MURDER MOST FOUL, An Unsolved "Mystery," the 1991 Indiana Torture Murder of 16-year-old Jason Bolton and the Torture Murder of Irish Catholic 15-year-old Michael McIlveen

Jason Dale Bolton, 16, was found dead in the middle of a rural Indiana road. The Republican Sheriff and his deputies "investigated" Jason Bolton's death and wrote it off as a hit and run. Jason was a good kid, a good student with no discipline issues, though he had a couple of minor incidents involving pot. When Jason's body was taken to the coroner's office, Jason's family was in for a shock. 16-year-old Jason Bolton had been CASTRATED. His penis, testicles and scrotum had been cut off, while he was still alive, leaving him to bleed to death, but that wasn't cruel enough for his murderer(s). Then someone took the boy, while he was still alive, and placed him spread eagle in the middle of the road. Then they deliberately aimed a car between his legs and ran him over TWICE to hide the torture murder. They crushed his bladder, intestines, kidneys, lungs and stomach, broke several bones, his legs, his hips, his ribs, vertebrae and tail bone, it was this final act of cruelty which finally killed the 16-year-old boy. NO ONE, much less a 16-year-old boy, deserves that. The agony and suffering of this boy must have been beyond measure. Jason was murdered in rural Fayette County Indiana August 21, 1991 near the Rush County line. To this day, nothing has been done to resolve the case. Four of the people, who attended the party with Jason the night that he was TORTURED AND MURDERED, gave statements to police. They said Jason was high and drunk when he wandered out on the road, passed out and fell, at which point, he was hit by an oncoming car, which left the scene. 

Jason's cries and screams as he was being castrated must have been heard by everyone in that house. Jason must have been screaming, begging for mercy for the several minutes it took to kill him. It must have taken more than one person, probably more than two to hold him down as the horrific and bloody castration took place by another person. Jason must have fought for his life with every ounce of strength he had. He must have known he was being murdered. Unfortunately his cries fell on the deaf ears of his murderer(s) and the murderer's friends inside and outside that house. Everyone in that house must be made to answer the questions about what happened that night. Their lies are not good enough. And if they knew what happened to Jason they are as guilty as whoever wielded the knife TORTURING AND MURDERING the 16-year-old boy.  They should all face the same penalty as the perpetrator, because they were accessories to Jason's TORTURE/MURDER.  Obviously, the sheriff and his department never cared about Jason or Justice. The Republican Sheriff and his department are accessories after the fact in Jason's TORTURE/MURDER.

Since their statements were lies, one could ask why weren't they suspected of involvement in Jason's TORTURE/MURDER or, at least, prosecuted for false statements and hindering prosecution.  According to reports, the police never tested any of the party attendee's cars for blood on their tires. One of the party attendees was a relative of the Republican Sheriff. This man was suspected of being a drug dealer in the area.                                                                                                                                            

My life stopped the night I identified baby Jason. I went there that morning, to where it happened. They didn’t even clean it up. There were latex gloves and I even picked up a couple teeth I would have done more then, but I didn’t know. I only saw his face. No one told me about his groin area! I didn’t even know until I finally got my hands on those pictures. At first the Coroner told me no. But he called me the next morning and said he had thought about it all night, and if I would meet him in 20 minutes he would give them to me so I did. That’s when I realized the rumors were true, his whole groin area was just….gone…mutilated. I saw a picture of a little white thing on the side of the road by the grass I didn’t even know what it was. Coroner Joe Todd told me it was a testicle. And it was! It was a little severed testicle.” –Tomi Bolton Schmidt  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Missing.Indiana/permalink/1556167494477148/?comment_id=2543842602376294 

All of this evidence should have been taken into police custody under common law enforcement practice, then and now. The fact that it wasn't  taken into evidence, proves that the police, obviously, never considered this boy's TORTURE/MURDER worth their time. I don't know how you feel, but for me, NO ONE MUST EVER BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THE TORTURE AND MURDER OF A KID. Republican Evangelical "christian" Law and Order Governor and Conservative Republican Hate Radio Announcer Mike Pence never considered this case worth his time either for his radio show or as chief law enforcement officer in the state of Indiana. I care, Jason, and call for JUSTICE.  But, then again, I am a liberal Democrat.

 

There are some crimes which MUST be solved, the torture and murder of a child comes first. There is NO statute of limitations on the torture murder of children. Start with Jason Bolton, he and his family deserve justice. Then investigate the police who failed to solve this crime against humanity. 

15-year-old Irish Catholic Micky-bo McIlveen never makes it home, he was ambushed by four Evangelical "christian" Men who decided to have fun Torture Murdering him. 

Irish Catholic 15-year-old boy, Micky-bo McIlveen buys dinner for his family after a day at an amusement park with his friends, but never makes it home. Four Evangelical Christian "men" chase him and beat him to death. 

In 2006, 15-year-old Irish Catholic Michael "Mickey-bo" McIlveen went to an amusement center in Ballymena Northern Ireland with 3 of his buddies. Returning home, he and his friends stopped by a fast food restaurant to buy take out dinners for their families. After Micky-bo and his friends left they continued walking home. Suddenly and without any provocation, he and his buddies were attacked and chased by FOUR ADULT EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT MEN. Two of Micky-bo's friends got clean away, one was beaten for a minute but escaped and went for police. But Micky-bo was surrounded by the four men who punched, kicked and hit him with a bat, including hitting and kicking him viciously in his penis, nutsack and balls, laughing as they beat the **** out of the boy. 

One on one can be a fight, but four grown men against one kid is a crime against humanity. His screams quickly became cries, then whimpers as he passed out and began to slip into a coma.

The boys had never met the men before and had no idea who they were. These Evangelical men had deliberately gone to a Catholic section of town to hunt, bully, TORTURE and MURDER Catholic boys. These "christian" men added TORTURE MURDER OF A KID TO THEIR EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN RESUME.  

Unconscious, Micky-bo was taken to the hospital where he died a couple of days later. 

TORTURE MURDERERS OF A CHILD DESERVE LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE, ROT IN JAIL BEFORE YOU ROT IN HELL. MERCY SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR THE MERCIFUL. THAT DID NOT HAPPEN IN THIS CASE.

