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EYES ON ARKANSAS
Arkansas Journal Sep 1999Arkansas Journal Sep 1999 IIArkansas Journal Oct 1999Arkansas Journal Nov 1999Arkansas Journal Dec 1999Arkansas Journal Jan 2000Arkansas Journal Feb 2000THE CUMMINS UNIT
A Wife Tours CumminsTHE VARNER UNIT
A Tour of VarnerDARK AND EVIL THINGS
Things That Go BumpCause of Death Brain TumorBlame the InmateHow to Cover ADC ButtsAre You In A Hurry BoyMEDICAL NEGLECT
Emergency OnlyTo Read A Book Would Be HeavenLook Out BelowWillards Great BattleCRIMINAL ACTS OF ADC STAFF
The Death of Eddie BagbyPepper Spray AssaultARKANSAS STATE MEDICAL BOARD
The Infamous Dr YoungThe Infamous Dr Young IIDARK AND EVIL MONSTERS
Dark and Evil MonstersDark and Evil ADC DirectorSECURITY MATTERS
ADC Security 101Escaped Murderer Kills 2 MoreEscaped Murderer Part IIRolf to Huckabee on SecurityTALES FROM HELL
Food FightPoison FoodMATTERS OF PISS & DEFECATION
Number 10 DefecationIn the BushesNo One In the BuildingFeces AnyoneARKANSAS JUSTICE
Kids Cops and Confessions 1Kids Cops and Confessions 2Arkansas Private PrisonsWest Memphis 3Ron Fields A Long Way to FallARKANSAS HEROES
Arkansas HeroesFather Franz and Deacon KingKelly DudaMara LeverittDARK & EVIL LAW ENFORCEMENT
Victim of Murdered FriendsEDITORIALS
Hey TurkeysAn Eye for an Eye Part IAn Eye for an Eye ContinuedNecessary ChangesMCI Rapes Inmates FamiliesArkansas Prison Phone HistoryBlueprint of a ConspiracyThe Conspiracy of CompromiseLinksILLEGAL SENTENCING & CLEMENCY
Foreword to Legal DiscussionsApparent Illegalities Part 1Apparent Illegalities Part 2Apparent Illegalities Part 3Apparent Illegalities Part 4Apparent Illegalities Part 5DEATH QUALIFIED JURIES
Death Qualified Juries Part 1Death Qualified Juries Part 2Death Qualified Juries Part 3Death Qualified Juries Part 4Death Qualified Juries Part 5THE EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY CARROT
The Clemency Carrot Part IThe Clemency Carrot Part IIThe Clemency Carrot Part IIIThe Clemency Carrot Part IVThe Clemency Carrot Part VThe Clemency Carrot Part VIUpdateVERSE
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| KELLY DUDA MY HERO Yesterday was one of the greatest days of my life, and it was because of some of you. I wanted to write yesterday, but I was overwhelmed both with emotion and exhaustion. I was on the computer for more than 18 hours straight beginning Monday evening and continuing until noon on Tuesday. The messages which meant so much to me came at the end of my endurance, so my chance to tell you how happy you made me didn't come until now. What made me so happy that I actually cried? Seeing a total of FIVE messages from people on three different e-mail lists touting Kelly and Factor 8! It was one of the most overwhelming experiences of my life!! For eight years now, I have been the ONLY person sending out these messages. I've done my best to let folks know that Kelly's film was coming, all the way back to 1999 - when it didn't even yet have a title. I've told and re-told the story of the plasma program atrocity to virtually everyone I've met since April 1999. I talk to people about it while we're waiting in checkout lines, in doctors' offices, and the post office. If there's even one person wherever I go who even LOOKS like they might be open to some conversation, I'm on 'em. Sometimes, over the years I've been discouraged by my inability to reach enough people to make a REAL difference. There have been times when it felt as though we were just spinning our wheels, "casting pearls before swine", who didn't have enough sense to pick the film up and show it on every American TV network. The work, the frustration and sometimes the downright dispair that we might never succeed were often a heavy burden to bear. And now, suddenly - I AM RECEIVING MESSAGES ABOUT KELLY AND HIS FILM FROM PEOPLE I DON'T EVEN KNOW! IT'S HAPPENING!! After all of this long, hard struggle, it's finally happening! People are learning about the plasma program atrocity and enough of them are caring that I feel that our quest to bring those responsible for it to justice is just around the corner. I can't begin to tell you how good it feels when your hard work begins to bear fruit and your dreams start coming true. But it's not because of me. Oh, I've played a small part, but the REAL hero of the plasma program atrocity is my beloved friend, Kelly Duda! One day he will be a legend in his own time, but for now I want to be the first to say publicly, KELLY DUDA IS A GREAT AMERICAN HERO! He's not going to be thrilled that I said that - he's going to be embarrassed and I'm sorry for his embarrassment, but hey, he's just going to have to get used to it, because when you're a hero, folks are ALWAYS going to notice, eventually. I realize that each and every one of you who have ever met Kelly has been very impressed with him. His intelligence and charisma draw people to him, and his indignation about the plasma program and his passion for his work to expose it instills in others a NEED to help in his quest, as soon as they learn of it. You all know what a wonderful filmmaker Kelly is. You know what a wonderful speaker he is. All you ladies know how drop-dead gorgeous he is, and how much animal magnetism he's packing. What folks don't know is what it has cost Kelly to make the film. THAT, even more than the film itself, is what makes him a hero. When Kelly began the project he had a wife and child. His former wife is a gorgeous woman. She's half-European and half-Chinese. She is stunningly exotic looking and very artistic in her own right. They have the most beautiful little girl you have ever seen. She is the Light of Kelly's life. He's not a weekend dad. He's a more-than-half-time, pick her up at school, make sure she does her homework and eats her vegetables dad. He's a VERY hands-on, nurturing father, and it shows in his daughter, who obviously adores her dad. He even gave her a "Special Thanks" credit in the film, because she too, had to make sacrifices on behalf of the film. Losing her in-tact family being the biggest, of course. We hope to never see anyone try to make his ex out to be a villain folks, because she's not one. Not many spouses can hold up under the pressure of the work and sacrifice that it's taken to get this story told. There have been times it has caused a lot of problems in my own marriage, and mine had already lasted more than 20 years by the time