Police
Chief Kerr Putney said
Friday that there is foot-
age from at least one police
body camera and one dash-
board camera.
The family of Scott, 43,
was shown the footage
Thursday and demanded
that police release it to the
public. The video recorded
by Scotts wife had not been
previously released.
Demonstrators chanted
release the tape and we
want the tape Thursday
while briefly blocking an in-
tersection and later climb-
ing the steps to the door of
the city government center.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS
In this image taken from video recorded by Rakeyia Scott on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, her
husband, Keith Lamont Scott, center, stands amid Charlotte police cars and other vehicles
moments before he is shot by a police officer in Charlotte, N.C.
Mike Campagna told re-
porters that officers would
not seek to arrest curfew vi-
olators as long as they were
peaceful.
Putney said Friday that
releasing the footage of
Scotts death could inflame
the situation. He has said
previously that the video
will be made public when
he believes there is a com-
pelling reason to do so.
Its a personal struggle,
but I have to do what I think
is best for my community,
Putney said.
During the same news
conference, Roberts said she
believes the video should be
released, but the question
is on the timing.
Earlier in the week, the
Charlotte protests turned
violent, with demonstra-
tors attacking reporters
and others, setting fires
and smashing windows of
hotels, office buildings and
restaurants.
Forty-four people were
arrested after Wednesdays
In this image taken from video recorded by Keith Lamont protests, and one protester
Scotts wife, Rakeyia Scott, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, who was shot died at the
Charlotte police squat next to Keith Lamont Scott as Scott hospital Thursday. City
lies face-down on the ground, in Charlotte, N.C. officials said police did not
shoot 26-year-old Justin
Later, several dozen dem- on Thursday, prosecutors Carr. A suspect was ar-
onstrators walked onto an charged a white officer with rested, but police provided
interstate highway through manslaughter for killing an few details.
the city, but they were unarmed black man on a Putney said he has seen
pushed back by police in city street last week. the video and it does not
riot gear. Thursdays protests in contain absolute, defin-
State Attorney General Charlotte lacked the vio- itive evidence that would
Roy Cooper also called on lence and property damage confirm that a person was
Charlotte officials to release of previous nights, and a pointing a gun. But he
the video, saying doing so curfew enacted by the citys added: When taken in the
would help bring the com- mayor encouraged a stop- totality of all the other evi-
munity and law enforce- ping point. dence, it supports what we
ment together. Cooper, a Charlotte Mayor Jennifer said.
Democrat, is running for Roberts signed documents Justin Bamberg, an attor-
governor in November. to keep the curfew in effect ney for Scotts family, said
Charlotte is the latest U.S. from midnight until 6a.m. its impossible to discern
city to be shaken by protests each day until the state of from the videos what, if
and recriminations over emergency declared by the anything, Scott is holding
the death of a black man at governor ends. in his hands.
the hands of police, a list After the curfew took Scott never aggressively
that includes Baltimore, effect, police allowed the approached officers and was
Milwaukee, Chicago, New crowd of demonstrators to shot as he walked slowly
York and Ferguson, Mis- thin without forcing them backward with his hands
souri. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, off the street. Police Capt. by his side, Bamberg said.
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NATION & WORLD
In reversal, Cruz
to vote
for Trump
WASHINGTON Ted
Cruz announced Friday he
will vote for Donald Trump,
a dramatic about-face that
may help unite a deeply
divided Republican Party
months after the fiery Texas
conservative called Trump
a pathological liar and
utterly amoral.
Cruz said he was sim-
ply following through on a
promise to support his par-
tys presidential nominee,
even though the New York
billionaire had nicknamed
him Lyin Ted, insulted turn Obamas vetoes have
his wife and linked his fa-
ther to the John F. Kennedy
assassination.
But facing intensifying
political pressure to back
Trump, Cruz said he would
cast a vote for Trump, while
stopping short of an official
endorsement in a statement
posted Friday on Facebook.
The distinction may
matter little to voters,
but helps Cruz save face
among those supporters
still unwilling to forgive
Trumps heated attacks
during their ugly and often
intensely personal primary
campaign. Cruz was booed
by Trump supporters at the
national convention for en-
couraging Republicans to
vote your conscience.
After many months of
careful consideration, of
prayer and searching my
own conscience, I have
decided that on Election
Day, I will vote for the Re-
publican nominee, Donald
Trump, Cruz wrote Friday.
Poll: Majority
fears Trump
presidency
NEW YORK More
than half the country
fears a Trump presidency.
And only about a third of
Americans believe he is at
least somewhat qualified to
serve in the White House.
In the final sprint to
Election Day, a new Associ-
ated Press-GfK poll under-
scores those roadblocks for
Donald Trump as he tries to
overtake Hillary Clinton.
Moreover, most vot-
ers oppose the hard-line
approach to immigration
that is a centerpiece of the
billionaire businessmans
campaign. They are more
likely to trust Clinton to
handle a variety of issues
facing the country, and
Trump has no advantage
on the national security
topics also at the forefront
of his bid.
Only 29 percent of reg-
istered voters would be
excited and just 24 percent
would be proud should
Trump prevail in Novem-
ber.
Only one in four voters
find him even somewhat
civil or compassionate, and
just a third say hes not at
all racist.
Obama vetoes
9/11 bill; possible
override looms
WASHINGTON Presi-
dent Barack Obama nixed a
bill Friday that would have
allowed the families of 9/11
victims to sue the govern-
ment of Saudi Arabia, argu-
ing it undermined national
security and setting up the
possibility that Congress
might override his veto for
the first time of his presi-
dency.
