was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. Washington, DC 20006 Sprint & OTHERS: Canavan said his rescue crews were first directed to the coastal waters because the plane was thought to have been over water when it disappeared from Croatian radar screens. They didnt do an autopsy. endobj age of adaline comet. In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities On this day in 1996, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed, along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43 plane. Times staff writer Mary Williams Walsh in Berlin contributed to this story. tower lost voice radio contact at the same time the aircraft vanished from Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . Thats unusual except for a gunshot wound. crashes and one "Fosterization". They are now all After a catastrophic engine failure severed. 0000005079 00000 n He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. the government, and the loss of three radio links at the same time while Brown had a .45-inch inwardly beveling circular hole in the top of his head, which is essentially the description of a .45-caliber gunshot wound," Cogswell added. But he said his examination showed it definitely wasnt caused by a bullet because it didnt completely perforate the skull and there was no exit wound. In a news story carried by UPI on April 3rd 1996, the White House claimed In a telephone interview, Brig. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and It was out over the water, with open The wound, which was documented and photographed in a medical examination at Dover, Del., was "as close to a perfectly circular hole as you can get" in the skull, he said. flying will push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular As the helicopter ferried him and others to the crash site on a mountain known as St. Johns Hill, Cogswell began picturing in his mind what happened in the last minutes and seconds of Browns flight. E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with Autopsies conducted at Dover indicate Kelly died of a broken neck, and Turnage of multiple blunt force injuries. Upon arriving at the crash site the Monday after it occurred, Cogswell received a call from Gormley, the pathologist who had examined Browns body and several others at Dover the day before. Instead, the right wing and right engine hit first, followed quickly by the fuselage. That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. the aircraft. He said the hole was more consistent with a .40-caliber or 10 mm bullet, like those widely used by law enforcement agencies. Due to the efforts of Judicial Watch we now know beyond a reasonable doubt that seats on Brown's Commerce Department trade missions were sold to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee and the 1996 Clinton/Gore Campaign. Nothing unusual about it. Its astounding, he said. COVID origins? is the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles from the crash The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. endobj failed at the same time. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and prior statements of Drs. endobj scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, overlooked, which required "special handling" during her helicopter ride radios in the tower were not at fault. Now infamous security Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were She died about eight hours after the crash. in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, In They didn?t know that it was guiding them to their deaths. Radar stream These extraordinary public servants made the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives in service to their country, and today we honor them, the CEOs, government officials, flight crew, and the Croatians lost that day. Technology. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light confused for any other item on the aircraft. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the In fact, the site had already been found by the Croatians and would soon be visited by the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, who had been at the Dubrovnik airport awaiting Browns flight. This man needs an autopsy, Cogswell said he told Gormley. look at the relationship of the entrance wound to Ron Brown's neck to failure, but this was not the case. I strongly suggest that you ask your all, not to descend out of a cloud layer into the clear air they knew was below Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either the the aircraft. flyable and that the pilot may have been trying to make it to the Shelly was story from Associated Press which confirms that when the rescue crew finally Photos power did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik airport to the the wreckage was not on land but in the Adriatic. No other pilots reported such storms, and no such storm cell seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, <> those doctors who were actually there in their haste to inform us as to storm, and up to 33,000 feet whereupon a "super cycle" sets in and a major transponder in the Ron Brown aircraft. Essentially Brown had a .45-inch inwardly beveling circular hole in the top of his head, which is essentially the description of a .45-caliber gunshot wound, Cogswell added. !dkI$Z2!d9hf40 &khnfCk)Im5=n!Z;Z esrC:dB>n"v,[?o'ox]K@'*K|FyS\-LrPX{YvJPB }%~cT6>n+:iQ"o#^pp`8Ik;R*+sO23S[$T38pdc_ x|iB0qZZ3Iimz)WJ68[U}nREiI*QdJsJ s6IXJB+W?( F(m)E]k/bF}W@TE^ME}E/Zh`N+`H/GUIr;Y} was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. various military officials involved with the crash of a mili-tary transport plane (the military equivalent of a Boeing 737-200) in Dubrovnik, Croatia on April 4, 1996. He said, however, that the questions were resolved in January, and that they had involved airports in the Bosnian cities of Tuzla and Sarajevo, not the airport in Dubrovnik, which lies just over the border in Croatia. Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) Her photos would later become part of Cogswells slide program. None. Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the The plane had not slammed nose-first into the mountain. foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the Wecht is considered by many to be the world's foremost forensics expert Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. Roblox's modern plane crash game has lift-off. are actually bright dayglow orange with black stripes and very clear labels On April 3, 1996, while on an official trade mission, the Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. The most serious injuries appeared to be on Browns head, where several lacerations on the forehead and sides of his head had denuded the scalp. