| THE ROYAL FAMILY WEB PAGE OF PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY |
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WE WANT TO ANNOUNCE THE GOOD NEWS THAT PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY WILL RECIEVE A SPECIAL DIPLOMA AND A MERIT MEDAL OF THE SOVERIGN ORDER FOR HER DEVOTED WORK. CONGRATULATIONS PRINCESS SAMANTHA! THE ABOVE PHOTO IS A NEW PHOTO OF PRINCESS SAMANTHA AT THE THEATRE.
http://www.freeguestbooks.net/mg/guest.pl?6771
http://www.freeguestbooks.net/mg/guest.pl?6780
APRIL 1, 2007
I HAVE ADDED A NEW GUESTBOOK HERE TODAY. IT SEEMS THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD TROUBLE SIGNING ONE OF THE PREVIOUS ONES AND ONE MAN LEFT A NASTY MESSAGE. SO HERE IS A NEW ONE, DON'T BE AFRAID TO LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS.
THIS IS A LETTER SENT TO ME BY THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND
http://community.webtv.net/THEROYALFAMILY/ALETTERFROMTHEQUEEN
http://community-2.webtv.net/THEROYALFAMILY/ALETTERFROMTHEQUEEN
http://community.webtv.net/LadyofSeborga/YOURREPRESENTATIVE
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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GILBERT SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. HE AND MY MOTHER, LORINE ELIZABETH WERE MARRIED FOR 33 YEARS UNTIL HIS DEATH. THEY LIVED FOR AWHILE IN WASHINGTON D.C. LORINE ELIZABETH IS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. HARVEY CLAYTON. HER PARENTS HAD TWO BUSINESSES AND HER FATHER'S MOTHER WAS A KENNEDY, EMMA SUSAN KENNEDY AND ONE OF EMMA'S BROTHER'S NAME WAS GARRETT KENNEDY. LORINE ELIZABETH'S MOTHER WAS A DALTON AND HER MOTHER WAS MRS. HARMON FROM THE NETHERLANDS. GILBERT'S MOTHER WAS A LATHAM AND THEY HAD GROCERY STORES AND HOTELS. THE CHILDREN OF GILBERT GLENN AND LORINE ELIZABETH ARE DAMON, JAMES, JANET, GILBERT JR. AND TERESA SAMANTHA (ME THE YOUNGEST, I TOOK MY KENNEDY NAME FROM EMMA SUSAN KENNEDY AND IT WAS GRANTED IN A COURT OF LAW.)
GILBERT'S PHOTO WAS ALWAYS WITH MY WRITINGS AND PARAMOUNT AND THEIR AGENTS HAD COPIES OF MY WRITINGS AND HIS PHOTO. WHO DO YOU THINK HE LOOKS LIKE HERE IN FORREST GUMP? HE COULDN'T WALK, HE LOVED TO WRITE, HE WAS AN ARTIST AND HE SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, HE ALSO WORKED AS A FILM EDITOR AND A PHOTOGRAPHER AT WCPO TELEVISION STATION IN CINCINNATI . HE WAS INTERVIEWED ON THE RADIO AND THE NEWSPAPERS CAME OUT TO TAKE HIS AND LORINE ELIZABETH'S PHOTO FOR A NEWS ARTICLE. WHILE HE WAS IN THE AIR FORCE, HE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON WASTE AND HE WAS THEN GIVEN A JOB AS A JANITOR TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY.
UPDATED ON MY BIRTHDAY, FEBURARY 3, 2006. I WANT TO SAY THAT WHEN MY MOTHER WENT IN LABOR WITH ME SHE WAS ON A GREYHOUND BUS DRIVING THROUGH THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS IN A SNOWSTORM HEADING TO CINCINNATI, OHIO. I WAS BORN IN CINCINNATI AND THIS IS WHEN GILBERT STARTED HIS JOB IN CINCINNATI AT THE TELEVISON STATION AS A FILM EDITOR, THIS WAS ALSO AFTER HE WAS DEMOTED TO A JANITOR, SO NOW HE HAD A BETTER JOB IN TELEVISION AND LATER HE AND LORINE MANAGED A THEATRE. GILBERT WAS KNOWN FOR HIS MANY ARTICLES HE WROTE IN THE NEWSPAPERS WITH HIS OWN CARTOON OR POLITICAL CARTOON. ONE ARTICLE HE HAD WRITTEN ABOUT IRAN AND THERE WAS A LARGE CARTOON WITH HIS ARTICLE WHERE HITLER AND THE SHAW ARE IN HELL AND THE SHAW IS READING A NEWS ARTICLE THAT SAYS, "SHAW WAS A MONSTER," AND HITLER IS SITTING NEXT TO HIM AND SAYS TO THE SHAW, "THEY STILL HATE ME TOO," WHILE WE SEE THE DEVIL STANDING IN FRONT OF THEM HOLDING A PITCHFORK. I WILL POST THIS CARTOON AND GILBERT'S ARTICLE. WHEN THIS ARTICLE AND CARTOON WAS PRINTED, I HAD NOT MET THEM YET. I WAS SEPARATED FROM THEM AS A BABY FOR OVER 20 YEARS AND WHEN WE WERE REUNITED, IT MADE THE FRONT PAGES OF AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER AND THEN IT MADE ABC NEWS WHEN THEY CAME OUT AND DID A BIOGRAPHY OF MY LIFE.
WE ARE VERY CLOSE, SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND. LORINE IS VERY RELIGIOUS, I GREW UP PROTESTANT AND LORINE DOES NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, SHE WORSHIPS ON SATURDAYS AND SHE FOLLOWS THE TEACHINGS OF THE OLD TESTIMENT AND THE NEW TESTIMENT AND SOME OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS. IT IS HER RELIGION BUT SHE IS NOT JEWISH, IT IS A CHRISTIAN RELIGION THAT STUDIES THE OLD TESTIMENT TOO ALONG WITH HOLIDAYS AND ALSO NEW TESTIMENT. IT IS HARD TO EXPLAIN, BUT, THEY WANT TO KEEP AS MUCH TRADITIONAL AS THEY CAN IN THEIR CHRISTIAN FAITH. SHE GREW UP METHODIST AND YEARS AGO SHE CHANGED HER RELIGION, WHICH I AM GLAD TO SAY IN THIS COUNTRY WE HAVE THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION. WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL, SHE AND HER SISTER HAD A GOOD FRIEND AND THEY ALL WALKED TO SCHOOL TOGETHER EVERY DAY AND HOME EVERY AFTERNOON, THAT FRIEND WAS PATRICIA NEAL THE FAMOUS ACTRESS. LORINE TALKS OF HER OFTEN. THEY WERE JUST GIRLS, HAPPY AND ENJOYING LIFE.
LORINE'S FAMILY, HER FATHER AND MOTHER WERE CLAYTONS. THEY OWNED TWO BUSINESSES, A FLORIST AND A DRY CLEANING BUSINESS. HER FATHER WAS ALSO A GUARD AT OAK RIDGE AND HE RODE HIS HORSE WHILE ON DUTY.
HER MOTHER WAS A DALTON AND MRS. DALTON'S MOTHER WAS A HARMON. I REALLY LIKE GENELOGY AND LORINE TOLD ME TODAY THAT MY COUSIN STEVIE DALTON WHO IS 52, TOLD HER THAT SOME OF HIS OTHER RELATIVES WHERE PART CHEROKEE, I DIDN'T KNOW THIS. I DO KNOW THAT MOST OF THE RELATIVES NEAR CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA HAVE STRONG CHEROKEE BLOOD. THEY ARE THE OFFSPRING OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS WHO ESCAPED THE TRAIL OF TEARS WHEN PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON ORDERED THE REMOVAL OF THE INDIAN NATIONS TO THE WEST AND MANY FALLEN AND DIED. THE ONES WHO ESCAPED ARE OUR ANCESTORS. IRONICALLY, MY ADOPTED MOTHER, DOROTHY, HER ANCESTOR WAS PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON. HE HAD AN ADOPTED CHEROKEE CHILD. I HAVE A NIECE WHO IS ADOPTED AND SHE IS CHEROKEE. ON LORINE'S SIDE HER FAMILY ARE SCOTTISH, DUTCH, FRENCH, IRISH EUROPEAN AND IN AMERICA THEY GO BACK TO THE EARLY 1600'S AND MOST IN VIRGINA. I HAVE AN ENTIRE LIBRARY OF BOOKS ON THE ENTIRE AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS IN OUR COUNTRY, THE ORIGINAL AMERICANS. WE ARE PROUD OF OUR ORIGINAL AMERICANS AND STEVIE'S CHEROKEE HERITAGE FROM HIS OTHER RELATIVES.