The bill had sailed
through both chambers of
Congress with bipartisan
support, clearing the final
hurdle just days before the
15th anniversary of the 9/11
attacks that killed nearly
3,000 people. But the
White House said the bill,
which doesnt refer specifi-
cally to Saudi Arabia, could
backfire by opening up the
U.S. government and its of-
ficials to lawsuits by anyone
M accusing the U.S. of sup-
1 porting terrorism, rightly
or wrongly.
I have deep sympa-
thy for the families of the
victims of the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
Obama wrote to the Senate
in a veto message about the
bill, known as the Justice
Against Sponsors of Ter-
rorism Act. But, he said,
the JASTA would be det-
rimental to U.S. national
interests more broadly,
which is why I am return-
ing it without my approval.
The move paves the
way for Congress to try to
override the veto, which
requires a two-thirds vote
in the House and Senate.
Previous attempts to over-
half billion user accounts at
all been unsuccessful.
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
indicated Thursday that
there was sufficient sup-
port in the House to over-
ride Obamas veto. Yet the
White House has worked
assiduously to try to peel
off supporters, and said Fri-
day it was unclear whether
enough had defected to
avert an override.
N. Korea vows
to strengthen
nuclear forces
UNITED NATIONS
North Koreas foreign
minister condemned the
United States on Friday for
flying supersonic bombers
over South Korea earlier
this week and vowed his
country will strengthen its
nuclear capabilities in de-
fiance of multiple U.N. Se-
curity Council resolutions.
In a speech before the
U.N. General Assembly, Ri
Yong Ho said the Korean
Peninsula has now been
turned into the worlds
most dangerous hot spot
which can even ignite the
outbreak of a nuclear war.
He blamed the United
States and its hostile pol-
icy against North Korea.
Ri claimed that B-1B
bombers the U.S. military
flew over South Korea ear-
lier this week crossed the
demarcation line separat-
ing the two Koreas. The
U.S. military has said at
least one of two supersonic
bombers that it flew over
South Korea approached
the border with the North
Korea, an unusual occur-
rence in the worlds most
heavily fortified border.
Pitt allegations
relate to
treatment of son
LOS ANGELES Al-
legations Brad Pitt was
abusive on a private plane
last week relate to the ac-
tors treatment toward his
15-year-old son, sources
said Friday, as the FBI con-
tinued to gather informa-
tion before determining
whether to open an inves-
tigation.
FBI Spokeswoman Laura
Eimiller said the agency
hasnt made a decision on
a formal investigation into
what occurred on a plane
ferrying Pitt, his wife An-
gelina Jolie Pitt and their six
children.
Several news outlets
have reported that a child
welfare agency in Los An-
geles is investigating the
well-being of the children,
who range in ages from 8
to 15.
Sources familiar with the
allegations, but not autho-
rized to speak publicly, say
the child welfare investiga-
tion centers on Pitts treat-
ment of his son Maddox, 15,
during an argument during
the Sept. 14 flight. No law
enforcement agency re-
sponded to the plane when
it landed in Minnesota after
the incident.
Amara Suarez, a spokes-
woman for the Los Ange-
les County Department
of Children and Family
Services, said the agency
could not confirm whether
it was investigating Pitt or
the well-being of the for-
mer couples children.
NATION & WORLD Saturday, September 24, 2016|A9
Yahoo hackers may seek
intelligence, not riches
Info could be used
to build dossiers
on government
BRANDON BAILEY
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO If a
foreign government is be-
hind the massive computer
attack that compromised a
Yahoo, as the company says,
the breach could be part of a
long-term strategy thats
aimed at gathering intelli-
gence rather than getting
rich.
Yahoo says the breach
involved users email ad-
dresses, passwords and other ASSOCIATED PRESS
information including
birthdates but not pay- People walk in front of a Yahoo sign at the companys headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.
ment card or bank account Yahoo says the personal information of 500 million accounts have been stolen in a massive
numbers. Although the sto- security breakdown that represents the latest setback for the beleaguered internet company.
len data could still be used
in financial crimes, such as panies in 2014 and 2015. It through their government on Chinese hackers who
identity theft, experts say a may have been part of an email accounts, said Tim also targeted U.S. companies
foreign intelligence agency
might combine the Yahoo
effort to gather sensitive or
compromising information
Erlin, senior director of se-
curity and risk strategy at
outside the tech industry.
In any event, security ex-
files with information from to blackmail or coerce indi- Tripwire, a cyber-security perts warn that the Yahoo
other sources to build exten- viduals working at a variety firm. breach could still put ordi-
sive dossiers on U.S. govern- of federal agencies. Similarly, governments nary users at risk, particu-
ment or corporate officials in Hackers could also use might want to target ex- larly if the hacked informa-
sensitive positions. such personal information ecutives at multi-national tion finds its way to online
With state-sponsored to concoct bogus emails and corporations, especially marketplaces where stolen
attacks, its not just financial send them to a persons Ya- if theyre competing with data are bought and sold.
information thats of value, hoo account, in what might companies based in the Many people use the same
said Lance Hoffman, co-di- be a sophisticated phish- country that sponsored the email address and password
rector of the Cyberspace ing scheme aimed at get- attacks. In such cases, intel- for a variety of online ser-
Security and Privacy Insti- ting the target to click on a ligence officials might share vices, where they might also
tute at George Washington link containing spyware useful commercial secrets have provided financial in-
University. In the long run, or other malicious computer with their home-grown formation such as credit card
if the state accumulates a lot code. industries, said Jeremiah numbers. And hackers with
of information on you, and Theyd have the ability to Grossman, an official at access to a Yahoo email ac-
especially if it corroborates conduct targeted phishing SentinelOne, a Silicon Val- count could try to reset pass-
that with other sources, it
can assemble a pretty good
attacks against individuals
with potentially valuable
ley computer security firm.
