Kurt Cobain Was Murdered

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, the Original Website by Seattle Journalist Richard Lee

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered

Entire contents copyright Richard Lee 1994-2005.

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WELCOME TO THE ORIGINAL "KCWM" WEBSITE BY SEATTLE JOURNALIST RICHARD LEE, NOW AND FOREVER THE UR-CONTENT PAGE IN THIS CONTROVERSY, AND TRULY THE ONLY SITE THAT MATTERS ON THIS SUBJECT...

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SCHEDULE CHANGE: OUR WEEKLY PROGRAM IS NOW SEEN

THURSDAYS AT 11:30 PM (BEGINNING SEPT. 15)

ON SEATTLE CHANNEL 29/77

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SEE ALSO NOW OUR CAMPAIGN SITE AT

http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/richardlee

This adjunct site includes press release material on recent

legal actions against us by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.

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On This Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported October 27, 2005

“…Asshole” Part Five

“Full Mental Jack-off:

In Our Just-released, Long-withheld Video Footage,

Ex Police Chief Norm Stamper Doesn’t Seem To Mind at All

A Discussion of His Serial Killer Personality, but When

Danny Goldberg Is Mentioned, Boy, Do the Goons Go Nuts”

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On Last Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 29, 2005

“KCWM For Mayor” Part Eight

“S’tymied Again in Candidate’s Non-interview:

Is the Seattle Times Really a Newspaper Anymore,

or Just a Front for the Blethen Family’s Scheme

To Partner Up in the Allentown Development,

and Soak the Taxpayers for About a Billion in Cold Hard?”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Richard Lee speaks at a human services coalition candidates’ forum on September 8, only 6 hours after being released from King County Jail.

LEE: Just an anecdote here before we get into the hard policy issues here. I was at Greg Nickels barbeque last night—he came into my neighborhood with a barbeque, I got an invitation, I’m not sure why, I don’t get a lot of Democratic party material, but you know, I was doing my show as I usually do, and attempting to speak to Mr. Nickels as he entered his limousine, and I was set upon by apparently plainclothes police, and then really roughed up, and then they claimed that I assaulted them, and I spent 16 hours in jail. That’s not 'The Seattle Way' that’s the Greg Nickels way. I mean it’s right there in my voters’ guide statement—Greg Nickels bullying attitude is the big problem with politics in this city. You know, he’s erasing the traditions that have developed over many decades here, particularly with neighborhood planning and a lot of other things, and then you’ve got his little, ah, stand-in here tonight, because Mr. Nickels will not face his critics, I mean he’s willing to get the goons after them if they’re able to get ten seconds of good footage of him running from an important question… And...look at this campaign thing I got last night, ‘Greg Nickels,’ and then the first line is, ‘Created over 60,000 jobs in the Seattle area.’ Well, we know this is false, in fact I heard him giving his speech last night and he reduced it to 20,000 jobs. So which is it, is it 20,000, 60,000, or none?”

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 15, 2005

Season Premiere

“KCWM For Mayor” Part Seven

“Funeral Baked Meats:

Current Mayor Holds Flesh Roasting Event

About 100 Yards from Cobain Grave Robbing

and Corpse Mutilation Crime Scene,

Curiously, KCWM Is Invited Guest, and Is, Of Course,

Attacked and Jailed by Our Political Opponent's Official Thugs"

(Program Note: This program will likely air next week--it was censored from airing on 9/15/05 by "community television" agency SCAN, whose director has admitted she considers mayor Greg Nickels to be her "boss").

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

“KCWM For Mayor” Part Six

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 3, 2005

“Citizen Dick:

KCWM Interviews With Local Hearst Daily,

Decries Limp-dickedness In Seattle Political Culture”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 27, 2005

“Murdergate Meets KCWM For Mayor”

“False Statistics:

Public Safety Chair and Police Chief

Keep Internal Affairs Stats All Faked Up,

Then Dash From Our Questions,

and Mayor Evades KCWM, Too”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 20, 2005

“KCWM For Mayor” and

“…You’re Gonna Die, Asshole” Parts Four

“Yesterday’s News:

KCWM Has High-stress Friday,

Headbanging With Portland Law Bright and Early,

Returning To Expose Unethical Conduct

of Seattle Ethics Office Before Close of Beeswax”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 13, 2005

“KCWM For Mayor”

Part Three

“Our Platform Is Simple:

A Family-friendly City

and No Corporate Welfare for Geffen’s Partner Paul Allen--

A Message Mayor Darth V. Speeds Away From Hearing”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 6, 2005

“’I’d Whisper in Their Ear, You’re Gonna Die, Asshole’”

Part Three

“The Book Business Is About

The Dirtiest Goddam Business In The World Right Now:

Mild-mannered KCWM Appears at Stamper Event

in Portland, Is Jumped Upon by Waiting Goons,

Busted by Local Copperoos”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 30, 2005

“KCWM for Mayor” Part Two

“2,500 Seattle Signatories Can’t Be Wrong:

KCWM Files for Mayor’s Job,

Ex Top Boss at Elections Office Is Under Indictment,

but Their Procedures Are Still Marred by Goofy-assed Laxity”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 23, 2005

“’I’d Whisper in Their Ear, You’re Gonna Die, Asshole’”

Part Two

A Brutal Civility:

Ex Top Cop and Ex Alterna-weekly Owner

Have KCWM Attacked by Goons,

SPD Cops a Do-nothing Attitude,

Seattleite Zombies Line Up To Pay for Stamper’s Words of Wisdom”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 16, 2005

“’I’d Whisper in Their Ear, You’re Gonna Die, Asshole’”

Part One

"Ex-Police Chief Norm Stamper Returns to Seattle,

KCWM Pays $5 for Q&A Session,

Is Brutally Assaulted When Daring To Ask About His Old

Extravagant Claims of Brutality, and His New Employment by

Danny Goldberg, Nirvana’s Old Manager”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 9, 2005

"KCWM for Mayor" Part One

“Nickels’ ‘Seattle Way’:

KCWM Begins Political Campaign,

Armed Coppers Show Up Within Minutes”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 2, 2005

“Murdergate” Part Three

“American Idle:

City Council Members and Wannabes

Audition for ‘Music Industry’ Graft

by Promising Corporate and Personal Welfare

and Telling The Average Schmuck ‘if you want

peace and quiet, you better live in the suburbs’”



SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT JAN DRAGO: The way I look at it is, if you want peace and quiet, you better live in the suburbs, ‘cause if you want to live downtown, you’re gonna deal with noise. And even if you live in the neighborhoods of Seattle, you’re probably gonna deal with noise…Wait, and let me add just one thing. Well, you moved there, making a choice, and you know what’s there before you moved there.

MAYORAL AIDE AND CITY COUNCIL WANNABE CASEY CORR: I agree with a lot of that…Fundamentally, Jan is correct, if you want to live in the downtown area…that’s your choice.

CITY COUNCIL MEMBER RICHARD CONLIN: I agree with the basic principle that has been annunciated…

CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC SAFETY CHAIR NICK LICATA: When people move downtown, the realtors should be providing them a statement that says you are moving into the downtown area, this is not the suburbs, you should be expecting higher levels of noise…

--All recorded at a June 29, 2005 National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences candidates' forum.

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported June 25, 2005

“'Last Days'…” Part Two

“Courtney Love or Confusion:

New Cobain Necro-pic

Very Precisely Spins Details From Official Lies,

So Is Van Sant Just Dumb, or

Is He Serving Some Dark Lord?”

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On The Previous New Program:

"'Last Days': It's Confused, So Long, So Untrue”

Part One

“Van Sant Appears for 3 Minutes at

Premiere of New Flick, Just Long Enough

To Say He’s ‘very scared’ of KCWM,

from Whom He Copped His Title,

from Our 1999 BBC Rock Shrines Interview”

“So perhaps you haven’t heard a great deal about the research, but that Kurt Cobain was murdered is a provable point beyond a reasonable degree of doubt. Who killed Kurt Cobain and the specific details of his last days or last hours will always be a matter of controversy…"

Richard Lee, from BBC’s Rock Shrines series, released in 2000.

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On The Previous New Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported June 11, 2005

“Murdergate” Part Two

“All the President’s Men:

Nirvana, Inc.-JAMPAC President ‘Stretch’ Novoselic

Keeps the Grease Flowing to Public Safety Chair,

Who Calls It a ‘Stretch’ To See This as

Connected to Murder Evidence He Obstructed,

Then Opts To Keep Throat Resealed”

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On The Previous New Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 21, 2005

Season Premiere

“Murdergate” Part One

“Overcoming Overreaching Ban,

KCWM Returns to Seat of Government

To Question Public Safety Chair on His

Taking of Thousands of Dollars from

Novoselic’s Lobbying Partner Whilst

Quashing Evidence of Cobain’s Murder”

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On The Previous New Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 25, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Six

“Detective Friction:

LASD Interrogation of KCWM

by Dynamic Duo Who Seem to Have

Been Fed A Lot of Choice Skinny

From None Other Than CLC Herself,

14:17-16:02, January 12, 2005”

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On Last Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 18, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Five

"Fulsome Prison Blues:

I Wasn’t Shot by the

Sheriff and His Deputies,

But LA County Lock-up

Ain’t the Beverly Hilton"

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 11, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Four

“Illegal Seizure and Search:

KCWM Nabbed,

Our Cool Stuff Grabbed,

We All Confabbed in

Gnarly Dragnet Spoof”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 4, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Three

“Breakfast of Champions:

The Three-day Hunger Stint

Comes to an End, and

KCWM Scarfs and Vents”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 28, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Two

“Foreboding and Aftermath:

KCWM Arrives, Is Abducted by Police, Is Eventually Released,

and The World Reacts”

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“COURTNEY LOVE AND ‘GUN’ PLAY:

WHY WAS I ARRESTED?”

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“WHY DID MANY IN THE MEDIA AUTOMATICALLY BELIEVE COURTNEY LOVE’S CLAIM OF RESTORATION OF CUSTODY OF HER DAUGHTER FRANCES COBAIN?”

RICHARD LEE PRESS RELEASE FOR JANUARY 23, 2005

“Very few questions are being asked about how it is that notorious accused violent crime felon Courtney Love was able to ‘ha(ve) police arrest journalist Richard Lee’ with a false claim of what is being called ‘stalking’, which appears to be an unprecedented action by a celebrity in a city known for an almost-anything-goes policy toward paparazzi, working under the protection of being journalists,” says Seattle journalist Richard Lee, against whom all charges have now apparently been dropped.

“And why it is that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had to come at me with guns drawn is an even bigger question. What reasonable conclusion can anyone reach from the footage shown nationally than that these public employees were fully prepared to shoot me dead if given some slight provocation?

“And although some of the media coverage on this has only described my being arrested on ‘fake’ or ‘invalid’ I.D. issues, the fact is that I was charged with two felonies and threatened with years of prison time. The principal charge was that of CA Penal Code 422, Terrorist Threats, with CA 470 (b) Forgery thrown in, apparently for misdirection, although both are felonies,” says Lee, reading the criminal charges from his Booking and Property Record form.

