It was the early morning hours, 4AM on Sunday, August 23, 1987, and a Union Pacific cargo locomotive was chugging along its tracks through the murk at a place called Crooked Creek, near the town of Bryant, Arkansas, in the United States, on its way to Little Rock. It was a smooth, routine run for the train crew and there had been no signs of anything amiss thus far, but as they rounded a bend they saw speeding up through the early morning dimness a horrifying sight; two apparently human figures partially wrapped in a green tarp and lying motionless across the tracks ahead. The barreling train blazed its horn in warning to no response, but had no chance of stopping so suddenly, and the crew watched on with horror as the train sped over the bodies, dragging them for a full mile and mangling the bodies almost beyond recognition before it ground to a halt. Train engineer Stephen Shroyer would say of the gruesome scene that unfolded upon spotting the mysterious figures:
I started lying down on the diesel horn. And I got no reaction, none at all, not so much as a flinch. And we just... passed over them. From the time that we had placed the train into an emergency position and laid down on the horn, I would estimate about three to five seconds to impact. And that may not sound like a very long period of time, but when you're bearing down a couple of children, it's an eternity, honestly.In the wake of the gruesome incident, the horribly mutilated bodies were found through dental records to belong to two local high school boys, 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives. The two best friends had last been seen when they left on a hunting trip late the previous evening. Authorities found near the scene a discarded .22 caliber rifle lying on the ground near the tracks, thought to be their hunting rifle, but the reported green tarp was nowhere to be found, although the crew insisted they had certainly seen it. Police thought it may have been a case of a double suicide, but when questioned the engineer insisted that the bodies had been lying parallel on the tracks with their arms down by their sides and that they had been totally motionless, remaining unresponsive even in the face of the deafening train horn. This suggested that the two boys had already been dead when the train had hit.
Nevertheless, authorities seemed keen to quickly provide an explanation, and the state medical examiner at the time, a Dr. Fahmy Malak, wasted no time in concluding that the boys had been under the influence of marijuana and had simply laid down on the tracks to pass out. The death was ruled accidental, with Saline County sheriff James H. Steed Jr. calling it all "a strange accident," and that was that. All things considered, it was an extremely rushed investigation, and in the meantime the whole grim affair had become national news.
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From the Mysterious Universe article:
"There was a lot of talk that the boys had stumbled across a drug drop, as the nearby Mena Airport was known as a hub for cocaine operations. Indeed, there were witnesses who came forward with information to this effect, saying that these drug traffickers had had an arrangement with city officials and even the CIA, with Saline County prosecuting attorney Dan Harmon, who had actually been the first one assigned to help the families of the boys ... "
"This theory has also been extensively pursued in journalist Mara Leveritt’s award-winning 1999 book The Boys on the Tracks, which goes into extensive detail on the connection of drugs and government cover-ups to the mysterious deaths, as well as Linda Ives and Pat Matrisciana’s rather controversial and conspiratorial documentary on the case, The Obstruction of Justice."
There's also the 1994 book Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA [Link]
I read this book back in the 1990s when I was awakening politically and it was quite an eye opener.
Reviewer Robert P. Morrowon January 30, 2012:
5 out of 5 stars
Bush/Clinton/CIA 1980's drug smuggling. Wonder why they are such good friends? COMPROMISED!
This is an extremely important book for everyone, not just Clinton or Bush biographers, journalists or political journalists.
Terry Reed goes into detail over the Clinton/Bush/Oliver North/Barry Seal drug smuggling of the 1980's ... huge cocaine trade that all of the above were involved.
Ever wonder why the mainstream, establishment media has never told you this? NYT, WashPost, WSJ, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX ... they are all CONTROLLED.
Just like Bush, Clinton and Ollie North are COMPROMISED.
This blockbuster book sold 200,000 copies when it first came out - all on word of mouth with no major publishing house and no major reviews in places like the NY Times Review of Books, etc.
Bill Clinton had thoroughly corrupted the government and law enforcement agencies in Arkansas. Mena, AR, was the HQ for illegal weapon shipments by the CIA to the contras with cocaine coming back on the roundtrip! Bill's buddy Dan Lasater was importing cocaine and money laundering through his bond business and getting a cut of the Mena CIA drug importation. Bill protected Lasater and Don Tyson, another major drug dealer.
Bill protected his buddies who made huge cocaine drug profits; in return they gave Bill political support. Terry Reed, a former pilot for the contras, tells in his book about the time (4-19-86) outside Juanita's Restaurant that Gov. Bill, while smoking a joint, tries to talk pilot Terry Reed into going to Mexico to set up operations for the contras.
Felix Rodriguez would later try to get L.D. Brown to assassinate Terry Reed while he was in Mexico. (see L.D. Brown's book Crossfire for that) L.D. Brown was Clinton's top state trooper who he got into the CIA; Brown later got cold feet at the moment of the actual planned assassination of Reed and did not do it. But they wanted him to, and Clinton was setting up Terry Reed.
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