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Stacking the Odds
Researching past events and planning new ones are underappreciated methods of time travel. Viewing time travel this way, you can see that an audio or video recorder that captured a given aspect of an event from a given perspective when it occurred is a time machine.
Planning an event with the foreknowledge of what will change and what won’t in a given time and place is therefore a practical exercise in time travel. It is one way to be reasonably confident of a predetermined result. Applying proven formulas is another way. However, a small element of chance and the greater laws of probability make you vulnerable to leaving your calling card on what you did by how you did it. No two people do everything in exactly the same way because no two people can do everything the same way. But they can do some things the same way by using the same formulas.
Mark Fuhrman displayed his calling cards, which is to say his repeated application of certain formulas and personal touches, in his first book published by Regnery in 1997 and in the 2002 movie he produced. They are all over the Palace Station incident as well as “Michael Gilbert’s” book published by Regnery in 2008 before O.J.’s conviction and Michael McClinton’s testimony in the trial of O.J. Simpson and Clarence Stewart.
Mike Gilbert and Al Beardsley were the men O.J. went to the Palace Station to confront although Bruce Fromong stood in for Gilbert at the last minute. Anybody who knew O.J. well knew what he would do when he was told who was trying to sell his personal property, where they would be and when they would be there. But how could anyone have known what Michal McClinton would do and what he would say about it in court?
Recalling Fuhrman’s calling cards for stacking the odds of predicting and shaping events toward his ends in the Bundy murder case, you need to know what the Palace Station Casino looks like. You need to know what O.J.’s nickname, “Juice,” and “Thor’s hammer” have in common. You need to know how a clock struck by lighting at 10:04 p.m. relates to a time travel formula and Nicole Brown Simpson’s analog wristwatch stopped at 10:03. You need to know what names like “Carson” and “Braves” mean to Fuhrman and McClinton. You need to know what Fuhrman and McClinton said that relates directly to the murder Robert C. Hurd Jr. and how both of them conjured up the same two Dragnet 1967 TV shows and the 1985-1990 Back to the Future movie trilogy. This is how Fuhrman stitches one idea to another in his O.J. stories.
Background note: In 1986 ex-Marine Mark Fuhrman visited a Marine Corps recruiting office in Redondo Beach. One of the recruiting sergeants he talked to about a possible enlistment in the Reserves was the son of Marine Corps pilot, Medal of Honor winner, founder and brigadier general in the South Dakota Air National Guard, Joe Foss.
Fort Carson is a large Army base in the mountains of Colorado. Robert C. Hurd Jr. was a black, 74-year-old retired Army sergeant major bludgeoned to death with a hammer on March 21, 1994 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1) A scene in Fuhrman’s 2002 Murder in Greenwich movie has his fictitious character Hildy Southerlyn saying, “Haven’t you ever done moonlighting when you were with the LAPD?” This is an allusion to Mark Fuhrman’s 1984 off-duty security job for a theater in Westwood and with Ron Phillips and Bill Pavelic on a private security detail in 1992 for Tonight Show host Johnnie Carson. Ed McMahon, a former Marine Corps fighter pilot who retired from the Marine Corps Reserves as a colonel and later served as a brigadier general in the California Air National Guard, introduced Carson on the Tonight Show with, "Heeeeeeeeeeer's Johnny!"
2) In Murder in Greenwich, Fuhrman tells Hildy that it was a good thing Martha Moxley
By the way, Scatman Crothers is Dick Hallarann, the murdered head chef of the haunted
Melvin Van Peebles fits Stephen King’s description of Dick Hallarann in his 1977 book as well as his 1997 TV mini-series. Steven Webber, however, as Jack Torrance in The Shining mini-series is hard to beat as a Fuhrman Murder in Greenwich movie segue actor. In the 1990 movie The Kennedys of Massachusetts, Webber is John F. Kennedy.
3) Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood is saturated with references to movies, TV shows and movie and TV characters to articulate his observation, discoveries and theories on Bundy and Rockingham and to explain his words on the Laura Hart McKinny tapes. One TV show and lead character he mentions by name is “the 1950s” version of Dragnet and Joe Friday. He did not mention the 1967-1970 Dragnet series with Jack Webb playing Joe Friday, the same character he created and played in the 1951-1959 series with the same 714 badge number but a different partner – Harry Morgan as Bill Gannon. It was Gannon who straightened out a wise cracking killer in “The Hammer” who named Reno as the capital of Nevada. Gannon told him that the capital of Nevada was Carson City.
BRAVES
Background notes: In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman named a boxer and two basketball players as his favorite athletes. He said that he played football in high school and he never missed a chance to write about playing basketball in his spare time. You have to dig to find that he was also a crew member on the LAPD drag racing team. Nevertheless, the sport that stands out in Murder in Brentwood, by way of Fuhrman’s sports metaphors, allusions, analogies, photo ops on Rockingham and his “pattern of abuse” letter to the city attorney in 198, is baseball. The only baseball player he mentioned by name was Babe Ruth. http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/atl/history/index.jsp.
The number 714 in baseball is inextricably tied to the Braves. While Babe Ruth is
The binding ingredients in these baseball pieces of history are what Mark Fuhrman and Michael McClinton have in common with the Braves. Fuhrman’s birthday is the same as the most illustrious player for the Milwaukee Braves (1954-1965) and the Atlanta Braves (1966-1974). McClinton lived in Milwaukee when “Hammerin’ Hank” played for the Milwaukee Braves.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
The Back to the Future movie trilogy has too much in common with the Swiss Army watch code and the Palace Station incident to gloss over. The first installment in the series even makes a direct connection between an analogue wristwatch and the courthouse clock and the last installment makes a specific reference to “Braves.”
Michael McClinton brought the Back to the Future trilogy into the Las Vegas courthouse with help from Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood comments about his single action Colts. “Does this mean I’m an outlaw?” Fuhrman asks rhetorically. “I’m not obsessed, only extremely intrigued by holding a piece of history no matter what period it might come from.”
With two unambiguous passages in Fuhrman’s 2002 Death and Justice book, he puts himself in the Old West with the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday and the cattle rustling Clanton gang by way of a 1993 movie narrated by Robert Mitchum. (Page 23 – describing the Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy) “Macy resembled Wyatt Earp in his Sunday go-to-meeting clothes.” (Page 33 – still speaking of Macy) “When he was DA, a framed poster of the movie Tombstone hung on his office wall.... The same poster hangs in my family room. To me it depicts a place and time where I would much rather have live—if only it were real.”
It’s not possible to know from Fuhrman’s description which Tombstone (’93) move poster out of the two dozen or so offered for sale that he was talking about. It seems likely, however, that he would have looked at all of them before making his decision and that he and Macy would have selected one or a variation of one most commonly associated with the movie.
So, what does Tombstone have to do with Back to the Future?
In Tombstone, Michael Biehn is Johnny Ringo, Harry Carry Jr. is Marshal Fred White and Billy Zane is Mr. Fabian. In The Terminator (’84), Michael Biehn is a time traveler like Michael J. Fox (Mark Fuhrman’s full initials are M.J.F.) in the Back to the Future trilogy. Harry Carry Jr. is one of the crusty old Palace Saloon card players in Back to the Future III. Billy Zane is Match, a henchman of the big bully Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) in Back to the Future (’85) and Back to the Future II (’89).
What you have here is a Fuhrman formula for telling stores about his involvement in the murder investigation of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. He takes a little of this and a little of that from movies or TV shows that are related to each other in some meaningful way and bends them around real people, places and things that he was involved in. It is therefore more than a little interesting that Michal McClinton did the same thing in testifying about his role as the big bully on the Thomas Riccio audio recording of the Palace Station “robbery.” By consistently defining what he did as a robbery, McClinton repeatedly defined himself as an “outlaw.”
The bullying outlaw with the gun is an essential dot in the vector of trains, clocks and guns that point to a blending of Nicole’s wristwatch stopped at 10:03 and the courthouse clock in Back to the Future stopped at 10:04.