“You should understand that the Courtney Love allegations against me are far more extensive than merely expressing concern at my presence last Tuesday. In fact, her campaign of lies against me began a year ago, following my successful attempt to question her outside Beverly Hills Municipal Court about the longstanding allegation that she tried to hire late punk icon Eldon Hoke ('El Duce') to kill her husband Kurt Cobain only months before his death, coinciding with Cobain’s first-ever open discussion with an interviewer about the distinct possibility of an impending divorce.

“The day following that rather famous incident, wherein Courtney Love gave a middle finger gesture with both hands and growled ‘Richard Lee. you suck so bad,’ I attended her hearing at the downtown Temple Street courthouse, and was greeted by a coordinated effort to demonstrate extreme hostility toward me by the LASD personnel there.

“This culminated the following month at the same courthouse, when I was detained for an hour under accusations concerning my plasticized photocopy of my Seattle Police Department-issued press I.D. The claim LASD put forward was that because it was issued in 1993 and had the signature of a former Seattle chief of police, it was somehow a fake or perhaps merely invalid document. I told the LASD personnel to charge me with a crime or let me go, and they did the latter.

“In following months, I attempted to anticipate any further dangers by applying for a new Seattle I.D. and the LASD press I.D. The Seattle police told me, apparently falsely, that they no longer issued media I.D.s, and after going through a rather extensive process with LASD, including fingerprinting at an LAPD precinct, my application was rejected because I did not ‘ …require access through police and/or fire lines at the scene of a disaster or civil unrest.’ (I responded with a copy of a photo of me from the front page of the New York Times, where I am seen covering the civil unrest at the WTO conference in 1999, but to no avail).

“A color copy of my Seattle police-issued I.D. was actually tucked inside my wallet last Tuesday, and around my I neck I was displaying my business card with a small photo of my face,, as a sort of company-issued I.D. And in my possession was a copy of the letter, signed by Captain John A. Franklin, which rejected my application but concluded, 'Nevertheless the full services of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau are available to all journalists, regardless of whether or not they have a press pass.' The LASD personnel at the courthouse repeatedly asserted that the headquarters bureau didn’t speak for them.

“The Courtney Love campaign of falsehoods heated up after a January 27, 2004 incident outside the Beverly Hills courthouse where I attempted to question her again, when amid a large group of photographers and other reporters, Courtney Love had her driver suddenly move forward about 20 feet so that she could tell LASD personnel ‘get that guy,’ meaning me. But the deputies at Beverly Hills courthouse were not about to do that. After I was assaulted by her bodyguard and a crazed Courtney Love fan, her car sped off with disregard for the safety of all, in footage that was seen widely.

“At the next hearing there, Love made news by failing to show up, with her lawyers in court citing unspecified ‘security concerns.’ When I read a report that she had just appeared on the Howard Stern radio program complaining that she couldn’t come to court because she was being stalked there by ‘guy with a gun,’ (MTV.com, February 13, 2004) I made immediate efforts to inform Beverly Hills police and LASD of this apparent danger, videotaping some of my interactions. Despite the clear possibility of a multiple homicide incident, both agencies repeatedly refused to even take a report on this. This seemed strange, and frankly, like a planned response. One detective, familiar with Love’s reputation, essentially said that if Courtney Love was making this claim, they simply couldn’t view it as credible.

“I subsequently obtained a tape of an earlier Stern program which had Courtney Love claiming that ‘Richard Lee’ was the reason she couldn’t appear (SEE TRANSCRIPT BELOW), in what amounts to a clear claim that I was the stalker, waiting outside of court with a gun. In an effort to protect myself, I sent the Beverly Hills judge a tape with the significant excerpts from the Stern shows. At the next hearing, Courtney was reported to have been seen crying, and this was apparently after a chambers conference, because I was in court and it wasn’t during the hearing. Presumably the reason for her tears was that Judge Elden Fox made her cop out to her outrageous lie, the ‘guy with a gun’ fabrication.

“And so despite my great efforts to work smoothly with the law enforcement personnel and the civilian employees in Los Angeles, including filing a ‘980 form’ concerning media access on January 4, I was arrested on these scurrilous charges on January 11, with the deputy who had identified himself as the media liaison for the day actually recorded as my arresting officer (although it was a gun-wielding sergeant who actually arrested me outside the courthouse, claiming that I had violated a restraining order held by Courtney Love).

“Within about 20 minutes a female deputy came into the room where I was being held and stated to the large gang of male deputies there, ‘There is no restraining order…He didn’t do it.’ She also said she had checked with a law enforcement officer who knew of Courtney Love’s spurious complaints about me. I had called the restraining order claim 'a big lie,' and upon hearing this new information a sergeant said, 'Oh, so it was a big lie.' But within minutes the charge was then transmuted into making threats against Courtney Love. Although they had no signed statement from her as to details on these supposed threats, at one point the same sergeant stated to another person, 'He threatened to kill her and…’ (another person, whom we will not specify here).

“My protests that they could hardly take the oral statements of this notoriously unstable person seriously, especially when she had just lied to them about a restraining order which doesn’t exist, fell of the deaf ears of the LASD, especially a Lt. Melton, who claimed that he knew of certified letters that I had signed for concerning my press I.D. being ‘revoked’ by Seattle police—a claim that SPD has discounted this week.

“And so I spent 65 hours behind bars and often in cuffs, in fact spending about 7 hours in an isolation cell in deliberately overly tight handcuffs, which was nothing less than torture. In fact, the cuffs used on me have been banned by many police agencies, these being cuffs which can tighten with very slight pressure to the exterior of the cuff, because of the very small teeth that allow the cuff to tighten even when in a very tight position already. These handcuffs made my hands very swollen and numb from the first minutes they were on, and the next 7 hours were quite hellish. In fact, I spent 13 of the first 19 hours I was held with my hands cuffed behind my back. And that’s only a part of the trauma they put me through.

“Whether the primary motivation for targeting me in this way has mostly to do with the sadism of the Criminal Courts Building LASD personnel or some plot that was hatched higher up, because of the influence of this particular defendant is not perfectly clear, but it appears to be a combination of both. In fact, the sergeant who appeared to be the one really running things in the early hours told me several times that they were discussing this move several months ago, and when I corrected him and said it was closer to a year ago, he corrected me twice and said no, it was about three months ago. He was clearly trying to intimidate me with the idea that this was no misunderstanding, that it was all a calculated operation.

“My overwhelming feeling about this is that I was in mortal danger, and escaped being shot by much too narrow a margin. I mean, since they had months to plan this calculated aggression, they must have known that the Courtney Love lies about my having a gun were totally false. So why were they prepared to use deadly force on me? The sergeant seen in the video creeping up on me with his drawn gun, by the way, was in the minutes following the arrest looking very strange, as if he was experiencing a big adrenaline ‘head rush’. .Another sergeant appeared to be similarly in an unusually excited, red-faced state. So how close to killing me did they really come? And why?

“Much of the press Courtney Love received on her January 11 court appearance was very positive, and reported without question that she had the day before received an unnamed judge’s grant of restoration of full custody of her daughter Frances Cobain. Because of the secretive nature of these type of hearings in Los Angeles County, and because this seems so out of logical progression inasmuch as Courtney Love still faces multiple felony charges, for crime(s) allegedly committed in her child’s close proximity, there is reason to doubt the veracity of the bold claims of Love and her lawyer Howard Weitzman. Perhaps her attorney merely took Courtney Love’s word for this, as he has apparently never said he was at such a hearing or represents her in these custody matters, and his widely quoted comments were made in an impromptu setting in the parking lot after my arrest. They seemed to have wanted to feed the media a more upbeat story. In fact, it is apparently Mr. Weitzman’s voice and hand that are heard and seen at the moment when Courtney Love is calling me a ‘weirdo,’ trying to obscure her statement. (The Los Angeles Times, by the way, reported with some caution, headlining ‘Love Regains Full Custody, Lawyer Says’). The published quotations from the press release by Courtney Love through Weitzman two days later do not repeat the custody claims, and his website does not post the press release.

“This custody claim actually began at least two weeks earlier with a December 27 RollingStone.com interview which described Love’s 'recent win in family court which returned custody of daughter Frances Bean to her’. The piece was headlined as an interview with the ‘post-coke nutbag-breakdown’ Courtney Love, referring to her description of herself, and her many psychiatric episodes (including suicidal behavior) and reported internments in mental rehabilitation facilities in the past year or so.

“So when she approached the courthouse doors and said something about ‘…just got out of a mental hospital...’ I honestly thought she was talking about herself, although it appears that the tape has her referring to me. Although Love herself is a very low-credibility source, some journalistic entities, most notably AOL Time Warner’s Celebrity Justice, have chosen to pick up on this vicious mischaracterization, with CJ repeatedly referring to me as 'obsessed' and guilty of having 'harassed' Love, both of which have no factual basis. CJ correspondent Pat Lalama has appeared at more Courtney Love hearings than I, and has been seen and filmed hugging with Courtney Love, so if anyone can be said to have an unhealthy desire to get up close and personal with the defendant, it’s not me.

“I think most people would be surprised that even Courtney Love has gone to these great extents of criminality, such as false reporting to police, and to such great depths of deception with the media, in dealing with me. The standards for whom should be taken seriously as a source in dealing with the justice system or as a show biz celebrity are not very high, but Courtney Love represents the absolute low end of the scale. If this is a war of credibility between myself and Courtney Love, it should be clear to all who has remained truthful and proper in conduct, and it isn’t the defendant.”

Richard Lee began his practice as a professional (paid) journalist in 1982. Since 1993 he has been the sole producer of Now See It Person to Person, seen weekly on cable TV in most of King County, Washington, in more than 500 editions. The scheduled January 14 season premiere of his program was made impossible because Lee was in jail until that morning.

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TRANSCRIPT OF COURTNEY LOVE’S COMMENTS ON LEE LAST YEAR ON HOWARD STERN RADIO PROGRAM

February 12, 2004 on Stern show: COURTNEY LOVE says, "I didn't show up for court because Richard Lee and all those crazy Kurt people were there and they had no professional bodyguards..." Also claims that the person stalking her at the Beverly Hills courthouse "...came through the gate with a loaded gun in Seattle."

February 13, 2004 COURTNEY LOVE on Stern show: "That judge is cool and he knew there was a guy with a gun down there...There was a guy with a gun."

In open court, COURTNEY LOVE's attorneys cited "security concerns" to the judges on February 11 and Feb. 17 as to why she was absent on the 11th. They did not elaborate.