WE HAVE SEARCHED OVER AND OVER IN LORINE'S FAMILY'S SIDE AND NOW WE CAN'T FIND ANY LINK TO THE CHEROKEES, BUT, ONCE THE TERRITORY OF THE ENTIRE STATE OF TENNESEE WAS RULED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION AND SOME BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM TENNESEE HAVE CHEROKEE ANCESTRY, A STRONG PEOPLE.
TO LEARN MORE THE CHEROKEE NATION IN TENNESSE AND OTHER SURROUNDING STATES TO TO THIS THESE SITES:
http://www.cherokee-nc.com/
http://www.powersource.com/nation/
http://www.cherokeehistory.com
WE WANT TO EXPRESS OUR DEEP SORROW FOR THOSE IN TENNESEE WHO DIED RECENTLY IN THE TORNADOS AND IN THE SURROUNDING STATES. I GREW UP IN A PLACE IN TENNESEE WHAT WAS CALLED, "TORNADO ALLEY." AND I LIVED THROUGH MANY TORNADOS AND REMEMBERING AS A CHILD A WHOLE GROUP OF CHURCH MEMBERS AND RELATIVES HUDDLING TOGETHER IN AN UNDERGROUND BASEMENT AS WE LISTENED TO THE ROAR OR THE TORNADOS GOING OVER, IT WAS FRIGHTENING, PEOPLE CRYING, TORNADOS PASSING OVER ALL NIGHT. ALL WE COULD DO IS SIT AND WAIT. LIKE THE INCREASE IN HURRICANES, WE ARE NOW BEING TOLD THAT THE TORNADOS WILL INCREASE TOO AND BECAUSE OF OUR DYING ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEM. WE HAVE TO REVERSE THIS NOW! NOT FIVE YEARS FROM NOW OR IT WILL BE TOO LATE! MOTHER NATURE IS IN DISTRESS AND IS PUNISHING US, SHE IS TRYING TO FIGHT TO REPAIR THIS AND I BELIEVE GOD IS PUNISHING TOO AND UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING, IT WILL GET WORSE.
GILBERT GLENN'S GRAVESITE IS AT THE NATIONAL CEMETARY IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.
www.catholic.net/RCC/POPE/Pope.html
http://popejohnpaul.com/
DAD WAS AN ENGINEER AND HE SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II. HE MET PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. HE ALSO MET JIMMY DURANTE. HE AND MY MOM, DOROTHY WERE MARRIED FOR 50 YEARS UNTIL HE DIED. HE WAS A GOOD MAN WHO TAUGHT ME GOOD AMERICAN VALUES, HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO FISH, TO HUNT, TO RUN THE FARM AND PLANT THE GARDEN AND DOROTHY TAUGHT ME HOW TO COOK AND PUT UP THE GARDEN AND QUILT AND APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF THE MANY FLOWERS THEY HAD. DAD WORKED IN THE COAL MINES AS A YOUNG MAN, HE LATER WORKED FOR ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN TULLAHOMA, TENNESEE, HE RETIRED FROM THE TENNESSE VALLEY AUTHORITY AND HE HAD A SMALL BUSINESS. HE WAS LOVED BY MANY. I MISS DAD VERY MUCH. HE COULD SING LIKE BING CROSBY.
DAD DIED IN AUGUST OF 1997 AND HE WAS GIVEN A MASONIC FUNERAL BY THE FREEMASONS. IT WAS A VERY NICE FUNERAL AND THE POEPLE THERE WERE SO VERY KIND. HE LOOKED REALLY GOOD AND I THANK THE PEOPLE AT WATSON'S FUNERAL HOME FOR THEIR KINDNESS. I DON'T THINK I WILL EVER GET OVER IT. BUT, THEY MADE HIM LOOK REALLY GOOD.
DOROTHY IS A LOVELY WOMAN WHO WAS MY GIRL SCOUT LEADER. THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN AT THE ATOMIC PLANT IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE WHERE SHE WORKED AS A YOUNG WOMAN. THIS PHOTO IS IN MY LOCKET I ALWAYS WORE AS A CHILD AND NOW AND I HAD IT RESTORED. THEY TOOK THE PHOTO FROM THE LOCKET WITHOUT REMOVING THE PHOTO. MOM MET ALBERT EINSTEIN IN THE 1940'S. SHE AND DAD WERE MARRIED FOR 50 YEARS. HER GRANDFATHER WAS DR. GREEN AND MOM'S ANCESTOR WAS PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON. SHE MADE ALL OF MY DRESSES AND SWEATERS AND SHE MADE SURE I HAD TO PRACTICE THE PIANO AND GO TO CHURCH. I HAD TO HELP WITH THE PUTTING UP THE GARDEN AND CANNING AND I HAD TO HELP WITH THE CATTLE, TOO. WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, I DROVE THE TRACTOR. BELIEVE ME I WASN'T PERFECT, ONE TIME SHE CAUGHT ME SMOKING CIGARETTES AND WAS I EMBARRASSED AND I GOT INTO TROUBLE. I DON'T SMOKE CIGARTETTES NOW, I QUIT SEVERAL YEARS AGO. IT WAS SO DEVISTATING TO LEARN OF HER STROKE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. SHE LIVED FOR SOME TIME AFTERWARD AND IN THE LAST YEAR SHE DIED, I WAS SHATTERED AND I LEARNED IN THE LAST MONTH MY SISTER, ROSEMARY DIED, BEFORE MOM DID, THERE'S NO ONE ELSE BUT ME NOW, I DIDN'T KNOW. THE LAST THING ROSEMARY TOLD ME ON THE PHONE WHEN I LAST TALKED TO HER WAS, "I LOVE YOU TERESA," AND I NEVER HEARD FROM HER AGAIN. MY PHONES HAVE BEEN TAMPERED WITH, INTERCEPTED AND NO ONE COULD GET THROUGH TO CALL ME UNTIL I TALKED TO MY AUNT SUE IN OHIO LAST MONTH AND SHE SAID ROSEMARY WAS DEAD AND SHE DIED BEFORE MOM DID THIS LAST YEAR. WHY DID THEY NOT LET ME HAVE A CALL? THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME, IT'S NOT FAIR AND IT'S ILLEGAL. I'M SO ANGRY FROM THIS, VERY ANGRY. AND IF I EVER CALLED OUT ANYWHERE, THEY WOULD PICK UP ON MY LINE AND I COULDN'T GET A CALL OUT. POOR ROSEMARY. ROSEMARY WAS DOROTHY'S NATURAL DAUGHTER AND ROSEMARY WAS ALMOST 10 YEARS OLDER THAN ME, SHE SURE WAS A GOOD COOK AND MOM AND DAD ALWAYS DRESSED US ALIKE WHEN WE WENT TO CHURCH. ROSEMARY PLAYED THE PIANO. SHE COULD MAKE ANYTHING LIKE MOM, SHE WORKED VERY HARD. ONE TIME SHE WAS WORKING FOR A SENATOR, TOO. THE LAST THING WE SAID TO EACH OTHER WAS, " I LOVE YOU." AND THAT IS WHAT MATTERS. WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I WAS VERY ILL AND MOM AND NURSES TOOK CARE OF ME. I HAD TUTORS IN THE HOME. SHE WAS STRONG FOR ME WHEN I ALMOST DIED AND NEVER LEFT MY SIDE. SHE AND DAD WOULD SLEEP IN CHAIRS BY MY SIDE OR ON THE FLOOR AT THE HOSPITAL. I AM LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. I CAME TO LIVE WITH THEM IN THE EARLY 1960's. I GREW UP IN A EIGHT BEDROOM HOUSE AND I USE TO STAY AND PLAY AT 100 OAKS CASTLE. MOM'S NAME FOR ME IS PRINCESS. I HAVE A MOTHER, BUT, DOROTHY IS MY MOM. ONE OF MY PROUDEST MOMENTS WAS WHEN I HAD THE LEAD IN A MUSICAL PLAY CALLED "OKLAHOMA." THE ORIGINAL PLAY WAS ON BROADWAY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND IT WAS MADE INTO A MOTION PICTURE IN 1955 , THIS WAS SOME YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN. WE HAD DONE THIS WONDERFUL PLAY AND MOM HAD MADE SOME OF THE COSTUMES AND AT THE END OF THE PLAY WHEN WE WERE STANDING ON STAGE I HAD RECIEVED FLOWERS AND ROSES AND THEN I SAW A GENTLEMAN CARRY A BOQUET OF YELLOW ROSES WHICH ARE MY FAVORITE. MOM HAD SENT THEM UP THERE AND I LOOKED OUT IN THE AUDIENCE AND SHE TOLD ME SHE LOVED ME AND SHE WAS PROUD OF ME, I STARTED TO CRY AND MOM WAS THERE FOR ME. ANOTHER MUSICAL WE DID WAS CALLED "SOUTH PACIFIC." I BELIEVE IF YOU WANT TO GET CHEERED UP WATCHED A MUSICAL OR SEE THESE MOTION PICTURES. MOM LOVED THEM.