He noted that the 2010 at-
words for other services, if a
user registered for those ac-
profile. information, without going tack on Google was blamed counts with a Yahoo address.
Governments have also
been known to hack email
accounts to keep tabs on
their own citizens or dissi-
dents. Experts believe that
was one motive behind a Is it just a stomachache
2010 hacking of Google
Gmail accounts used by Chi-
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Yahoo hasnt revealed the
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a state-sponsored actor
for the latest attack, which
the Sunnyvale, California,
company said occurred two
years ago and was discovered
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be an easy excuse to deflect
blame for a companys own
security lapses, by suggest-
ing it had no hope of defeat-
ing hackers who had all the
resources of a government
intelligence agency behind
them, warned Gunter Oll-
mann, chief security officer
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Jose, California, security
firm.
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HISTORY
Craighead twins legacy
Brothers John
and Frank were
instrumental to the
sport of falconry
JOSEPH CRESS
The Sentinel
The twins had to soar in fal-
conry before taking flight as nat-
uralists.
That June of 1932 was differ-
ent than all the ones before it
for brothers Frank Jr. and John
Craighead.
For years the morning chore
was to draw fresh drinking water
from the well across the dirt road
from the familys summer retreat
in South Middleton Township.
Once done, the boys were free
to roam the countryside un-
til called in for lunch by their
mother Carolyn.
But that June brought new re-
sponsibilities driven by a youth-
ful enthusiasm to overcome the
challenge issued by falconer
Capt. Luff Meredith. The Army
aviator gave the siblings the mis-
sion of becoming the first in his-
tory to train Coopers hawks in
the ancient sport of kings.
Local historian Tom Benjey in-
cludes this coming-of-age story
in his upcoming book Glorious
Times: Adventures of the Craig-
head Naturalists. A look back on
how the brothers defied the odds
and inspired others is timely.
John Craighead died in his
sleep Sept. 18 in Missoula, Mon-
tana. He was 100 years old. His
twin brother, Frank Jr., died on
Oct. 21, 2001 of Parkinsons Dis-
ease. Though gone, their legacy
lives on for generations to come.
Both men are credited with
saving the grizzly bear in Yel-
lowstone National Park and with
drafting language that became
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act,
said Benjey, a volunteer in the
effort to preserve the Craighead
house at 318 Old York Road.
The twin brothers along with
their sister, author Jean Craig-
head George, spent a significant
part of their childhood and early
adult years at the summer retreat
located along the banks of the
Yellow Breeches Creek.
The sister went on to write
more than 100 young adult books
relating to nature, including
Summer of the Falcon which
documented what it was like to
spend summers in central Penn-
sylvania in the 1930s.
For much of the year, the three
siblings grew up in the Washing-
ton D.C. area where their father,
Frank Craighead Sr., worked as
B-52 bomber pilot recalls missions
JOSEPH CRESS
The Sentinel
Vietnam was just another
stretch of tropical coastline
from seven miles up and 150
miles out.
It was all green with nice
sandy looking beaches, recalled
Wayne Wachsmuth, 81, of North
Newton Township. It looked
like a nice place to visit.
Edging closer to target, the
landscape changed and from
his vantage in the cockpit of
the B-52D bomber, the Butler
County native could see towns,
cities and villages take shape
across the horizon.
There were roads cutting
through the countryside link-
ing supply dumps to mountain
outposts. White stripes clearly
defined by the necessity of war.
You didnt want jungle up
to the edge of the road, said
Vietnam but flew over hostile
Wachsmuth, once an Air Forceterritory during 133 missions
logged in between March 1966
captain now a retired lieutenant
colonel. The convoys could come
and July 1968.
under attack All but three missions were
So the U.S. military during the
against targets in the South in-
war defoliated the land out to 100
cluding base camps, ammunition
yards along the cart way denying
dumps, truck parks and troop
the enemy the cover they needed
concentrations.
to set up ambushes. The rest were aimed at cutting
supply routes from Laos into the Air Force Capt. Wayne Wachsmuth climbs a ladder to board the cockpit
Rather Impersonal North.
A pilot on a heavy bomber,
Wachsmuth never set foot in
Frank Jr. and John Craighead with their Coopers Hawks.
the chief forest entomologist
with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
It was a tradition to pack the
car every June and drive to Craig-
head Station, a settlement out-
side Boiling Springs where an-
cestors of the Craighead family
had operated a store, feed mill,
train station and other busi-
nesses.
While Frank Sr. used the sum-
mer to check on his experiments
in other states, Carolyn and the
children enjoyed the simple life
at the summer retreat.
The father returned from his
travels just after Labor Day.
Please see LEGACY, Page A11 men at Craighead House in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
of a FB-111 fighter-bomber in this photograph from 1969. Wachsmuth
was a B-52 bomber pilot who flew missions over Vietnam from 1966 to
Please see VIETNAM, Page A11 1968.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. Sean
Tucker is building the car of his
great-grandfathers dreams.
With a curvy body and Cy-
clops eye center headlight, the
Tucker Torpedo was the vision
of automobile pioneer Preston
Tucker 70 years ago as he sought
to build the passenger car of to-
morrow. It would be built with
aluminum, giving the car better
mileage and speed. The fenders
would turn with the wheel, the
mounted headlights shining in
the direction of the turn. The
driver would sit in the center
seat, flanked by passengers.
The concept was handed off to
another designer, resulting in not
the Torpedo but in the legendary
rear-engined Tucker 48, which
was set to premiere in 1948. The
car inspired the 1988 Francis
Ford Coppola film Tucker: The
Man and His Dream, which dra-
matizes fraud allegations against
Tucker, who ended up winning
the trial but losing his reputation
and business.
