Broadcast Essay: Live Television Changed the Way We Saw the World

An article from another blog about the invention of Television, and how it changed the way we see and view the world.

The fact that Donald Baker Sr.’s second wife Stephanie Spitser, and her friend Susanne Baker (both of whom appeared to be contemptible people) had deprived Scotty from riding in a Class 8 Truck by abducting, and then murdering him around Thanksgiving Day, November, 1992; is heartbreaking, to say the least.

Donald Baker Sr. had probably thought that the Ford Class 8 Truck that he drove as part of the Fleet that the Trucking company that he worked for had owned; provided more driving excitement than a Ford Passenger Car or Light-Duty Truck. Donald Baker Sr. had probably also thought that a Chevrolet or GMC Class 6-8 Truck had provided more driving excitement than a General Motors Passenger Car or Light-Duty Truck, that a Dodge Class 6-8 Truck had provided more driving excitement than a Passenger Car or Light-Duty Truck manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation, that an International Harvester/Navistar Class 6-8 Truck has provided more driving excitement than an International Harvester Class 1-3 Pickup Truck, a Travelall, and a Scout; and as far as the North American market is concerned, that an Isuzu Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than a Mu/Wizard/Rodeo/Amigo, a Bighorn/Trooper, and a PUP/Isuzu Compact Pickup Truck; that a Mitsubishi Fuso Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than any Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck, or SUV manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors; that a Hino/Toyota Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than any Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck, or SUV manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation; and that a UD/Nissan Class 4-6 Truck had provided more driving excitement than any Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck, or SUV manufactured by the Nissan Motor Corporation.

And, if Donald Baker Sr. had done any research on Trucks that Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso, Hino/Toyota, and UD/Nissan sells in markets other than in North America; Donald Baker Sr. might have found out about the additional amounts of driving excitement that the Class 7-8 Trucks that Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso, Hino/Toyota, and UD/Nissan each sell in markets other than in North America provide more driving excitement than what the Class 1 vehicles manufactured by each of these Japanese companies can provide.

At the time of committing this heinous act, Stephanie Spitser was pregnant with a child that she had as a result of her having sex with Donald Baker Sr. Authorities were highly perplexed over how a pregnant woman could and would possibly want to endanger a child at the time she and Susanne Baker had kidnapped and murdered Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr.

Stephanie Spitser, jealous of how close her new husband Donald Baker Sr. was to his biological son Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. , and much time Donald Sr. had spent with his son, especially when Donald Sr. was on the road in his Class 8 Truck; desperately wanted Scotty out of their realm, and wanted to replace Scotty with the child that Stephanie was pregnant with.

Stephanie Spitster was growing increasingly furious with how close Donald Sr. was to Scotty with each passing day. Stephanie also did not get along with Scotty’s biological mother and Donald Sr.’s first wife Ruth Baker. Whenever Stephanie and Ruth would come across each other while out in public anywhere within the area of London, Kentucky; Stephanie would argue with Ruth over how jealous Stephanie also was over Ruth being as doting, caring, and attentive towards Scotty as Donald Sr., himself was.

As you, the reader of this post may have figured; Scotty did not get along with, and had highly resented Stephanie Spitser. Scotty would not want to go over to his father’s house if his stepmother Stephanie was home, and in the company of his father.

As Stephanie Spitser had grown increasingly furious with how close Donald Sr. was to Scotty with each passing day, on one day in November, 1992; when Stephanie Spitser and Suzanne Baker had stayed home all day, doing each other’s laundry at one or the other’s house (meaning that Suzanne came over to Stephanie’s house that day to do each other’s laundry, or Stephanie came over to Suzanne’s house that day to do each other’s laundry); Stephanie had fumed to Suzanne about how close Donald Sr. was to Scotty, and Stephanie had asked Suzanne if as Stephanie’s best friend; the two of them could hatch a plan to silence Scotty once and for all, and successfully replace Scotty with the child that she and Donald Sr. are pregnant with.

