I like to go to Wikipedia for information that I consider uncontroversial, but I also know that it doesn't measure up to scholastic criteria of an encyclopedia, which is supposed to be truth. Wikipedia itself says, "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth:" (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi... )
Dec. 29, 2007 update
On this day I received an email that said: I called the institute that John Todd was staying at in South Carolina. and they told me that he passed away 11/10/2007
But again I say, it may not have really been Todd who died in that institution.
May 9, 2008 update:
On April 30, 2008 I received the following email: Back in 78 I attended Liberty University. A guy named Steve Hoffer was a John Todd promoter of sorts on campus. This amounted to simply passing out some tapes and the like not really like some sort of official promoter. I saw him last in the fall of 79. He had a letter he claimed was from Johns wife and it informed him that John had been killed that fall late. He read me the letter, I saw the letter. He was warned that he could be in danger. He has some close relationship at least by mail with the Todds. He left for home for Christmas break but never showed up. His car was found abandoned in Cincinnati about two weeks later. He was found around early May of 80 a few mile outside Lynchburg tied to a tree and garroted in classic style, his body still hanging there. As you may know this is a special method of death and has a history and meaning. The death of a heretic. At the time of his death Steve had been publicly investigating Jerry Falwell while a student at Liberty. As you can figure this caused no small controversy considering Steve was a student there. As you may know Falwell was on Johns list of conspirators. Falwell publicly told the student body that he didn't know Todd, as Todd had claimed he knew Jerry personally, as well as saying Todd was off the hook mentally. Steve's death can be verified if the records are still available or if Todds wife is still living she may remember Steve. I to am from Columbus Ohio where John claims to be from. Listening to some YouTube yesterday jogged my memory. Its been 30 years since I last listened to him. Anyway there is actually a small Druid cemetery in Columbus. The stones are in a circle and have no dates or names on them. These graves may indicate the founding members of the original lodge that apparently left Wales sometime in the 1800's. There are also a lot of Welsh and Pickish graves nearby. John claimed to be a Druid and Pickish or lowland Scottish.The name Todd means father in Cymraeg and is old Celtic. Columbus Ohio is said to have had the largest concentration of Welsh immigrants in the US. There was even a Druid Hall being used in Columbus and so known as such up into the 1940's. It may still be there and is in an old part of town and it and the name were openly known which may indicate the measure of their presents.
In April 2011 I received another email from the same person above: Good to hear from you and to read this letter. Please don't publish my name although I hold out little hope that the thing isn't known anyway by the right folks. Or wrong folks. The Collins folks are very powerful and well connected around here. Not in public as it were but when one does some looking into it the truth can be found. And it's not just the Collins folks. As I think I told you in an email that Druid grave area have vanished. The stones were moved. It was a large scale fail on my part not to get a photo of the 13 markers all numbered and in a circle. But as important someone is watching at least what goes on at your web site. While we cant produce photos of this grave area let its removal even if only between a few serve as a reminder of some realities. More info. It may be that Steve Hoffer's style of death was not published in the news.
http://www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/article...