Micky-bo's Torture Murderers received sentences as light as 8 years, one even got time off for "good behavior".  What crime deserves life in prison, if not the torture/murder of a child? 

But it wasn't enough to torture/murder an innocent child, they and their supporters needed to torture his family and friends too. 

The Evangelical Protestant Orange Order had a scheduled parade a few days later, which they annually led through Irish Catholic parts of Ballymena to intimidate and terrorize the inhabitants. That year The Orange Order changed their parade route so as they could march in front of Micky-bo's family and friends living in Micky-bo's neighborhood. 

In front of Micky-bo's friends and family, 1000's of Orange Order Evangelical "christian" marchers screamed "F*** Micky-bo!"

A local Ballymena Evangelical City Councilor, Scots-Irish Roy Gillespie, volunteered, in an interview with a reporter, that Micky-bo's torture/murderers would be welcomed into heaven as heroes while the INNOCENT tortured and murdered boy, Michael "Micky-bo" McIlveen, would go straight to hell for being Catholic. In response to the boy's death, local Catholic and Protestant teen boys and girls were determined to take a stand against religious hatred by attending Michael McIlveen's funeral together in his hometown of Ballymena in Northern Ireland. 

By the way, Scots-Irish are Evangelical settlers from Scotland who were given Irish land stolen by Evangelical English General Oliver Cromwell. 

Public and Catholic outrage would continue to grow at the light sentences given the torture murderers. In their original trial Mervyn Moone pled guilty and  was sentenced to a minimum sentence of 10 years to life, the other  men were given sentences of 10 to 13-years.  After their conviction at trial, even with the possibility of being let out early with good behavior, the 3 men then appealed their sentences, which was probably a huge mistake. At their retrial, the fact that they all knew that Moone had brought a deadly weapon with him, which meant they conspired to commit the murder of Micky-bo with him. The fact that they did NOTHING to stop the beating of the boy, not even as his screams, became cries, then whimpers as Micky-bo slipped into a coma. 

These pieces of human sewage are proclaimed as "heroes" by the Evangelical "christian" Orange Order for beating, torturing and murdering a child. Look at them and decide whether you agree with that description.

TORTURE/MURDERERS or Evangelical "Christian Heroes"? 

In 2017, Micky-bo's Mom was walking in downtown Ballymena Northern Ireland when she heard hysterical laughter, looking around she recognized Mervyn Moone, one of the four men who TORTURED and MURDERED her son, a man who had been let out of prison early for "good behavior," standing in front of her laughing at her. Micky-bo's outraged mom walked up to her son's TORTURE/MURDERER and slapped him, for which, she was immediately arrested and put in jail by an Evangelical Police Officer. Later she was convicted of assault by an Evangelical "christian" Judge.

Is that Justice? 

Andy Griffith's America

Ron Howard and Andy Griffith and Our America, Katherine Hepburn, Triumph over Tragedy and Audrey Hepburn, A Gentle Soul Rising from the ashes of WWII.

Why I like Ron "Opie" Howard. He said Andy Griffith was exactly like he was on screen. A nice, good man, who really cared about him, his Uncle Andy. Ron said it broke his heart when he found out that he made more money than Los Angeles Dodgers Ace Pitcher Sandy Koufax. I think I know how Ron felt. 
Remember the joke in "Airplane"(1980) one of the passengers was reading a magazine about famous Jewish Sports Stars with Sandy Koufax on the cover. Looked like it was only 4 or 5 pages thick. Ron had a heart and a conscience. He was a good kid, with good parents. He was perfectly cast for the Andy Griffith Show.

Andy Griffith spent the last 20 years of his life singing Gospel Music and fighting for out Social Security and Medicare against Republican Cuts. He remembered the difference Social Security and Medicare made to elderly members of his family when he was a boy during the Great Depression. His family viewed Franklin "FDR" Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor as heroes. Without it elderly members of his family would have starved.

When I was a kid, my sports heroes were Hank Aaron, Rico Carty, Joe Torre and Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves. The one team we feared was the LA Dodgers, especially when Sandy Koufax was pitching and Maury Wills was running the bases. Maury stole 104 bases in 1962. 

Rico Carty nearly died from Tuberculosis and came back to win the batting championship. When you are a kid, you never forget your heroes. 

I was furious when Donald Trump gave OUR AMERICAN MEDAL OF FREEDOM to right-wing extremist billionaire Sheldon Adelson's wife Miriam, who bought it with a BRIBE of millions given to the Republican Party. Millionaire Andy Griffith spent the last 20 years of his life fighting for OUR Social Security. 

Andy Griffith, Dick van Dyke and James Garner both were warned not to risk their careers by becoming involved in politics, they refused and took a stand for Civil Rights. Here Dick van Dyke before a crowd of 50,000 at the Los Angeles Colosseum. 

Brother Tom's Suicide

Tom (left) and Katharine (right) Hepburn

Tom Houghton Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn's brother, was two years her senior. As children, the two were inseparable. Dr. Hepburn encouraged all his children to  be very athletic, and it has been said that his expectations for his eldest son could be extreme. Tom had developed a nervous tick due to a childhood illness, and Dr. Hepburn pressured him to use willpower to overcome the problem. He believed that any physical accomplishment could be achieved through willpower, hard work, and puritanical habits of living (Barbara Leaming, 1995, 139-140). Unfortunately, tom-boy Kathy proved to be more of an athlete than her brother, a point Dr. Hepburn often pointed out, congratulating Katharine on her athletic prowess within Tom's hearing. Tom was in fact a fairly competent athlete; he simply failed to measure up to his father's high standards for his children. Many Hepburn biographers attribute this failing on the father's part to Tom's low self-esteem as a youth. Dr. Hepburn is often portrayed as a bully and harsh task-master to his children. However, Miss Hepburn and her siblings hero-worshiped both their parents and constantly strove to impress them. On numerous occasions, Miss Hepburn attributed her success to the fact that she was the product of two extraordinary individuals (The Dick Cavett Show, 1974).