As a result, both Stephanie Spitser and Suzanne Baker had jointly hatched a plan where they would kidnap Scotty, kill him; and dispose of his body in a remote location. Stephanie had disclosed to Suzanne where in the area within Kentucky the Elementary School that Scotty had attended, Paces Creek Elementary School is located; what time school would be dismissed on this Half-Day of School just prior to Thanksgiving Day, 1992, and where Donald Sr. would be waiting for Scotty with his Class 8 Rig (Truck). The two had also decided that Stephanie would wear a wig, would impersonate herself as Donald Sr. and Scotty’s distant relative Patricia Smith; and would attempt to take Scotty out of school while impersonating herself as Patricia Smith.

The original plan was for Scotty to ride the School Bus (a Conventional-style School Bus in the Fleet of the Clay County School District’s School Buses), the Driver of the School Bus would drop Scotty off at a Bus Stop on any given corner, and not in front of his biological mother or his paternal grandmother’s house; and Scotty would walk to his paternal grandmother’s house, were Donald Sr. would retrieve Scotty, and the two would then head out on the road in Donald Sr.’s assigned Class 8 Truck.

The finite plan had changed a little bit, where Ruth Baker and one of Scotty’s sisters had jointly attempted to pick Scotty up from school; instead of Scotty riding the School Bus to a Bus Stop near his paternal grandmother’s house, and Scotty would instead wait for his father to retrieve him at his biological mother’s house. When Ruth had sent her daughter (a pre-teenaged or teenaged gal) into the school to seek for Scotty, the gal found out that Scotty wasn’t there.

Initially, Ruth Baker had thought that Scotty had rode the School Bus to a Bus Stop near his paternal grandmother’s house as originally planned. When Ruth had visited his paternal grandmother Dorothy Baker at her home, Dorothy had stated that Scotty had never been to her house at all that day.

Red flags begin to appear in the minds of Ruth Baker and each of her daughters, they visited the homes of each of Scotty’s classmates in the Fourth Grade; most of them stated that they haven’t seen Scotty ever since school was dismissed early that day, and one of them had stated that he saw Scotty being picked up in a Blue Car.

That Blue Car was a 1981-1987 Buick Skyhawk 2-Door Sedan on the General Motors J-Platform, in a Two-Tone Blue and Silver Paint Scheme, and appeared to be fully optioned out; including having the Aluminum Wheels that General Motors had offered as an option on this Car.

In the evening of November 25, 1992; Ruth Baker had stormed into the Elementary School, made her way over to the Main Office, found that the Principal was one of the skeleton staff who were presently at the School; as much of the other staff had already gone home for the Thanksgiving Holiday. The Principal, Caleb Collins; had called his Secretary, Charlotte H. Smith at the local or regional Hospital where Charlotte Smith was visiting a sick relative. Caleb Collins had asked Charlotte Smith if she had released Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. from school even earlier than the Half-Day Dismissal Time, and Charlotte Smith had confirmed that she had indeed released Scotty from School earlier than the Dismissal Time. Caleb Collins had relayed the news to Ruth Baker that his Secretary had indeed released Scotty earlier from School than the Half-Day Dismissal Time. Ruth Baker then opened the Sign In-Sign Out Book on the Reception Desk in the Main Office, and discovered for herself that Scotty had been signed out by a woman named Patricia Smith. Ruth was alarmed that a person who was not on the ‘Additional Contact’ list required for Scotty’s registration for School had signed him out, and was allowed by the individual School and the entire District to do so. Ruth then demanded that the Principal, Caleb Collins; call the authorities, and report her son missing. Mr. Caleb Collins had cooperated with Ruth’s request, and called the local authorities, but not the FBI.

Because this crime involved a missing and/or abducted child, the FBI was also notified by the Local and State Authorities, and as a result, the FBI, too was dispatched to handle the missing and/or abducted child case of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr.

During the investigation of this case, Stephanie Spitster was exempt from taking a Polygraph Test administered by the Local and State Authorities, because the State of Kentucky’s Polygraph Policy exempts pregnant women from taking a Polygraph Test.

The FBI, in addition to the Local and State Authorities; had each administered Polygraph Tests to Donald Sr., Ruth Baker, and Suzanne Baker. Donald Sr. and Ruth had passed their Polygraph Tests, while Suzanne had failed hers.