I REALIZE THAT I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT NOW IN THIS FAMILY, NO ONE BUT ME AND IT IS VERY REAL AND VERY FRIGHTENING, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN ORPHANED, BUT, WITH THE HELP FROM GOD, MY SORROW AND PAIN WILL LESSON. IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY COMPLETELY, WHEN A LOVED ONE DIES, NONE OF US EVER GET OVER IT.
NEVER.
I WAS ABOUT FIVE IN THIS PHOTO AND THE CHURCH HAD GIVEN ME A BIRTHDAY PARTY, IT WAS IN THE 1960's. I AM STANDING UP ON THE CHAIR HERE AND THE NICE MAN IS THE REVEREND. I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER THE PARTY, BUT, I HAVE ALWAYS HAD THIS PHOTO. MOM TO ME ONCE THAT ROSEMARY HAD HELPED OUT WITH DECORATIONS AND THE FOOD, MAKING THE PUNCH AND SNACKS AND DIPS. HER FRIENDS ARE THERE IN THE BACKGROUND, HOW FUNNY.
THIS IS A LOVELY PHOTO OF GILBERT AND LORINE ELIZABETH AND I DON'T KNOW WHO THE LITTLE GIRL THERE IS WHO WAS THE FLOWER GIRL. AFTER THEIR WEDDING THEY MOVED TO ST. JOHN, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA. LATER GILBERT BECAME A PHOTOGRAPHER AND A TELEVISION NEWS EDITOR, BUT, IT WAS ERASED FROM THE TELEVISON NEWS' ARCHIVES THAT HE WORKED THERE.
IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD POLITICAL CARTOONS. BUT, THE RECENT CARTOON OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD AS A TERRORIST WAS BAD. WE SHOULD RESPECT EVERYONE'S RELIGION AND BECAUSE IN THIS COUNTRY WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO DISRESPECT THE MUSLIM'S PROPHET, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG. IF PEOPLE ASK ME WHERE I AM, I TELL THEM I LIVE AMONG THE MUSLIMS, AMONG PEOPLE FROM IRAQ, FROM IRAN, THE LATINOS, MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP OUR COUNTRY. I KNOW A FAMILY FROM IRAQ WHO ARE CATHOLIC, TOO, BUT, IT DIDN'T STOP THEM FROM BEING TARGETED OUT. WHEN I FIRST CAME HERE IT WAS THE PEOPLE FROM IRAN WHO GAVE ME A JOB AND ANOTHER FAMILY FROM IRAN WHO LET ME HAVE MY FIRST AUTO LOAN HERE AND HELPED ME TO GET A CAR. IT WAS MY FRIEND FROM JORDAN WHO SHE AND I KEPT EACH OTHER'S CHILDREN WHEN ONE HAD TO GO SHOPPING OR THE TIMES WE GIVE EACH OTHER TURKEYS FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THAT WAS BEFORE I QUIT EATING MEAT AND I DON'T EAT PORK. I TOOK HER TO BUY BREAD ALL THE TIME AND SHE ALWAYS INVITED ME INTO HER HOME TO EAT HER WONDERFUL FOOD SHE WOULD COOK FOR ME AND MY CHILDREN. I CAN REMEMBER STANDING BY THE STOVE AS SHE GAVE ME COOKING LESSONS ON HOW TO COOK MIDDLE EASTERN FOODS, SHE WAS THE BEST COOK. OUR COUNTRY IS MADE UP OF THE RICHEST DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE AND TO COME OUT WITH THIS CARTOON ABOUT THEIR PROPHET IS SO WRONG, VERY WRONG. IN THE ABOVE CARTOON, BEFORE I REUNITED WITH MY FAMILY, GILBERT GLENN WAS KNOWN TO WRITE POLITICAL ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND THIS CARTOON OF THE SHAW OF IRAN AND HITLER SITTING IN HELL WAS ATTACHED TO HIS ARTICLE. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU, BUT, THE CARTOON OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD WAS VERY WRONG, MUHAMMAD WAS NOT A TERRORIST, HE GIVES HOPE TO HIS CHILDREN, HIS PEOPLE AND WE SHOULD ALL RESPECT THEIR RELIGION. THESE ARE GOOD PEOPLE WE LIVE WITH HERE.
THIS ARTICLE APEARS IN THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN, AUGUST 30, 1994, IT READS:
PRESIDENT COMMENDS BOYS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS
BY MICHELE KAZALONIS
SPRING VALLEY-
THANKS IN PART TO THEIR PROUD MOTHER, TWO SPRING VALLEY YOUNGSTERS HAVE RECEIVED LETTERS OF COMMENDATION FROM PRESIDENT CLINTON.
MICAH URICH, 11, WAS HONORED FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE RECYCLING PROGRAM AT SPRING VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. SIX YEAR OLD ADAM URICH WAS CITIZEN OF THE MONTH AT FLETCHER HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THEIR MOTHER, SAMANTHA KENNEDY, WROTE TO THE PRESIDENT TO TELL HIM ABOUT HER SONS' ACHIEVEMENTS. IN RETURN, MICAH AND ADAM EACH RECIEVED SIGNED LETTERS ALONG WITH A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF CLINTON. THE LETTERS ARE FRAMED AND PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE LIVING ROOM, ALONG WITH KENNEDY'S AWARD FROM SAN DIEGO MAYOR SUSAN GOLDING FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE LITERARY CULTURE OF SAN DIEGO IN 1993.
SO IT SEEMS ACHIEVEMENT RUNS IN THE FAMILY. WHEN THE BOYS ARE IN SCHOOL, KENNEDY SPENDS HER TIME IN THE LIBRARY DOING RESEARCH AND WRITING. SHE HOPES TO HAVE A BOOK OF POETRY PUBLISHED SOON.
ADAM IS A HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISTIC AND NEEDS CONSTANT ATTENTION, KENNEDY SAID. HIS MATH SKILLS RANGE FAR BEYOND THE LEVEL FOR HIS AGE GROUP, WHILE HIS LINGUISTIC SKILLS ARE SOMEWHAT LOWER.
HOWEVER, ADAM HAS NO SENSE OF DANGER, SO HE MUST BE WATCHED AT ALL TIMES, SHE SAID. TRANSITION IS A PROBLEM, TOO. HE CAN NOT BE TAKEN FROM ONE ACTIVITY TO ANOTHER TOO SUDDENLY OR HE LOSES HIS FOCUS AND BECOMES VERY FRUSTRATED.HIS MOTHER SAID SHE HOPES TO MAINSTREAM HIM THIS FALL, BUT IS CONCERNED THAT CLASSES MIGHT BE TOO LARGE FOR HIS NEEDS.
BEFORE ADAM WAS DIAGNOSED AS AUTISTIC, KENNEDY THOUGHT HE WAS DEAF SINCE HE WOULD NOT TALK OR CRY AND ALWAYS PLAYED BY HIMSELF, SHE SAID.