family photo a few months before Tom's death

Katharine  far left, Tom standing in rear

Mrs. Hepburn had a very tight circle of friends living in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. Many of them were friends from her Bryn Mawr days, and several were also involved in the social reform movements of the time. Tom and Katharine occasionally stayed with their "aunts" Mary Towle and Bertha Rembaugh, and it was during one of these visits that tragedy struck. When Tom didn't come down to breakfast one morning, 14-year-old Katharine went to fetch him from his attic bedroom. Upon entering the room, she first noticed that the tie from one of the curtains was missing so the drapes hung loose on that side. Then she saw her brother's body, suspended by the curtain tie from one of the ceiling beams, his bent legs clearly able to reach the ground. In a state of shock, Katharine got Tom down from the beam and lay him on the bed. After ascertaining that he was indeed dead, she recalled having seen a doctor's house on their street. She went to the house and rang the bell. The housekeeper answered the door and Katharine told her, "My brother is dead," to which the housekeeper replied, "Then the doctor can't help him, can he? and closed the door in Katharine's face (Hepburn, Me, 1991, 47).

Fearful that her aunt Mary Towle might become hysterical, Katharine went next door to Aunt Bertha's to break the news. The rest of the incident becomes a bit of a blur. Miss Hepburn later remembered her parents coming and crossing on the ferry with Tom's body. Mrs. Hepburn's father had also committed suicide and you must remember that there was a rather strong stigma surrounding suicide in those days (Barbara Leaming, 1995). Suicide was translated as mental instability and was believed to be an inherited trait. Therefore, a history of suicide in the family was not only something one wanted to keep from public knowledge, it also bred the fear that oneself or one's offspring might be threatened by the same problem. One can only imagine how horrified Mrs. Hepburn must have been to discover that her eldest son had succumbed to the same cause of death as her own father. In a documentary about Katharine Hepburn, her brother Bob recalls being at home with Mrs. Hepburn when she received the call from New York that Tom was dead. Even many years later, Bob was reduced to tears as he recalled his usually composed mother slumping over on the kitchen table as she answered the phone call from New York (All About Me, 1993).

Tom's school photo as it appeared

in the local newspaper reporting his death.

There was much public speculation concerning the cause of Tom's suicide. As I've said, some biographers attribute Dr. Hepburn's bullying to a development of low self-esteem. Tom's death was never discussed in the family. In later years, Miss Hepburn speculated that it must have been an accident. No one in the family could find any cause for Tom to suddenly become depressed or suicidal. In her autobiography, Miss Hepburn relates how she seems to remember Tom telling her, during that fateful visit to New York, "You're my girl, aren't you? You're my favorite girl in the whole world" (Hepburn, Me, 1991, 46). But even Miss Hepburn admits that that could be a memory she constructed many years later, half wishing, half hoping it had once been real. One possibility is that Tom was trying to perform an elaborate stunt described by Dr. Hepburn some months prior to Tom suicide. Dr. Hepburn was from Virginia and he would tell a story about how he and his African American friends would play pranks on the northern football teams who came to compete in the south. He showed his children how there was a special knack of tying a rope so that one could suspend oneself from a tree by the neck without cutting off your air supply. Although it is very difficult to find such antics amusing today, it is possible that Tom was trying this stunt but that he lost control of the slippery curtain tie (Hepburn, Me, 1991, 48).

As you can imagine, Tom's death had a dramatic effect on young Katharine. When she returned to the girls school she was then attending, she became frustrated by all the impertinent questions her classmates demanded of her concerning her brother's death. She felt that she lived in a different world than those girls, because she had been forced to grow up so abruptly. She described her new philosophy of life as "onlines:" "What I meant by it was that I wanted to be independent, to separate myself from all the others and never again to care so much about another person, so I would never feel the pain I felt when my teenage brother hanged himself" (Charlotte Chandler, 2010, 1). Katharine left school and began to take lessons from various tutors around Hartford. She much preferred this method of study, not only because it removed her from the society of her nosy peers, but also because it allowed her to play golf competitively; she became quite a champ. She loved riding her bike all over Hartford to her lessons and golf classes.

Katharine would feel the consequences of this less formal schooling when it came to preparations for her entrance to her mother's alma mater, Bryn Mawr College. She had to study extra hard for her entrance exams, just barley scraping the minimum passing marks in chemistry. And, having been away from the society of her peers for so long, she was unprepared for the social life of the all-girl college. Tom's death changed her life irreparably, shaping her into the independent woman the world would come to admire.

http://thegreatkh.blogspot.com/2012/05/brother-toms-suicide.html

I created this presentation in memory of Katherine and her brother Tommy. At least they are together again, as it should be. My own belief, echoed by some of the things Katherine said over the years, Tommy was brilliant, but a gentle soul, which made him different from most kids his own age. At boarding school, this can make you incredibly different and lonely, sometimes the object of bully. As Princess Diana said, gentleness is most often a target for bullies. It was then and it is now. Perhaps Tommy was too gentle for this world. But he lived on through he cherished little sister, who was also his best friend. 

Audrey Hepburn became the patron Saint of hungry children, because she had been one.

 

Audrey Hepburn was born the daughter of Irish Banker father and her Noble Dutch mother born in Brussels Belgium. Her father was very conservative and anti-British, as most Irish are, which has been erroneously interpreted as pro-German, which he wasn't. Her Mom Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman. She was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who served as Mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as Governor of Dutch Suriname from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939). At the age of nineteen, Ella had married Jonkheer Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford, an oil executive based in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, where they subsequently lived. They had two sons, Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010), before divorcing in 1925. Audrey's Mom and Dad met in the Dutch West Indies and married in September 1926, remaining married until 1938. Audrey and her extended family lived in Brussels, England and Holland due to her Dad's job   Her parents were separated in 1936,  mom, her siblings and Audrey went to the Netherlands in late 1938, which is where they were when Hitler invaded Poland and WWII broke out. 

Audrey before the war. 