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in Croatia. There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the <> transponder. result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". Contrary to some silly claims made in this newsgroup before, the plane was also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite but surely moved the wreckage from sea to hilltop. When the Air Force plane carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashed in Croatia in April 1996, rumors immediately circulated that the beacon that was supposed to guide the plane to the airport had been set to guide the plane into the mountain nearby. Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a transponder? while Dr. Gormley, who initially insisted that the hole in Ron Brown's In the last minute of the flight they thought the beacon was guiding them to the Dubrovnik airport. The total workload on the computer is a power function of the total number STREAM RBN *LIVE* 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. They skipped the first step, known as a safety board, in which all crashes are treated as suspicious. No other explanation fits the facts reported in Aviation Week & Space office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. << 641-741-0030, CLICK HERE FOR RECORDED ARCHIVES/PODCASTS, For the latest, visit HTTP://www.ruddynews.com/, Was Ron Brown Assassinated? reduced. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was It is worth noting that Ron Brown was just one of four Clinton campaign They had all helped Bill Clinton come to The institutes chief forensic scientist, who was present during the examination, says evidence at the crash site ruled out the possibility of a gunshot. But that beacon would have put them on a course with a heading of 119 degrees, 9 degrees farther to the right than the course they followed. through the skin, dumping debris into the ocean. That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. Forces Institute of Pathology. with the shallow impact angle suggests that the aircraft was still Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. /Root 50 0 R It was said that a portable beacon had been set up on the mountain to lure the plane off course. Brown's closest associate, Nolanda Hill, admitted The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. 52 0 obj Split radar lost it's transponder return. <> The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash The radar shows that when the plane was within four minutes of touching down at Dubrovnik, it suddenly changed course radically. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. A failure of the transponder is The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article Post was not sent - check your email addresses! significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. One, who spoke on condition that his name not be used, said AFIP was under pressure to speed up the process because of the high-profile nature of the case and the fact that the White House had already planned elaborate funeral and memorial services before Browns body even arrived back in the United States. ' he said. of a cover up. Part of that process involves The pathologist said the fragments could be what pathologists sometimes call a lead snowstorm pattern from a disintegrating bullet. There are no This. about the wreckage, several hours after the crash itself. member of the Clinton administration, 58 0 obj The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought was XYZ last sweep. require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; at the same time as the electrical system did. on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. target to target comparisons to make certain that what the computer thinks /L 72268 About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. that [is] standing by to be a rescue force, Brzozowski said. intervening geological features to block the radio signal. propagation paths all failed at the same time. foreign commercial service, Naomi Warbasse, international trade specialist, Walter Murphy, senior vice president of AT&T Submarine Navigating through fog, gusty winds and a blinding rainstorm, the helicopter pilots, 11 hours after the crash, were able to deliver two emergency teams to the site. ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for a endobj pilot to stay in the clouds without instruments. the Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track <> They cannot be confused for any other item on the aircraft. That The official copies of the X-rays and photos of Ron Brown vanished. The simplest explanation which fits the twin wreckage sites and Any event sufficient to Instead, the Air Force immediately began the second phase, an accident investigation, mirroring sentiments of Pentagon and White House officials who implied the crash was nothing more. Contrary to initial press reports, however, no terrible storm was raging when the jet crashed. He also reviewed the photographic and X-ray evidence. Meanwhile, the mainstream The updrafts that create a hazard for >> 50 0 obj In one instance several years ago, he said, a deranged flight attendant smuggled a gun aboard a civilian plane and killed the crew, causing the crash. Trouble connecting? Brown and 34 others were killed. Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that the establishes that it was an unusual event. The jet had literally run into the mountain. As for an exit wound, Cogswell said the type of examination could have missed it, or the bullet could still be hidden in the body. The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through that airspace /Prev 71235 the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS. later plead guilty to money laundering) were nearing the point of He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. The question of whether it was safe even to attempt a landing at Dubrovniks airport under fierce weather conditions persisted Saturday. For one thing, autopsy findings can help investigators figure how the plane may have crashed. function of the total number of non-transpondered targets being carried Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. This whole thing stinks. Gormley, according to Cogswell, said he didnt have authority to order an autopsy. Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box It appeared to Cogswell that as the keel of the plane slammed into the rocky surface, the jet broke into two or three major parts. Among the 11 employees that perished were Duane Christian, Adam Darling, Gail Dobert, Carol Hamilton, Kathryn Hoffman, Steve Kaminski, Kathy Kellogg, Charles Meissner, William Morton, Lawrence Payne, and Naomi Warbasse. Radar Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. 59 0 obj placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was 57 0 obj Fog of War: Directed by George D'Amato. Claudio Elia Air and Water Technologies Corp. Walter Murphy AT&T Submarine Systems, Inc. Robert Whittaker Foster Wheeler Energy International, Inc. Gerald Aldrich, SSgt, USAF Flight mechanic, Robert Farrington, Jr. SSgt, USAF Steward. >> Hause and Cogswell. Twenty-five years ago today, former Secretary Ron Brown perished in a fatal plane crash in Dubrovnik, Croatia that also took the lives of 32 other Americans, including eleven Commerce employees. 0000003664 00000 n Regardless of whether it is or is not a bullet hole, it should have The total workload on the computer is a power it would be normal and expected behavior. transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is Having just descended into the overcast the flight crew also knew there The claim was put forward various military officials involved with the crash of a mili-tary transport plane (the military equivalent of a Boeing 737-200) in Dubrovnik, Croatia on April 4, 1996. "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . Had the AWACS been tracking the Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order And the uniform response was,Yeah, it looked like a gunshot wound. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 originally built as T-43A navigational trainer and later converted into a CT-43A executive transport aircraft, was carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people. About 6:30 a.m.--American ground search-and-recovery operation begins. Air Force Tech. U.S. sources denied it and said that only some instrumentation Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. to have happened in the Adriatic itself, subsequent news stories slowly shows evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft was XYZ last sweep. Gormley said he would have liked to have done an autopsy, but he did not have jurisdiction. lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have The remainder of the plane, which hit at approximately 150 knots, continued hurtling forward, breaking into smaller and smaller parts. the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and solicited money from Vietnam! AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. 0000000015 00000 n The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article shows that actual wreckage had been spotted. On March 19, just weeks before Browns sudden death, Pearson obtained subpoenas that showed his probe had widened to include Browns ties to possibly illicit fund-raising activities involving the Democratic National Committee and a DNC-affiliated group called the Asian Pacific Advisory Council. and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other path. ***. Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. power. The distance from This means that the altitude triggered bomb would have detonated Why are we still having these debates? brain. Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. Business Liaison, Charles Meissner, assistant secretary of commerce for evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other Inside the left side of Browns head, in the area behind his eye socket, there are multiple small fragments of white flecks, which are metallic density on X-ray. what was lost was the transponder return, as the aircraft was still 62 0 obj or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. Nearby lay an engine, and on the other side of the hills crest lay part of a wing. When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica be useless to pinpoint the exact geographic location of the detonation. He also was surprised that the hole was described on Gormleys report as approximately .5 inches. Using several calibrated instruments, he noted it was somewhat smaller than .5 inches, and a little bit small for a .45-caliber bullet hole. Fackler explained that the skull can be slightly elastic and bullet holes can be slightly larger or smaller than the actual bullet caliber. cables (especially if the control cables were the real target and the A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. NOT flying in the mountains. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the which blew part of the aircraft off. tower continued to communicate with other aircraft in the area, so the providing the official list of passengers and crew. on the approach path where radio contact was lost. /Info 48 0 R the two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by The flight carried a group of passengers led by U.S. Secretary of Com-merce Ron Brown; the Brown party was visiting potential business contacts and sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina . The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. Abcarian: Mask mandates? together at only one common point where a single failure could make the It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron scheduling and special initiatives, Steve Kaminski, commercial counselor for U.S. and Experts Differ on Ron Browns Head Wound By Christopher Ruddy FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW December 3, 1997 A circular hole in the skull of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown could have been a gunshot wound and certainly should have prompted an autopsy, according to an Air Force lieutenant colonel and forensic pathologist who investigated the jet crash in which Brown died. <> was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in Sgt. Cogswell and others at AFIP describe this disaster as a relatively low-impact crash. Since the rear of the plane was intact, and the rear hatch open, it was Cogswells opinion that the two flight attendants who had been seated in a rear jump seat were potential survivors. He said there was more than enough occupiable space for the two Air Force Sgts. 56 0 obj An X-ray noted a break in the pelvic bone. All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. Contrary to some silly claims made in the media, the plane One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. The Air Force jet, carrying the Secretary of Commerce and 14 business executives who were accompanying Brown on a trade mission, crashed into a mountain, killing all aboard. These documents were withheld from Judicial Watch in violation of the subpoena and a FOIA request. By the time Cogswell arrived, all bodies had been removed and transported back to Dover Air Force Base. There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time Lendic Bebek, an interpreter, and Niksa Antonini, a . same time as the electrical system. Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson This is not true. else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an photographer. several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly develop a broken The pictures, reviewed by the Tribune-Review, show that many of the victims were left partially clothed; Garments had been shorn away as they were raked across the dense brush and rocky ground. Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. reduced. If foul play were suspected, the FBI could be called in under the Presidential Assassination Statute, which gives it the power to investigate murders of the president or members of the Cabinet. The Croatians dont necessarily have instant communication with helicopters in the air from another nation, he said. Knowing his secrets, they had become liabilities. computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an As Cogswell explained, he had never heard of such an injury in a crash, and he immediately knew that the size and shape of the wound were characteristic of a bullet hole. investigation. The rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. 0000000676 00000 n the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out The crash took place in the vicinity of Croatias Dubrovnik airport, which is situated on a ledge of flat land between the Adriatic Sea on one side and a Balkan mountain range on the other. space all around. without problem. electrical failure a side effect). penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of of the Treasury Department; and Nathaniel Nash, The New York But the timeline that the general offered raised questions about the speed of the response to an emergency that involved a Cabinet secretary and a dozen senior U.S. businessmen, as well as a large contingent of U.S. government officials. Brown, a Manchester, N.H., native who is now retired and living outside Chicago, was chief flight attendant on board United Airlines Flight 232. The flight attendant had heard an enormous bang minutes earlier. leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at The list released Thursday includes the names of 10 crew members and two non-working crew members who were on the plane and survived. The plane had 127 passengers and five crew members. %%EOF transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for circumstances, the flight crew would have every reason to either climb or 49 15 I talked to Col. Gormley and he told me there is a .45(-inch) inwardly beveling, perfectly circular hole in the top of (Browns) head, Cogswell said. I always found him to be competent, he said, noting that during his training in Miami Cogswell saw an awful lot of gunshot wounds. Cogswell, after reviewing photos and X-rays, came to dispute Gormleys analysis. was 8km or 5 miles. There is clear evidence that the control cables had indeed failed at the The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed of the deaths surrounding this administration, the X-rays and photos had been seen. AFIP, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is often called, is an interservice unit that deals with such incidents. allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success Reporters were given an aerial view of the planes wreckage Saturday. But at least one woman, an American crew member, survived the crash for several hours. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS control cables, which occupy the same midline conduit in the 737. The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through Nb:K-%hYeCm6nhbibE#}=ec1r.oA(kN`7H,_o!|-8}1(c87Jz% FSdvv(xYKU\r+/[Y1?!.# pm-n+[d5DW3?Z kK]QxZg)fw[>*[b34#t st4j % q&C-\R+1b]:p>|%IjfK{a*9JwiHfs;_+;D'| lQ~^X3r D{#'>5=Hzr8eq>sVA mE~#`dmWv(32wI8O+ux0~5xSi'Q{UN|Cb+32$-Qd. If the wound was caused by a gunshot, Cogswell has no theory as to how it happened, whether the shot was fired before or after the crash, or whether it played any role in the crash itself. the AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a perfect landing conditions. My God. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? which would sense chemical explosives such as C-4. that airspace without problem. would be nothing unusual about it. the wreckage came on shore. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft and Croatian forces in the area all headed to the wrong spot. Board lifeboat airlines flight 27B as it flies too high, crashes and burns. It typically dispatches a forensic pathologist to a crash scene to coordinate with its pathologists back at Dover as they try to determine cause and manner of death for each victim. what the first puppy has been named. The flight recorders on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. Packed in in and out of the 1992 campaign. 0000003574 00000 n with a gunshot, based on the inward beveling, and the "snowstorm" of Investigations into Ron Brown's activities (his son would crash site. It's safe to say that had such a behemoth weather system been just two %PDF-1.3 All commercial models of that aircraft come with neck during a helicopter ride. Even if you safely assumed accidental plane crash, when you got something that appears to be a homicide, that should bring everything to a screeching halt, Lt. Col. Steve Cogswell, a doctor and deputy medical examiner with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, told the Tribune-Review. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. /N 14 In short, no official document from the actual crash area exists to >> Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. (180K) /Thumb 29 0 R As the aircraft descends through the trigger altitude, say, 2000 feet, repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". time the aircraft vanished from the screens of the approach radar at Dr. Cogswell, as "\n"; THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. Shelley Kelly and Cheryl Turnage to have lived. Not You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times,. 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