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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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December 7, 1997: Ron Brown Case - Chris Ruddy | The Brain - Neil Slade

Dec 7, 1997
3h 9m
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Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Chris Ruddy with breaking developments in the Ron Brown death investigation. Ruddy reveals that a second Armed Forces medical examiner, Lieutenant Colonel David Hause, has come forward to confirm an apparent bullet wound at the top of Commerce Secretary Brown''s head. The first whistleblower, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Cogswell, has faced severe retaliation, including office confinement and military police arriving at his home to seize photographs. Ruddy also reports that all head X-rays from Brown''s examination have gone missing from official files.

In the second half, Neil Slade joins to discuss the untapped potential of the human brain, drawing on eleven years of work with brain researcher T.D.A. Lingo. Slade explains Dr. Paul McLean''s triune brain model, describing how reptilian, mammalian, and primate brain layers compute different behaviors. He identifies the amygdala as a master click switch that, when activated forward, opens access to frontal lobe abilities including creativity, intuition, and extrasensory perception.

Art shares his own powerful precognition experience in Santa Barbara, where overwhelming waves of awareness warned him something was about to happen to his car moments before another driver reversed into it. Slade explains that such abilities are tied to cooperative consciousness and cannot be accessed through selfish motivation.

Key Moments

  1. Cogswell placed under office arrest: Ruddy describes how the Armed Forces Institute confined Cogswell to his desk, forbade press contact, and sent military police to his home demanding his Brown-case slides - actions one officer called 'tantamount to house arrest.'

  2. Lt Col David Hause confirms Brown head wound: Ruddy reads the breaking UPI/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story: a second Armed Forces medical examiner, U.S. Army Lt Col David Hause, says he saw an apparent .45-caliber bullet wound in the top of Ron Brown's head, corroborating Lt Col Steve Cogswell's account.

  3. All Brown head X-rays missing: Ruddy reports Hause's inventory of the Brown case file found that every head X-ray and every original photographic negative of those X-rays has disappeared from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology's safe.

  4. Press conference set for Willard Hotel: Ruddy announces an 11:15 a.m. credentialed-press-only event at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., where he will play Cogswell's recorded lecture and show the Brown autopsy slides - coverage breaking on Bell hours before the briefing.