I started this work. Sometimes, Dick still gets impatient with the amount of time I devote to this effort, because of course, it "comes out of his time", and all of you who are married know how much spouses hate it when something else occupies your time. After a very brief struggle, they came to an amicable settlement in which they share joint custody of their daughter and are once again, good friends. So, I'm just letting everyone know up front that you should never make any snide remarks about the mother of Kelly's child. He would not appreciate that. So the film cost him his wife, and the life they shared. It also cost him "his" President - Bill Clinton. Kelly had admired and had a lot of faith in Bill Clinton. He had even made a (never shown) commercial at his own expense for Clinton during his first presidential campaign. You can just about imagine how crushed he was to uncover the truth about him. It cost him - I don't even know how to phrase this - but it cost him his state. He was born and raised in Arkansas. It's his home, and he loves it, and is so hurt that the atrocity came from his home state. I guess it's maybe like if you found out your mother was a prostitute or something. It cost him what he thought was the friendship and support of someone he thought was a good man and a good friend - Mike Galster. It took some time, but Galster showed his true colors - that he's a stark opportunist. When his veneer cracked and he showed that it never was the victims he cared about in the first place, it was a hard pill to swallow. I didn't know Galster very well but had admired him greatly based on what I thought I knew of him. He turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments we had to face. All Galster ever wanted was "his cut" of the blood money off the other end, once Clinton became a beleaguered President everyone else was making money, writing books about. Factor 8 cost him so many things; I can't begin to recount them all. And some I can only imagine: long, lonely nights filled with despair, missing his family; wondering how he was going to be able to obtain things he needed to complete the film and how he was going to live and support his child while he did. And, most probably, it cost him at least a few meals. Kelly made this film while sometimes surviving on little more than air and water. He's a strict vegetarian, but even vegetables must have been hard to come by sometimes. I'm telling you folks this because I want everyone to understand how important and how special this man and his film are. He's my hero. He traveled to Washington briefly, in late September of 1999 to film dad and me for the film. We got cut out, but we don't care - the story is not about us, it's about the victims and the bringing of the guilty parties to justice. Besides, I looked like the "old" Linda Tripp on film. (Kelly said I did not; that Linda Tripp was ugly. I told him she probably couldn't help it either.) LOL The next time I met him in person was in Hot Springs in late October of 1999. Dad and I went to a two-day meeting with some folks from all over who were interested in the plasma program, and of course, Kelly was there. It was then that I first met his family and had a chance to see him on "his own turf." While there, I took lots of notes that I stumbled upon last weekend. One of the things I did during the meeting was write down my impressions of those in attendance. Not all of them were good - there were some real characters at that meeting, including Dolly Kyle Browning - yuk - but I really got a kick out of what I wrote about Kelly, because my first impressions of him have proven to be so accurate: I wrote: Bob Ingram, Jr? Son I always wanted. Media mentor. My #1 confidant for plasma info. Very complex and energetic. Double-focused; family then work. Does both hard and well. Highly competent. #1 Priority his child. Very cool. (NOTE: Bob Ingram was the Principal Administrative Contracting Officer who was the one who signed on the bottom line to buy everything Boeing made for the government. I was his secretary for 10 years and he is THE man I MOST admire in the whole world. He has impeccable ethics and integrity and I have more respect for him than almost anyone else in the world). As it turns out, my judgement was absolutely right on the mark. Kelly and I have been through a lot together over the past 8 years, and you learn a lot about a person when you spend time together in the crucible. The thing you learn most about is their character, and I've never found Kelly's to be anything less than impeccable. Not once in all this time. Ya'll can learn all about our long, hard journey when we write our books. What I want you to know is that - well, you know how sometimes you meet someone who has done something that really impresses you - they seem like really good people - you grow to like them A LOT - then down the road you learn that they're some sort of awful human being? Well, what I want you to know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that NO ONE will ever be disappointed with who Kelly Duda is. He's not exactly as wonderful as you think he is - he's a whole lot better! He's a GREAT AMERICAN HERO, and I want everyone to know from the start that we've all hitched our wagons to the right star. Please do all you can to help him spread the word about his film, in every way you can . Tell everyone you know and everyone you meet how special he is and how important Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, is. Kelly has already made more sacrifices and done more for the whole world than almost anyone will ever know, and now it's up to all of us to help him give everyone in the world an opportunity to view his film. HE doesn't even realize how special he is. He asked me why I wanted him to sign my copy of his film! Sheesh - I had to be the one to tell him that someday he's going to be famous and I want PROOF that "I knew him when." Yeah, yeah, I know - I got credits in the film, but I WANT HIS AUTOGRAPH! I wanted to be the first to get it, and now someone else will beat me to it :-) That's ok…..I'll be the first president of the Kelly Duda Fan Club. In fact, I already am, as you can see :-) He's also very humble, so when he kills me for posting this tribute to him - and he will - ya'll don't be mad at him :-) Peace and Blessings, Linda Tant Miller
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