March 22, 2004 COURTNEY LOVE on Stern Show: "I wasn't late. You're insane. There was a man with a gun. There was a man with a gun. I wasn't going out without professional security. You're insane." (Howard Stern: Where is there a man with a gun?) "At that courthouse. The crazy guy from Seattle. He's gone after Dave and Chris. He's insane. There's only one of them." (Howard Stern: Then call the police.) "Oh, how about this. I gotta tell you this..." (COURTNEY LOVE goes on to tell story of calling the FBI about a "loan" and how she got Todd Gold to call and ask if FBI hung up the phone on her).

RICHARD LEE'S RESPONSE AT THE TIME:

"I have never in my life carried a gun, not even for one minute. Every time Courtney Love says 'gun,’ just substitute the word 'truth.' Like this: Courtney couldn't come to court because 'there was a guy with the truth down there.' The truth is Kryptonite to Courtney Love. She can't go anywhere near it."

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On the Previous Week’s Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 21, 2005

Season Premiere

“Shitty of Angels” Part One

“LA Sheriffs, Pistols in Hand and

Fully Prepared to Kill KCWM,

Abduct Us to Please CLC, Whom They

Know to Be A Notoriously Disturbed Criminal”

image: After already calmly explaining to one deputy that Courtney Love-Cobain's complaints about him are baseless, Richard Lee is later arrested by LASD deputies with guns drawn, ready to fire, on January 11, 2005.

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On the Previous Week's Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 14, 2005

NO PROGRAM NOTICE: Unfortunately, we were unable to bring you our planned season premiere because of the very aggressive actions of the criminal defendant Courtney Love-Cobain and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

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On The Previous New Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported December 15, 2004

“Coffin-shaped Box Set” Part 2

“EMPathy, EMPathy!”

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On The Previous New Program:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported November 24, 2004

“Coffin-shaped Box Set” Part 1

“Overture to ‘Closure’:

3-panel Rigid Horizontal Digipak

Holds 4 Trays, Plus 60-page Booklet”

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On The Previous New Program:

“Can I Be O.J.?” Part Two

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported October 13, 2004

“CLC, O.J. And The MCA:

Weitzman and Kardashian Were There for the Juice at the Rockingham Gate,

Now the Former Universal Soldier Is There To Front for The Wid”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

"Can I Be O.J.?" Part One

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported October 6, 2004

“CLC, Now Represented by O.J. Simpson’s Most Mysterious Counselor,

Incredibly Continues to Complain About KCWM’s Presence”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

"First Amendment..." Part Two

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 29, 2004

“Modern Political Method:

Deny, Deny, Deny,

Forget, Confuse, Feign Befuddlement,

And If Nothing Else Works,

Send Out Some Guys With Guns And Badges,

Maybe To Smash Some Noses”

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On The Previous Week’s Program:

“First Amendment Fucked in the Ass by Fascist Authorities”

Part One

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 22, 2004

“Mayor’s Personal SPD Thugs Criminally Assault KCWM by

Actually Jamming Badge Against Our Nose, then Shoving Us Out

of City Hall and the Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Arts Committee”

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On The Previous Week's Program:

“Moments of Zen?”

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 15, 2004

Season Premiere

“SPD’s No. 2 Runs for Cover,

Public Safety Chair Stonewalls,

Mayor Sends Goon Out of Limo to Shove KCWM,

and Copper Brass Fails to Show at

Event Honoring Murdered U.S. Attorney”

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On The Previous New Program:

"Nonsense Communications"

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 21, 2004

“Council Public Safety Chair Has KCWM Heckled Rather Than

‘Fess Up About Internal Non-investigations Rate,

and SPD’s No. 2 Says They Did No Investigation ‘Cuz Yer Wrong’”

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On The Previous New Program:

"Enter Ho-phelia, The Mad Scene"

KCWM is attempting to interview Seattle Police Department Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer outside of a meeting of the public safety committee of the Seattle City Council. He first objects to being called “Mr.” Kimerer, then tells Richard Lee he will answer one question. Lee asks how SPD failing to open an investigation into his charges of official corruption in the Cobain case can be in accordance with the policies of the SPD regarding investigating all serious allegations “to the fullest extent possible”. Kimerer does not address this, saying “I don’t know what that means,” and then offers a mere refutation of the validity of Lee’s research.

KIMERER: Are you going to let me answer the question? This has been thoroughly investigated as a, as a matter that is appropriate for what has been referred to the department. People don’t agree with your theory, and there is substantial evidence that lead them to that conclusion. So I’m sorry that--

LEE: Well, I have no idea what that ‘substantial evidence’ is--

KIMERER: I’m sorry that people disagree with you, Richard, but there is a body of evidence that says very clearly that your idea about all of this is wrong.

LEE: But how can you have an office of investigative—

KIMERER: That was your question—

LEE: --of internal investigations--

KIMERER: I’ve got to run.

LEE: --that does not do an investigation.

KIMERER: I’ve got to run. I’ve got to run.

LEE: Isn’t it true that you do no investigation in two-thirds of all cases? Isn’t that true?

KIMERER: (nearly mumbling) Absolutely no.

LEE: Two-thirds of all cases are ‘contact log’ cases. Correct?

KIMERER: Richard, you probably should get back to the busy activity of interviewing yourself.

LEE: But that is true, isn’t it?

KIMERER: I answered your question.

LEE: You brush off two-thirds of all cases with no investigation whatsoever, including an allegation of murder, participation in a murder by the Seattle Police Department. No investigation, Mr. Kimerer, Deputy Chief Kimerer.

Minutes later, Lee pursues SPD’s internal investigations director, Sandra “Sam” Pailca, who has left the same meeting, through a back door. Kimerer has just told Lee rather forcefully that he is simply “wrong,” although the verbiage of Pailca’s recent statements to Lee contradicts this directly.

LEE: Oh, say, Ms. Pailca. Say, Ms. Pailca, a lot of people are going to be perplexed by your (Pailca exits Seattle City Hall), I say, a lot of people are going to be perplexed about your statement about, you know, ‘you may be right and we may all be wrong, mistakes will be made.’ Is there any clarification that you’d want to add to that?

PAILCA: No.

LEE: ‘cause frankly, the way is sounds is, ah, I mean if you had someone building on your home and they said oh well, you know, mistakes will be made, you may be right, you may be all right and we may be all wrong, you know, I think the reaction would be that someone’s doing a slipshod job. ‘You may be right and we may all be wrong, mistakes will be made.’ Is there any clarification you’d want to add to that?

PAILCA: No. Bye bye. (Pailca enters the SPD headquarters building and walks past its security gate. Lee exits the doorway and makes a remark as he crosses the street).

LEE: Yeah, we jaywalked the hell out of that one.

NOTE: There’s a good reason for Kimerer almost mumbling his denial that the majority of all complaints about police misconduct are dismissed without investigation—it is irrefutably true. Even the Fall 2003 Annual Report of the SPD’s Office of Professional Accountability lists a compilation of 866 complaints, of which 573 are listed as “contact logs” at the front of the report. That equals 66.1% of all complaints dismissed without any investigation whatsoever. The report defines this category as:

Contact Log: An OPA Investigation Section computerized form used to document inquiries from both inside and outside the department. These complaints range from de minimis complaints to nonsense communications.

Lee’s extensively documented complaint of 2003 was dismissed as such a “contact log” case.

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 7, 2004

“Enter Ho-phelia, The Mad Scene:

CL Turns 40 as Loony Toon in Cuffs,

Whilst SPD’s Number Two Says a Phantom

‘body of evidence’ Proves KCWM Is Wrong

and That SPD Needn’t Investigate Murder Allegations”

****

On The Previous Program:

"Citizen Locke" Part Four

KCWM has been waiting in the sun for Washington Governor Gary Locke to conclude his session of meeting and spending time with each of the children who has shown up for his public relations event. He has gone on for 45 minutes longer than was originally scheduled. Richard Lee has been taping a lengthy monologue on Locke’s role in the Cobain case while surrounded all this time by police personnel who are there preventing Lee from approaching Locke. At least 5 such personnel walk alongside Lee as Locke walks back toward his offices, blocking him from getting within about 50 feet of Locke.

LEE: Oh, say, Mr. Locke, if you have just a moment, sir, I’ve been waiting two hours.

LOCKE: I’ll read your stuff.

LEE: Well, sir, it’s only a hundred words, it’s only a hundred words or so. You can read it right now. It concerns the death of Kurt Cobain and your failure to order an inquest in 1995, sir. You claim that you read a document by (name omitted here) in 1995 which convinced you that there needed to be no inquiry or inquest in this matter, when in fact, sir, her document describes precisely the circumstances under which you should order an inquest, which in this case is a faked autopsy. (Locke enters executive office building).

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 31, 2004

"Citizen Locke" Part Four

“Loss of Face Face-off:

Gov Gives Face Time to Kids for 2 Hours,

But Flees Rather Than Face KCWM’s Questions”

****

On The Previous Program:

"Citizen Locke" Part Three

KCWM has been waiting about 10 minutes during Washington Governor Gary Locke’s presentation to children on the importance of reading for their careers. Locke concludes, and Lee, surrounded by at least three Washington State Patrol personnel, asks for Locke’s attention.

LEE: Oh, say, Governor Locke, could I prevail upon you to read this document, sir?

LOCKE: (who takes about six strides toward Lee) I tell you what, tell you what—(Locke shoves his hand into Lee’s lens and momentarily clutches the camera, before Lee pulls it back and over his shoulder)

LEE: What, what are, why are you grabbing my camera for, why are you doing that?

LOCKE: (who has just grabbed the blue binder from Lee’s other hand) I tell you what, I will read it. I will read it.

LEE: Okay, well don’t assault me, alright?

LOCKE: Don’t assault me. I’ll read it.

LEE: I never assaulted you, you have assaulted me numerous times, sir. (Locke turns and moves away).

UNIDENTIFIED WSP BODYGUARD: That’s what you wanted.

LEE: Well, he has my property—

U.W.S.P.B.: He’s gonna read it.

LEE: He’s not gonna read it—

U.W.S.P.B.: Yes he is—

LEE: --he just gave it to some woman--

U.W.S.P.B.: You’re interrupting. And he’s gonna read it--

LEE: --in a maroon dress there.

U.W.S.P.B.: And he’s gonna read it—that’s what you wanted, isn’t it?

LEE: It’s my property-- I retain possession of it.

U.W.S.P.B.: He’s gonna read it. He’s gonna read it. And you’re not gonna interrupt this thing, you understand that? You’re not going to interrupt this…

LEE: My property has just, my valuable property, worth hundreds of dollars at least, has just been taken by the governor of Washington, who pulled a strong-arm robbery on me, with your assistance.