ONCE SHE LEARNED HE WAS AUTISTIC, SHE SAID SHE WAS DEVASTATED, BUT MET THE CHALLENGE HEAD-ON. SHE TRIED ALL KINDS OF GAMES TO GET HIM TO RESPOND TO HER, BUT NOTHING WORKED.
ONE DAY SHE PUT HIM ON A ROCKING HORSE AND HE SUDDENLY STARTED TALKING. TO THIS DAY, SHE HAS NO IDEA WHY HE RESPONDED BUT SHE STILL HAS THAT ROCKING HORSE, KENNEDY SAID.
ADAM IS ARTISTIC AND DISPLAYS A CHARMING SENSE OF HUMOR, DRAWING INTERESTING VARIATIONS OF FISH. LOOK CLOSELY AND ONE WILL SEE THE "CLOWN FISH" HAS A BIG RED NOSE, AND THE "PARROT FISH" HAS A BEAK.
MICAH WILL ENTER THE SEVENTH GRADE THIS FALL, WHERE HE WILL CONTINUE HIS WORK IN RECYCLING AND KEEPING UP HIS B AVERAGE. HE IS A PROTECTIVE BIG BROTHER AND UNDERSTANDS HE IS NEEDED HIS MOTHER SAID. HE, TOO, ENJOYS DRAWING AND SAID HE THINKS HE WOULD LIKE TO BECOME A CARTOONIST. SOMETIMES, LIKE HIS MOTHER, HE WRITES POEMS.
BOTH BOYS COLLECT BASEBALL CARDS, AND MICAH'S DREAM IS TO OBTAIN A SIGNED CARD FROM JOE DI MAGGIO. HOWEVER, GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN THE SIGNED CARD OR THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET DI MAGGIO. THERE IS NO CONTEST.
"I WOULD LIKE TO MEET HIM AND SHAKE HIS HAND, AND THEN I WOULD NEVER WASH MY HAND AGAIN," HE SAID.
KENNEDY SAID SHE BELIEVES INSTILLING VALUES IN HER CHILDREN CAN BE ACHIEVED BY CONSISTENT ENCOURAGEMENT. SHE IS BRINGING UP HER TWO SONS TO BELIEVE "THEY CAN BE ANYTHING THEY WANT TO BE, DO ANYTHING THEY WANT TO DO, AS LONG AS IT'S HONEST. ALSO, BE TRUE TO THEMSELVES AND RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE," SHE SAID.
HER ROLE AS A SINGLE PARENT IS TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE AND TO BE THERE FOR HER BOYS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, SHE SAID. "IF WE CAN MAKE IT, ANYBODY CAN MAKE IT," KENNEDY SAID.
THE KEY, SHE SAID IS IN WRITING SPECIFIC GOALS IN A NOTEBOOK AND SETTING A TIME PERIOD FOR EACH GOAL. KENNEDY CAUTIONS THAT A LOSS OF CONFIDENCE MAY RESULT IF GOALS ARE SET TOO HIGH AT FIRST, SO SHE ADVISES STARTING SMALL.
"WHEN I GOT USED TO SUCCEEDING ON LITTLE GOALS, I BEGAN FEELING POSITIVE," SHE SAID. "THAT BUILT MY CONFIDENCE AND I STARTED SETTING HIGHER GOALS. I WROTE DOWN THAT I WOULD HAVE A CAR IN SIX MONTHS."
SHE HAS THE CAR. IT IS USED, BUT IT IS TRANSPORTATION AND THE COMPLETION OF YET ANOTHER GOAL.(MK-MP)
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD HERE THAT THE SAN DIEGO NBC NEWS CAME OUT TO THE BOYS' SCHOOLS AND DID A STORY ON THEM AND IT AIRED ON TELEVISION.
PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY
WE RECIEVED MEDALLIONS AND I AM THE FOURTH FROM THE LEFT, LIGHT HAIR, WITH THE BOW IN MY HAIR. UNDERNEATH THE PHOTO IT READS:
AMONG THE 13 EAST COUNTY AUTHORS WITH WORKS ON DISPLAY AT THE DOWNTOWN CENTRAL LIBRARY ARE (LEFT TO RIGHT) PETER NEUMEYER, MELVIN HASMAN AND STEVEN SAINT OF LA MESA, SAMANTHA KENNEDY OF SPRING VALLEY, MARLENE HOLLOWAY OF LA MESA AND TOM YOUNGHOLM OF LEMON GROVE.
THE SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY OPENED ITS 29TH LOCAL AUTHORS EXHIBIT LAST FRIDAY WITH A RECEPTION HONORING COUNTY RESIDENTS WITH PUBLISHED WORKS IN 1994.
THE FOLLOWING EAST COUNTY AUTHORS WERE GIVEN MEDALLIONS AT THE RECEPTION AND WILL HAVE THEIR BOOKS ON DISPLAY THROUGHOUT FEBRUARY IN THE MAIN LOBBY OF THE DOWNTOWN CENTRAL LIBRARY:
IT GOES ON TO LIST THE AUTHORS AND I UNDERLINE MY NAME HERE. MY WRITINGS ARE CALLED "GIVE ME WINGS, TREASURED POEMS OF AMERICA, 1994"
THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN TO GILBERT GLENN BY SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER, CONCERNING THE WHISTLEBLOWING IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND CANADA. GILBERT CONTINUED TO PRESS THE ISSUE FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS AND IT COST HIM. JOHN MC CLELLAN WAS ON THE SAME COMMITTEE HERE AS KEFAUVER AND MC CLELLAN WOULD HOLD HEARINGS ON THE WASTE (I WAS IN THE WOMB AT THE TIME HE HELD THE HEARINGS A FEW YEARS LATER) THAT APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, I CAN POST THIS ARTICLE LATER AND THE ONE OF US ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NASHVILLE, TENNESSEAN WHERE I WAS REUNITED WITH FAMILY AFTER BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM GILBERT AND LORINE GLENN.
PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY
(THE NAME SAMANTHA WAS GIVEN TO ME BY MY AGENT MRS. PATTERSON AND IT WAS LEGALLY ADDED TO MY FULL NAME IN 1994.
THIS IS THE NEWS ARTICLE THAT PARAMOUNT PICTURES USED TO MAKE FORREST GUMP, THIS ARTICLE ALSO WAS WITH THE SCRIPTS THAT THEY STOLEN. IT MADE THE FRONT PAGE ON THAT SUNDAY (WE WILL BE POSTING IT) AT THE TOP OF THE HEADING WE SEE THE BASKETBALL, "SEPARATING, MEN FROM BOYS, NORTH CAROLINA, INDIANA EASILY HEAD FOR TOUGHER NCAA FINALS." ALSO AT THE TOP WE READ, " A WALTZ ACOSS TENNESSEE TRAVE, FROM GATLINBURG PEAKS TO MEMPHIS' MISSISSIPPI MUD." (IN THE MOTION PICTURE WE SEE FORREST COVERED WITH MUD.) ALSO AT THE TOP OF THE HEADLINE WE READ, "THE ENVELOPE, IF YOU PLEASE, ACADEMY AWARDS OF THE PAST, TALLY SHEET FOR TUESDAY GALA." WE SEE A MAN WEARING A PLAID SHIRT LIKE FORREST SITTING ON A BENCH LIKE IN THE MOVIE AND I AM SITTING NEXT TO HIM, MY BROTHER, JAMES. UNDERNEATH THE PHOTO OF US SITTING ON THE BENCH IT READS: SISTER AND BROTHER REUNITED AFTER 21 YEARS. WINCHESTER, TENN-TERESA TIBBS (WHICH IS ME BUT TIBBS IS A TYPO) RELAXES WITH HER BROTHER, JIM GLENN, DURING THEIR FIRST MEETING SINCE SH WAS GIVEN UP FOR ADOPTION 21 YEARS AGO, GLENN SPENT TWO YEARS SEARCHING FOR HIS "BABY SISTER." (THIS ARTICAL WAS BEFORE I LEARN ABOUT THE ROYAL FAMILY)
THE ARTICLE GOES ON TO READ:
HER JOY TINGED WITH 'FEAR' AS LONG-LOST PARENTS FOUND.
BY ED GREGORY
TERESA TIBBS HAS MIXED EMOTIONS ABOUT HER REUNION NEXT WEEK FROM TODAY WITH PARENTS WHO GAVE HER UP FOR ADOPTION 21 YEARS AGO.