 

When World War II broke out, she and her family lived in Holland, immediately and secretly becoming involved in the Dutch Underground. Audrey and her family took part in Ballet Recitals, Audrey was a wonderfully ballerina, whose proceeds were secretly used to fund anti-Nazi activities. But there was a price to pay, her uncle was tortured and murdered by the Nazis, a half-brother tortured, went into hiding. The whole family experienced, with all the people of the Netherlands, starvation and daily hunger. Audrey and her family, despite their nobility, experienced starvation  As Audrey described later, it was her familiarity with starvation as a child which propelled her into helping UNICEF feed children all over the world.

 

If you asked Audrey, it was her role as mother and working for UNICEF of which she was most proud. I think she was right. 

I grew up in the Bible Belt, I noticed the difference between good and evil, from the time when I was a seven years old. 

Donald Trump and Mike Pence began their 2016 campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi in front of an all white audience, many wearing Confederate Flag Shirts and Hats. Can you figure out why? Think about "Pro-Life" Republicans who support the DEATH PENALTY. Like "Pro-Life" Parkland Mass Murderer Nikolas Cruz. He put a Trump/Pence MAGA Hat in his adopted mom's casket, even though she hated Donald Trump. His Mom told friends, that Nikolas became a lost soul after he began watching Fox "News" 24/7. Think about it.

Wrong Way Corrigan and His Roundez-Vous with Destiny, Philip McKeon of Alice, Bully Scott Baio, Kurt Cobain, Amelia Earhart and the 14-year-old Hindenburg Survivor and two "christian" bullies.

Wrong Way Corrigan, The Guy Who Knew Exactly What He Was Doing 

Do you remember Gilligan's Island? Remember the Episode about Wrong Way Feldman? It was actually based on a true story, about Irish-American Pilot Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan. Who flew out of a Long Island New York Airfield on a flight to Los Angeles California but ended up in Ireland by "mistake". Or at least that was his story to the US and Irish Governments.





A high-school dropout turned airplane mechanic, Irish-American Douglas Corrigan was just 20 years old when he helped design and build The Spirit of St. Louis, the plane flown across the Atlantic Ocean by wealthy Charles Lindbergh in 1927. Lindbergh left Long Island, New York at 7:52 AM on May 20,1927, he spotted the Irish Coast at 3:00 PM local time, arriving at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 10:22 PM, France the following day. It was the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight, and brought Lindbergh world-wide fame overnight.

Lindbergh was Corrigan’s hero, but he was a corporate success, best, most expensive equipment, sponsors, a rich kid bought his success. Corrigan vowed to someday follow in Lindy’s footsteps by flying solo non-stop from NY to Dublin, Ireland. But it would be different, Doug was a poor kid, who did it on his own, paid his own freight and took all the risks in a plane held together with chewing gum. In 1933, Corrigan spent $310 of his own money, about $6000 in 2019 dollars, on a used 1929 Curtiss Robin OX-5 monoplane in dilapidated condition and began to repair and modify it for a transatlantic flight.

Apparently, you can’t just fly across the Atlantic without getting permission first. Corrigan applied to the Bureau of Air Commerce in 1935, but they only approved his plane for cross-country flights. Corrigan continued to modify his plane, and continued applying to the bureau, but increasing flight regulations meant repeated denials. In fact, the bureau refused to renew his plane’s license in 1937, deeming it un-flightworthy. At one point federal officials even ordered that Corrigan’s Curtiss Robin (named “Sunshine”) be grounded for six months.

By July 1938, Corrigan had invested a total of $900 (approx. $15,000 today) on Sunshine. He secured an experimental license and permission for a transcontinental flight (CA to NY) with conditional consent for a return trip. Following an approved flight plan, Corrigan flew from Long Beach, CA to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York. Near the end of the 27-hour flight, Sunshine developed a gas leak, filling the cockpit with fumes. When he landed in New York, however, Corrigan was determined to refuel and take off again the same night. Without repairing the gas leak. Hmm. Maybe the fumes had impaired his judgment, he continued his flight.

Corrigan claimed his compass wasn't working and he didn't realize that he had a 180 degree heading error. Instead of flying to California, Corrigan was headed towards Europe. He didn't even appreciate the error after seeing only water beneath him for the next 33 hours. No one knew what to do when he arrived in Ireland. At first, customs thought about baring entry, then a call from Irish President Eamon de Valera, said welcome Irish Douglas Corrigan home to Ireland. And the President made the trip to meet him, himself. Finally, the US asked Corrigan come home, because an investigation had been begun about the wrong way flight. The US Government paid for ship's passage for Corrigan and his plane.                                                     



Irish President Eamon da Valera Greets Douglas Corrigan to Ireland.


Wrong Way Corrigan's Parade was larger than Lindbergh's to the surprise of many. Patrician Charles Lindbergh bought his way into the History Books. Wrong Way Corrigan earned it by doing it all on his own, paying his own "freight".

 

Not once did Corrigan ever waiver from his compass error story. When he got home, no charges were filed, though his flying license was suspended for a few weeks. New York City gave him a heroes welcome, 1,000,000 people turned out to cheer on their errant hero and Don Quixote, Douglas Corrigan built his plane himself. 

Wrong Way Corrigan Meets US Ambassador to the UK, Joe Kennedy at the London American  Embassy. The Kennedy children considered it one of their proudest moments being Irish. The US Government wouldn't let Wrong Way Corrigan fly back to the US, but they punished him with a wink and a nod, His flying license was suspended for the two weeks it took him to sail back to the US.

Wrong Way Corrigan gets a Heroes Welcome in Boston

New York City Mayor LaGuardia invites Wrong Way Corrigan to Gracie Mansion for Dinner.



Gilligan's Island did a homage to our Wrong Way Corrigan in an episode centering on "Wrong Way Feldman".

Kept in his family garage in Orange County California since 1938, shown here being shipped to a museum in 2018, his son Harry said that is where it belongs. Wrong Way Corrigan born January 22, 1907, died December 9th 1995.


Amelia Earhart a Hero for the Ages 

Amelia Earhart was the first woman flier, flew solo from California to Hawaii and twice to Europe on her own. On a visit to the White House for dinner, First Lady and Earhart snuck away and flew to Baltimore.