The WSP personnel continue to insist that they will keep Lee’s documents, despite his protestations that this amounts to robbery of his one-of-a-kind documents. Finally, WSP relents and returns the binder, and forces Lee to about 100 feet from the event. They are soon joined by the Olympia city police. Surrounded by, and interacting with these personnel, Lee delivers a lengthy monologue in which he discusses Locke’s career and the fact that the blue binder is the actual 4-page item that he asked Locke to review in November of 1996, causing Locke to suddenly leave a campaign appearance.



from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 24, 2004

“Citizen Locke” Part Three

“Rosebud--Something He Couldn’t Get, or Something He Lost:

Gary Locke’s Reputation and the Cobain Affair”

****

On The Previous Program:

"Citizen Locke" Part Two

Richard Lee has traveled about 60 miles to Olympia, to the lawn of the state capital, to again ask Washington Governor Gary Locke about his endorsement of the 1995 study on shotgun wounds that was supposed to clear up controversies about Lee’s assertion that Cobain did not die according to the causes described by the King County Medical Examiner in 1994. Locke exits a neoclassical executive office building next to the legislative building. He is more than 15 minutes off-schedule for an event called the Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge, where he will spend two hours reading and taking photos with children. He is walking rapidly, and gives no pause for Lee.

LEE: Oh, hi, Governor Locke. How are you today, sir?

LOCKE: Hi.

LEE: Say, I wanted to ask you just a couple of questions--

LOCKE: I’m sorry, I don’t have time to chat with you (Locke holds papers briefly over Lee’s lens).

LEE: Well, it’s more than just a chat, I wanted to ask you--

LOCKE: We’ve chatted about this before (Locke, inexplicably, grabs Lee’s left wrist, briefly).

LOCKE AIDE: Sir, we don’t have time for this right now… (she continues to make such statements, apparently only to interfere with Lee’s taping).

LEE: Not in the last eight years we haven’t, Mr. Locke. Sir, I wanted to just ask you about your handling of the Cobain homicide--

LOCKE: You asked me about that last week.

LEE: And you didn’t provide any answer whatsoever. Why is it, Governor Locke, that when you were King County executive, you endorsed the idea that Dr. Richard Harruff of the King County Medical Examiner’s office could—

LOCKE: I did not, I did not ever talk to you about that at all, and—

LEE: Well, here’s the document sir. Here it is. I attempted to read it to you--

LOCKE: Well then, then, then, we’ll look at it again later on.

LEE: It says, ‘I’-- Hey, hey, hey, hey, what’s this goon doing (a Man In Dark Suit is body blocking Lee as Locke walks away)? You’re going to look at it ‘later’ when, sir? Could you provide a response, so that these goons—

M.I.D.S.: If you want an appointment with the governor, you can go into the office and make an appointment. You don’t have one now.

LEE: They won’t give me an appointment. It’s obvious. Who are you, by the way, the guy that’s shoving his body against me? Who are you? (No response). Are you a law enforcement officer who’s refusing to identify himself? (No response).

To be continued…



from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 17, 2004

“Citizen Locke” Part Two

“Ohmygod, He Did It Again:

Governor Performs Assault/Robbery on KCWM

and Falsely Claims 'I Did Not Ever Talk To You’ in 1996”

****

On The Previous Program:

"Citizen Locke" Part One

Richard Lee approaches Washington Governor Gary Locke on a side street bordering Seattle Center. Lee has been filming an Independence Day event featuring the three primary politicians in the state—the Seattle mayor, the King County executive, and the governor.

WASHINGTON GOVERNOR GARY LOCKE: (into cell phone) Okay. I got, I got some people here. Alright.

Lee films Locke for several seconds from about 6 feet away. For no apparent reason, Locke walks toward Lee and stands about 2 feet from him, to his left. As Lee’s camera pans, Locke puts his hand in front of his face and very deliberately shoves his hand into Lee’s lens with an audible impact).

LOCKE: Excuse me. (Locke turns around and walks about 20 feet away).

LEE: Well, that was strange. (to Apparent Washington State Patrol Bodyguard) Does he do that often?

A.W.S.P.B.: He’s on a phone call, sir. A little privacy.

(Locke spends about 40 seconds shaking hands, hugging, and talking with well wishers. Lee holds up to the camera a copy of Locke's 1995 letter to him. Locke begins to walk away, rapidly)

LEE: Oh, say, Mr. Locke, could I draw your attention to this document for just a moment?

LOCKE: I really don’t have time, so, so, ah, thank you.

LEE: Okay, well it will only take a minute, sir. This is concerning the Cobain homicide case, which occurred when you were the King County Executive in 1994.

LOCKE: (turning to A.W.S.P.B.): Which car are we in? Alright.

LEE: Sir, could I just ask you to look at the document?

LOCKE: I really don’t have my glasses on with me right now, so I can’t see it. So, ah--

LEE: Okay, I’ll read it to you. It says, ‘Thank you for your letter of September 18, 1995, and a second copy of your report on Kurt Cobain. I have reviewed your written materials as well as Sharon Stewart Johnson’s correspondence to you, dated January 17, 1995’—

LOCKE: You’ll have to really talk to the police department about that.

LEE: Okay, well the thing I wanted to ask you about is this sentence, which is—

LOCKE: Just get in the car, guys. Let's go. Alright, thank you. Bye bye (Locke closes car door).

LEE: ‘I have been informed that Dr. Harruff’s article on shotgun wounds has been accepted for publication’—sir, why don’t you just roll your window down—you have just a moment to answer the question.

(Lee turns on camera’s light and puts lens to the mirrored window. Locke’s hand is momentarily seen raised, as if to block being photographed).

LEE: I have been informed, 'I have been informed that Dr. Richard Harruff’s article on shotgun wounds has been accepted for publication’ (the car pulls away and zooms down the street, as if they are fearful of a motor pursuit) and one will be made available to you.

Lee goes on to deliver a lengthy monologue in which he discusses, among other points, how Yale graduate and lawyer Locke could fail to realize that Dr. Harruff’s publication of a purportedly scientific study on shotgun wounds constituted an alarming case of conflict of interest, because of his role in the Cobain autopsy at the King County Medical Examiner division.

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 10, 2004

“Citizen Locke” Part One

“I.D. For Ya’:

Washington Governor Welcomes New Citizens,

But Is Most Uncivil In Shoving KCWM’s Lens,

And Speeding From Our Questions”

****

On The Previous New Program:

"Politique Concrete"

LEE: Oh, hi Captain Evenson, how are you today?

SPD CAPTAIN MARK EVENSON: Good, Mr. Lee, how you doin’?

LEE: Alright. Say, I was wondering if you could explain a few things to me about your use of some of the terminology in your June 12, 2003 letter? And that is, ah—

EVENSON: The one I wrote to you?

LEE: As you can see here, ‘the information you supplied,’ you write, ‘does not contain any concrete or verifiable facts.’ What, in your view, constitutes ‘concrete' and 'verifiable' facts?

EVENSON: Probably, just information that would be, um, credible. And be something that could be verified reasonably. I didn’t mean to insult you or, embarrass you by that letter, I just think that, you know, based on my analysis of what you gave me, I, I did not feel that it was warranted to ah, to go into further investigation, on the, on your, ah, your inquiry...

EVENSON: Let me ask you this: does it strike you odd that all of the agencies you have talked to in the last 9 years do not put any merit into the information that you’ve supplied them? Is that, is that odd to you, or is it, do you feel that the entire, all of these different agencies are conspiring to hide something?

LEE: Well, this OPA office that you are now the chief investigator for, was brought about because the same homicide squad, the Don Cameron homicide squad, in 1999 was discovered to have several years (earlier) robbed the personal possessions of Mr. Bodegard Mitchell, who died after being shot by the Seattle police. And that story went around in the upper echelons of the Seattle Police Department for years and years, and everybody, according to all reports and the King County Prosecuting Attorney, everybody knew that this crime occurred, but nobody was motivated to initiate an investigation and a prosecution of the Don Cameron homicide squad.

Isn’t there a perfectly obvious precedent that establishes a very good answer to your question? Is it possible that there’s a conspiracy within the Seattle government to hush up, you know, major crimes by Seattle police homicide detectives? Well, you don’t even have to ask the question—your job—

EVENSON: Let me ask you this—

LEE: --was created because of that scandal.

EVENSON: Let me ask you this, okay. Out of all the agencies that you’ve approached and shared your hypothesis about what happened to Mr. Cobain, how many of them actually did follow up work on, on your inquiry? That’s all I got to say. (Evenson begins walking down stairs).

LEE: (who remains at top of stairs) You didn’t do any follow up work...

EVENSON: Have a good day…

LEE: You’re trying to claim that because you authored a one-page letter, you did follow-up work? You did no investigation, sir.

EVENSON: I know.

LEE: ‘I know.’ That was your response. ‘I know.’ A ‘contact log’ case, Captain Evenson. ‘Contact log’, meaning no investigation was ever initiated. (Evenson exits the building).

--beginning and ending of interview with Seattle police internal investigations commander Capt. Mark Evenson at Seattle City Hall, June 15, 2004.

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered as reported June 19, 2004

Politique Concrete:

"SPD’s Chief Internal Investigator Remains Obtuse

About KCWM's Rock-Solid Facts, and

Refutes Any Possibility of SPD Cover-up Conspiracy,

Despite Reality That His Position Was Created

Because of Just Such a Scandal By the Very Same Coppers"

****

On The Previous New Program:

"Nickels Plugged"

The following transcript details Richard Lee’s attempt to question Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels at the opening of the new central library on Sunday, May 23. Only 8 minutes pass from the time Lee begins asking questions of Nickels to the time he is thrown to the sidewalk outside by 3 “library security” officers.



RICHARD LEE: Oh, good morning, Mr. Nickels. How are you today, sir?

SEATTLE MAYOR GREG NICKELS: (Offers no response to Lee, but rather continues to accost children and others and introduce himself, as if he is campaigning for office). Good morning. How are you? Welcome to your library.

LEE: Oh, sir, this document was directed to your office. Sir, could I ask you to direct your attention to this document? (To Unidentified Man, apparently a plainclothes SPD officer) Why are you touching me? Sir? Mr. Nickels? (to U.M.) I, I know but he can be busy with this too. Will you have a few minutes here today, Mr. Nickels? Sir, this is a letter addressed to you personally, at your mayoral office, from last September. Sir, this, this concerns the lack of the ability of the OPA to conduct an investigation into official corruption at the SPD. Why, why are you vacating, Mr. Nickels? (Lee follows but is blocked by U.M.) Excuse me, tall guy. Why are you pushing me, tall guy? (Lee takes evasive action and approaches Nickels again) Oh, say, could I ask, sir, could you to direct your attention to this document, that I addressed to you—

NICKELS: Richard, today is not the day. Thank you.

LEE: Well, sir, when is the day? Because this document was addressed to you last September, and it concerns the lack of the ability of the Office of Professional Accountability to conduct a corruption investigation, sir. Well, briefly, Mr. Nickels, could I ask you, are you familiar with Section 1.009 of the Seattle Police manual, sir?

Mr. Nickels, when you were elected, sir, your foremost promise on the campaign trail, Mr. Nickels, was that you were going to closely supervise (at this moment, Nickels takes off his glasses, does a strange spin around, and clearly gestures with his eyes and head toward Lee, as if signaling “get him”)—sir, you were going to closely supervise—(to U.M.) You’re assaulting me, fatboy.

