Archive for March, 2005

CBS Jumps Gun. Says Shiavo at bedside when she “died.”

29 March, 2005
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PDF version of the CBS story at GlennBeck.com C-BS, at it again. This is CBS’s premature report of Terri Shiavo’s death. It just keeps getting wierder. – Short, Sad Life Of Terri Schiavo NEW YORK, March TK, 2005 This story was written by CBSNews.com’s Christine Lagorio Surrounded by stuffed animals and medical equipment in her small hospice room in Pinellas Park, Fla., Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo died TK. Known as Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman spent her last months in the glare of the public eye as a few still images and several seconds of video of her repeatedly broadcast around the world. She appeared made up and dressed, although the 41-year-old had not enunciated a word nor made any choices since the 1990 heart attack that left her body and mind ravaged. Since 1998, when her husband Michael Schiavo first tried to have his wife’s feeding tube and hydration stopped after she’d been declared by doctors to be in a “permanent vegetative state,” Terri Schiavo’s life has been played out in countless courts, the halls of congress and even in the executive office of United States — President Bush was roused in the middle of the Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Uncle Gus

20 March, 2005
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TV’s ‘Uncle Gus’ dies TV’s ‘Uncle Gus’ dies By PAT HAMMOND Sunday News Staff Telephone Credit Union “Uncle Gus” Bernier, the TV friend of a generation of New Hampshire children in the 1960s and ’70s, died peacefully in his sleep yesterday at his home in Hawaii. “He had only been dead about 10 minutes when we found him at 8:45 a.m.,” his wife Doreen said in an interview last night. Hawaiian time is seven hours ahead of Eastern time. “He had been well,” Mrs. Bernier said. “He was 85 and we swam every morning. “We were going garage-saling today,” Mrs. Bernier said. “It was the biggest joy in his life. He couldn’t wait for Saturday morning.” During the telephone conversation, Mrs. Bernier reconstructed her husband’s life while occasionally pausing to welcome a visitor to Gus Bernier’s final home. He was born in Little Rock, Ark., on Jan. 13, 1920, to Gus and Helen (Keane) Bernier. He grew up in Little Rock, started high school there, and the family moved to Hope, Ark. After the family moved back to Little Rock, he graduated from the Little Rock Catholic High School. He worked in the hotel his father owned in Little Rock Continue reading →

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