That's not the first time I've heard of the masonic distress signal.
http://peeringthrough.blogspot.kr/2009/01/widows-son.htmlHere is a not so short excerpt from the Franklin Coverup
CHAPTER 18
THE FRANKLIN
INVESTIGATION,
AND COVER-UP,
CONTINUE
When the first printing of what you have just read appeared
in May 1992, I was threatened with countless law suits by
individuals named in the book. I was told by their attorneys,
from some of the most prominent law firms in the state and
in the country, that "We will destroy you in court." As it turned
out, although there have been numerous attempts to disbar me,
only one law suit for libel and slander was ever launched as
a direct result of the book-and that was a suit I launched and
won, as I will relate.
My victory in that case was but one of a series of what I call
the "mini-miracles"-perhaps a hundred or more unforeseen
events since the book first hit the streets, which prove the truth
of The Franklin Cover-Up. I have chosen a small sampling of
these "mini-miracles" to recount here.
After this book appeared, attorneys for Franklin-related individuals
repeatedly appeared in the printed media (particularly
in the Omaha World Herald) and on TV to make statements
such as:
"This book is the most libelous and slanderous book I have
ever read. The individuals who have been slandered in this
book will definitely be filing legal actions to stop distribution
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of this book and against Mr. John DeCamp personally. That
is certain. This book will be stopped and Mr. DeCamp will be
proved to be a liar and made to pay damages."
When reporters who interviewed the lawyers or principals
named in the book contacted me for my response to their
threats, I had one standard answer:
"I agree with certain things these people and their attorneys
attacking me are saying. I agree that the things described in
this book are horrible. If anyone had said these things about
me, I agree that I would sue them. I believe if there is anything
false in this book or if they believe I have not told the truth
in this book, that they should sue me. In fact, I welcome their
law suits, because that will help develop the truth. I personally
believe I have been most careful and cautious in the way I
have handled matters, and only written about those things I
can absolutely docuмent."
So, what happened with those threats? Who sued whom?
Who proved what?
The only major lawsuit for libel and slander arising from
this book was my suit against Atlantic Telecast, owner of
a television station in Wilmington, North Carolina, WECT
(Channel 6). I charged that statements made on a WECT news
broadcast on November 12, 1992, attacking me and the book,
were false. I demanded a retraction and public apology.
The first response I received was from WECT's station
manager, who informed me that WECT had consulted its attorneys,
that the station had thoroughly investigated the matters
described in my book, and that WECT was not only not going
to apologize, but planned to repeat the attacks.
WECT's attorney further advised me that the station had
investigated, in part, by talking to U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey
from Nebraska, who was running for president of the United
States at the time, and who had visited Wilmington, and met
with representatives of the TV station. Further investigation,
he claimed, was conducted by talking to the new Wilmington
police chief, a man named Robert Wadman-the former police
chief of Omaha, Nebraska, who had come to Wilmington in
the early 1990s!
After hearing this, I gave a simple demand to WECT: "Rest
assured I am ready to prove everything I wrote in my book. I
hope you are ready and able to prove your claims made on
TV. I give you three weeks for further investigation, and then
I will move forward aggressively on my lawsuit against you.
At that time, I will seek not only an apology, but substantial
monetary damages."
Just under three weeks from the date of my ultimatum,
attorneys from Atlantic Telecast contacted me and stated that
they had done further investigation and acknowledged that now
they, not I, were in trouble.
Shortly thereafter, a settlement agreement was reached which
stipulated: (l) WECT TV would broadcast a retraction and
public apology to me on its news broadcasts, and would issue
a press release to the same effect; (2) WECT would pay me
money damages and other financial benefits; (3) All other details
of the settlement, other than those stated above, would be
kept confidential for the benefit of the TV station.
I accepted the settlement offer, and dismissed my lawsuit.
WECT lived up to its part of the settlement, and I have lived
up to mine.
My lawsuit intersected a fierce political battle between Chief
Wadman, upon whom WECT had relied for its information,
and his own police department, particularly with an officer
named Sgt. Robert Clatty. Sgt. Clatty is the Wilmington Police
Department's expert on satanic ritual abuse of children, and
is one of North Carolina's recognized experts as well, with
published works on the subject. Chief Wadman, on the other
hand, claimed that there was no such thing as satanic ritual
abuse; he attempted to make it impossible for Sgt. Clatty to
carry out his work, and, at one point, suspended him.
The publicly waged war between Chief Wadman and his
wide array of defenders in Wilmington and across North Carolina,
and Wadman's adversaries, led primarily by Officer Clatty,
went as high as the State Legislature. From 1992 until roughly
mid-1994, it divided the city of Wilmington, and even the state
of North Carolina.
