Friends, I am quite happy to admit when I make a mistake. It seems the Andrew posting is now in serious doubt. I have not checked Larry's posting for hoax-ness, but since I've known him well for 44 years and he's never lied to me, I'll take his research at face value. I find it interesting that for most of the ten years I've been posting things, I've never had problems with Internet hoaxes before. In the past few months it's become a real problem. I've been caught a couple times (that I know of). 'They' seem to be getting cleverer at fooling my credibility antenna. In any case, thanks to Larry for doing his homework! all the best, rkm -------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:18:08 -0700 To: •••@••.••• From: Larry Tesler Subject: Re: * must read * The Hurricane Andrew Cover-up Richard, KT Frankovich is a she, not a he, as could be discerned from the pronouns in her piece. KT has certainly had an interesting life: two encounters with UFO's and E.T.-like extraterrestrials; caught in three hurricanes just last year and one this year, two of which wrecked her homes; that amazing Andrew incident, widely cited, which caused "optic nerve damage". See http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO_Files_kt_frankovich.htm where she can be seen wearing glasses (poor soul) and not, and where she comments on the scientifically proven 350+ mph winds of Andrew. She lists her occupation as "documentary filmmaker". Her film, Cries, http://imdb.com/title/tt0207397/, is the only film listed under her name in http://www.imdb.com. She claims to be the only female winner of the Gold Venus award that is "rarely given" but has been won by Lucas and Spielberg. But the only mentions of a "Gold Venus" award on the WWW are in material about KT herself. Her web site is at http://www.whereheavensmeet.com/. Amazon carries two books that she self-published on 1/1/00--an interesting choice of publication date. But she is psychic after all. One was "Where Heavens Meet" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1894368177. The early reviews rave, the later reviews are mixed, the most recent review challenges the authenticity of her Andrew story (but agrees that there were more deaths than reported). The only claim that may be true is that her other book, Language of Souls, a coauthored collection of poetry, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1894368002, won a "Royal Palm Award" in 2002 given by the Florida Writers Association, a club http://www.floridawriters.net/index.html with (it seems) about 600 members. I am skeptical even of that because these days, the FWA will only consider works published in the same or the previous year. But maybe they did not have that rule in 2002, which appears to be the first year the award was given. The FWA web site does not list winners prior to 2003. One of her coauthors, David Taub, is the author of an article on self-promotion for writers http://www.prose-n-poetry.com/display_work/643. The other coauthor, Ruth Solomon, managed to get a seciond listing for the book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1894368045; this one shows the pub. date as November 1999. Although KT is referred to as a "superpoet" in one Amazon reader review, I can find no evidence of other poetry she has published. The earliest-submitted four reviews of this book were posted on Amazon before the 1/1/00 publication date, so they must have been submitted by friends of the authors, if not themselves. All were five star reviews. The main Amazon review, by "a reader", reports in detail the unmatchable 100% score achieved by this book when it won the Royal Palm Award. Sounds like Kim Jong-Il's eleven holes-in-one during his first golf game. The tone of the review is pure satire. The claimed "Pulitzer letter" nomination is vacuous. Anyone can write a letter nominating anyone else for a Pulitzer prize--especially a self-publisher for her own book. Remember the "Nobel-nominated" doctor who diagnosed Terry Schiavo http://mediamatters.org/items/200503220009. Credible source? Larry -- ============================================================ If you find this material useful, you might want to check out our website (http://cyberjournal.org) or try out our low-traffic, moderated email list by sending a message to: •••@••.••• You are encouraged to forward any material from the lists or the website, provided it is for non-commercial use and you include the source and this disclaimer. 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