Although the Tucker 48 never
went into full production, pro-
totypes would later be prized
by collectors and one sits in the
Smithsonian.
Meanwhile, the concept car
that started it all was nearly for-
gotten.
Until now.
Tucker called the experience
surreal.
To be able to work on some-
thing that my great-grandfather
started working on so long ago .
and pick up where he left off is
really kind of cool, he said.
He and Ida appeared recently
at SteelStacks in Bethlehem
with a Tucker 48 to speak after
a special screening of the Cop-
pola movie at the Frank Banko
Alehouse Cinemas.
Car of tomorrow
Raised in a Detroit suburb
when the automobile was in its
infancy, Preston Tucker grew
up when Henry Ford was rev-
olutionizing the industry. Ford
devised an assembly-line pro-
cess that made cars affordable
to the common man, debuting
the Model T in 1908.
Tucker cut his teeth in the
industry, working on the Ford
Motor Co. assembly line before
collaborating with Harry Miller
to design race cars. During World
War II, he started Tucker Avia-
tion Corp. and built the Tucker
Turret, which was used on PT
boats and bombers.
The American war machine
made incredible technological
innovations, and Tucker sought
to bring some of those advances
to the passenger car.
Handsome and magnetic,
Tucker knew how to work a
room and promised he would
deliver the car of tomorrow,
billing it as fast, safe and afford-
able. The United Press called him
the Cinderella boy of the auto-
motive world, but critics ques-
tioned whether he could deliver.
He was a promoter who had
a good pulse on what the peo-
ple wanted and tried to give it to
them, said Hampton C. Wayt, a
design historian who has studied
Tucker.
Tucker had a quarter-scale
model of the Torpedo photo-
graphed and airbrushed to look
real. The photograph, which was
published in magazine adver-
tisements, showed an attractive,
sleek car in an era when individ-
ual style mattered.
It was designed like the fuse-
lage of a fighting plane, the ads
said, and marketed for safety and
comfort. A brochure called it the
M
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Vietnam
From A10
Wachsmuth never saw the
bombs drop or explode on
target. Once while flying close
to the Cambodian border, he
had to execute a sharp and
rapid turn. This allowed him
a glimpse of the smoke rising
up from the ground marking
the aftermath of a bomb run.
The ordnance was dropped
by radar off a return echo from
the ground. Only the radar
navigator near the center of
the bomber could view the
drop zone and thats if he was
looking through the optical
sight.
He would do that to see
if there were any secondary
explosions, said Wachsmuth
as that was a sign of a direct
hit on an ammunition or fuel
dump. It was all rather im-
personal.
Our effectiveness was
strictly dependent on how
good the intelligence was,
he added. They tried to find
where the sensitive points
were. For example, experts
once used the radio transmis-
sions of enemy ground forces
to hone in and triangulate the
coordinates of a base camp.
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War had evolved since
the generation before when
bomber crews had to brave
fighter planes and heavy flak
in missions over occupied Eu-
rope and Nazi Germany.
The only sign Wachsmuth
saw of anti-aircraft artillery
was a single puff of black
smoke that appeared sud-
denly off in the distance to
one side of his aircraft during
a mission over the Demilita-
rized Zone.
It was very inaccurate,
he recalled. So far awayIt
didnt make sense to pay at-
tention to it.
There were tense moments
on a few missions when the
electronic warfare officer
warned the crew the plane
was being scanned by sur-
face-to-air missile fire control
radar. Nothing ever came of it
except jittery nerves.
The enemy had to be care-
ful to use radar sparingly as
turning on the gear would
risk detection by U.S. attack
jets that could swoop in with
anti-radar missiles.
At night, when we flew
over there, you could see flares
from different outposts where
they might be under attack,
Wachsmuth said. You could
hear the emergency trans-
missions. Once in a while you
could hear a beeper go off
when a parachute opens up.
The beeper was a signal
that the pilot or crew of a
tactical aircraft had to bail
out over the combat zone.
The hope was rescuers could
pinpoint a location to evacu-
Legacy
From A10
In spring 1932, the boys
accepted the challenge issued
by Meredith and started their
grand adventure in falconry
by scouring the banks and
islands of the Potomac River
in search of likely candidates.
They had just managed to
find two female nestlings
when the family left the next
day for Pennsylvania.
Before the twins took up
falconry at age fifteen, only
four Americans were in-
volved in the sport, all adult
males, Benjey wrote. It
didnt bother them that Coo-
pers hawks had never been
trained as falcons anywhere
in the world. As they saw it,
Coopers hawks had all the
attributes of other birds that
had been successfully trained
for falconry.
Only found in North
America, this species of hawk
was fierce and short-winged.
Females nestlings were cho-
sen because the brothers
claimed that gender was
deadlier than the male big-
ger, stronger, more spirited,
and hence far better adapted
for use in falconry, accord-
ing to their notes. The boys
did not come at it cold. They
had studied books and old
National Geographic maga-
M zine articles on falconry.
1 The country around Car-
This view from out the window of a tanker aircraft boom
operator shows the midair refueling of a B-52 in progress.
ate the downed airmen.
Three tours
Wachsmuth had three
tours of duty over Vietnam.
The first tour ran from March
and September 1966 and con-
sisted of about 53 missions
flown out of Guam in the Pa-
cific Ocean.
The typical mission pro-
file called for a take-off time
around 1 to 2a.m. for the start
of a six-hour inbound flight to
the war zone. The goal was to
hit the target around dawn in
the hopes of catching enemy
personnel either sleeping or in
a concentrated area for maxi-
mum destructive effect.
The learning curve for
bomber pilots flying out of
Guam included a big dip in the
almost two-mile long runway.
It was downhill for the first
thirdUphill for the second
two-thirds, he recalled.