The outcome of the war between Chief Wadman and his
own force was that in early July 1994, a secret meeting was
held with city officials and Wadman's attorney. On July II,
1994, Wadman resigned as police chief. Although city officials
refused to comment on what had transpired in the meeting,
Wadman himself admitted in a television interview later that
month, that he had been ordered to resign from the Wilmington
Police Department.
In May 1992, shortly after the first edition of this book was
published, Monsignor Robert Hupp, who had been the head
of Boys Town from the late 1970s through the decade of the
1980s-the critical time in question for the Franklin case,
contacted me and asked to have a meeting, at which he specified
that witnesses must be present. I anticipated that his purpose
was to attack me, and to deny what I had written about
Boys Town.
I was completely wrong. With two witnesses present, Monsignor
Hupp opened our discussion with the simple statement:
"John DeCamp, your book stated the game; I hope I can help
with some of the names."
Monsignor Hupp and I then entered into an in-depth discussion
on the entire situation involving Boys Town, Larry King,
Peter Citron, the pedophile problem in general, and the entire
story of the Franklin cover-up.
He verified piece after piece of evidence of the Franklin
story for me, and provided guidance on other directions in
which to look, to develop further proof of the children's stories
of abuse by this country's wealthy and powerful.
When I asked Monsignor Hupp how this ever could have
happened at Boys Town, he looked at me and told me, so
apologetically, "I am like the wife who did not know, and was
the last to find out. And when I finally did suspect something
and tried to act, the Archbishop [Daniel Sheehan] elected to
do nothing about it, when I asked him to help. And then, when
I came upon something horribly evil, I found public officials
and the Church would do nothing-apparently terrified at the
damage it would do to the Church and to the entire city of
Omaha," Monsignor Hupp said.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him. "Is there some
particular story or incident you are talking about in the book
that you have more information about? Please explain what
you mean," I asked the Monsignor.
He then described an incident in 1985, in which a young
boy named Shattuck, who lived in Elkhorn, Nebraska, had been
sɛҳuąƖly abused and then killed. The Monsignor told me that
he was certain who had killed the boy, a man he identified as
a member of the Catholic clergy in the Omaha Archdiocese.
Monsignor Hupp provided precise detail which he said proved
beyond any doubt, that the particular individual he named was,
in fact, the child's murderer.
"The Church is plagued by these sɛҳuąƖ abuse problems
across the country and by the devastating publicity the clergy
abuse incidents have caused," Monsignor Hupp explained. "The
Church's reaction to these sɛҳuąƖ abuse problems is, in most
cases, to immediately get the clergy member involved out of
the state and, if possible, out of the country, and hopefully into
treatment. I know that may not be right, but it is a difficult
situation to deal with, and simply moving the priest or the
brother out of the state or country has been the traditional
approach by the Church in America to addressing the problems.
In this case, where an innocent child was murdered and where
1 know that a member of our clergy has done this, I felt I had
a moral obligation overriding all other things, to bring the
situation to the attention of the appropriate authorities. And I
did," Hupp concluded.
The Monsignor then shocked me for the second time that
day-and in a way that brought back to me the horrible memories
of the Franklin cover-up.
He explained that after he determined that the Catholic Archbishop
of Omaha was not going to take action on the case,
he then went to the FBI and to the Omaha law enforcement
authorities to provide complete details on the child's murder.
So, what happened as a result of Monsignor Hupp's actions?
Apparently, nothing. Each year on the anniversary of the
child's murder -now almost ten years-the media talks about
the case as s·till being "under investigation," and street rumors
persist the Catholic clergyman-the one Monsignor
Hupp .ielieves killed the child-who was shipped out of state
for a'Jcohol treatment right after the murder.
the aftermath of our meeting, Monsignor Hupp ran into
, his own problems. In September 1992, the Monsignor advised
me that he was receiving all kinds of pressure and criticism
and was, he feared, being forced to leave Boys Town.
Shortly after that discussion, in a controversy that received
national press attention on how resources should be used at
Boys Town, Monsignor Hupp was removed from his post.
He now lives quietly in a home in West Omaha, Nebraska.
Monsignor Hupp has shown incredible courage, as he has continued
to provide me direction and assistance in the Franklin
investigation and related matters.
Monsignor Hupp is not some 13-year-old kid whom the
cops say they cannot trust or believe. On the contrary, he is
one of America's most famous and nationally honored clergymen;
the author of two best sellers; a former Presidential Appointee
as Special Ambassador to the United Nations; and the
former head of America's most famous child care institution
(Boys Town).
