Laura Bush: 'The Perfect Killer"

[DoYouEverWonder]

Actually the real title is "Laura Bush: 'The Perfect Wife'." This is basically a puff piece that was published last January. However, buried near the bottom is the 'official' story of how Laura Bush killed Mike Douglas while she was speeding blithely out of town and blew a stop sign. I wonder if she even got a speeding ticket? And how do you speed "blithely'?



Laura Bush: 'The Perfect Wife'

Jan. 8, 2004

Laura, they learned, had been speeding blithely out of town about 8 P.M., east on Farm Road 868, her high school friend Judy Dykes in the passenger seat. She never saw the stop sign. She never saw the other car. She plowed right through that stop sign and slammed hard into the 1962 Corvair coming south and with the right-of-way, on State Road 349, the La Mesa Highway. She was fine, really, the officer assured her parents, but bruised and banged up, and awfully upset. Judy was shaking but unharmed as well. But the boy in the other car, well, the force of the broadside impact was so severe that, well...He never had a chance. Michael Douglas, golden boy of Midland, high school track star, was dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. The two girls were taken there, too, in another ambulance. Mike Douglas's father had been driving another car behind his son. He saw the entire horrific scene, the explosive beginning of a nightmare that haunted him his whole life.

The front-page story in the Midland Reporter-Telegram was blunt and nonaccusatory. "Police said death was attributed to a broken neck," the paper reported, using that passive voice peculiar to newspaper writing. But the news flew through Midland about whose actions had caused that death.

Killing another person was a tragic, shattering error for a girl to make at seventeen. It was one of those hinges in a life, a moment when destiny shuddered, then lurched in a new direction. In its aftermath, Laura became more cautious and less spontaneous, more inclined to be compassionate, less inclined to judge another person.

What made the crash even more devastating was that the boy Laura killed was no stranger but a good friend of hers, a boy from her crowd. Some said Mike Douglas was her boyfriend. Or had been, or maybe she wanted him to be. ...


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/07/earlyshow/leisure/books/main591951.shtml

[Vickers]

1. "more inclined to be compassionate"

:wtf:

Why do they even have to throw that kind of shit in there?

[coreystone]

2. I know its not objective, but, there is something about her eyes..

that seem hard and ????????

[leftchick]

6. and... Crazy perhaps?!?!

I know I would be crazy if I had hooked up with the fucking bat shit she married...

[Piperay]

3. "more inclined to be compassionate,

less inclined to judge another person." Well who would of thunk it, you sure can't tell by her words and actions. :shrug:

[Old and In the Way]

4. She never saw the stop sign?

Wasn't this the town she grew up in?

[Jade Fox]

8. Yes. For the actual story by someone who knew her....

go here:

http://www.dragonflymedia.com/em/em2007/backwoods2007.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I love the HS picture

Thanks for the link.

[leftchick]

5. more cautious?!?!?

She marries a drunken frat boy with absolutely no accomplishents other than to get dead drunk and snort coke at the same time. Who never succedded at anything, was and continues to get bailed out by poppy and friends for every fuck-up .. ETC, ETC, ETC... this is truly vomit inducing material.... :puke?

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. According to the WP, Laura was never charged

She was never charged? Gee, she was just 17 and she felt so bad, doesn't cut it when you kill somebody with your car. So if dear sweet Laura was never charged, then she never went to court? I'd like to know why she got such 'favorable' treatment? Did the Midland police even bother to investigate or did someone take care of things for her?


The daughter of a home builder and a homemaker who kept her husband's books, Laura Welch decided by second grade to become a teacher. Life in Midland was both limited and enriched by oil. Children rode their bikes down hot streets and went to the drive-in in their PJs. When the first lady was in high school, friends recall, social life consisted of dancing to the Drifters in the basement ? she loved to dance ? and sneaking cigarettes on joy rides.

One night in November 1963, a ride went wrong. Laura, who had just turned 17, didn't see a stop sign and hit a car driven by Mike Douglas, a track star who ran with her crowd. He died at the scene. She was not charged.

"That was a very hard time," says Regan Gammon, her friend since they were Brownies. "He was wonderful. It changed everyone in some way. I know I was so sad I might not have been able to see how sad Laura was. He was a very close friend of Laura's."

In the past, the first lady has said she thinks it is "sad" this piece of her background has been unearthed. Now, however, she discusses it evenly but with that resolute self-possession.

"It makes me have more of a perspective on life," she says of what she calls "a tragic accident. And maybe I would already have had that perspective anyway. I just got it at 17."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39160-2001Mar21?language=printer

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