In the meantime, Donald Sr., Ruth, Donald Sr.’s mother and Scotty’s paternal grandmother Dorothy, and all of Scotty’s siblings had each spent the Thanksgiving Holiday pouting over, and bewailing the absence of Scotty.

As this case continued to progress, with the FBI having caught wind of Suzanne Baker and her husband having both driven in her husband’s Class 8 Truck to the Miami area in Florida; Agents from the Miami Field Office had apprehended Suzanne Baker and her husband at the Truck Stop in the Miami area. Not only did they find Suzanne asleep in the Sleeper Cab of her husband’s Truck; but they made a deal with Suzanne’s husband to open the Rolling Door on the rear of the Trailer to search for any possible living or dead bodies in the Trailer; under the condition that the Agents re-tag the Rolling Door of the Trailer so that the recipient does not refuse the goods that Suzanne and her husband had transported, if the recipient had noticed that the Tag had been broken.

The FBI Agents stationed at the Miami Field Office had lured Suzanne out of her husband’s Truck, into their Government-owned Car; and over to the Miami Field Office to question Suzanne. Suzanne had divulged to the Agents in Miami all of the information regarding hers and Stephanie’s involvement in the kidnapping and abduction of Scotty, including why they did it, and exactly how they did it. Including the abandoned Mine in Kentucky where she and Stephanie had disposed of the body (or, in other words; abused the corpse).

The Agents in Miami had made Suzanne sign her name on a blank piece of paper, so that Forensic Document Examiners can compare Suzanne’s cursive handwriting to that of the cursive handwriting on the page of the School’s Sign In-Sign Out Book.

At the same time, because Federal Law Enforcement (including the FBI) policy does not exempt pregnant women from being subjected to a Polygraph Test, in Kentucky; the FBI had administered their own Polygraph Test to Stephanie.

Eventually, with the information that the authorities have pressured both Stephanie and Suzanne to divulge; Law Enforcement personnel and Medical Examiners have found the burned and charred remains of Scotty’s body situated in an abandoned Mine in Kentucky. Authorities have found out from both Stephanie and Suzanne that after Scotty had been choked to death by Suzanne reaching from the backseat of the Buick Skyhawk, that the two women had dumped Scotty’s body in the abandoned Mine; went and purchased Gasoline in a Fuel Can, returned to the abandoned Mine approximately an hour later, doused Scotty’s body in Gasoline; and had set Scotty’s body ablaze.

With Suzanne’s J-Platform Buick Skyhawk having been towed to an impound lot, for the Authorities to examine the Car; Authorities have discovered foot prints and claw marks on the Dashboard, and on the Interior Door Panels; evidence that Scotty had fought, kicked, and scream for his life as Stephanie had reached from the backseat to choke Scotty to death.

Due to the intense media coverage of this particular FBI case, the Trials of both Stephanie Spitser and Suzanne Baker were moved to another County within the State of Kentucky.

Stephanie Spitser was sentenced to life in prison without any chance of parole. Suzanne Baker would be sentenced to 25 years, only to be released 9 years early in 2008.

Donald Sr. would divorce Stephanie following her sentencing, and Stephanie would give birth to the child that she had with Donald Sr. while incarcerated, only for the child to be adopted by Stephanie’s parents.

Below is a link to a website with information on Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr.’s gravesite, including his Date of Birth, Date of Death, which Cemetery in Kentucky his body is buried at, his cause of death; and also includes a photo of Scotty’s gravestone. Scotty’s gravestone happens to have one of the more recent photographs of Scotty to have been taken prior to his kidnapping and murder, his School Photograph that was taken either during the 1991-1992, or the 1992-1993 school year; embedded on his gravestone.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36842014/donald-baker

May Scotty be with his parents Donald Sr., and Ruth in Heaven, the Afterlife, and in other Universes.