A B-52D at take-off
weighed about 445,000
pounds including 200,000
pounds of fuel and 45,000
pounds of bombs. The sheer
size of the aircraft required the
pilot to pull all the way back
on the flight control yoke to
have enough lift to clear the
edge of the runway.
Once at cruising altitude,
the crew relied on auto pilot
for level flight to a point just
west of the Philippines where
the B-52 was refueled in mid-
air by tanker aircraft.
The pilot or co-pilot was at
the controls for this delicate
operation which involved the
transfer of fuel by a way of
a boom that connected the
tanker with a receptacle on
the bomber fuselage.
The bombers usually flew
in a three-plane cell and
dropped the bombs together
onto a target box roughly
1000 ft. wide by 3000 ft. long.
It only took the ordnance half
a minute to reach the ground.
Some bombs were set to ex-
plode in an airburst just above
the surface to kill soft targets
like vehicles and troop con-
lisle is open farmland, excel-
lent for training and flying
both hawks and falcons,
John Craighead wrote in his
notes. Falconry requires
patience, perseverance, and
hard work. It also demands
dedication and a full-time
commitment needed for few
other sports.
Within days of their ar-
rival at the family retreat,
the Craighead brothers had
fenced off a large enclosure in
the side yard and had hung a
box on a maple tree to house
the two nestlings.
Keeping hawks brought
much responsibility and re-
quired considerable atten-
tion, Benjey wrote. Trap-
ping and shooting fresh food
for them was just one of the
several tasks they had to ac-
complish every day. Being a
supportive parent, Carolyn
Craighead cleared part of
the icebox to store hawk food
provided it was wrapped in
wax paper.
The birds matured as their
feathers came in and, by
the second week of July, the
twins started to carry the
hawks around on their fists
protected by heavy leather
gloves. At first, they pre-
vented fly-away by attach-
ing strings or tethers to the
birds, but gradually the boys
allowed the hawks to fly ev-
er-increasing distances as
the training progressed.
Frank Jr. and John Craig-
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centrations. Others were set
with a time delay fuse so that
the bomb could penetrate and
destroy underground bunkers
and tunnel complexes.
Vietnam veterans who have
witnessed a B-52 bomber
strike have compared it to an
earthquake with shockwaves
going out miles from the point
of impact, Wachsmuth said.
It was exceedingly impres-
sive. That was an awful lot of
Hell.
After the drop, the bombers
turned around for the return
flight of six hours back to
Guam.
Rules of Engagement
Wachsmuth was a co-pi-
lot during his first tour and
for part of this second tour
which ran from April to May
1967. The following year he
returned as a pilot in com-
mand of his own crew from
mid-January to early July
1968.
As the war progressed,
the number of launch
points for B-52 bombers
increased. Early on bomber
missions were staged out of
Guam but gradually bases
were added in Okinawa and
Thailand.
Bomber crews were frus-
trated at every turn by rules
of engagement developed by a
national command authority
out of touch with conditions
on the ground, Wachsmuth
said. We could not hit every-
thing in the Hanoi area. It had
to be approved by the White
House.
He added targets around
Hanoi included a system of
dikes along the Red River
used to control flooding. The
U.S. government announced
early on the dikes would never
be attacked from the air. The
enemy took advantage of this
and used the dikes to store fuel
oil and gasoline drums.
Hai Phong port was also
off-limits to B-52 bomber
strikes out of fear that Russian Email Joseph Cress at jcress@
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head recorded what they
learned in journals. They
wrote an article titled Ad-
ventures with Birds of Prey
that was published in Na-
tional Geographic magazine
in July 1937. That article drew
the attention of an Indian raja
nicknamed Bapa who later
visited the twins at the sum-
mer retreat in Cumberland
County.
His arrival caused quite a
stir among the young women
in the hamlet because no dig-
nitary approaching the status
of a price of marriageable age
had ever visited the area,
Benjey wrote of Bapa.
The twins went on to write
a book on falconry titled
Hawks in the Hand. Their
sister Jean published a novel
My Side of the Mountain.
Virtually every American
involved in falconry since
1932 have been influenced
by either one or both of these
books, according to Benjey.
They are not people who
rest on their laurels, he wrote
of the family. The Craig-
heads are a shining example
of how people of ordinary
means can change the world.
But it was not all work
at this summer retreat for
inspired naturalists. After-
noon activities for the twins
included exploring Bear
Cave, avoiding trains on the
railroad bridge, skinny-dip-
ping, fishing, catching eels,
fish bait and mussels; and
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Vietnam.
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as a base, Wachsmuth said.
There was a sanctuary area 20
to 30 miles along the northern
border with Red China which
restricted the ability of U.S.
aircraft to bomb a railroad
line bringing in supplies to the
North Vietnamese war effort.
The enemy also knew that
B-52 bombers crews could not
drop ordnance within 9,000
ft. of a friendly position. We
didnt want to risk casualties,
Wachsmuth said.
The North Vietnamese ex-
ploited this policy by build-
ing their support structure as
close as possible to the front-
line of a ground assault. They
had an expression: If you are
going to fight the Yanks, grab
them by the belt buckle and be
right up tight, Wachsmuth
said.
During the siege of the
Marine firebase at Khe Sanh,
there were B-52 bombers fly-
ing support missions around-
the-clock. Orders came down
from the command authority
to move the restriction on
bombing near friendly forces
from 9,000 ft. out to 3,000
ft. out.
This change in policy
caught the enemy off guard
and resulted in massive dam-
age, Wachsmuth said. They
took it in the shorts on that
one.
Following his third de-
ployment, Wachsmuth re-
turned stateside to become
part of the initial cadre of
pilots trained on the FB-111
fighter-bomber. He served
30 years in the Air Force from
1957 to 1987.
