Below is a post from the alleged assailant Edwin Johnson, responding to Bessie Wash's claims.
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From: Edwin Johnston <edi at hal-pc.org> To: <plu-kpft at yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:36 PM Subject: [plu-kpft] Pacifica Radio attacks Johnston in national broadcast
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Pacifica Foundation Executive Director, Bessie Wash, interrupted the regularly scheduled broadcast of Democracy Now! this morning to personally attack and libel me in regards to an incident at KPFT in Houston on Friday night. This broadcast went out nationally to all the Pacifica stations; NYC, LA, Berkeley, Washington, DC and Houston as well as many other affiliated stations across the US and over the internet worldwide. Ms. Wash, falsely claimed that I violently assaulted KPFT employee Molly O'Brien and praised a KPFT volunteer for stepping in to help her. The fact of the matter is that O'Brien assaulted one of the protestors with me at KPFT, then her husband, Garland Ganter, who is the manager at KPFT, assaulted me twice. Then I was assaulted by the same volunteer that Ms. Walsh had praised. I was later arrested and charged with two counts of assault based on false reports to police by Ganter and O'Brien. For more info and partial audio of Ms. Wash's personal comments, see my post on Houston Indymedia below. The audio link (1/2 meg download) is listed just below my initial post on the topic, as a secondary comment.
Pacifica Exec. Dir. Bessie Wash attacks Johnston on-air
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