A Flight Pioneer's Last Flight

Admiral Chester Nimitz Chief of US Naval Operations in the Pacific during World War II told his biographer, in the 1960's, that the Navy had confirmation that Amelia and Fred Noonan, her navigator, had been CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE. This information had not been disclosed at the time because Amelia and Noonan were engaged in reconnaissance for the US Military. Next, artifacts found on Japanese occupied Howland Island add credence to this. Most interesting among the artifacts is a jar, which, though weathered, was still intact. Amelia hid her freckles with skin cream, Dr. Berry's Freckle Ointment, her whole adult life. The jar on the right is the brand she used and the recovered aged jar on the left are matches. A footnote, Nimitz had reports that Amelia had been captured in the Marshal Islands, which were Japanese occupied at the time.

 

Jar on left was found on Howland Island, identified as Earhart's brand of Freckle Cream

The only inhabitants of Howland Island are coconut crabs which have wiped out the bird and rat population brought by visiting ships. The crabs number in the 1000's and are carnivores. She never stood a chance, having survived the plane crash, with no rescue, she was doomed. In case you look at their huge size and assume they can't climb trees, providing a means of escape, don't. They can climb trees, where they are know to catch birds. 

Navigator Fred Noonan and his boss, Amelia Earhart. It is now believed that Noonan was killed in the crash, but died before rescue planes/ships found her. 

A passing ship photograph, which might show part of Amelia's planes wreckage above the waves. 

Wrong Way Corrigan and Amelia Earhart enjoy as much fame and respect today as they did 75 years ago, while Charles Lindbergh has fallen from the pedestal he was once on. 

Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic from Long Island New York to Le Bourget Field Paris France in 1927. For a brief period he was the most famous man in the world, but 1930 saw the rise of Adolf Hitler. 

Republican Charles Lindbergh visited Nazi Germany and seemed to be in awe of Hitler and his Third Reich. While careful not to have his photo taken with Hitler himself, at their meeting, photos did leak out from his visit. 

In 1939, Lindbergh began a Republican a Pro-Nazi group called America First. This group was against allowing European Refugees and threatened to impeach FDR for allowing in too many Jewish Refugees. In the audience was the Trump family. Churchill counseled FDR, that stopping Germany military was far more important that fighting Republicans over refugees. Win the war as quickly as possible, this would save more lives than any other strategy.

Two of the people who were blocked from entering the US were teenagers Anne Frank and her boyfriend Peter Schiff.  Both murdered by the Nazis at age 14-years-old.



After the end of World War II and the defeat of Hitler and the Nazis, Lindbergh, who believed in Nazi Eugenics, breeding blonde, blue eyed Germanic Aryans children, went to Germany and had sex with 18-year-old German girls, fathering over 20 children. This didn't come out until the 60's and 70's.  He would publicly acknowledge children with three German women in the 1950's, but not the children he fathered immediately after the war ended in 1945. Records show he made several trips to Germany in 1945, 1946 and 1947. Friends revealed that he called it harem visits. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/may/29/20050529-112427-9797r/

14-year-old Werner Franz survived the Hindenburg Disaster

The Hindenburg Air Ship was emblazoned with Nazi Swastikas on her navigation fins. Named for German President and Field Marshal Hindenburg, it was the pride of the German Transatlantic Air Fleet, crossing in 55 hours. When she approached Lake Hurst New Jersey Naval Air Station after docking on the Empire State Building, a series of storms were rolling through the area. From these storms and ions in the atmosphere, the hull of the Hindenburg built up a massive static electric charge, which sparked when the landing lines reached the ground. That spark caused an immediate fire of the doping compounds used to coat the hull. 

Recently, NASA investigator Dr. Addison Bain has verified this finding by scientific experiments that duplicated the vigorous ignition by static discharge to the aluminum powder filled covering material. Spectacular colors of this type of combustion were produced from the burning skin of the giant airship. Dr. Bain concluded that the Hindenburg would have burned and crashed even if helium would have been used as the lifting gas. Dr. Bain noted that the particular type of aluminum powder particles, which are flake like in shape, are particularly sensitive to electrical discharge...

Little did 14-year-old cabin boy Werner Franz know his life might have been measured in seconds. As the fire started, spreading along the outside of the blimp's hull which was "doped" with highly inflammable doping compound which contained a cellulose acetate and nitrate (used in gunpowder) and a coating of aluminum powder. 14-year-old Werner thought quickly, and managed to pry open a window on the gondola and jumped just before the ship hit the ground.  Surviving the tragedy, he would become an airplane mechanic during WWII and later an Ice Skating Coach.

Dr. Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Chief, pressured Dr. Hugo Eckener, Chairman and Chief Engineer of the company, to name the airship after Adolf Hitler. Eckener refused, naming it after German President Hindenburg. Hitler would say, after the disaster, that he was glad it wasn't named after him.

The Navy Commander on site saw the explosion and fire, immediately thinking it was sabotage. Nazis were very unpopular in the US at that point. In fact, the US had embargoed Helium exports to Germany forcing them to use Highly Explosive HYDROGEN in the chambers inside the Zeppelin fabric, aluminum and steel superstructure. Only problem the ship had taken on no passengers or cargo in New York. Any bomb would have had to been planted in Frankfort Germany. The Nazi Gestapo inspected everything involved with the departing 97 passengers, crew and cargo, of whom 62 survived, of the 36 dead, 13 were passengers, 22 members of the crew and one member of the ground crew were killed.

Guidelines had been dropped by the air crew to the sailors on the ground, four minutes later the craft burst into an inferno flame.

Though Hydrogen is explosive and flammable, the Hindenburg had a smoking lounge, which was in a sealed compartment with only outside air ventilation. This like sabotage were soon discounted as a cause of the disaster by German Chief Engineer Eckener. 

Very little of the Hindenburg clothe outer skin survived, here is one piece. The coating/dope they treated the cloth with was extremely flammable. 

 

The tragedy unfolds as the ship docks at the mast having let down her rope guide lines.