In the first installment of Back to the Future, Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emit Brown discovers a formula for time travel, which allows him to build a time machine. The formula calls for the machine to accelerate to 88 miles per hour and a tremendous jolt of electrical power in the “flux capacitor,” the component of the machine that moves its passengers forward or backward in time. Doc Brown chooses a DeLorean to convert to his time machine simply because he likes the style.*
In 1985 the mayor of Hill Valley is a black man named Goldie (Walter Alexander’s nickname) Wilson who wants to restore the function of the courthouse clock, which stopped in 1955 when it was struck by lightning. A flyer that tells the history of the lightning strike is in 17-year-old Marty McFly’s pocket when something goes radically wrong with Doc Brown’s plan for Marty to record his test of the time machine. Marty ends up inadvertently driving the DeLorean to the Hill Valley of 1955. There he encounters Mark Fuhrman bell ringers galore, not counting time travel itself.
Everything else that happens in Back to the Future leads to a rendezvous at the courthouse to replenish the exhausted power supply for the flux capacitor. The only sufficient power source available in 1955 to get Marty “back to the future” is a lightning bolt. Armed with the 1985 flyer, Doc Brown’s 1955 counterpart concocts a plan to inject the necessary electrical power into the flux capacitor using the courthouse clock lightning strike that he knows is coming at exactly 10:04 p.m.
Even the one minute difference between 10:04 on the clock in the movie and 10:03 on Nicole Brown Simpson's watch on Bundy is accounted for in the first movie with a controlled test of the time machine conducted in 1985 at 1:18 am — the time Ron Phillips called Brad Roberts. Doc Brown puts his dog into the DeLorean with a chronometer synchronized with a chronometer outside of the DeLorean. Doc uses a remote control unit to maneuver the car and bring it up to speed. It "vanishes" into the future. When it comes back one minute later, the time on the chronometer inside the DeLorean is one minute behind the one outside.
To explain to Marty what he has to do to charge the time travel mechanism in the DeLorean, Doc Brown ('55) builds an elaborate wooden model of the area. To simulate the clock stopped at 10:04, he uses an analogue wristwatch stopped at 10:04.
In Back to the Future II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel forward in time to 2015. There, Marty’s nemesis Biff Tannen steals the DeLorean and goes back to 1955 with an almanac containing all the results of every major sporting event from 1950 to 2000. Old Biff gives the almanac to the 1955 version of himself with instructions on how to use it. Three years later on young Biff’s 21st birthday he uses the almanac to win a million dollars on a horserace. By 1985 Biff has parlayed his use of the almanac into fabulous wealth, fame and influence for himself while turning Hill Valley into a crime-riddled ghetto and altering the history of the world in stride with his personal agenda.
The epicenter for this change in history is Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise, a casino-hotel that he built on the site of the courthouse, complete with a Biff Tannen museum. A television monitor at the entrance to the museum shows a photo of Biff’s ancestor “Buford ‘Mad Dog’ Tannen, the fastest gun in the West” posing with his gun in his hand.
Back to the Future III is where Michael McClinton’s account of what he did in the Palace Station Casino-Hotel meshes with what Buford Tannen did in the Palace Saloon...
Marty McFly’s journey to 1885 Hill Valley begins with a lighting strike that transports the 1985 Doc Brown in the DeLorean to 1885 leaving Marty trapped in 1955. Doc writes a letter to Marty in 1885 explaining what happened when the thunderstorm that caused the lightning to stop the courthouse clock also cause lightning to strike the DeLorean.
Living happily as a blacksmith in 1885 where he has become “adept at shoeing horses and fixing wagons,” Doc is enjoying the life he always wanted to live in the Old West. In his letter to Marty, he tells were he hid the DeLorean and leaves instructions for his 1955 counterpart to fix the damaged components of the machine to get Marty back to 1985. While recovering the time machine, Marty and the Doc Brown of 1955 find Doc’s tombstone in a nearby cemetery. It says that he was shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of $80 on September 7, 1885, six days after he wrote the letter.