A Transcript from the Court Session that had taken place in 1994 due to a lawsuit that Donald Baker Sr. and his ex-wife/Scotty’s biological mother Ruth Baker had jointly filed against the Clay County, Kentucky Board of Education; for not only releasing Scotty to Susanne Baker donning a wig and impersonating Donald Sr. and Scotty’s distant relative Patricia Smith; but also for having not enacted since an earlier time, stricter and punctilious rules and methods for releasing students from school earlier than the time of dismissal to parents or other listed and trusted contacts. In the time since the kidnapping and abduction of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr., the Kentucky State Legislature has passed laws requiring stricter and punctilious rules and methods for signing a student out of any School within the State of Kentucky; whether it be Public or Private.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/871/930/1685387/

A Transcript from yet another Court Session that had taken place in 1996 due to an appeal that Donald Baker Sr. and Ruth Baker had attempted to settle with the Clay County, Kentucky Board of Education:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/78/584/504916/

An Article published in 2008 by the Sentinel-Echo, a Newspaper with circulation in Kentucky; about the early release of Susanne Baker from incarceration; after only serving 15 of her 25 year prison sentence:

https://www.sentinel-echo.com/news/local_news/susanne-baker-walks-free/article_061c4d8b-57d3-55c4-a4f7-beaabb65b6a2.html

This FBI Case is the subject of an episode that had originally aired in March, 2002; of the Television Program “The FBI Files”, produced by New Dominion Pictures in the Norfolk suburb of Suffolk, Virginia:

Ironically, even though this trivia is moot as far as this FBI Case is concerned; the kidnapping and abduction of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. happened just a day after HM Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and The Commonwealth had delivered her infamous speech at Guildhall that marked her Ruby Jubilee on the Throne on November 24, 1992; where she had stated that one of her more sympathetic correspondents (Elizabeth II’s Assistant Private Secretary Sir Edward Ford) had described the year 1992 as an “Annus Horribilis” (the Latin-language phrase for the English-language term ‘horrible year’).

On one personal note, the year 1992 was a good year for yours truly, the owner of this very Blog; even though it understandably was not a good year for the Crown and HM Queen Elizabeth II; and the kidnapping and abduction of Donald Scott “Scotty” Baker Jr. had understandably soured the year 1992 for the families of Donald Sr. and Ruth Baker.

On another personal note, Donald Baker Sr.’s second wife Stephanie Spitser, and her friend Susanne Baker both appear to be as contemptible people (a kinder and more polite way of stating that both of these women are bitches) as Shari Lewis’s daughter Mallory Tarcher-Lewis (whose personality is in sharp contrast to that of her mother’s), and Warren Consolidated Schools Teacher Julie Stanaway:

Don McNiel had designed the then nascent Electronic Calculator, sold his design to Texas Instruments for mass production, and had earned a handsome return on his design of an Electronic Calculator.

Among another one of Don McNiel’s inventions is the Little Pal Portable Charcoal Grill, which was sold in major Big Box and Grocery Stores such as K-Mart, Wal Mart, Kroger; and possibly also Department Stores such as Sears, Montgomery-Ward, and J.C Penney.

Don McNiel was also a member of the Board of Directors of a local Bank in Alvarado. Texas at the time of his daughter’s kidnapping and abduction.

Moreover, Don McNiel had unsuccessfully ran as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas in 1978m and again, unsuccessfully during the years 1986 and 1988 (Scans of the McNiel’s Newsletter titled “The McNiel Messenger” courtesy of The Portal To Texas History by the University of North Texas).

On January 10, 1985 (ten days into the new year, following New Years Eve, 1984; and New Years Day, 1985); in a Jeep CJ-5 that Don and Claudia McNiel had purchased brand new for their sons Rod and Mark McNiel. as the McNiel boys were driving themselves and Amy in this Jeep to school, muggers in one abandoned and one functioning vehicle on the rural road the McNiel kids were driving down, stopped the Jeep; drew their weapons, and forced the McNiel boys to surrender Amy to these kidnappers, or else they would kill her. The kidnappers had also threatened to kill Amy if they found out that the authorities had been notified.

Instead of continuing onwards to school, the McNiel boys had turned around, went back home, explained to their parents, and also to their Aunt and Uncle who lived in a separate house on the McNiel Estate why they had skipped school, what had happened to Amy, and the threats made if the boys did not surrender Amy to the kidnappers, and if anyone had notified the authorities.

Don McNiel had ignored the threats, and contacted the FBI anyway (specifically the Dallas-Fort Worth FBI Field Office).