"I JUST TALKED TO THEM OVER THE PHONE AGAIN AND IT WAS GREAT. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM," SHE SAID.
BUT ON FRIDAY SHE SAID: "I'M AFRAID TO FACE THEM I WAS THE ONLY ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN WHO WAS GIVEN UP FOR ADOPTION AND WHEN I WAS GROWING UP PEOPLE TOLD ME BAD THINGS ABOUT THEM AND I FELT LIKE I HAD BEEN ABANDONED."
TERESA, BORN THERESA KATE GLENN, IS NOW 23, DIVORCED AND AN ASPIRING SINGER. SHE REMEMBERS NOTHING OF THE DAY IN 1959 WHEN GILBERT AND LORINE GLENN'S THREE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS WERE PLACED IN FOSTER HOMES.
AS SHE TALKS OF THE UPCOMING REUNION, HER EXPRESSIVE FACE MIRRORS ANXIETY THAT FLUCTUATES FROM JOYOUS EXPECTATION TO NERVOUS APPREHENSION. IT ALSO SHOW THE ANGER SHE FEELS AT THE TRICK OF FATE THAT REUNITED HER THREE BROTHERS AND SISTER WITH EACH OTHER AND THEIR PARENTS 10 YEARS AGO WHILE SHE REMAINED SEPARATED FROM THEM ALL.
I WAS THE YOUNGEST AND WAS ADOPTED A YEAR AFTER (FOUND OUT LATER, THE ADOPTION WAS LATER) AFTER THEY SPLIT US ALL UP," SHE SAID. "BUT MY THREE BROTHERS AND MY SISTER WERE IN FOSTER HOMES ALL THAT TIME AND WHEN THE TIME CAME, IT WAS IN 1970, THEY WERE ABLE TO ALL GET TOGETHER AGAIN."
"I KNEW ALL ALONG THAT I HAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY AND WHERE," SHE SAID.
GROWING UP IN AND AROUND WINCHESTER, TENN., NOT KNOWING SHE WAS JUST A FEW HOURS' DRIVE FROM HER LOST KIN, TERESA WAS HAUNTED BY VAGUE MEMORIES OF TWO OF HER SIBLINGS, TWINS JIM AND JANET. (I WANT TONOTE HERE THAT PARAMOUNT COPIED TWINS AND WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE,"YOU TWINS?" "WE'RE NOT RELATION." "WELL YOU BETTER TUCK THAT LIP IN OR YOU ARE GOING TO GET IT CAUGHT ON A TRIP WIRE." I WROTE ALSO THAT GILBERT AND HIS BLACK BUDDY RODE TO THE BASE TOGETHER AND THE BLACK BUDDY WROTE IN A SWORN STATEMENT THAT HE SAID, "WE'RE NOT RELATED." THAT PARAMOUNT COPIED." AND MADE A PARODY OUT OF, AND I WROTE GIBLERT SAID WHEN THE TWINS WERE BORN HIS SAID,"TWINS!")
THE ARTICLE CONTINUES TO READ:
WHEN GILBERT AND LORINE GLENN'S FIVE CHILDREN WERE PLACED IN CUSTODY OF THE STATE IN 1959, TERESA AND THE TWINS, THREE YEARS OLDER THAN SHE, SHARED THEIR FIRST FOSTER HOME.
"I REMEMBER SITTING BY A BIG PICTURE WINDOW WHEN I WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OLD, WATCHING JIM AND JANET GO OFF TO SCHOOL IN THE MORNINGS AND WAITING FOR THEM TO COME HOME IN THE AFTERNOONS," SHE RECALLED. "THEN WE WERE SEPARTED. I WAS ADOPTED AND I NEVER SAW THEM AGAIN.
"WHEN I WAS SAD AND LONELY, I WOULD THINK ABOUT THAT PICTURE WINDOW AND FEEL THAT SOMEDAY, THEY WOULD COME BACK AGAIN.
THE REUNION WITH HER BROTHER JIM, WHO LIVES IN ROCKWOOD, TENN., CAME EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER HE SPENT TWO YEARS TRYING TO UNLOCK SEALED ADOPTION RECORDS. AFTER RUNNING INTO A STONE WALL ON THE OFFICIAL INQUIRIES, HE CAME ACROSS HIS OLD GRADE-SCHOOL TEACHER, MRS. FLOSSIE COX.
MRS. COX, IT SEEMS, KNEW THAT TERESA HAD BEEN ADOPTED BY MR. AND MRS. O.B. JEFFERS. THEN IT WAS LEARNED THAT MR. AND MRS. JEFFERS HAD MOVED KNOXVILLE TO WINCHESTER.
JIM'S FIRST LETTER WAS ADDRESSED SIMPLY: "O.B. JEFFERS, WINCHESTER, TENN." "I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THERESA FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW, HE WROTE. "IF YOU HAVE TOLD HER ABOUT BEING ADOPTED, I WOULD LIKE T MEET HER. IF NOT THEN I WON'T BOTHER BUT BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW SHE IS DOING [AND] I WOULD LIKE A RECENT PICTURE...
"I HAVE BEEN PRAYING THAT SOMEDAY I WOULD FIND MY BABY SISTER, I HOPE THIS IS NOT ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT."
THE REPLY ARRIVED SIX DAYS AFTER HE MAILED HIS LETTER AND INCLUDED A SHOTE NOTE FROM JEFFERS AN AN EMOTIONAL LETTER FROM HIS "BABY SISTER," NOW A GROWN WOMAN WITH A CHILD OF HER OWN.
"FOR SO MANY YEARS I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHERE ALL OF YOU WERE," SHE BEGAN. "I'VE BEEN LONGING AND PRAYING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN FOR TWENTY LONG YEARS...
"YOU SEE, EVER SINCE I COULD REMEBER I'VE KNOWN THAT I WAS ADOPTED, I ALWAYS FELT OUT OF PLACE AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I REALLY HAD ANYBODY. I'D ALWAYS SEE PEOPLE AND WONDER IF THEY COULD BE MY BROTHERS AND SISTER...
SHE WROTE OF HER ONE MEMORY, THE PICTURE WINDOW IN THAT FIRST FOSTER HOME.
"YOU WERE MY BIG BROTHER AND SISTER AND BOTH OF YOU WERE VERY PROTECTIVE OF ME AND I FELT SECURE," SHE WROTE. "IT'S WHEN THEY TOOK YOU AWAY THAT I LOST THAT SECURITY, AND THAT INSECURITY HAS BEEN WITH ME ALL OF MY LIFE. NOW NOTHING IS EVER GOING TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ME AGAIN."
THAT FIRST EXCHANGE WAS FOLLOWED BY OTHER LETTERS AND NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CALLS TO HER SISTER, JANET GLENN TREADWAY, WHO IS MARRIED, HAS THREE CHILDREN AND LIVES IN CINCINNATI; HER BROTHER, GILBERT GLENN JR., WHO LIVES IN BOSTON, AND HER BIOLOGICAL PARENTS, WHO LIVE IN A KNOXVILLE HOUSING PROJECT.
HER ELDEST BROTHER, DAMON GLENN, IS MENTALLY RETARED AND LIVES WITH FOSTER PARENTS IN KNOXVILLE, TERESA SAID.
TERESA'S FATHER, WHOSE OFTEN ELOQUENT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR APPEAR FREQUENTLY IN KNOXVILLE-AREA NEWSPAPERS, HOMEBOUND BY ARTHRITIS. HIS LETTERS TO JIM AND TERESA EXPRESS LOVE AND SEEK UNDERSTANDING.
HE MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO HIDE HIS BITTERNESS OVER THE EVENTS THAT TORE HIS FAMILY APART. HARD TIMES ARE BLAMED ON THE AIR FORCE FROM WHICH WAS FORCIBLY DISCHARGED IN 1954 BECAUSE OF A MEDICAL PROBLEM AND RELATIVES WHO HE SAYS MEDDLED IN HIS MARRIAGE. (AND THE WHISTLEBLOWING ON THE CROWN)
THOSE RELATIVES, HE SAYS ARE TO BLAME FOR CHARGES OF NEGLECT THAT RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF HIS CHILDREN.