Dr. Hugo Eckener, former chairman of the Hindenburg Zeppelin Company, Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei, was also its chief engineer. I think his logical conclusions are the only ones which make sense.

Captain Pruss, issued command after command to the crew to correct for the powerful winds which were driving the ships off course and into the docking tower. 

First a series of storms were rolling through Lake Hurst as the airship approached the docking tower, winds were tumultuous and coming from several directions. When the ship originally approached, it was blown off course and had to sail past the Naval Air Station and turn around. As it approached for a second time, a strong wind was blowing strongly off course, the Captain Max Pruss ordered a strong right rudder and upward rudder because the front of the ship was rising in the rear and winds were driving it toward the docking tower. The captain ordered 6 of the ship's crew to come forward from the stern to correct the stern sinking and forward aft rising by readjusting the weight inside the ship. https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-operations-procedures/

What Dr. Eckener believed happened:  the sharp course corrections put the ship under terrific strain. The aluminum frame and steel structural wires were under terrific strain. One of the wires is believed to have failed and one end ripped into one of the hydrogen gas chambers in the rear of the ship. As the flammable gas escaped, the rear of the ship sank and the front rose. 

The aluminum superstructure before its final collapse. 

It was believed by Dr. Eckener that the guide lines/ropes dropped to the ground crew were no problem for four minutes because they were dry and poor conductors of electricity. As the rain continued the ropes became wet and perfect static electricity conductors. That is when the static electricity traveled along the outside of the shell of the Hindenburg to the top where the hydrogen was venting, when it arrived a huge explosion and fire erupted causing the ship to crash and explode. The waterproof coating/dope caught fire and spread the fired to the front in seconds.

You can see the steel internal wires, one of which ripped through one of the gas chambers inside the ship. 

Silverware from the Hindenburg survived the crash.

Philip McKeon, Tommy on Alice, was a nice guy, the perfect child star and a terrific kid. Modest, polite, a gentle soul and a talented guitarist who was always on time and knew his lines. But most of all, everyone who knew or met him liked him. That is as good an epitaph as anyone could ask.

From the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway, Medea and Jason (1974)

Sister Nancy starred on "The Facts of Life"

Linda Lavin saw Philip McKeon on Broadway in Medea and Jason in 1974. When he came in to audition for Tommy on "Alice," she immediately recognized him and enlisted Vic Tayback to lobby for him to get the role of Tommy. It worked. Philip McKeon, Tommy on "Alice," was actually a very smart, polite, well educated and gentle boy. He was loved by the entire cast and crew of "Alice," since he was never demanding, never spoiled, never a problem, Philip turned out to be what every producer hoped for and yet rarely found. Vic "Mel" Tayback said Philip was like a second son to him. Linda Lavin told Philip's mom, she had to share custody of him when he was on set, because she felt like he was her son too.  

Philip was very popular with people who knew him after he left "Alice" too, though they all had to overcome a certain amount of shyness in the young man. When he went into talk radio when he was in his early 40's, everyone at the stations he worked at considered him their friend. No scandals, no ego, no crimes, no drug problems, he was just a friendly, decent human being. 

Hollywood "bad boy" Charlie Sheen became his lifelong friend after appearing in an episode of Amazing Stories/No Day at the Beach (1986) together. Charlie Sheen called him "a perfect gentleman, with an ebullient spirit". Yep, "EBULIENT" was the word that Charlie used to describe his pal. He recognized that Philip wasn't like most of the people he met in Hollywood, he didn't have an angle. He was just who he was. Someone Charlie enjoyed spending time every chance he could. He would call Philip when he was facing a sea of troubles and Philip would cheer him up immediately. Philip excelled at guitar, had a brilliant mind and was a bit of a book worm. 

The Irish definition of a friend is someone who will stick their neck out for you and stick by you regardless of  what you do and how bad times get. They will always be by your side during the good times, they will give you a hug when you need it, but also a kick in the butt when you need that. Charlie recognized Philip as the Irish friend he needed.

Philip's private life was private. He dated quietly and none of the girls he dated ever wrote about their relationships. None of his friends have written a tell all book either. Which, to me, says that his friends and romantic interests, respected him as much as they liked and loved him.  He lived with rumors that he might be gay since he was a teenager, but refused to discuss his private life.  Not that it made any difference or that it was any of our business, his life belonged to him and he had a right to choose, what we know, who was a part of part of his life or the relationships he had, unless and until we earned his trust. 

Philip died at 55-years-old, regrettably, we always lose the gentlest among us far too early. And we are the less for it.

With so many horror stories, it is nice to know that Nancy and Philip grew up in a happy family and that they were brother and sister, but also best friends. 

A fun segment of Bloopers and Practical Jokes with Dick Clark and Ed McMahon with Nancy giving Philip a little surprise, he had one for her too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kqBckWaYE&t=1s

Philip became a teen sex symbol.

Philip thought it was amusing when all the teen magazines put him on the cover of their magazines saying he was the ultimate heartthrob. The fact that he was 6'4" at 17-years-old didn't hurt either. His sister Nancy laughed, saying he is just my  big brother.

On Austin Texas Talk Radio

I disagreed with his politics and TV News choice, I am a liberal Democrat, but, from what I have learned from researching and writing this, I like and respect Philip and would have considered myself lucky to number him among my friends.

Philip McKeon is buried with his dad in St. John's Cemetery in Queens, New York City, New York. I visited St. John's Cemetery to see the grave of the founder of the Mafia, Lucky Luciano, whose real family name was Lucania, in 2006.

Remembering people who are too often forgotten, not for who they pretend to be, but they people they were. What is wonderful is when an actor playing a likeable though CANTANKEROUS AND IRASCIBLE character turns out to be a likeable human being too. 

Desilu Studio Millionaire CEO Desi Arnaz said he only hired people, from crew to stars, that he liked for "I Love Lucy" and other shows.  Cantankerous William "Bill" Frawley was his friend as well as "Fred Mertz" on "I Love Lucy."  

Like Linda Lavin and Vic Tayback in choosing Philip McKeon for the role of "Tommy" on "Alice".