Sir, your foremost promise when you ran for the office of mayor (U.M. is grabbing at Lee’s camera’s monopod)--Why are you grabbing me, pal—that’s a crime.

U.M.: Because you’re interfering.

LEE: Why are you criminals grabbing me? Your foremost promise was to supervise--

U.M.: You asked me a question, don’t you want the answer?

LEE: Yeah, why don’t you call the police? I’ll tell them how many times you and this guy assaulted me. Sir, this is a letter I addressed to you last September. When do you think the time is for you to address these issues? Police accountability, Mr. Nickels, was the central theme of your campaign for mayor in 2001.

U.M.: (Who is aggressively blocking Lee on a narrow ramp and disregarding the safety of a child who is passing on that ramp at that moment). Why are you assaulting me, Richard?

LEE: Who are you, pal? Who are you?

U.M.: Who are you?

LEE: I got I.D. on, do you?

U.M. Yes.

LEE: Who are you—what’s your name?

U.M.: Officer Wall, w-a-l-l. Serial—

LEE: Why are you assaulting me, Officer Wall, w-a-l-l?

U.M.: Why are you assaulting me?

LEE: Mr. Nickels, when might you have a few times, a few minutes of time to address these issues today, sir?

UNIFORMED “LIBRARY SECURITY” OFFICER: Sir, can you come with me for a second? I want to talk to you for a second.

LEE: Well, you’re library security, right?

U.L.S.O.: Yeah. Come on.

LEE: Why are you grabbing me?

U.L.S.O.: I’m not. I’m escorting you out.

LEE: Mr. Nickels, these questions are questions that need answers. You’re not merely a politician, sir, you’re also the chief executive of a corporation known as the City of Seattle. Why are you grabbing me, pal? Let me go! (At this moment, the two men who are apparently SPD bodyguards begin to move away from being directly in front of Lee, with one watching and scowling as they move away. The camera pans down to show the fist of U.L.S.O. locked around Lee’s wrist, and then his trying to force Lee’s arm into a police hold)

U.L.S.O.: (into radio) Sam One, children’s section, Sam One, children’s section. Sir, I just want to talk to you for a second!

LEE: Talk to me, bullshit, you’re grabbing me!

U.L.S.O.: I want to talk to you for a second, I’m not grabbing you! (as he says this, U.L.S.O. is violently trying again to force Lee’s arm into a police hold, as the camera clearly shows).

LEE: This is an assault!

U.L.S.O.: It’s not an assault!

LEE: Mr. Nickels, this is an assault on your behalf! What do you mean, it’s not an assault?!

U.L.S.O.: I’m not!

LEE: Get your hands off me, you fucking goon!

Another “library security” personnel approaches and during the next 90 seconds, joined by another uniformed “library security” officer, Lee is forcibly removed—having never been so much as asked to leave--by the three, who then hurl Lee to the sidewalk. Lee springs to his feet and insists he wants to file a complaint with any nearby SPD officer. But only feet away, the SPD officer who is standing by is one of two cops whom Lee says tried to murder him on March 16, 1996 (as described elsewhere on this website). Lee accuses him of this and he immediately denies it. When Lee tries to exit he is followed by the gang of uniformed personnel, and is shoved off the property by the officer he accuses of being involved in his attempted murder. Lee records a lengthy monologue that describes the incident in detail, in which he reports that he has not spoken publicly about this in years (although this website has had the story posted continuously since the day the attempted murder occurred).

He challenges the officers to get their union lawyer to file a suit against him if they feel they are able to argue that Lee is defamatory in his accusation of attempted murder (it's worth noting that Lee has never received a written threat of a lawsuit from any person for any statement he has made in this case or any other, despite Lee’s contention for 10 years that Cobain’s murder involved gross misconduct by certain government officials, and others).

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 29, 2004

"Nickels Plugged: Mayor Calls New Library

A Place 'of inclusion...to break down barriers,

to promote understanding, to gain knowledge...'

In Reality, KCWM Enters This 'cradle of democracy'

and Nickels Has Our Questioning of Him

Brutally, Violently Supressed"

****

On The Previous Week's Program:

"Kurt Was Mutilated, Very Dry"

RICHARD LEE: Well, hi Mr. Sims, how are you today?

KING COUNTY EXECUTIVE RON SIMS: Fine, how are you today?

LEE: Ah, say, you’re running for governor now?

SIMS: I am.

LEE: And congratulations on that.

SIMS: Thank you very much.

LEE: And, well, sir I wanted to direct your attention to this document here. It’s addressed to you, and it’s from March 11th, just a couple of months ago. And it’s titled ‘The need for a federal corruption investigation and a public inquest into the Kurt Cobain death case.’ Ah, have you read this document, sir?

SIMS: I have not.

LEE: Okay, well, it’s addressed to you, it was sent certified mail, persons in your office assured me that it had arrived. It concerns the case of Kurt Cobain, the homicide decedent from 1994.

SIMS: Yes.

LEE: And evidence that has developed in recent years that personnel of the King County Medical Examiner took part in the criminal mutilation and looting of Cobain’s body, at the funeral home. This is all based on evidence by Cobain’s wife, who published this in a twelve-hundred word narrative, that was published on the Internet on her personal website. So, there’s very strong evidence, she says that the ringleader of the whole gang that mutilated her husband’s body, and stole his body parts, including all of his hair, that those persons, or the ringleader of that gang that did those crimes, was an employee of the King County Medical Examiner.

SIMS: If that had come to me, I’m certain that my staff would have referred it to the King County prosecutor’s office, and I’ll find out when they did that.

LEE: Well, I did discuss this with someone at the King County prosecutor’s office who said that he was familiar with the inquest procedures, highly familiar with the inquest procedures, and he said, and this was, you know, two months ago, that he’d be looking onto it, and that he’d get back to me, but you know, another 60 days or so has passed, and I have heard nothing about it. And, ah, let me just ask you about Section 895 of the King County Charter. As you can see, the Section 895 provides that, quote, ‘An inquest shall be held to investigate the causes and circumstances of any death involving a member the law enforcement agency of the county in the performance of his duties.’ And so if this death occurred, whether it was, ah—

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Excuse me, just a second. We’re going to get started.

(SIMS begins to move away from LEE, without a word).

LEE: So, sir, what, well, I don’t appreciate, I don’t know who you are, but I really don’t appreciate your interrupting this important conversation. Why are you blocking me? Why are you assaulting me?

U.M.: Because he needs to—I’m not---

LEE: Nonononononono. Nonononononono. No. No. Give him a chance to answer the question, pal. You’re not the King County Executive.

U.M.: Excuse me, sir, could you please--

LEE: Mr. Sims?

SIMS: I’ll have to get back to you. I have to do this introduction. Thank you very much.

--Part of an interview Lee conducted with Sims at an environmental conference at Seattle Center, May 18, 2004.

****

LEE: Well, Mr. Licata, I’m back after having been here 2 weeks ago, as you recall, on the Cobain affair. And where I left off, right at the end of what I had to say to you 2 weeks ago, is that I had a conversation with the director of the OPA, Ms. Pailca, last year, the the end of this process of my going to great lengths to provide them with extensive information on the Cobain affair, and at the conclusion of the process, what Ms. Pailca had to say was, ‘Mr. Lee you may be right and we all may be wrong—mistakes will be made.’ And I offered this to you and you said, well, I don’t want to comment on what Ms. Pailca may have said or may not have said. And in fact after the council meeting I did get an opportunity to do a brief sort of interview with Ms. Pailca, and this is what I said to Ms. Pailca.

(Lee): I did quote you today in council. I quoted you as saying ‘Mr. Lee, you may be right and we all may be wrong—mistakes will be made.’ Now do you stand behind that comment that you made on June 25th of last year? Pailca: Absolutely.

So you have to understand that what Ms. Pailca was saying in this phone conversation was, basically, you can’t accuse us of not doing investigations, because we do investigations, we do a couple of hundred per year. Now if we didn’t do an investigation into this affair where the police are complicit in a murder, don’t tell us we don’t do investigations…In other words, it came in their inbox, it went out their outbox, that’s all Ms. Pailca has to say about it. And so, do you know of any aspect of the city ordinance or anything else in police procedure that allows the OPA to pick and choose the cases they investigate based on whimsy or whatever?

COUNCIL MEMBER NICK LICATA: Your time is up and we’ll get back in touch with you regarding that…

--Part of Lee’s testimony during the public comment opening of a meeting of the public safety committee of the Seattle City Council, May 18, 2004.

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 22, 2004

“Kurt Was Mutilated, Very Dry:

Top Pols Hear Horrific Tale,

Are Not Shaken, Not Stirred”

****

On The Previous New Program:

"Gimmie Honor, Nevermind the Justice"

RICHARD LEE: Oh, hi Ms. Pailca.

SPD’S DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY, MS. SAM PAILCA: Hi, Mr. Lee.

LEE: I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about conversations we had last year, and, um—

SPD’S PAILCA: You know what, I don’t have time for this right now—

LEE: What, ah, how would you describe Section 1.009 of the police manual?

SPD’S PAILCA: We’ve been over this before Mr. Lee--we’ll talk about it later.

LEE: Okay, well when exactly later would you like to discuss it?

SPD’S PAILCA: Oh, much (laughs).

LEE: Okay.

SPD’S PAILCA: Much.

LEE: Okay, very funny.

SPD’S PAILCA: No.

LEE: Let me ask you this: today, only today, I brought up your comments of June 25th of last year--

SPD’S PAILCA: Right.

LEE: --when discussing the Cobain affair and the likelihood of, ah, police misconduct in that case, including--

SPD’S PAILCA: You were discussing—

LEE: --profiteering--

SPD’S PAILCA: --the likelihood of police misconduct, I wasn’t discussing the likelihood of police misconduct.

LEE: Were you discussing the possibility of police misconduct?

SPD’S PAILCA: I think I was talking with you when you brought up that subject, so—

LEE: But you acknowledge that there’s the possibility—

SPD’S PAILCA: Mr. Lee, I have to go.

LEE: And what you said, and I, I did quote you today in council, I quoted you as saying, ah, ‘Mr. Lee, you may be all right and we may be all wrong—mistakes will be made.’ Now, do you stand behind that comment that you made on June 25th of last year?

SPD’S PAILCA: Absolutely.

LEE: So I may be right, and OPA and all of your investigative abilities may have reached a wrong conclusion—is that correct?

SPD’S PAILCA: The OPA did not investigate the Kurt Cobain murder or any investigation into the misconduct. We did not conduct that investigation. We didn’t find that we had sufficient basis to open an investigation.

LEE: Hmm. Well, that’s why I was asking you about Section 1.009—

SPD’S PAILCA: Okay, I’m, I’m done now. Thank you.

LEE: Which is, it’s hard to imagine, um—this is what Section 1.009 says--

THICK-NECKED MAN WHO ACCOMPANIES PAILCA: Mr. Lee, she said she’s done. Mr. Lee.