Wachsmuth later worked
as a licensed battlefield guide
in Gettysburg from 1994 to
2014. He is married and has a
grown son who works for the
Air Force as a civilian.
pulling pranks on unsuspect-
ing adults.
Craighead summer eve-
nings involved baseball
games, horseshoes and sit-
ting on the railroad scale lis-
tening to old-timers tell their
tales. There were Friday night
hymn sings along the creeks
with neighbors and fireworks
on special evenings especially
the Fourth of July.
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It would get 35 miles a
gallon, have no gears to
shift and be roomy enough
for six people plus storage.
Those ads caught the
attention of Joe Ida in
Yonkers, N.Y., who later
opened a Tucker dealership
with his brothers, dream-
ing the venture would se-
cure his familys future.
My grandfather saw the
Torpedo that style and
thats when he decided that
he somehow wanted to be-
come part of, Rob Ida said.
That original airbrushed
model was the work of
George Lawson, an auto-
mobile stylist who got his
start at General Motors
and would later patent the
retractable headrest. Wayt
said Lawson was among
the best automobile styl-
ists of his day, though he
hadnt even a cameo in the
Coppola movie.
The Lawson design
more than any other pro-
posed car of its time, in-
cluding the final variation
of the Tucker embodied
the automotive hopes and
dreams of the post-war
American consumer, Wayt
said.
Lawson was years ahead
of his time, said Alex
Tremulis, who would later
be credited with the Tucker
48 design. While others
described Lawson as a gad-
geteer with a penchant for
engineering, Tremulis told
Special Interest Auto, Ive
always considered him an
imagineer the best of all
worlds.
Lawson worked with
Tucker for 21/2 years un-
til they had a falling out
in 1946. Lawson then pat-
ented his design and set-
tled a legal dispute with
Tucker over it for $10,000,
according to published re-
ports.
Tremulis and other styl-
ists were brought on to fin-
ish the design, which be-
came the Tucker 48. Gone
were the turning fenders,
three front seats and other
details, but it remained
sleek and futuristic look-
ing.
As it happened, 1948
came and went without
the Tucker 48 going into
full production. Mean-
while by Tuckers ac-
count in a letter to news-
papers distributors and
nearly 50,000 stockholders
had put $25 million into the
company.
Tucker was working out
the kinks in the cars me-
chanics and dealing with
steel shortages as he tried
to deliver what he prom-
ised. Some in Washington
were beginning to question
Tuckers unconventional
fundraising methods, such
as selling dealership rights
before the car was built;
Hollywood suggests the
automotive lobby played
a hand.
The Securities and Ex-
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involved, characterizing
some fundraising methods,
such as pre-selling car ac-
cessories, as fraudulent
and ordered production
stopped.
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allegations in an open let-
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ter published in newspa-
pers across the country.
In the letter, Tucker
argued that there was a
powerful group bent
on derailing his effort.
He suggested spies were
sent into the plant and his
loyal employees were
offered bribes. He said
the powerful group had
influenced congressional
investigations.
The following year,
Tucker and his associates
were charged with mail
fraud and security law vio-
lations. They were accused
of using false promises to
get $28 million from stock-
holders and dealers.
Tucker called the charges
the biggest rape of the free
enterprise ever perpetrated
on this country.
At the three-month trial,
prosecutors called 73 wit-
nesses. The first witness,
Wayt said, was Lawson.
Prosecutors pointed to
the companys glowing
advertising that said the
car had revolutionary
features, which were not
found on the 40 cars that
were produced, The As-
sociated Press reported in
1950.
According to AP, 50
spectators erupted in
cheers when the not guilty
verdict was read, prompt-
ing security guards to re-
store order in the court-
room. Newspapers across
the country including
The Bethlehem Globe-
Times ran front-page
stories of the acquittal and
Tuckers promise to finish
the car of tomorrow.
But tomorrow never
came.
Tuckers business was
in bankruptcy, and Tucker
was forced out of the com-
pany. He staged a come-
back, promising a sports
car that would be even
more advanced than the
Tucker 48.
One of these days well
be rolling down the high-
way and the head of every
motorist will be turned
admiringly in our direc-
tion, Tucker wrote in Car
Life magazine in 1954.
That Tucker car will be
the answer to an American
dream.
He never built the car.
Stricken with lung cancer,
Tucker died of pneumonia
in 1956. He was 53.
Coppola, whose father
was a Tucker stockholder,
cast Jeff Bridges as Tucker
in the movie, which painted
the legendary auto pioneer
in sympathetic light as a
small-time entrepreneur
going up against the Big
Three automakers GM,
Ford and Chrysler.
According to the Smith-
sonian: Its design epito-
mized automotive trends
that were new and sig-
nificant in the immediate
postwar years: avant-garde
styling, innovative me-
chanical features, awak-
ening interest in passenger
safety and efforts by small
manufacturers to capture
a larger share of the new-
car market. The Tucker
was an exaggeration of
these trends and evidence
that the desire for change
was strong enough to move
some fairly radical ideas
from the drawing board to
the production stage.
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Davison
From A1
Strawser and Courtney grew
up together and went to school
together in Terra Alta. They had
lost touch, but reconnected in fall
of 2013, just months prior to Da-
visons death.
It started out innocently
enough, Courtney said. The two
exchanged small talk, telling each
other about their lives, their fam-
ily and their children.
Strawser has at least one
child to a woman who filed theft
charges and sought a court or-
der for protection against him in
2010, according to court records.
Courtney later told police she
had a short-lived extramarital re-
lationship with Strawser shortly
after they reconnected.
A connection
Jamie knew nothing of John
until I brought him into our
lives, unwittingly and not know-
ing what was going to happen,
Courtney said.
