by NewKid » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:52 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The evidence for Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon is more substantial than the evidence for Laura Bush killing her boyfriend, I think.<br><br>That said, I've never delved into the Laura Bush murder case. Maybe it's better documented than I think. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I'm afraid it is. Now like I said, perhaps the word 'killing' used here evoked the notion of intentional homicide, and to that extent you'd be correct that there is nothing to support that. But as far as I know, the fact that Laura Bush accidentally killed someone in high school is not open to dispute. She admits it, there's a police report on it, and there are newspaper stories on it at the time. I'm too lazy to pull up more than this, but I think you'll agree, this isn't really open to dispute.<br><br><br>From a CBS news story with a Laura Bush biographer:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Laura, they learned, had been speeding blithely out of town about 8 P.M., east on Farm Road 868, her high school friend Judy Dykes in the passenger seat. She never saw the stop sign. She never saw the other car. She plowed right through that stop sign and slammed hard into the 1962 Corvair coming south and with the right-of-way, on State Road 349, the La Mesa Highway. She was fine, really, the officer assured her parents, but bruised and banged up, and awfully upset. Judy was shaking but unharmed as well. But the boy in the other car, well, the force of the broadside impact was so severe that, well...He never had a chance. Michael Douglas, golden boy of Midland, high school track star, was dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. The two girls were taken there, too, in another ambulance. Mike Douglas's father had been driving another car behind his son. He saw the entire horrific scene, the explosive beginning of a nightmare that haunted him his whole life. <br><br>The front-page story in the Midland Reporter-Telegram was blunt and nonaccusatory. "Police said death was attributed to a broken neck," the paper reported, using that passive voice peculiar to newspaper writing. But the news flew through Midland about whose actions had caused that death. <br><br>Killing another person was a tragic, shattering error for a girl to make at seventeen. It was one of those hinges in a life, a moment when destiny shuddered, then lurched in a new direction. In its aftermath, Laura became more cautious and less spontaneous, more inclined to be compassionate, less inclined to judge another person. <br><br>What made the crash even more devastating was that the boy Laura killed was no stranger but a good friend of hers, a boy from her crowd. Some said Mike Douglas was her boyfriend. Or had been, or maybe she wanted him to be. ... <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/07/earlyshow/leisure/books/main591951.shtml" target="top">www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/07/earlyshow/leisure/books/main591951.shtml</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>From snopes:<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Claim: While a teenager, future First Lady Laura Bush caused the death of a classmate in a car accident. <br><br>Status: True. <br><br><br>snip<br><br><br>In May 2000, a two-page police report pertaining to a fatal accident that had taken place near Midland, Texas, in 1963 was made public. It contained the information that 17-year-old Laura Welch had run a stop sign, causing the death of the sole occupant of the vehicle hers had struck. According to that report, the future First Lady had been driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on 6 November 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and there collided with the Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Also in the car with Laura Welch was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes. <br><br>How fast Miss Welch might have been driving is open to question. That part of the police report is illegible, although two biographies of the First Lady refer to her as having been going 50 mph at the time of the collision. The speed limit on that portion of road was 55 mph. According to the police report neither driver had been drinking, but no tests were performed. No charges were filed as a result of the accident. <br><br>News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck; he was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. According to various biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy's father had been travelling in a car immediately behind his son's and witnessed the whole thing. <br><br>The two teen girls were taken to the same hospital and treated for minor injuries that amounted to bumps and bruises. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br> . . .<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp" target="top">www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br>Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how the evidence for this story could possibly be less substantial than the Pentagon attack. <br> <br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>