Talk:Jack Drummond
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For reasons which I imagine are pretty clear, I'm marking this one for cleanup.
Foxshox 03:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Foxshox, you're not kidding!
- Just heard a piece on BBC Radio 4's Start The Week on this guy, fascinating. Audio should be on the BBC web site shortly.
- --NSH001 08:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
I will shortly be replacing what remains of the original content of the main page. For the record, I am copying it here:
Sir Jack Drummond and his whole family, wife Lady Anne and daughter Elizabeth were assassinated on August 4th 1952 in Lurs (Provence France). Officially he was murdered by an old peasant Gaston Dominici, whose farm was close to the halt of the family. But the real thesis is an espionage affair, coming from the Cold War. The book "The Vitamin Murders: Who Killed Healthy Eating in Britain?" by James Fergusson will be published on 14 Jun 2007. He was interviewed on BBC Radio4's "The Week Ahead" on 28 May 2007. He said the murders took place close to a major French agri-chemicals factory, while Sir Jack was working in that field, developing many since-banned herbicides and insecticides, in contrast to his earlier career in diet science, especially during wartime rationing. He described him as "the Jamie Oliver of the 40's".
Note that the programme was Start The Week, not "The Week Ahead", and that Fergusson called him "the Jamie Oliver of his day."
--NSH001 20:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A very precise article
Dear unknown author and supervisor
Many congratulations for this very documented and precise article. For instance the fact that G. Dominici was not gracied but just released by Ch. de Gaulle is real. So, officially Gaston is still ... guilty !!!
An element which could be added: the place where the Drummond are buried. It is in the classified cemetery of the well-known touristic town of Forcalquier, about 25 km East of Lurs.
As Sir Jack had no more family, and the mother of Anne, Mrs Wilbraham didn't ask for the bodies, exceptionnally three British citizens are not buried in the UK.
Would like to add an external link to my glossaryconcerning the Affair, situated on Babylon.com.
As you know, if the same entries exist in Wikipedia they can be connected directly from the alphabetical list on Bab, to the equal definitions in Wikipedia, by default the french encyclopedia.
Now some remarks.
Just in the list of french references, some are so so. As the Dominici Affair doesn't exist any more, it is rightful to use the words "Affaire Dominici" in the title and text and video only if you demonstrate that the Dominicis are out of it, for example in the book of William Reymond.
On the contrary, the book and video of Mr Deniau are swindles. In french there is an expression "the weight of words, the shock of photos and videos".
It is the case of the interview of W. Bartkowski, the driver of the commando of killers, who is now more than 80 and is a homeless.
The only available testimony is his interrogatory
by two police officers, one french and one english, just two months after the events (he was in jail only one week after the facts and was sentenced to 12 years for other reasons in his heavy past).
The process of interviews of very old men such as Bartkowski and Maillet is a total dishonest mean of quest, and the title "Dominici: C'était une affaire de famille" is slanderous for the Dominici family.
The other books saying the guilt of Gaston don't say the truth but they are less important because they don't bring any evidence.
"C'est Lurs qui Dominici"
C'est l'U.R.S.S. (USSR) qui domine ici
in Le Canard Enchaîné in August 1952
"En vérité il faut le dire ici
il n'y a pas d'Affaire Dominici"
Sincerely,
affaire04@tele2.fr
To Master Fanx
Hummmm as there is no "Murdered British People" category in Wikipedia i'm afraid Sir Jack and whole family, after being buried in a foreign country (Forcalquier France) are definitively buried a second time.
But M. Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian subject, with the English nationality i suppose, is vey well categorized in the category: "Assassinated British people".
I propose this to be undone.
Affair04 (talk) 15:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