In the beginning, the FBI, local Sherriff’s Office, and the Texas Rangers had jointly set up wiretapping equipment to all of the landline Telephones in the McNiel House, none of the Telephone Calls were long enough for the FBI to utilize the technology of the day to track; and the regional chapter of the Bell Telephone System was scantly able to track the Telephone Calls to various payphones throughout Eastern Texas.

In the eavesdropped Telephone Calls, the kidnappers admit to Don McNiel that they had kidnapped his daughter for ransom, and demanded that Don McNiel pay the kidnappers $100,000 in exchange for a safe return of his daughter. The kidnappers also demanded that Don McNiel travel in his Limousine, and deliver the money in a rucksack in exchange for a safe return of his daughter. Any deviation from their demands, such as if Don McNiel drove in a vehicle other than his Limousine; they would have murdered his daughter.

Don McNiel did not have the money readily available anywhere nearby. Much of his finances were tied to Investors in Texas and in Arkansas. These Investors had to be promptly and swiftly flown in with the money in hand, in order to meet the demands of the kidnappers.

With the Limousine having been fitted with all types of recording equipment, and Radio and Cellular Telephony equipment; Don McNiel had personally driven the Limousine, with a few FBI Agents riding in the Center and Back Seats; and other FBI Agents, and several Sheriffs and Texas Rangers following in other vehicles on the ground, and in Airplanes and Helicopters in the sky; the kidnappers had fielded the convoy to Towns hundreds of miles away from Alvarado, Dallas, and Fort Worth; such as the Towns of Tyler, Texas; Longview, Texas; Mt. Pleasant, Texas; and Saltillo, Texas.

Over the duration of the time the convoy had traveled to where the kidnappers may be staying at any given time, the Alternator in Don McNiel’s Limousine had given out, and the Engine had overheated; leaving the Limousine out of commission.

Eventually, because the kidnappers’ Car had not only run out of fuel; but Law Enforcement officials’ handguns had also pierced both the kidnappers’ Car’s Radiator and Carburetor; causing the kidnappers’ Car to catch on fire, leading to the kidnappers’ Car being put out of commission, the kidnappers (still with Amy McNiel in tow) found no choice but to pull onto the property of an elderly woman in Saltillo, Texas. Law Enforcement officials had followed the kidnappers onto the property of the elderly woman in Saltillo, and a shootout between the suspects and the Law Enforcement officials began to take place on this woman’s property.

The woman; aware of what was going on right outside her house, had hid for cover and ducked inside of her Bedroom, fearing that the suspects might break and enter into her home, and maybe even shoot her to death.

During the exchange of gunfire between the suspects and the Law Enforcement officials, Amy McNiel; having spotted the Sheriffs and Texas Rangers, asked if they were ‘Police Officers’, the Sheriffs and Texas Rangers each responded ‘yes, ma’am’.

One of the Law Enforcement Officials then took Amy McNiel in his Work Car out of harm’s way to where the Van

One of the suspects, John Wesley Foote; who was 34 years of age at the time he had committed this crime, had formerly worked for Don McNiel, and was upset over Don McNiel firing Fonte. Fonte had retaliated by kidnapping Don’s daughter Amy for ransom.

The four other suspects are: Michael Lynn Mills, Liza Ann Bouvier, George Thomas Barnes, and Daniel Walter Necker Jr.

All except Liza Ann Bouvier were each given life sentences. Liza Ann Bouvier, who had actually protected Amy McNiel from the men possibly raping and womanizing Amy, who had met these men just days before the kidnapping of Amy McNiel, was naïve about meeting each of these four men, and didn’t know what she was getting into as far as associating with each of these four men was concerned; was only sentenced to a 10 year probationary period.

In June, 1985; Amy McNiel, the rest of the McNiel nuclear family, the Sheriffs, and the Texas Rangers were each commended by the Governor of Texas, members of the Texas State House of Representatives, and the Texas State Senate at the Capital of the State of Texas, Austin.