Now Marty McFly has to go back to 1885 to prevent the shooting.
Doc (’55) repairs the DeLorean and takes Marty to an abandoned drive-in theater. As Marty emerges from the concession shack dressed for his trip in Doc’s 1955 idea of an authentic Old West outfit you see a sign above his head that says, “Braves.” When Marty takes the DeLorean through time, he runs into scores of real Indians in war paint galloping toward him on horseback. When he makes his escape he finds that an arrow has ruptured his gas tank, which will prove to be as big a problem in 1885 as the depleted power supply for the flux capacitor was in 1955. The solution is putting the DeLorean on the Carson spur of a railroad line and getting a train to push it up to speed.
Before the plan can be executed, Marty is forced into a showdown with Buford Tannen. Bad blood between Marty and Buford started when Marty first came to town and entered the Palace Saloon looking for “the blacksmith.” In a preview of Michael McClinton’s bad act in Thomas Riccio’s Las Vegas Palace Station Hotel room on September 13, 2007, Tannen enters the bar with his partners in crime (they have plans to rob a stage coach). When Marty calls him “Mad Dog” in sudden recognition of who he is, Tannen draws his single action Colt, thumbs back the hammer and starts firing at Marty’s Nike clad feet. Like McClinton, Buford Tannen is the only one in the room to draw his gun.
Thomas Riccio’s established pattern of staying at the Palace Station Hotel whenever he was in Las Vegas sets up a predictable Back to the Future scenario. If McClinton’s actions were planned on a Back to the Future model, the planners could predict with a reasonable degree of certainty that the Palace Station would figure into the plan and formulate the manageable details accordingly...
* A movie buff would see links between the real John DeLorean and the fictitious automaker in Action Jackson. Thomas F. Wilson is Biff Tannen in all three Back to the Future movies and Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen in Back to the Future II and III. In Action Jackson Thomas F. Wilson is a police officer. When you see what Thomas F. Wilson has to do with “acting like a cop” and Doc Brown has to do with a wristwatch stopped at 10:04 you can begin to see a name pattern in stitching fact to fiction in the Bundy murders and the Palace Station incident.
In Bound by Honor (’93) Wilson is Rollie McCann. Look at what you get in a Jumble Puzzle with THOMAS F. WILSON, ROLLIE MCCANN AND BUFORD TANNEN.
HAS WSO ROLLIE AN AND BUFORD TANNEN M. F. MCCLINTON,
HAS WSO I AN BUFORD TANNEN – M. F. MCCLINTON, LAND ROLE
H WSO I AN – M. F. MCCLINTON, LAND ROLE AS BUFORD TANNEN
M. F. MCCLINTON, LAND ROLE AS BUFORD TANNEN IN A SHOW
Yes, as crazy as it sounds, the name of an actor and names of two characters he played tell a story of someone named M. F. McClinton landing the role of a character in a show.
It gets crazier. Including the "AND" can be considered cheating. However, it is no more of a cheat than turning Sergeant Major Robert C. Hurd into a master sergeant to make the Jumble Puzzle code in "The Hammer" episode of Dragnet 1967 work That's what Mark Fuhrman did in Murder in Brentwood. The crazier part of this is that leaving out the "AND" also produces a meaningful phrase that foreshadows the incident in Thomas Riccio's Palace Station Hotel room with Michal McClinton:
THOMAS F. WILSON ROLLIE MCCANN BUFORD TANNEN. M. F. MCCLINTON ROLE AS BUFORD TANNEN IN LA SHOW.
How does this make sense? (link to new page coming soon). Here's a hint... – Jasper
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wasn’t hit with a croquet mallet. In Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie The Shining
based on Stephen King’s book, the winter caretaker of a remote Colorado hotel chops though two doors with an ax to kill his wife. He hacks a hole in
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Colorado hotel in Kubrick’s 1980 version of The Shining.
He appeared with (Clint Eastwood in Bronco Billy (’80) and with Jack Webb in Dragnet 1967. He was in
Twilight Zone: The Movie (’83). He died at the age of 76 on the 23rd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, November 22,
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