Table of Contents
Summary of Contents.....................................................................3
Preface.............................................................................................4
I.
BACKGROUND.......................................................................................................28
1.
Introduction.............................................................................................28
2. The record of events surrounding the
death...............................................37
a. Before July 20,
1993.........................................................................37
b. Tuesday, July
20...............................................................................47
c. No record of Mr. Foster's having left
the White House complex......53
3. Fort Marcy Park, discovery of
body...........................................................56
a. Fort Marcy
Park..............................................................................56
b. Official version of discovery
of body..............................................61
Summary..........................................................................................61
II. AUTHORITIES
ARRIVE AT THE SCENE.........................................................73
III. OVERVIEW
OF THE COMPARISON OF THE PUBLICLY
AVAILABLE EVIDENCE TO THE OIC'S
REPORT.......................................115
IV. EVIDENCE
OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEATH BEFORE
THE OFFICIAL TIME OF
NOTIFICATION...................................................118
Summary.........................................................................................................118
1. FBI's Violent Crime
Squad......................................................................119
2. Fire &
Rescue workers and Park Police.................................................122
3. William Kennedy and Craig
Livingstone..................................................126
4. White House telephone
records...............................................................126
V. EVIDENCE THAT THE OIC CONCEALED THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHS........................................................127
Summary...........................................................................................................127
1. Sergeant Edwards absconded with Officer
Ferstl's Polaroids....................129
2. Rolla's two Polaroids of the back of
the head vanished..............................140
3. OIC concealed that the roll of 35-mm
film produced usable photographs...146
VI. EVIDENCE
THAT THE OIC COVERED UP THE ABSENCE OF THE
OFFICIAL MOUTH ENTRANCE WOUND & HEAD EXIT WOUND,
AND THE EXISTENCE OF A NECK
WOUND.................................................151
Summary................................................................................................................151
1. Witness accounts of a bullet wound in Mr.
Foster's neck and the
absence of the official mouth entrance wound and skull exit wounds..........155
a. Reports of Medical Examiner Haut and Paramedic
Richard
Arthur of the existence of a neck wound........................................155
b. No record of any of 26 persons who
viewed the body before
the autopsy having seen the official entrance and exit wounds..........161
2. The
autopsy.................................................................................................177
a. Rescheduled.........................................................................178
b. Failure of investigators to
attend............................................182
c. Entrance wound evidence
removed.......................................183
d. Refusal to identify autopsy
assistant.......................................184
e. Caliber of weapon
unknown.................................................185
f. Lab Report may contradict the
existence of the official
entrance wound.....................................................................186
g. FBI apprised of "preliminary
results" of "no exit
wound".........188
h. X-rays
vanished....................................................................189
i. No official
estimate of time of death........................................193
j. Conflicting evidence of bullet trajectory...................................194
3. Bloodstains
consistent with the neck wound..................................................196
4. Official excuse for blood on Mr.
Foster's right side is that it drained from his
mouth when an "early observer" moved the
head to check for a pulse, then
repositioned it -- but
Edwards did it to obscure or camouflage the blood
evidence of the existence of the neck
wound.................................................203
a. No reports
of "early observers" having moved the head or
seen it being moved and resuscitation was not
attempted.......214
b. No "early observer" could
have caused right side bloodstains
because they all saw these stains as they arrived.....................218
c. The blood was dry until after Edwards
had been alone at the
body
site...............................................................................221
d. Only witnesses who saw the blood
transfer contact stain arrived
at the site after Sergeant Edwards had been alone with the
body.....................................................................................228
5. Blood quantity
insufficient............................................................................230
VII. EVIDENCE
THAT THE OIC COVERED UP THAT MR. FOSTER DID
NOT FIRE OR OWN THE GUN FOUND AT THE
PARK.................................245
Summary.................................................................................................................245
1. Impossibility of gunshot residue patterns on hands
having been
caused by self-inflicted
wound.....................................................................245
2.
Gunpowder.................................................................................................253
a. Type found not
used by Remington..................................................253
b. Present on broken
eyeglasses found 17 feet uprange........................254
c. Reportedly found
in soil over a year later..........................................256
3. The guns at the
park....................................................................................257
4. Ownership of gun
and ammunition................................................................272
a.
Gun................................................................................................272
b. Ammunition.....................................................................................280
c. Oven
mitt........................................................................................281
VIII. EVIDENCE CONTRADICTING THE OFFICIAL
CLAIM THAT
MR. FOSTER DROVE TO THE
PARK...............................................................285
Summary.................................................................................................................285
1. The
other Arkansas Honda at the
Park........................................................285
a. Mr. Foster was
dead before 4:20 p.m...............................................287
b. Patrick Knowlton
and the absence of Mr. Foster's car at the
park at
4:30.....................................................................................287
c. The civilian couple at the
park..........................................................336
d. Other evidence that Mr. Foster's car may not
have been at the
park................................................................................................338
2. Car keys not at the
park...............................................................................339
IX. OTHER
ANOMALIES...........................................................................................358
1. Analysis of blood on eyeglasses and
gun....................................................358
2. Missing
bullet............................................................................................359
3. Reported lack of dragging-type soil
patterns..............................................362
4. Analysis of dirt on
shoes............................................................................363
5. Hair
analysis..............................................................................................364
6. Fiber
analysis.............................................................................................365
7. Bone
chip..................................................................................................366
8. Unusual position of
body............................................................................368
9. Other unidentified persons present in the
park.............................................369
10. Fingerprints..............................................................................................371
11. Determination of
suicide made before police investigators viewed
the
body..................................................................................................373
X.
INFERENCES TO BE DRAWN FROM THE FACTS.........................................373
XI. STATE
OF
MIND...................................................................................................394
1. The OIC's psychological autopsy is
unreliable............................................394
2. The verdict of
depression.............................................................................398
XII. INVESTIGATIVE
HISTORY................................................................................416
1. The FBI and the
first 16-day probe..............................................................417
2. Publicity of the removal of Whitewater
documents from Mr. Foster's
office on the eve of the Fiske
probe.............................................................426
3. Reports generated by Fiske's FBI
probe....................................................429
4. The FBI and the
OIC...................................................................................431
5. Congress never conducted a probe of the
death..........................................432
XIII. CONCLUSION....................................................................................................435
Endnotes.................................................456
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