LEE: It says, ‘As it is not feasible to expend equal time and energy in investigating all reported crimes, priority of investigation and allocation of resources must be based on the relative seriousness of each reported crime'. Now if the police, the Seattle Police Department participated in the murder of Kurt Cobain, how could there be a more serious allegation than that?

SPD’S PAILCA: (No response).

LEE: Aren’t you flagrantly ignoring the strictures of Section 1.009?

SPD’S PAILCA: (No response).

LEE: Ms. Pailca?

SPD’S PAILCA: I don’t believe so, no.

LEE: Well, actually, I tried to discuss that with you on the phone, and you hung up the phone on me at that point.

SPD’S PAILCA: Right. Because we have a disagreement that is not going to be resolved by further discussion.

LEE: Well, what’s your interpretation of 1.009? Obviously—

SPD’S PAILCA: It’s different from your interpretation.



--Part of an interview conducted with the head of SPD’s internal investigations office, as she exited a Seattle City Council meeting on the afternoon of May 4, 2004.



from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 8, 2004

Season Premiere

“Gimme Honor, Nevermind the Justice:

SPD Internal Investigations Director Says,

‘You May Be Right and We All May Be Wrong

--Mistakes Will Be Made’”

****

On the Previous New Program:

A Small Correction, but No Apologies.

The initial part of this website is now devoted to posting information from our most recent television programs, in which we try to make our facts as rock-solid as they should be according to a print journalism tradition, and not the standards of daily TV or radio chat. Whenever we veer into speculation or mere opinion, we try always to label it that way or to make it obvious enough so that a reasonable person would surmise this.

Below find intact our posting on yesterday’s television program, which clearly stated that our assertions about the "Love and Death" authors were subject to “final verification, which isn’t going to be easy…” because, as I explained, Rolling Stone and Court TV would be resistant to getting dragged into this. These comments were recorded as part of a long monologue at LAX airport on April 15, and both in the following week and also today, I have been dealing with a variety of personnel at those organizations, as well as Simon & Schuster, and the majority have been hostile to my inquiries. Nevertheless, there are new facts to report, not the least of which are within the website posting at the “Justice for Kurt” site, almost certainly posted today (and not yesterday), as Ian Halperin contacted them to contradict my monologue opinions.

Let’s deal with these problems in their biographies item-by-item:

1. As you can see below, I was fairly convinced that Halperin/Wallace did not win the Rolling Stone college journalism award because their book cover from 1999 clearly states, “In 1984 Halperin and Wallace were cowinners…” of the prize, which is not correct. The posting today finally corrects this by saying it was 1985, not 1984. I’ve just found the microfilm and indeed, they took the prize as part of a group of 6 staffers at The Link at Concordia University, for investigating alleged funds mishandling at their school’s athletic department. (I had, even prior to the April 15 monologue, searched several years of the publication’s September back-to-college editions, but in 1985 the competition results were listed later in the year).

2. The book cover asserts that the two have “…more than thirty years of combined experience in journalism and the music industry…” which I find very dubious, even as a very squishy fact. Where are their actual journalism credentials, beyond scoring some points in college, then appearing a decade later to plagiarize my work while slamming me viciously (such as calling me a “crackpot” in the latest tome)? Wallace says his career prior to 1998 was as a radio station manager, and Halperin claims nothing for the decade prior to Cobain’s death other than being a musician.

3. The jacket of the new book, published only 3 weeks ago, states, “Ian is a regular correspondent for Court TV…” This is most certainly false. Court TV’s payroll department reconfirmed today what they told us last week, “In terms of a paid correspondent, we have no record of this person,” Ian Halperin. The General Counsel for Court TV, Mr. Doug Jacobs, told us today, “He is not currently a Court TV correspondent,” and said he had no further comment on whether Halperin had ever appeared on the network. The new posting today reads, “Halperin says he contributed to the show ‘True Hollywood Crimes’ on Court TV for 2 years and appeared on a half dozen shows.” There is no program with that title on the network now. At this point, we can only conclude that the statements in the book and on its cover that Halperin “was hired as a regular correspondent for Court TV” and that he “is a regular correspondent for Court TV” are false, and deliberately so. And so what Halperin claimed today is far less than what Simon & Schuster have published in the book they ask $25 for. If the book cover is deliberately false, isn't that fraud? And Halperin is clearly backing off the sole claim he and Wallace had to any post-college career in journalism under the traditional meaning of that word, i.e., regular appearance in a regularly scheduled publication or broadcast. (Halperin’s asserted role as editor of one Canadian Disk appears to be impossible to document-—this was some kind of fanzine project as Halperin told me in 1995, or perhaps it never existed). Unless they can come up with something else, it appears that Mssrs. Wallace and Halperin are not journalists. Regardless of how often they say they are.

4. The show-biz biographies and scandal books on the modeling industry they say they wrote appear to be exist, although only one, Halperin’s 200-page paperback on Celine Dion, appears to be a candidate for pre-dating the first Cobain book, meaning that their book-author careers seem to be largely or almost entirely based on the commercial success of their misappropriation of my ideas and my words. And people wonder why I don’t like these guys.

5. Max Wallace says he’s been a “guest columnist for the Sunday New York Times.” While we’re not calling this false, it’s fair to point out that this appears to be based on a single article of 1205 words he wrote in the “Back Talk” section of the Sports Desk. This hardly constitutes a basis for presenting himself as a Timesman, or a journalist.

6. Wallace claims to have “contributed to the BBC” and Halperin claims to have “contributed to 60 Minutes 2.” It’s not easy to decipher what this may mean, but CBS is owned by the same parent company as Simon & Schuster, Viacom, and perhaps someone there arranged for him to gain a potentially verifiable credit there. And perhaps Wallace is claiming credit for cooperating with independent director Nick Broomfield, who pressured cooperation from interview subjects by falsely claiming he was doing Kurt and Courtney “for the BBC.” But he was not. In fact, a big personal drama occurs in the film when Broomfield seems to get a phone call (perhaps from a paid actor) from someone claiming to be an MTV executive, saying that Courtney Love is demanding a pulling of his funding by MTV, also wholly owned by Viacom. (I’ve appeared in two documentaries for BBC-TV, but I certainly don’t blur the line between subject and producer by implying I’ve been have been on the editorial side of BBC). If they want us to take this “contributed to” nonsense seriously, they will have to explain what it’s supposed to mean, because no one knows.

7. The new book says, “Ian …embarked on an acting career that landed him a role as Howard Hughes’s friend in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film, The Aviator.” At first this seems laughable, and it does not check out. IMDb.com has a “complete cast and crew” list of more than 200 names, with 44 actors listed in The Aviator cast, for even minor characters such as “Louis B. Mayer Cronie” and “Starlet.” The “Justice for Kurt” posting today has Halperin reasserting that he will be in the film, saying he “filmed scenes… in August & September, 2003.” IMDb says its list was last updated November 23, 2003, and gives the status of the film as “post-production”. But the new posting today has Halperin still confident we’ll see him theaters soon. Halperin seems not to understand that even featured players can get cut out of a final edit. IMDb has 19 persons with the last name “Halperin” listed as having film and TV credits. None of them named Ian. It is extremely hard to believe that Halperin has an “acting career” that would have him being featured in a $115 million film by one considered by many “the greatest living American director”. Halperin claims he has a contract to show, but perhaps this is for being a mere uncredited extra for the film, which was filmed in Montreal. How about Halperin letting loose with some details now, like his character’s name, how many lines he is supposed to be seen uttering, and why he is conspicuously absent from the published cast list? Otherwise, we’ll have to assume this is false.

The stoked-up rumors about something big happening with Tom Grant this month probably led many to hope that everyone would get a listen at all of the relevant tapes Grant made with Courtney Love and her attorney. Instead, we have a set of snippets with interpretation and piece-together by Halperin and Wallace. The disclosure of the “practice page” (said to be given to Grant by Love’s lawyer) on which Ms. Love appears to work out faking Cobain’s handwriting is truly fascinating—too bad Grant clung so tightly to his “retirement letter” theory that he waited this long to release it (it strongly supports my original contention that the whole note was forged). What more can I say about these guys than that everything they say has to be held in suspicion, and that is unfortunate in a case like this one. Without a high degree of credibility to the writers presenting these facts, Courtney Love and her publicity machine can knock them off in a sympathetic forum like Leno, Letterman or The View with a few well-chosen words. In other settings she could take them apart almost as extensively as I have here, without ever having to discuss the facts of the case.

Has anyone noticed that Simon & Schuster has a division called MTV Books? I mention this to remind you of the strange relationship between the various Viacom properties in bringing about this big-scale publishing push. It’s really an MTV wet-dream come true—after 10 years, they (or the parent company, at least) establish some deniability in the Kurt-was-murdered realm in a once-removed way, and yet they can still feature Courtney Love as a major personality (her ego-tripping “24 Hours of Love” is on the MTV2 schedule almost daily this week), because anyone literate enough to read the tabloids knows enough to call these guys scandal-mongers, who themselves appear on TV and couch all of their arguments (the lack of fingerprints, the jumbo dose of heroin, etc.) in a contradictory flurry of maybes that add up to nothing. Let me put it this way: if Courtney Love were to debate these guys on the evidence for say 30 minutes, I think the result would be the stooges limping away with apologies and asking why CLC didn’t want to join them on the hunt for the “real killers”. I’ve closely watched and taken notes on their many TV appearances, and believe me, they’ve got a cold hand, not a pair of deuces between them. It can all be explained away. Even an impaired Courtney could stomp ‘em.

And what has CLC’s reaction to my presence at her drug trials been? As you may have seen, a retreat back into her limo in less than 60 seconds on one occasion, followed by a refusal to stop for cameras outside court whenever I’ve been present, and, most incredibly, an asserting on at least 3 different appearances on the Howard Stern program that this guy from Seattle, Richard Lee, is stalking her “with a gun” outside of court. (We, of course, immediately urged Beverly Hills Police and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to investigate, but both, very curiously, refused). And what does this say about the razor-tongued CLC, that she wants not a single further moment of recorded interaction between us, and will go to such desperate lengths to keep me from her trials, and the media that surround these events? The obvious answer is that Courtney Love knows I have the case against her, and the case is strong.

Below is a copy of my original posting at the Barnes & Noble site on the occasion of Wallace and Halperin’s initial "revised" volume release. I’ve just read it carefully and see no reason to change or correct anything. Of course, we welcome any clarification that Wallace, Halperin or any other party would care to offer to explain their evidently incorrect and/or false assertions. Halperin's brief comments posted today are hardly sufficient. (RL posted this 4/26/04, 11:37 PM, Pacific).