"WE WERE SEPARATED FROM OUR CHILDREN ON MAY 29, 1959, AND WERE EXONERATED OF THE CHARGE OF NEGLECT BY THE KNOX COUNTY GRAND JURY IN JANURARY, 1960," THE ELDER GLENN SAID.
HE AND HIS WIFE WERE UNABLE TO PICK UP THE PIECES IMMEDIATELY, HE SAID, BECAUSE BY THAT TIME..[WE] WERE TWO COMPLETELY DEMORALIZED PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN CRUSHED."
TERESA SAID SHE UNDERSTANDS HER ADOPTIVE PARENTS MORE AS A RESULT OF THE REUNION WITH HER NATURAL FAMILY.
"I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CLOSE IN SPIRIT WITH MY NATURAL FAMILY, EVEN THOUGH I NEVER KNEW THEM. BUT I UNDERSTAND AND CHERISH MORE NOW THE LOVE BETWEEN ME AND MY ADOPTIVE PARENTS." SHE SAID, ADDING:
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO TO SAY TO MY NATURAL PARENTS WHEN I SEE THEM OR WHAT THE REUNION WILL BE LIKE I'M CONFUSED ABOUT IT ALL BUT IT SURE BEATS NOW KNOWING."
THE EMOTIONAL CONFUSION HAS BEEN MULTIPLIED, SHE SAID BY THE FACT THAT SHE RECENTLY CUT HER FIRST RECORD AND IS TRYING TO LAUNCH A SINGING CAREER.
SHE IS SINGING UNDER THE NAME TERRI GLENN AND HER FIRST SONG FOR ELECTRA LITE RECORDS , IS TITLED "DADDY."
I AM GOING TO POST THIS ARTICLE AND I WILL QUOTE IT HERE. I CAN NOT BELIEVE HOW NAIVE I WAS WHEN I WENT INTO THIS AND I STILL AM NAIVE, THINKING THAT THERE CAN BE SOME FORM OF JUSTICE FROM PEOPLE WHO ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO GIVE ME ANY JUSTICE. IT READS:
WINCHESTER WOMAN TAKES CLAIMS ON 'GUMP' MOVIE TO TOP COURT
BY BEENEA A. HYATT
THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES
A WINCHESTER, TENN., NATIVE HAS PETITIONED THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IF SHE CAN TAKE A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE GIANT TO COURT OVER SCRIPTS SHE BELIEVES WERE USED TO MAKE THE ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING MOVIE FORREST GUMP.
LAST WEEK, SAMANTHA KENNEDY, WHO NOW LIVES IN SAN DIEGO, SHIPPED 150-POUNDS OF EVIDENCE SPECIAL DELIVERY TO THE SUPREME COURT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MS. KENNEDY CLAIMS A MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANY STOLE HER UNPUBLISHED SCRIPTS BY CHANGING CHARACTERS AROUND, BUT THAT THE PLOTS ARE BASICALLY THE SAME.
AS EVIDENCE, SHE LISTED 725 EXAMPLES IN WHICH HER SCRIPTS WERE USED IN THE MOVIE. SHE ALSO LISTED MORE THAN 300 CHARACTER COMPARISONS SHE SAID WERE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL AND NOTED 100PLOT SIMILARITIES.
SEVEN YEARS AGO, MS. KENNEDY BEGAN SENDING SCRIPTS TO HOLLYWOOD AGENTS AND EVENTUALLY COPYRIGHTED HER MATERIAL FO A NOVEL THAT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED. THE STORIES WERE SERIOUS SCRIPTS ABOUT MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE. ONE CHARACER BECAME A NATIONAL HERO AND ANOTHER WORE A PLAID SHIRT TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY AND CARRIED A SACK LUNCH.
AFTER SEEING FORREST GUMP IN 1994, MS. KENNEDY SAID SHE KNEW IMMEDIATELY THE MATERIAL WAS HERS. SHE SAID SOME SCENES WERE CHANGED A LITTLE TO MASK PLAGIARISM. (COPIED AND IMBELLISHED) CHARACTERS IN MS. KENNEDY'S BOOK SAT ON A BUS BENCH, NOT IN THEPARK AND THEY FISHED INSTEAD OF CATCHING SHRIMP.
MS. KENNEDY FILED A LAWSUIT IN AUGUST 1994 (TYPO, FILED JUNE 1995)AGAINST PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP., VIACOM INC. AND BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
LAST FEBRUARY, A JUDGE RULED AGAINST MS. KENNEDY, BUT DECLARED HER SUIT NONFRIVOLOUS WHICH OPENED THE DOOR FOR AN APPEAL. SHE FILED A BRIEF LAST SEPTEMBER TO THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, BUT THE JUDGE UPHELD THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION.
"I THINK I HAVE A BETTER CHANCE IN THE SUPREME COURT, " SAID MS. KENNEDY. "I THINK I'VE PRESENTED ENOUGH INFORMATION FOR IT TO GO ON TO TRIAL."
PARAMOUNT PICTURES CLAIMS THE CHARACTER FORRET GUMP IS BASED ON A BOOK BY WINSTON GROOM, BUT MS. KENNEDY SAID GROOM'S BOOK IS TOTALLY DIFERENT FROM THE MOVIE.
"WHAT'S REALLY WILD, IN ORDER FOR ME TO DETECT THAT SOMEONE STOLE MY STORY, I PUT IN A LINE FROM ONE OF MY PREVIOUS PUBLISHED POEMS," SHE SAID. "THAT PUT UP A RED FLAG WHEN IT APPEARED IN THE SCREEN PLAY."
IN OTHER WORDS I HAD PLANTED A LINE OR PHRASE FROM A POEM THAT ALREADY BEEN PUBLISHED IN A HARDBOUND BOOK AND UPON RECIEVING A COPY OF THE GUMP SCRIPT FROM THE DEFENDANTS, I FOUND IT IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, I TRIED TO TELL THE JUDGE IN THE LOWER COURT, I GOT THE MARSHALL CALLED ON ME FOR IT. OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM I HAD A CONFRONTATION WITH PARAMOUNT'S ATTORNEY. I LOST MY TEMPER OUTSIDE THERE, NOT IN THE COURT ROOM, THERE WAS NO NEED TO HAVE DONE WHAT THEY DID TO ME IN THERE. I YELLED AT ONE OF THEIR ATTORNEYS AND SAID OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM, " YOU LYING DOG, I HOPE YOU BURN IN THE HOTTEST PART OF HELL!" I LOST MY TEMPER. IT WAS WRONG, BUT, I DID.
BY BEENEA A. HYATT
SAMANTHA KENNEDY SAID SHE'S NEITHER WEALTHY NOR POWERFUL, BUT THE WINCHESTER, TENN., NATIVE HAS RECENTLY SHOWN ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S BIGGEST MOVIEMAKERS THAT SIZE DOESN'T MATTER IN THE COURTROOM.
MRS. KENNEDY IS SUING PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP., VIACOM INC. AND BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
THE SAN DIEGO, CALIF., RESIDENT CLAIMS THE 1994 ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING MOVIE "FORREST GUMP" WAS BASED UPON HER UNPUBLISHED SCRIPTS. CHARACTERS WERE CHANGED AROUND, BUT THE PLOT WAS BASICALLY THE SAME AS HER STORIES, ACCORDING TO MRS. KENNEDY. AND SOME SCENES WERE CHANGED TO MASK PLAGIARISM, SHE SAID.
"THEY WERE MY DIARIES AND BIOGRAPHIES AND THEY MADE A PARODY OUT OF IT," SAID MRS. KENNEDY. "IT'S ILLEGAL TO TAKE SOMEONE'S PRIVATE, UNPUBLISHED BOOKS OR DIARIES."
PARAMOUNT PICTURES CLAIMS THE CHARACTER OF FORREST GUMP IS BASED ON A BOOK BY WINSTON GROOM, BUT MRS. KENNEDY SAID GROOM'S BOOK IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE MOVIE. THE SCREENPLAY IS MORE SIMILAR TO HER SCRIPTS THAN GROOM'S BOOK, SHE SAID.