Monsignor Hupp showed his courage yet again, when he
repeated his charges a year later to a British TV team making
a docuмentary on the Franklin cover-up, entitled Conspiracy
of Silence.
In mid-1993, after The Franklin Cover- Up had been circulating
for almost a year, the British-based TV station, Yorkshire
Television, sent a top-notch team to Nebraska to launch its
own investigation of the Franklin case. Yorkshire had a contract
with the Discovery Channel to produce a docuмentary on the
case for American television.
They spent many months in Nebraska, and also traveled this
country from one end to the other, interviewing, filming, and
docuмenting piece-by-piece the Franklin story as I had told it
in the book. They spent somewhere between a quarter-million
and one-half million dollars investigating the story, deploying
probably a thousand times the resources and abilities that I
personally had.
Over the year that I worked with them, I was amazed at the
team's ability to gather new docuмents and witnesses which
kept opening up new and frightening facts about Franklin. They
were a crack team. In the final weeks that they were in Nebraska,
they expressed their certainty that they would win awards for
this docuмented horror story of government-sanctioned drugrunning
involving children; government-sanctioned abuse of
children; and government protection of some of this country's
most powerful businessmen and politicians, who had been the
chief actors in the Franklin story.
Finally, the big day came. Their docuмentary was to air
nationwide on the Discovery Channel on May 3, 1994. It was
advertised in the TV Guide and in newspapers for that day.
But no one ever saw that program. At the last minute, and
without explanation, it was pulled from the air. It was not
shown then, and has never been broadcast anywhere since.
I have a copy of that program, which arrived anonymously
in my mail in late 1995. When I watched this pirated copy,
I could see clearly why the program had been suppressed.
Conspiracy ofSilence proved, beyond doubt, that the essential
points I had stressed in the book (and more) were all true.
For instance, the team had interviewed Troy Boner. Sometime
after that grand jury was over, Troy, guilt-stricken because
of his lying over Gary Caradori's death, contacted me and
told the truth about what had happened. This is recorded in a
remarkable affidavit (see Chapter 20). The Yorkshire TV team
spent a small fortune to confirm Troy's charges. They flew
Troy to Chicago and paid for a lengthy polygraph (lie detector)
test at the Keeler Polygraph Institute. With the results of that
test, the Yorkshire team was so convinced that Troy was telling
the truth, that they featured him in their docuмentary.
It was only in mid-1996, that I finally pieced together,
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through sources I am not at liberty to disclose, what happened
to stop the broadcast of this docuмentary.
1. At the time the Yorkshire TV team and the Discovery
Channel were doing the docuмentary, they had no idea how
high up the case would go into Government, and what major
institutions and personalities in this country, would be found
to be linked to the Franklin story. Ultimately, the docuмentary
focused on several limited aspects docuмented in this book,
and developed them much more extensively than I ever had
the resources or abilities to accomplish.
2. These areas which the docuмentary focused on, were:
(a) the use and involvement of Boys Town children and personalities
in the Franklin Scandal, particularly Peter Citron and
Larry King's relationships to Boys Town; (b) the linkage of
Franklin to some of this country's top politicians in Washington,
and in the U.S. Congress, with particular attention on those
who attended parties held by Larry King at his Washington
mansion on Embassy Row; (c) the impropriety of these politicians
and businessmen and compromising of these people by
Larry King, through drugs and using children for pedophilia.
3. When the broadcast tape was sent to the United States,
Customs officials seized the docuмentary and held it up as being
"pornographic material." Attorneys for Discovery Channel and
Yorkshire TV were able to get the docuмentary released. Then,
the lawyers went through the film for months, making this or
that change or deletion, so that the docuмentary ultimately
advertised to be shown on the Discovery Channel on May 3,
1994, would survive any claims of libel or slander that any of
the individuals identified in the docuмentary might attempt to
bring. The lawyers had cleared the docuмentary for broadcast.
4. During the several months that the docuмentary was
being prepared and advertised for showing, major legislation
impacting the entire future of the Cable TV industry was being
debated on Capitol Hill. Legislation, which the industry opposed,
was under debate for placing controls on the industry
and the contents of what could be shown. Messages were
delivered in no uncertain terms from key politicians involved
in the Cable TV battle, that if the Conspiracy of Silence were
shown on the Discovery Channel as planned, then the industry
would probably lose the debate. An agreement was reached:
Conspiracy of Silence was pulled, and with no rights for sale
or broadcast by any other program; Yorkshire TV would be
reimbursed for the costs of production; the Discovery Channel
itself would never be linked to the docuмentary; and copies
of Conspiracy in Silence would be destroyed.
Not all copies were destroyed, however, as I and some
others received anonymously in the mail a copy of the nearlyfinished
product.
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