HERE IS THE ORIGINAL BARNES AND NOBLE POST:

Richard Lee, the leading expert on this case., April 6, 1999

Con Artists and Plagiarists Do Not Deserve Your Dollars

I would like to urge Nirvana fans and those in the book business not to buy this item, now out in a highly self-congratulatory 'revised' paperback edition.***** I met Halperin and Wallace in 1995, after they had e-mailed me to let me know how excited they were to read my book-length composition on the Cobain case on my widely known website. They arrived uninvited in Seattle and said they had lots of connections in Canadian TV and wanted to get a deal to do a newsmagazine segment on me, possibly for the CBC.***** After spending a couple of hours showing them locations for their supposed TV segment, I was not favorably impressed. Their furtive conduct made it apparent they had some hidden agenda, and they seemed to know or care little about Kurt Cobain other than that he was the object of their get-rich-quick fantasies. After getting me fairly irritated with their banter, Halperin actually said they were too busy to drive me home and tried to insist that they drop me off on a street corner many miles from my home, as Wallace offered that they could slip me a few bucks for a cab and expenses. I could have spit.***** A few months later they began to have their names appear in the U.S. tabloids as the purported authors of a book that was going to reveal all about the Cobain case, despite the fact that they did not publish anything for another 2 years. When I called Wallace to ask him about this surprise development of their becoming the famous authors of a non-existent book, he literally shieked that they would sue me if I ever dared to utter a word of criticism of their plans to cash in on this story, which I had made available to the world of Internet readers without ever asking anyone for a dime, in the form of the basic research that will always be the fundamental work at the center of the questions about how Cobain really died.***** As my reward for trying to cooperate with these guys, they subject me to much ridicule in their eventually released book, writing, 'In the strange cast of characters that dot this case, perhaps none is more bizarre than Richard Lee. Lee is a rather odd character. He comes across as the stereotype of a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist...bitter...' and 'difficult to take seriously.' (While they also mention my long career as a journalist, this does not balance their baseless mischaracterization).***** I can say without reservation that I consider Max Wallace and Ian Halperin to be plagiarists, and even far worse, liars. The first charge is completely beyond question, as, after they subject me to a battery of pejoratives, they cut-and-paste a verbatim 389-word segment, another 322-word segment, some very significant additional portions of my research, and the color photo of my face directly from my website and into their little book, ignoring obvious warnings that this material is under my copyright.***** Even more disturbingly, they introduce their product with a claim that Halperin had actually met Cobain at a music club in 1990 and that Cobain had asked him (and I quote them directly here), 'Hey man, you know where I can score some smack?'***** If they are being as untruthful with their readers as they were in their duplicitous dealings with me, I can say that this is an outrageous and obscene lie. Their apparent strategy is to put themselves in some sort of leadership position as scandalmongers who have first-hand knowledge of what Cobain was 'really' like. In doing so, Halperin is, to my knowledge, the first person ever to come forward with such an story of being solicited by Cobain for narcotics as a person he just met, and this stands in stark contrast to the known record on these issues (wherein we find Cobain himself asserting that media stories of his drug use were largely fictional). ***** Do us both a favor and resist any temptation to hand over to these con artists (whose claim to be longstanding journalists is left unsubstantiated) any of your hard-earned. If you want much of the truth about the Cobain case for free, just click over to my website (easily found through Yahoo and elsewhere), and if you want more, just hold on for my 'Kurt Cobain Was Murdered: The Independent Investigation', to be out in August if not earlier (to order, use ISBN #0-9657412-0-6). Richard Lee Seattle, WA March 26, 1999 (Note: the book is still a work-in-progress.—RL, 4/26/04).

BELOW IS THE SAMPLED COMMENTARY FROM THE APRIL 25 TV PROGRAM:

“But the big story of the week, which really blew my socks off was, I called Rolling Stone and said hey, who won the 1984 Rolling Stone college journalism prize, and found out there was only one prize, and that went to Mr. W. Hampton Sides, 22, a 1984 Yale graduate, won in the investigative category… Not the two stooges. Not Max Wienerdog and Ian Blowhard, not those guys from Canada. In fact, they told me at the Rolling Stone, gee, I don’t even think we even let Canadians enter the contest—which is still going on to this day—we get nasty letters all the time about Canadians who don’t like the idea that we won’t let them enter. Wow. Really?...These guys did not win the Rolling Stone prestigious annual journalism prize as students, this Ian asshole does not work for Court TV—he was not ‘hired’ as a ‘regular correspondent’ for Court TV--and he sure as hell is not going to be starring as Leonard DiCaprio-slash-Howard Hughes’s buddy in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film The Aviator…. They’re not any of those things….They were on the Catherine Crier program, and they got like 8 minutes, and she was very complimentary. She holds up the book at the end and she says, ‘Fascinating, fascinating...’…Unfortunately, fascinating the material may be, certainly fascinating the premise is, but (neither) Ms. Crier nor her staff took a look at even the first few pages…or even the inside flaps where they’re making these outrageous claims that this Ian butthole…that he’s a ‘regular correspondent’ for CourtTV! …Believe me, they laughed at the beginning when I brought this up with someone that I’ve been dealing with on the phone for many months, on related matters. She said, if they hired some new correspondents, I would know about it. I’ve never heard of this guy. No…Total liars to all appearances, although I’m still working on the final verification, which isn’t easy to get now that Rolling Stone and Court TV realize how stupid they’re going to look, that their corporate names got dragged into this, in this particular way.”

(NOTE: THE THREE IMAGES REFERRED TO BELOW HAVE BEEN DELETED TO AID DIAL-UP USERS IN LOADING THE PAGE MORE EASILY, AND BECAUSE THE "LOVE AND DEATH" AUTHORS CONTROVERSY DOES NOT REALLY HINGE ON ANYTHING PROVED BY YOUR ACTUALLY SEEING THOSE DOCUMENTS--R. LEE, July 10, 2004).

Image 1 is the back flap from Wallace and Halperin's new book, under Simon & Schuster. Image 2 is from the back cover of their 1999 "Revised and Updated" Cobain paperback. Image 3 is from a microfilm copy of Rolling Stone magazine, showing that Mr. W. Hampton Sides was the actual winner of the award Wallace and Halperin falsely claim that they won. (Note: At this point we correct the last caption on this original version, asking you to substitute “incorrectly” for “falsely,” i.e., for whatever reasons, Wallace and Halperin “incorrectly claim” that they won the 1984 award on the back of their 1999 book. Please extend that correction to the commentary here transcribed from the April 25 TV edition, which was based on the best information we had at the time, as we clearly noted at that time.—RL, 4/26/04).

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 25, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 14

"LAX Standards: Our Airport Monologue

on CLC's Child Abuse/Murder Gags on Leno

and Fakery by 'Love and Death' Stooges"

****

On The Previous Program:

“I’m not suggesting we interfere with NBC’s right to make a profit, on the other hand, I have great hostility toward the idea that they’re interfering with my ability to make a profit, because that thing (NBC Dateline) two weeks ago, 12 days ago scooped me, you know. It was just a malicious corporate takeover of the thesis of Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, that they were going to give big play in front of 20 million people or so on a Friday night…And what is the net result? The net result is that not only is the public presumed to have a short memory span, but the fucking network itself…This was really a sundering of the trust between the public and the TV networks…that essentially own and control the public airwaves…It’s only incrementally different from putting O.J. back on Monday Night Football.”

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 18, 2004

“Deadline, Beverly Hills” Part 13

“Adolph Hitler is Alive and Well

and Appearing at NBC Studios in Burbank:

Courtney Declares ‘I Am The Center of the Universe’

and 'The Biggest Bitch In Rock’

and Jokes About Beating and Murdering 11-year-old Daughter”

****

On The Previous Program:

"Rip him to fucking shreds. I don't care. Leave his limbs scattered, and then ten years from now we'll celebrate that."

--MTV producer Alex Coletti, extolling nearly riotous crowd of teens and twentysomethings to exact violent retribution on KCWM producer Richard Lee for seemingly limiting their exposure on MTV's live coverage of 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's official date of death, April 5, 2004.

from:

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 11, 2004

"The Battle of Viretta Park" Part 1:

"KCWM Sings Our Song, MTV Calls It 'Giving Everyone Crap'"

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Our television series is seen in King County, Washington (including Seattle) in hundreds of thousands of households that receive the cable signal on Channel 29 or 77. All of the programs are presented under the aegis title Now See It Person to Person, which has been the name of the weekly series since it began in April, 1993. Over 500 programs have been presented as Kurt Cobain Was Murdered editions, beginning on April 13, 1994 (the earliest episodes were actually called Was Kurt Cobain Murdered?).

Catch KCWM each week, Thursdays At 11:30 PM.

****

Here are the titles from the most recent new programs:





Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 15, 2005

“KCWM For Mayor” Part Seven

“Funeral Baked Meats:

Current Mayor Holds Flesh Roasting Event

About 100 Yards from Cobain Grave Robbing and Corpse Mutilation Crime Scene,

Curiously, KCWM Is Invited Guest, and Is, Of Course,

Attacked and Jailed by Our Political Opponent's Official Thugs"

****

“KCWM For Mayor” Part Six

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 3, 2005

“Citizen Dick:

KCWM Interviews With Local Hearst Daily,

Decries Limp-dickedness In Seattle Political Culture”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 27, 2005

“Murdergate Meets KCWM For Mayor”

“False Statistics:

Public Safety Chair and Police Chief

Keep Internal Affairs Stats All Faked Up,

Then Dash From Our Questions,

and Mayor Evades KCWM, Too”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 20, 2005

“KCWM For Mayor” and

“…You’re Gonna Die, Asshole” Parts Four

“Yesterday’s News:

KCWM Has High-stress Friday,

Headbanging With Portland Law Bright and Early,

Returning To Expose Unethical Conduct

of Seattle Ethics Office Before Close of Beeswax”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 13, 2005

“KCWM For Mayor”

Part Three

“Our Platform Is Simple:

A Family-friendly City

and No Corporate Welfare for Geffen’s Partner Paul Allen--

A Message Mayor Darth V. Speeds Away From Hearing”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 6, 2005

“’I’d Whisper in Their Ear, You’re Gonna Die, Asshole’”

Part Three

“The Book Business Is About

The Dirtiest Goddam Business In The World Right Now:

Mild-mannered KCWM Appears at Stamper Event

in Portland, Is Jumped Upon by Waiting Goons,

Busted by Local Copperoos”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 30, 2005

“KCWM for Mayor” Part Two

“2,500 Seattle Signatories Can’t Be Wrong:

KCWM Files for Mayor’s Job,

Ex Top Boss at Elections Office Is Under Indictment,

but Their Procedures Are Still Marred by Goofy-assed Laxity”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 23, 2005

“’I’d Whisper in Their Ear, You’re Gonna Die, Asshole’”

Part Two

A Brutal Civility:

Ex Top Cop and Ex Alterna-weekly Owner

Have KCWM Attacked by Goons,

SPD Cops a Do-nothing Attitude,

Seattleite Zombies Line Up To Pay for Stamper’s Words of Wisdom”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 16, 2005

“’I’d Whisper in Their Ear, You’re Gonna Die, Asshole’”

Part One

"Ex-Police Chief Norm Stamper Returns to Seattle,

KCWM Pays $5 for Q&A Session,

Is Brutally Assaulted When Daring To Ask About His Old

Extravagant Claims of Brutality, and His New Employment by

Danny Goldberg, Nirvana’s Old Manager”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 9, 2005

"KCWM for Mayor" Part One

“Nickels’ ‘Seattle Way’:

KCWM Begins Political Campaign,

Armed Coppers Show Up Within Minutes”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 2, 2005

“Murdergate” Part Three

“American Idle:

City Council Members and Wannabes

Audition for ‘Music Industry’ Graft

by Promising Corporate and Personal Welfare

and Telling The Average Schmuck ‘if you want

peace and quiet, you better live in the suburbs’”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported June 25, 2005

“'Last Days'…” Part Two

“Courtney Love or Confusion:

New Cobain Necro-pic

Very Precisely Spins Details From Official Lies,

So Is Van Sant Just Dumb, or

Is He Serving Some Dark Lord?”