IN FEBRUARY 1997, A JUDGE RULED AGAINST MRS. KENNEDY, BUT DECLARED HER LAWSUIT WAS NOT FRIVOLOUS, OPENING THE DOOR FOR AN APPEAL. HOWEVER, THE APPEALS COURT JUDGE UPHELD THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IN SEPTEMBER 1997.
BUT HOPE WAS REINSTATED EARLIER THIS YEAR WHEN THE LOWER COURT FOUND INCONSISTENCIES IN THE DEFENDATS' STORY. AS A RESULT, MRS. KENNEDY CAN REFILE A MOTION AND POSSIBLE FORCE A JURY TRIAL.
ACCORDING TO MRS. KENNEDY, ONE OF THOSE INCONSISTENCIES WAS A QUESTION
ABOUT PRIOR KNOWLEGE THE DEFENDANTS HAD ABOUT THE PLAINTIFF. ACCORDING TO MRS.KENNEDY, THE DEFENDANTS CLAIMED THEY DIDN'T KNOW HER.
BUT MRS. KENNEDY MOVED TO CALIFORNIA IN 1987 AND STUDIED BRIEFLY WITH PARAMOUNT PICTURES. SHE EVEN GOT SEVERAL SMALL ACTING ROLES.
"WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO IS MAKE IT LOOK LIKE I DIDN'T EXIST,' SAID MRS. KENNEDY.
LAST YEAR, MRS. KENNEDY SHIPPED MORE THAN 150 POUNDS OF EVIDENCE SPECIAL DELIVERY TO THE SUPREME COURT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AS EVIDENCE, SHE LISTED 725 EXAMPLES OF HER SCRIPTS THAT WERE USED IN THE MOVIE, AND FOUND MORE THAN 300 CHARACTER COMPARISONS THAT WERE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO HERS. SHE ALSO NOTED 100 PLOT SIMILARITIES.
NOTE:THE REASON NO ONE SAW NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON THIS CASE OR IT BEING IN THE NEWS, I REFUSED, I KNEW THAT IT WOULD HURT MY FAMILY. A FEW ARTICLES CAME OUT AFTER I LOST. I MAY WRITE AND PUBLISH A BOOK ABOUT THE CASE JUS THE SAME WHEN A BOOK WAS PUBLISHED ABOUT THE LATE ART BUCHWALD CASE AGAINS PARAMOUNT WHEN HE SUED THEM OVER THE MOVIE, "COMING TO AMERICA" AND HE SUE THEM FOR A LONG TIME. "COMING TO AMERICA" WAS ABOUT A PRINCE WHO CAME TO AMERICA TO FIND HIS TRUE LOVE AND TO BECOME MARRIED. MY OPTIONS ARE OPEN AND I AM SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT PUBLISING A BOOK ABOUT THE CASE.
WE ARE PROUD TO SAY THAT OUR FLAG WAS FLOWN OVER THE CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON D.C. FOR MY HONOR IN BECOMING AMBASSADOR TO THE SOVEREIGN ORDER. AS IT STATES ON THE WASHINGTON D.C. CERTIFICATE. THANK YOU SO MUCH SENATOR BIDEN AND SENATOR BOXER, WE WERE SO HAPPY!
THIS IS A PHOTO THAT SENTATOR BIDEN HAD SENT TO ME SOME TIME AGO. PRESIDENTAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA HAS ANNOUNCED THAT SENATOR BIDEN WILL BE HIS CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT. CONGRATULATIONS, JOE BIDEN!
FROM PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY
THIS PHOTO TAKEN OF LOUIE, PEARL AND LITTLE GILBERT WAS TAKEN IN THE SPRING OF 1933. PEARL WAS A NATURAL BLONDE WITH PRETTY BLUE EYES. SHE WAS A VERY NICE LADY.
DEAR FRIENDS HERE ARE A COUPLE OF LINKS. ONE IS TO MY PRINCESS SAMANTHA OFFICIAL WEB PAGE AND ONE IS OUR DEAR FRIEND HM NORODOM SIHANOUK KING OF CAMBODIA A VERY GREAT MAN. WE HAVE ENJOYED HIS LETTERS OF ENCOURAGEMENT OVER THE YEARS AND WE KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY HIS WEBSITE. HIS LETTERS FROM CHINA HAVE BEEN THOUGHTFUL AND KIND. HE TOLD ME THAT HE LIKED MY POETRY AND THAT BEING A POET WAS VERY NOBLE AND THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED BY AS A POET.
I WANT TO THANK THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO, THE MAYOR AND THE LIBRARY FOR HONORING ME THREE YEARS IN A ROW FOR POET AND AUTHOR. THANK YOU, IT WAS A GREAT HONOR. AND THANK QUEEN ELIZABETH FOR INVITING ME TO ENGLAND FOR THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND MAKING ME A FOUNDING MEMBER.
HERE IS A DIFFERENT LINK FOR THE KING OF CAMBODIA!
http://norodomsihanouk.info/
I HAVE A NEW MESSAGE BOARD, PLEASE SEND NICE MESSAGES AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES.
http://www.princess-samantha.principato-di-seborga.com/Message%20Board.htm
MORE TO COME!
CHECK OUT FRANK SINATRA AT MY HOLLYWOOD PHOTOS, I MISS FRANK.
JUST LINK ONTO http://www.princess-samantha.principato-di-seborga.com AND SELECT HOLLYWOOD PHOTOS LINK, FRANK SENT THIS PHOTO PERSONALLY TO ME.
IF YOU GO TO MY WEBPAGE AND CLICK ON PRINCESS SAMANTHA YOU CAN SEE THE KING OF CAMBODIA'S LETTER, THE QUEEN'S LETTER FROM ENGLAND AND A PHOTO OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILIP.
NOW I WANT TO SHARE WITH MY GOOD FRIENDS MY POETRY PAGE CALLED PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY'S POETRY PAGE. I HOPE YOU LIKE MY POEMS I HAVE WRITTEN SINCE I WAS A YOUNG GIRL.
http://community.webtv.net/princesssamanth/PRINCESSSAMANTHA
http://community-2.webtv.net/princesssamanth/PRINCESSSAMANTHA
I WANT TO SHARE THIS PHOTO OF MY BOYS WITH YOU. MY UNCLE LOUIE EMAILED THIS PHOTO TO ME TODAY. I HAD SENT THIS PHOTO TO HIM IN 1992 AND I HAD FORGOTTEN. THIS IS IN CALIFORNIA AND FROM LEFT TO RIGHT IS ADAM AND HE IS HOLDING "BUNNY" THE RABBIT. THEN THERE IS MICAH WALKING OUR DOGS, OLLIE AND HIS MOTHER, HER NAME IS LUCKY AND SHE IS ON THE FAR RIGHT. SADLY WE WERE TOLD WHERE WE WERE RENTING THE HOUSE THAT WE COULD NOT LONGER HAVE PETS THERE AND IT WAS HEARTBREAKING. WE SCREENED SEVERAL PEOPLE UNTIL WE FOUND A VERY NICE FAMILY WHO TOOK BOTH SON AND MOTHER TO A HUGE RANCH WHERE THEY COULD BE FREE TO RUN AND ENJOY LIFE. A VERY GOOD LIFE.
http://community.webtv.net/teresasfamilyletters/WELCOMETOSUNNY
http://community-2.webtv.net/teresasfamilyletters/WELCOMETOSUNNY
http://community.webtv.net/princesssamanth/THEPRINCESSSAMANTHA
http://community-2.webtv.net/princesssamanth/THEPRINCESSSAMANTHA
http://community.webtv.net/LadyofSeborga/PRINCESSSAMANTHA
http://community-2.webtv.net/LadyofSeborga/PRINCESSSAMANTHA
http://community.webtv.net/LadyofSeborga/YOURREPRESENTATIVE
http://community-2.webtv.net/LadyofSeborga/YOURREPRESENTATIVE
http://community.webtv.net/THEROYALFAMILY/THEROYALFAMILYWEB
http://community-2.webtv.net/THEROYALFAMILY/THEROYALFAMILYWEB
http://www.princess-samanth.principato-di-seborga.com
http://community.webtv.net/princesssamanth/MOREPHOTOS
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NEW WEBPAGE PHOTOS
http://community.webtv.net/teresasphotos/THEROYALPAGE
http://community-2.webtv.net/teresasphotos/THEROYALPAGE
NEWS FOR OCTOBER 3, 2007
HERE WE HAVE A NEW WEBPAGE THAT WE HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY! IT IS CALLED THE ROYAL PAGE.