The Breeses welcomed Straw-
ser into their home with their two
young children. Courtney was ex-
cited to reconnect with a friend
from her childhood.
I mistakenly befriended John
and allowed him to be close, and
I never should have, Courtney
said. I had known his family
even before kindergarten and up
and, honestly, he was the most
approachable and nicest of all of
them.
Jamie, however, had his appre-
hensions about Strawser from the
start.
I couldnt trust him, Jamie
said. I guess it was from grow-
ing up as a kid that you could just
see that something just wasnt
there, something wasnt right.
I could pick it out right away. In
the beginning, I told my wife stay
away from him, but she didnt lis-
ten, and I guess thats what got us
where we are now.
Courtney and Strawser hung
out when she would visit her fam-
ily in West Virginia.
Around the same time the two
reconnected, Courtney began re-
ceiving text messages from a per-
son she referred to as her stalker.
Strawser told Courtney that he
would protect her whenever she
came down to visit her family,
since Jamie usually was not along
for the trip.
On one trip, Courtneys stalker
urinated on the family vehicle.
Jamie began to suspect Straw-
ser was Courtneys stalker. The
language Strawser used in texts
was similar to that of the stalker,
Jamie said.
So Courtney confronted Straw-
ser, but he vehemently denied the
allegations. He had excuses for
why he could not be the stalker
and said he was only trying to be
her protector, Courtney said.
She believed him.
But thats what a stalker does,
Jamie said of the denial.
Ive never been stalked be-
fore, Courtney responded.
They manipulate you, her
husband said.
The friendship continued and
Strawser was welcomed into the
Breeses home more than two
hours away from Terra Alta for
Thanksgiving in 2013. Courtney
said Strawser was alone and had
no one to spend the holiday with.
I felt bad, because he was my
friend, and I didnt want any-
one to be alone on the holidays,
Courtney said. I thought it was
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
A timeline of events surrounding
John Wayne Strawser Jr.:
20082012 Multiple women
come forward seeking court
orders protecting them from
Strawser, alleging harassment,
and he is twice charged with
theft. In August 2012 he is
charged for stalking Treva Cline
and destroying her vehicle in
West Virginia.
20012004 Strawser charged
with a cluster of offenses including
malicious destruction of property,
stalking and assault. In this time
frame he is convicted of felony mo-
tor vehicle theft, making it illegal for
him to possess firearms.
the saddest thing ever.
The two cooked together and
Strawser even attended a Christ-
mas party hosted by Jamies fam-
ily. The friendship turned danger-
ous only a few weeks later.
Date night
In the week between Christmas
and New Years 2013, Courtney
and Jamie went on a date to Cloud
9 Night Club in Bunker Hill, West
Virginia. It was a night for the
Breeses to get out of the house
and spend time together without
their children.
We were sitting there and the
next thing you know, he comes
walking out of the mens bath-
room, Jamie said.
This came as a shock to the Bre-
eses since Strawsers home was
more than two hours away from
the club.
Things became tense as the
night progressed.
He got (mad) at you because
you werent paying attention to
him, Jamie said.
Because I was with my hus-
band and not him, which is ridic-
ulous, Courtney chimed in.
The two left the club, and
Strawser began calling and tex-
ting them.
Around 1:30 a.m., Strawser
showed up at the Breeses home
demanding that Courtney come
outside to talk to him.
I said Youre not going out
there, Jamie said.
Strawser finally relented and
left after Jamie threatened to call
the police.
After that night, the Breeses at-
tempted to sever ties with Straw-
ser.
Roughly a week later, on the
night Davison was killed, Straw-
ser contacted the Breeses, at-
tempting to find out where they
were. The couple had again made
a trip to Cloud 9, but decided to
leave early for the night.
Strawser then began calling
and texting them, demanding
to know where they were. They
responded, but did not tell him
where they were.
Thats when I said back the
(expletive) off John. Shes not
your wife. Shes not your girl-
friend, Jamie said. Shes noth-
ing more to you than a friend from
high school.
The hunt
Strawser had his .44 caliber
Rossi Ranch Hand in his truck
when he started hunting down
Jamie, the man he saw as standing
in the way of a relationship with
Courtney, police said.
NEWS The Sentinel
County, Maryland, some 120
miles away from where Davison
July 2013 Strawser April 2015 Strawser shoots and died. According to West Virginia
charged with stalking Eliz- kills his former girlfriend Amy Lou motor vehicle records, Strawser
abeth Butler and damag- Buckingham outside her home in was driving the same Ford Ranger
ing her truck in Maryland. Tunnelton, West Virginia. Davison described the night of his
death.
Dec. 30, 2013 Against Butlers ob- September 2015
Just after midnight on April 26,
jections Strawser is given a deal to halt Strawser charged with
2014, Strawser was seen by Gar-
prosecution in the case if he agrees to Davisons murder.
Proceedings will not
rett County Sheriffs deputies do-
pay her $800 in restitution. The same
day another woman files for a protec- begin until after his
ing doughnuts in his truck in the
tion order claiming Strawser stalked her sentencing on Oct. 5 in parking lot of a park when they
since the month before. West Virginia. attempted to stop him. Strawser
had two other people in the ve-
hicle.
Strawser led police on a high-
speed chase that lasted only a
April 2013 April 2014 Strawser arrested and released by August few minutes before he crashed
Strawser the Garrett County, Maryland, Sheriffs Depart- 2016 his truck, and then he took off
placed on ment for DWI, resisting arrest and reckless endan- Strawser on foot. He was attempting to
probation germent. At the time of his arrest he was driving convicted make it across the nearby border
for two years the same truck police believe he was in the night of Buck- to West Virginia, according to
inghams
after plead- of Davisons murder. police.
ing guilty to murder. At the time Strawser was on
Jan. 4, 2014 Timothy Davison shot and killed on
stalking Cline. probation and didnt want to go
Interstate 81 near Greencastle.
to jail.