Below is the link to the transcript of the Court session in 1986 when Michael Lynn Mills had attempted to appeal his sentence:

https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-state-67

Below is a scan and a digitization of the Issue of the Burleson Star Newspaper from October 6, 1986; with a News Article about the last of the kidnappers to be tried and convicted; George Thomas Barnes (Scans of this Issue of the Burleson Star Newspaper courtesy of The Portal To Texas History by the University of North Texas):

Below is the link to a News Article published by the Associated Press on January 13, 1985 regarding the rescue of Amy McNiel, and the arrest of all five suspects:

https://apnews.com/article/be17250ddc8862d393e5c2e8f77dc03a

On this same day, United Press International (UPI) also published an article regarding the rescue of Amy McNiel, and the arrest of all five suspects:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/01/13/A-13-year-old-girl-kidnapped-on-her-way-to-school/2128474440400/

The New York Times published an article about the rescue of Amy McNiel, and the arrest of all five suspects the following day, January 14, 1985:

Below is a short story written by the Texas Rangers about the assistance they provided the FBI in searching for Amy McNiel and each of the five suspects that have abducted and kidnapped her, and eventually rescuing Amy McNiel and arresting each of the five suspects:

During the years 1989-1990, Don McNiel was involved in a lawsuit with the Bank that he had sat on the Board of Directors of, the Alvarado State Bank:

https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/tenth-court-of-appeals/1990/3558.html

Amy McNiel’s last name has changed as a result of her marriage and adoption of her husband’s surname, Massey; following her transition to adulthood and marriage.

Sadly, Don McNiel had passed away in 2006. Below is the link to his obituary:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dfw/name/don-mcniel-obituary?id=16089847

Below is the link to the obituary of one of the Texas Rangers who was assigned to this case of assisting the FBI in searching for, and rescuing Amy McNiel; John Dendy, who had worked for the Texas Rangers from 1956 up until his retirement in 1992, and had passed away in 2016:

Retired Texas Ranger John W. Dendy of Stephenville passes away

This FBI Case is the subject of an episode that had originally aired in April, 2002; of the Television Program “The FBI Files”, produced by New Dominion Pictures in the Norfolk suburb of Suffolk, Virginia:

If you’ve been following this Blog for a while, you know that Bob Vila is an acquaintance of mine.

See this earlier post regarding my acquaintance with Bob Vila: The Things That Matter The Most To Have In Order To Have A Happy And Successful Life

Below is a video of an interview that Bob Vila gave to the Cable Channel CNN in 2012:

Another peculiar Electric Fan that the Internet Retailer Amazon sells.

This particular Electric Fan has been very strangely designed and engineered.

This particular Electric Fan not only looks like it would fit right in on the Star Trek franchise of Television Shows, but it also looks like alien beings from other planets (and not spiritual entities from other Universes and Realities) have designed and engineered this Electric Fan.

If you are shopping for this particular Electric Fan, feel free to click on the photograph below:

I am saddened by the death of British Actress and Politician Glenda Jackson.

Glenda Jackson, a Liberal; was an adversary to Margaret Thatcher, John Major; and their Conservative views, politics, and policies.

As I have said in this earlier post Ohio State University, NBA Player, And NBA Coach Jim Cleamons, Matt Paxton is someone that I am sectarian to.

Matt Paxton is a morally decent, shrewd, astute, and intellectual person; and like yours truly, the owner of very blog; Matt Paxton wholly understands the importance of being knowledgeable about history, and preserving history.

Another person who is also a morally decent, shrewd, astute, and intellectual person; and also understands the importance of being knowledgeable about history, and preserving history, is Mike Wolfe, owner of LeClair, Iowa-Based Picking Business And Antique Store Antique Archelogy.

That is, in contrast to the young, radical people throughout the world who always yearn for the latest, greatest, and trendiest things; are usually flippant and shiftless, and think only about the here, now, whatever is in front of them, and whatever comes their way.

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Even though I may be two and a half years late (as of the time of writing this post) with regards to writing a post about the death of ABC News Anchor Tim O’Brien, here I am at the present moment; writing about how I am saddened by the death of Tim O’Brien.

Tim O’Brien had worked for Roone Arledge, during the time Roone Arledge was the President of ABC News.

Below is an ABC News Brief that Tim O’Brien was assigned to do on April 17, 1995:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tim-obrien-abc-news-journalist-who-covered-supreme-court-dies-at-77/2020/12/01/392f21b8-33e8-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html