****

"'Last Days': It's Confused, So Long, So Untrue”

Part One

“Van Sant Appears for 3 Minutes at

Premiere of New Flick, Just Long Enough

To Say He’s ‘very scared’ of KCWM,

from Whom He Copped His Title,

from Our 1999 BBC Rock Shrines Interview”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported June 11, 2005

“Murdergate” Part Two

“All the President’s Men:

Nirvana, Inc.-JAMPAC President ‘Stretch’ Novoselic

Keeps the Grease Flowing to Public Safety Chair,

Who Calls It a ‘Stretch’ To See This as

Connected to Murder Evidence He Obstructed,

Then Opts To Keep Throat Resealed”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 21, 2005

Season Premiere

“Murdergate” Part One

“Overcoming Overreaching Ban,

KCWM Returns to Seat of Government

To Question Public Safety Chair on His

Taking of Thousands of Dollars from

Novoselic’s Lobbying Partner Whilst

Quashing Evidence of Cobain’s Murder”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 25, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Six

“Detective Friction:

LASD Interrogation of KCWM

by Dynamic Duo Who Seem to Have

Been Fed A Lot of Choice Skinny

From None Other Than CLC Herself,

14:17-16:02, January 12, 2005”

****

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 18, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Five

"Fulsome Prison Blues:

I Wasn’t Shot by the

Sheriff and His Deputies,

But LA County Lock-up

Ain’t the Beverly Hilton"

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 11, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Four

“Illegal Seizure and Search:

KCWM Nabbed,

Our Cool Stuff Grabbed,

We All Confabbed in

Gnarly Dragnet Spoof”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 4, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Three

“Breakfast of Champions:

The Three-day Hunger Stint

Comes to an End, and

KCWM Scarfs and Vents”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 28, 2005

“Shitty of Angels” Part Two

“Foreboding and Aftermath:

KCWM Arrives, Is Abducted by Police, Is Eventually Released,

and The World Reacts”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 21, 2005

Season Premiere

“Shitty of Angels” Part One

“LA Sheriffs, Pistols in Hand and

Fully Prepared to Kill KCWM,

Abduct Us to Please CLC, Whom They

Know to Be A Notoriously Disturbed Criminal”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported December 15, 2004

“Coffin-shaped Box Set” Part 2

“EMPathy, EMPathy!”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported November 24, 2004

“Coffin-shaped Box Set” Part 1

“Overture to ‘Closure’:

3-panel Rigid Horizontal Digipak

Holds 4 Trays, Plus 60-page Booklet”

******

“Can I Be O.J.?” Part Two

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported October 13, 2004

“CLC, O.J. And The MCA:

Weitzman and Kardashian Were There for the Juice at the Rockingham Gate,

Now the Former Universal Soldier Is There To Front for The Wid”

******

"Can I Be O.J.?" Part One

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported October 6, 2004

“CLC, Now Represented by O.J. Simpson’s Most Mysterious Counselor,

Incredibly Continues to Complain About KCWM’s Presence”

******

"First Amendment..." Part Two

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 29, 2004

“Modern Political Method:

Deny, Deny, Deny,

Forget, Confuse, Feign Befuddlement,

And If Nothing Else Works,

Send Out Some Guys With Guns And Badges,

Maybe To Smash Some Noses”

******

“First Amendment Fucked in the Ass by Fascist Authorities”

Part One

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 22, 2004

“Mayor’s Personal SPD Thugs Criminally Assault KCWM by

Actually Jamming Badge Against Our Nose, then Shoving Us Out

of City Hall and the Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Arts Committee”

******

“Moments of Zen?”

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported September 15, 2004

Season Premiere

“SPD’s No. 2 Runs for Cover,

Public Safety Chair Stonewalls,

Mayor Sends Goon Out of Limo to Shove KCWM,

and Copper Brass Fails to Show at Event

Honoring Murdered U.S. Attorney”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 21, 2004

“Council Public Safety Chair Has KCWM Heckled Rather Than

‘Fess Up About Internal Non-investigations Rate,

and SPD’s No. 2 Says They Did No Investigation ‘Cuz Yer Wrong’”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported August 7, 2004

“Enter Ho-phelia, The Mad Scene:

CL Turns 40 as Loony Toon in Cuffs,

Whilst SPD’s Number Two Says a Phantom

‘body of evidence’ Proves KCWM is Wrong

and That SPD Needn’t Investigate Murder Allegations”

******

Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 31, 2004

"Citizen Locke" Part Four

“Loss of Face Face-off:

Gov Gives Face Time to Kids for 2 Hours,

But Flees Rather Than Face KCWM’s Questions”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 24, 2004

“Citizen Locke” Part Three

“Rosebud--Something He Couldn’t Get, or Something He Lost:

Gary Locke’s Reputation and the Cobain Affair”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 17, 2004

“Citizen Locke” Part Two

“Ohmygod, He Did It Again:

Governor Performs Assault/Robbery on KCWM

and Falsely Claims 'I Did Not Ever Talk To You’ in 1996”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported July 10, 2004

“Citizen Locke” Part One

“I.D. For Ya’:

Washington Governor Welcomes New Citizens,

But Is Most Uncivil In Shoving KCWM’s Lens,

And Speeding From Our Questions”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered as reported June 19, 2004

Politique Concrete:

"SPD’s Chief Internal Investigator Remains Obtuse

About KCWM's Rock-Solid Facts, and

Refutes Any Possibility of SPD Cover-up Conspiracy,

Despite Reality That His Position Was Created

Because of Just Such a Scandal By the Very Same Coppers"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 29, 2004

"Nickels Plugged: Mayor Calls New Library

A Place 'of inclusion...to break down barriers,

to promote understanding, to gain knowledge...'

In Reality, KCWM Enters This 'cradle of democracy'

and Nickels Has Our Questioning of Him

Brutally, Violently Supressed"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 22, 2004

“Kurt Was Mutilated, Very Dry:

Top Pols Hear Horrific Tale,

Are Not Shaken, Not Stirred”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 8, 2004

Season Premiere

“Gimme Honor, Nevermind the Justice:

SPD Internal Investigations Director Says,

‘You May Be Right and We All May Be Wrong

--Mistakes Will Be Made’”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported May 2, 2004

“It's Our Season-ending

Text'n'Clip Promo Reel"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 25, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 14

"LAX Standards: Our Airport Monologue

on CLC's Child Abuse/Murder Gags on Leno

and Fakery by 'Love and Death' Stooges"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 18, 2004

“Deadline, Beverly Hills” Part 13

“Adolph Hitler is Alive and Well

and Appearing at NBC Studios in Burbank:

Courtney Declares ‘I Am The Center of the Universe’

and 'The Biggest Bitch In Rock’

and Jokes About Beating and Murdering 11-year-old Daughter”

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 11, 2004

"The Battle of Viretta Park" Part 1:

"KCWM Sings Our Song, MTV Calls It 'Giving Everyone Crap'"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported April 4, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 12:

"Positively Burton Way: Angry Journos Say,

'She Won't Talk If You're Here, Richard, So I'm

Sorry, You Have To Die'"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported March 28, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 11:

"Waiting for The Ho:

CLC Is 2 Hours Late for Her Latest Perp Walk"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported March 21, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 10:

"February in LA: The Mural Monologue Wrap-up"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported March 14, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 9:

"Beverly Hills Cops on 'Gun' Allegation:

If Courtney Love Said It, It Must Be A Lie"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported March 7, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 8:

"'And I Swear That I Don't Have a Gun':

CLC Tells Outrageous Lie That KCWM

Is Her Ruby-esque Stalker"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 29, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 7:

"Courting Disaster: CLC's Lawyer Quits,

She is FTA, and a

'Guy With A Gun' Is Blamed"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 22, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 6:

"Citing Mysterious 'Security Concerns,'

CLC is FTA at Felony Court, 90210"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 8, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 5:

"It's a Real Drag-net: An Hour of

False Imprisonment in LA, CA"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported February 1, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 4:

"Bodyguards and a Nut Job:

Courtney's Latest Line of Defense"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 25, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 3:

"Poor and Famous in Beverly Hills" and

"CLC is MIA at The Temple of J"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 18, 2004

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 2:

"Courtney, Cops, KABC, and The Cultural Wasteland"

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Kurt Cobain Was Murdered, as reported January 11, 2004

(Season Premiere)

"Deadline, Beverly Hills" Part 1:

"Courtney Love's 30-second Press Conference" or

"'Who Is Richard Lee, Why Does He Suck So Bad, And

Why Is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me?'"

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KCWM: Five Years After The following is a transcript of some of the video material which was filmed today, Saturday, 3/27/99, and which will make up much of a 5th anniversary program of the Kurt Cobain Was Murdered series, which will pass the 400 editions milestone this year. The footage today was from an event called the "Community Policing Action Council Real Partnerships Conference" held at a large private university and attended by, we estimate, more than 100 "community members", and dozens of Seattle police employees and officers in civilian clothing, as well as no small number of uniformed officers who made their presence seen and felt at various times throughout the day. The event was quietly promoted through a 90-second spot seen on the Seattle Police Department's monthly one-hour program on the municipal television station Channel 28, which puts across the City of Seattle's political agenda in living color, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Police Chief Norm Stamper himself appeared in the TV spot, saying: I want to urge every one of you to give some consideration to this conference. It provides an excellent opportunity, particularly (to) those who've had a strained relationship with the Seattle Police Department or policing in general, to come together to spend one full day talking about our community/police relationship, what it's been, what it is today, and how it can be improved. One of the things we want to emphasize throughout that day is the freedom to express personal views about our relationship with you. A great opportunity: please take advantage of it. Chief Stamper himself wore a cryptically marked black cloth jacket emboidered "MCC Los Angeles 1999" (for Metropolitan Correctional Center). He was, as we expected, conspicuously evasive when we tried to obtain answers to questions in the Cobain homicide case and related matters, to which he offered a variety of non-ans