Strawser only made it about
Jamie said Strawser began to Suspicions 200 feet before he was subdued
make what Jamie thought were When Jamie heard the news of with a Taser.
hollow threats by text and phone the shooting the next morning, he Just shoot me, Strawser
messages. grew suspicious. said to police after falling to the
He said he was going to kill Jamie raised concerns to Court- ground from the jolt of electricity
me, Jamie said. ney that Strawser had been in- from the Taser.
Jamie and Courtney did not volved in the shooting. Strawser fought with police but
know Strawser had left Terra Alta I never once considered the was eventually taken into cus-
to pursue them. Strawser began fact that he could hurt anyone, tody. He was released the same
chasing what he thought was the Courtney said. I watched him day, according to court records.
couples silver Honda Pilot SUV with his son. I watched him back That arrest in Garrett County
around Martinsburg, West Vir- home with his son and my chil- triggered a probation violation,
ginia, which is about 20 minutes dren playing together in the park. causing Strawser to spend one
from Cloud 9. You never think that somebody week in jail in September 2014 in
Strawser was following the who could feel those kinds of feel- Preston County, West Virginia,
wrong vehicle. It was actually ings could do that to anyone. where he had been convicted of
Davisons Mitsubishi Montero, Eventually, the Breeses chalked stalking in 2013.
an SUV about the same size and up the angry text and phone calls That was the first time Strawser
color as that of the Breeses Pilot. from Strawser the same night that spent any time in jail following a
Davison, heading north on I-81 Davison died as a coincidence and conviction, according to court
in West Virginia near Martins- nothing more. records.
burg, was at the wrong place at In April 2015, just over 15 In October 2014, Strawser
the wrong time, stuck in Straw- months after Davisons death, pleaded guilty to resisting arrest
sers path, according to police. Strawsers former girlfriend, Amy during the April DWI incident
Police said Davison accelerated Lou Buckingham, was murdered. where he had been subdued by
his SUV to more than 100 mph Strawser was convicted of that a Taser. He spent five days in jail
in Martinsburg, apparently at- murder in August. in Garrett County, and all other
tempting to elude Strawser. The Breeses went to police with charges were dropped.
Around 2a.m., Davison called their concerns about Strawser af- Information about the arrest
911 in Washington County, Mary- ter hearing about Buckinghams did not make its way to investi-
land, not too far across the bor- murder. gators in Pennsylvania, and ac-
der from West Virginia. He told All that time, were not safe, cording to Franklin County Dis-
the operator a dark Ford Ranger unbeknownst to us, Courtney trict Attorney Matthew Fogal,
was chasing him and a person had said. That is when it hit both Strawser did not become a sus-
begun firing shots at his vehicle. of us. Truly, up until that night, at pect in Davisons murder until the
Police were dispatched, but as that moment, I never truly con- Breeses came forward April 2015.
Davison approached the border sidered it. Please understand that on
between Maryland and Pennsyl- Cellphone tower data from the date and time of his arrest
vania, the call dropped. around Greencastle placed for DWI, the defendant was not a
Shortly after that, Davison Strawser near the scene of Da- suspect in any other known case
again dialed 911, this time in visons murder, evidence with a that we had been made aware
Pennsylvania. partial DNA sample that matched of by any other agency, Garrett
In February 2014, investiga- Strawser was found at the scene, County Sheriff Rob Corley told
tors released a portion of that call and ballistics matched shell cas- The Sentinel in September 2015.
made to 911 in Franklin County. ings found at the scene to Straw-
Were you the one that called sers Rossi Ranch Hand, accord- Reconnected
about the Ford Ranger? a Frank- ing to Pennsylvania State Police. Early in the fall of 2014, Straw-
lin County 911 operator asked Da- Davisons death kicked off a ser apologized for the initial
vison. manhunt that would span Penn- falling out with the Breeses and
Yeah, the one that just hit me, sylvania, Maryland and West Courtney again let him back into
Davison said. Virginia and include help from her life.
What do you mean they hit the FBI. She again visited with him
you? They hit you with the car? Despite this, Strawser was able when she traveled to her familys
the operator asked. to move in and out of the crim- home in West Virginia.
Yeah, smashed me with the inal justice system, again largely But, Strawser again became
car and pushed me across the unscathed. jealous and possessive, she said.
median, Davison replied. Four days after Strawser al- The Breeses finally cut ties
Those would be some of Davi- legedly killed Davison, he posted completely with Strawser in Jan-
sons final words. a message to Facebook. uary 2015 following a fight that
Less than 2 1/2 minutes after Looks as if my world is going resulted in Strawser damaging
Davison redialed 911, Maryland 2 crumble, he wrote. The things one of the familys vehicles parked
State Police arrived on scene that I well (sic) miss in her parents garage.
and found Davison shot multiple The post came on the same day Fogal declined to say if anyone
times in the arm, leg and head, he was in court in Garrett County, other than the Breeses presented
according to police. Maryland, to approve a final pro- Strawser as a possible suspect
He later died as a result of his tection order filed against him by in Davisons murder, but when
injuries. a former girlfriend. asked if he felt Strawser would
Gunshots and the sound of tires have been apprehended without
accelerating away were heard on The truck the Breeses, Fogal said, I cant
the call recording, police said. A little more than four months speculate about hypotheticals,
Police said Strawser shot Davison later Strawser was arrested for but I know that (state police)
and fled down Interstate 81 south reckless endangerment, resist- would never have given up their
before they arrived on scene. ing arrest and DWI in Garrett pursuit of Mr. Davisons killer.
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