"Bill Frawley loved to make me and my brother laugh by saying outrageous, sometimes quite vulgar things. Since we were eight, nine, ten, eleven or twelve-year-old boys when working with him, Bill must have remembered what it was like when he was a kid and knew how to crack us up." Barry Livingston, who played Ernie on "My Three Sons". 

When Barry Livingston was 8, he co-starred with Frawley on "My Three Sons." Barry said Frawley cussed like a sailor and was cantankerous as hell. But the boys all knew it was an act and chuckled when he wasn't looking. Studio Producers appreciated the fact that the relationship and affection between the boys and Frawley was real. So they asked the boys to eat lunch with Bill every day. The restaurant they ate at was called Nickodell's, 50 yards from Desilu Studios front gate. Unfortunately for the show, but perfect for Bill, Nickodell's Restaurant served booze. Frawley would down Cutty Sark after Cutty Sark during lunch like a teenage yuppy trying to impress his buddies. But the boys could get Frawley to leave, when no one else could, by telling him they were going to get in trouble if they weren't back to the set on time. 

With a twinkle in his eyes, Bill would say, OK, OK and chuckle. He knew what was going on and knew the boys were doing it for his own good. 

Fred was let go by the show in 1965 because he flunked his medical physical exam for studio required insurance. He was replaced by William Demarest, who, Barry said, was an adult actor doing a part, while Bill had been like their fun uncle or granddad. 

Barry wasn't an original cast member. He joined his brother Stanley, who played "Chip" on the show, in the 3rd season. Barry played a foster kid living next door to the Douglas family, who was adopted by Steven Douglas/Fred MacMurray.

The last appearance of Bill Frawley on TV, on the Lucy Show, in 1965. In a few months, he would pass away from a heart attack at the age of 79-years-old. He was friends will Desi and Lucy, as much as he was friends with Ricky and Lucy.

Desi Arnaz bought a full page ad in Variety Magazine at the passing of his friend William "Fred Mertz" Frawley on March 3, 1966, captioned "Buenos Noches, Amigo," Desi also served as one of his pall bearers. 

Buenos Noches, Philip! 

We will miss you, pal...

 

Philip with troubled child stars/kids Dana Plato and Todd Bridges on CHiPs

Actors are people, with human flaws, family and friends

Dana Plato was fired from "Different Strokes" because she developed a drug problem.  She got married and had a son, Tyler Lambert. Plato struggled with substance abuse for most of her life. In the early 1990s, she was arrested for robbing a video store in Las Vegas, and again for forging a drug prescription. Eventually she made a couple of X-rated movies then moved to Oklahoma. On May 8, 1999, Plato was found dead in her motor home from an overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 34.

 

Her son Tyler committed suicide 11 years after the death of his mom. 

From People Magazine. In a note she found in his bedroom after his death, Richardson says her grandson wrote, “The only moments of happiness for me are when I’m real high and don’t think about the past or I’m real drunk and not able to.”

 

“He had his mother’s name Tattooed on his hand on his arm and right across his finger,” she says. “He was putting her ashes in with the ink.”

“He said, ‘Joni, I have to do this,’ ” she continues. “[That way] he could feel that he had part of her with him.” Tyler committed suicide May 6th 2010.

Always remember people are people whatever their path in life. 

Now, for a young man, a bully, petty and mean-spirited, Scott Baio.

NEVER have two people been more different. 

Scott Baio wrote this on Twitter about Hillary Clinton. I replied, how can any boy or man with a mother, sister or daughter he loves say that about any woman? He immediately banned me. I wear his ban as a badge of honor. 

24-year-old Scott Baio appeared in the show "Charles in Charge," which ran for five years. The first year was on CBS, then because of good, but not great ratings, the show moved to syndication, when the whole cast was changed except for Scott and Willie Aames. So child stars,  Michael Pearlman, April Haney and Jonathan Ward disappeared.

 

2nd Season through 5th Season Cast:

Scott Baio

Willie Aames

Julie Cobb

James Widdoes  

Sandra Kerns

Nicole Eggert

Josie Davis

Alexander Polinsky

It was NOT a happy set, thanks to bully, 24-year-old Scott Baio. He was the star thanks to "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi" and knew it, plus he would never let anyone else forget it. He was totally unpleasant to almost everyone on set, but it was far worse than that. He persecuted an 11-year-old boy, who could not understand why earned Scott's venomous hatred.

Alexander Polinsky said Baio would tell him, an 11-year-old boy, that he was unlovable and defective. In one instance, Baio pulled down Alexander's pants in front of more than 100 people visiting the set, Polinsky said. In another instance, Baio cut a hole in the canvas wall of Polinsky's private dressing room on set, and Baio thrust his penis through that hole at him and made a vulgar gay slur/remark, unclear whether it was his "boner" or not. Later he threw a hot drink in Alexander's face and constantly called him a sissy/queer/faggot in front of cast and crew.  Alexander would stay in his dressing room or the other kid co-stars of the show Nicole Eggert and Josie Davis' dressing rooms between shots, where he was always welcome, spending as little time with Scott as possible. Alexander got along great with everyone, except Scott. 

No 11-year-old boy should have to put up with that treatment from an "adult" 24-year-old man. It shows the power of Scott Baio and other young "hot" stars, that they could do this to  a young kid. 

Alexander said he would cry in his dressing room and at home, because he couldn't figure out why Scott hated him.

"Mr. Baio repeatedly told me, 11-year-old Alexander Polinsky reported, about gay sex acts that he told me I would grow up to perform," Alexander said. "I would protest and asked him to stop saying these things, but he said he was doing it for my own good." Alexander Polinsky, 11-year-old co-star of "Charles in Charge" told the press in 2020. Scott seemed to enjoy calling Alexander a queer, sissy and faggot.

24-year-old Scott Baio had to face accusations from female co-star Nicole Eggert too. She said everyone was afraid of him, because he was the star and a bully, who could have gotten any of them fired in a heartbeat. And he was petty and vindictive enough to do it too.

A press conference called by Nicole Eggert and Alexander Polinsky to discuss what Scott did to them.