http://community.webtv.net/teresasphotos/THEROYALPAGE
http://community-2.webtv.net/teresasphotos/THEROYALPAGE
I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU A PLACE OF MY CHILDHOOD. I USE TO STAY HERE AND I PLAYED THERE AS A CHILD. I WROTE POEMS ABOUT IT AND WROTE POEMS THERE. IT IS 100 OAKS CASTLE IN WINCHESTER. I HAVE HAD MANY HAPPY MEMORIES THERE, RUNNING THROUGH THE YARD, LYING DOWN ON THE GRASS TO LOOK UP AT THE SKY AND DREAM. I EVEN PRETENDED THAT I WOULD BE MARRIED THERE AND DREAM ABOUT THAT. THE CASTLE DOES HAVE A HISTORY OF BAD LUCK AND ALSO POSITIVE THINGS. THE LAST TIME I TALKED TO THE PEOPLE AT THE CASTLE, IT WAS DONATED TO THE DISABLED CITIZENS LIKE A PLACE OF REHABILITATION AND FOR THEM TO LEARN TO WORK AND THEY LIVED THERE. PART OF THE CASTLE HAD BURNED AND I WAS SO SADDENED WHEN THEY TOLD ME AT THE CASTLE WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND THEY WERE TRYING TO GET FUNDS TO REBUILD IT. THE INSTRUCTOR WANTED ME AND ADAM TO COME BACK AND LIVE THERE, THEY WERE VERY SERIOUS AND THEY WANTED TO PUT UP A PLAQUE IN HONOR OF US. IF WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY WHERE ELSE TO GO, WE COULD LIVE THERE. THEN THEREAFTER, IT WAS SOLD. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CITIZENS THERE, I HEARD THEY ARE DOING FINE AND I'VE LEARNED THAT PRINCE CHARLES' DRAWINGS ARE THERE, TOO.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PLACE OF MY CHILDHOOD LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE:
http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/hundred.htm
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR VISIT TO 100 OAKS CASTLE!
PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY
I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO TENNESSEE WHERE I AM FROM. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL STATE.
LOVE,
PRINCESS SAMANTHA KENNEDY
http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/photos/index.html
AND TO OUR NEW WEBPAGE
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I HOPE YOU ENJOY TENNESSEE!
LOVE,
DAME LADY PRINCESS SAMANTHA TERESA KENNEDY
THIS IS SIR ADAM WHEN HE WAS LITTLE.
HE LOVES ANYTHING OUTER SPACE AND SPACE EXPLORATION.
YOU KNOW, I HAVE A PHOTO OF DEAN MARTIN THAT HE AUTOGRAPHED PERSONALLY TO ME AND I POSTED IT AT MY HOLLYWOOD PHOTOS WEBPAGE AND I WANT TO MENTION SOME THINGS HERE. I ATE DINNER A FEW TIMES WITH DEAN AT HIS FAVORITE RESTURANT IN BEVERLY HILLS AND I WAS INVITED BACK A FEW TIMES. HIS FAMILY WAS THERE AND HE EVEN SANG TO US, I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. ONE TIME I TOOK THE PHOTO HE SENT TO ME AS A CHILD AND HE VERIFIED THAT IT WAS HIS SIGNATURE, HE TOOK A BUSINESS CARD OF THE RESTURANT AND HE SIGNED HIS NAME ON THE BACK OF THE CARD AND HE SAID, "SEE IT'S MY SIGNATURE." AND IT WAS, I STILL HAVE THAT RESTURANT CARD AND GOOD MEMORIES AND THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM, I KISSED HIM ON THE CHEEK AS HE GOT INTO HIS CAR OUTSIDE THE RESTURANT, WHILE OTHERS CHEERED FOR HIM, HE WAS NOT WELL. THEN THERE WERE SO MANY CAMERA LIGHTS GOING OFF, I COULDN'T SEE. IT WAS SAD AND I STOOD THERE CRYING AS WE ALL WATCHED HIS CAR DRIVE AWAY, BECAUSE I NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN. ALL OF US KNEW WE WOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN. I GREW UP WATCHING DEAN MARTIN AND JERRY LEWIS MOVIES. AND I ALWAYS LOVED THEM. IN MY BIOGRAPHIES AND SCRIPTS THAT PARAMOUNT USED TO MAKE "FORREST GUMP", I WROTE ABOUT DEAN MARITN AND JERRY LEWIS AND "THE CADDY."
I WANT TO MENTION THAT JERRY HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR CHILDREN WITH "JERRY'S KIDS" AND I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO SUFFER. I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE IN A WHEELCHAIR, I HAD TO BE IN A WHEELCHAIR FOR A PRETTY GOOD TIME AND AFTER MY ILLNES, I HAD TO LEARN HOW TO WALK ALL OVER AGAIN, I HAD BEEN IN BED FOR A LONG TIME AND BECAUSE OF THE CARDIAC ARREST WHILE I WAS HAVING SURGERY, I DON'T REMEMBER A LOT OF MY LIFE BEFORE I WAS TWENTY ONE. I REMEBER THINGS AFTERWARD AND I REMEMBER BEING IN THAT WHEELCHAIR, I WAS SO WEAK AND IT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT TIME FOR ME. MY DOCTOR WHEELED ME TO THIS DOCTOR'S CONFERENCE WITH SO MANY DOCTORS IN THE ROOM. AND I SAT THERE WHILE THEY TALKED ABOUT ME AND MY CASE. AND I COULD SEE ALL THE DOCTORS IN THAT VAST ROOM SMILING BACK AT ME, I DIDN'T WEIGH VERY MUCH, BUT, I WAS HAPPY BECAUSE GOD LET ME LIVE. I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE IN A WHEELCHAIR AND WHEN HE PUSHED ME THROUGH THE CROWD OF DOCTORS, THEY WERE APPLAUDING ME AND I WAS SMILING, I WAS HAPPY AND I WAS GETTING BETTER. I WROTE ABOUT MY WHEELCHAIR EXPERIENCE AND I AM AFRAID PARAMOUNT EXPLOITED IT IN THE MOTION PICTURE, THEY USED THE WHEELCHAIR, IN WAYS THAT WERE NOT SO NICE, SOME OF THEIR ADD ONS, MAKING UP SOME THINGS TO EMBELLISH THE MOTION PICTURE, DEVISTATED ME, THAT THEY COULD DO THIS TO ME. I WORSHIPED THEM AND I LOOKED UP TO THEM. I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED FOR SUING OVER "FORREST GUMP." I ALWAYS THOUGHT IF YOU HAVE PROPERTY AND SOMEONE STEALS IT, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO GET IT BACK AND THE MONEY TOO THAT THEY MADE FROM IT. I HAVE BEEN HARRASSED ON AN ONGOING, RELENTLESS MISERY OF IT FOR SO LONG NOW. I DIDN' T DESERVE ANY OF IT. I WANTED TO LEAD A QUIET LIFE WITH SOMEONE WHO COULD LOVE ME, SORT OF LIKE IN THE MOTION PICTURE, "THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE." I BELIEVE THAT IS THE NAME OF THIS CLASSIC MOVIE. THE TELEVISION SHOW, "FATHER KNOWS BEST" STAR, ROBERT YOUNG MADE "THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE" A CLASSIC. BUT, WE DON'T GET WHAT WE WANT IN LIFE, WE GET PEOPLE WHO RIP OUR HEARTS OUT AND AND LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK.
THANK YOU JERRY FOR THE MANY THINGS YOU HAVE DONE FOR THOSE WHO MAY WALK A LITTLE SLOWER, WHO MAY TALK A LITTLE SLOWER AND WHO MIGHT HAVE TO SIT IN A WHEELCHAIR.
http://www.deanmartinfancenter.com/index/rightframe/07mandl/07mandl.html
http://members.aol.com/norky1995
http://www.usatoday.com/file/2002-08-29-jerry_x.htm
JERRY LEWIS
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THIS IS ADAM WHEN HE GOT TO MEET THE CHARGERS FOOTBALL TEAM. HE IS WAITING FOR HIS AUTOGRAPH HERE.
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