According to Eggert, he also sexually abused her.  The sexual abuse started before her 15th birthday when “we were at his house in his car in his garage, and he reached over and penetrated me with his finger.” “I was very young. It was shocking,” Eggert recalled. “He was playing not only on my emotions, but my hormones and all of those things.” 

Scott Baio said when the charges hit the press, these quotes are from VARIETY, Scott added, that she, a 14/15-year-old girl seduced him, a 24-year-old man. 

Just when you thought Scott couldn't do or say anything as bad as when he bullied 11-year-old Alexander Polinsky and abused Nicole Eggert, Scott proves us wrong again.

In 2017, former child star and Baio/Chachi love interest, Erin Moran, in both "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi," died.  While the rest of the "Happy Days" cast recalled Erin's memory with fondness and love, Scott chose a different route. Without knowing the facts, Scott Baio told a reporter that is what happens when you are a drug addict. WRONG AGAIN, Erin died of Stage 4 Throat Cancer. The autopsy found NO ILLEGAL DRUGS in Erin's body. Erin's husband was so offended by what Scott Baio said that Baio was BANNED from Erin's funeral. 

A little fact for Trivial Pursuit players, Erin Moran's little brother Tony Moran played the serial killer Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" (1978). 

Another Vicious Bully, the only difference, Kirk "Growing Pains" Cameron blames Jesus for his bullying and viciousness!

Young Evangelical teenager Kirk Cameron was the break out star of "Growing Pains," unfortunately, he knew it and exercised and abused his power over the show and cast, especially in expressing his Evangelical religion. He got his love interest, Julie McCullough, fired because she once appeared in Playboy. Since we all have to buy food and pay rent, he was particularly cruel in deciding that he could and would force the show to fire her. One job does not define you. Kirk Cameron is vicious and cruel, funny, I don't ever remember anyone ever using those words to describe Jesus. Christian means a follower of Jesus, Christ, 

When I was in college, someone stole my rent money. I had to work my regular job during the day, I worked in the Georgia State University Mailroom and got off at 3 PM, then went to work day labor until 10 PM trying to come up with my rent in time. I was sent to the Kraft Cheese Plant in Atlanta because their sewer line backed up. For two weeks, I shoveled the sewage into dumpsters in the putrid smelling food plant. I will never forget it and almost never mention it. I did what had to be done to pay my rent. 

The Orlando Sentinel Newspaper claimed on E! True Hollywood Story that Kirk Cameron went so far as to accuse ABC, the shows executive producers, were pornographers if they didn't get rid of his romantic interest, Julie McCullough, because she appeared on Playboy Magazine. 

Jesus loved wayward Mary Magdalene and considered her his sister. "Christian" Kirk Cameron isn't quite the man Jesus was, despite his bullying protestations. I suspect Jesus is as ashamed of Kirk as I am.

Another young star dies and everyone assumes the worst, he was shooting up heroin and committed suicide because he was bored with his huge success, but the truth is much more complicated. Kurt Cobain died from suicide, but there was a reason he didn't want people to know which was the cause of his drug addiction. 

Kurt Cobain had severe scoliosis, curvature of the spine, which caused him constant, horrific pain since he was 12-years-old in Junior High School, severely aggravated when he joined his junior high school wrestling team, probably the worst thing he could have done. But it wouldn't be diagnosed until his late teens. Kurt also had recently developed severe, constant stomach pain, possibly stomach cancer, which when coupled with his scoliosis caused him to be in constant horrific pain. But doctors weren't sure and wanted to to test him to determine whether it was IBS, stomach or colorectal cancer. 

Two of Kurt's uncles committed suicide because they had stomach cancer. Kurt was taking several prescriptions for the pain, but they weren't nearly enough. He began self-medicating using heroin and other non-prescription drugs to alleviate his pain. 

The True Measure of Success to Kurt and his bandmates was not when Nirvana's song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" became a huge success, but something which happened immediately after it. 

Enter everyone's favorite geek, Weird Al Yankovic

However, at first, bringing his parody to fruition wasn’t easy, as his manager was unable to directly reach Cobain in order to ask for his permission. Luckily enough though, Yankovic was a star in his own right, and his friend, the comedian Victoria Jackson from Saturday Night Live managed to get Cobain on the phone so Yankovic could ask the question.

The song Kurt Cobain wrote after repeatedly listening to an album "The Beatles" by the kids from Liverpool. 

John Lennon in front of Liverpool's Strawberry Fields Orphanage in 1950

Paul McCartney says he and the guys used to hang out at the Liverpool St. Peter's Cemetery since they were 10-years-old, but he has no clear recollection of ever seeing "ELEANOR RIGBY'S" grave marker before writing the song. 

Unsurprisingly, Yankovic and Cobain’s phone call went smoothly, and it resulted in the Nirvana frontman asking him whether it would be a food-themed track as he had released a myriad of gastronomic songs such as ‘Eat It’ and ‘Lasagna’. 

“He was sweet and he got it in like five seconds and said, ‘Of course, you can do a parody,’” Yankovic remembered. “The famous quote from him was, ‘Is it going to be a song about food?’ because at that point that’s primarily what I was known for.” 

Yankovic proceeded to explain to Cobain what the idea for his satire was. “I said, ‘Well, no, it’s going to be a song about how nobody can understand your lyrics,’” he continued. “And he said, ‘Oh, sure, of course, that’s funny.’ That’s one of those phone conversations I wish I had recorded. I’d love to hear that myself.”

After ‘Smells Like Nirvana’ was released in April 1992, Yankovic only met Cobain once. “He just happened to be eating at an adjoining table with his friends,” he said. “This was after the parody had come out, so I got to go over and thank him in person. I just profusely thanked him and said, ‘Anything I can do for you, let me know.’ Kurt extended his hand to me and said, ‘Polish my nails.’”  https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/kurt-cobain-reacted-weird-al-yankovic-nirvana-parody/

Weird Al heard from a friend who knew them both that Kurt told his friends, now I know Nirvana is a success, Weird Al did a parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"!

Kurt's highest complement!

 

Weird Al Yankovic was Valedictorian of his class at Lynnwood High School in California, graduating a year early at the age of 16.