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Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ( January 15 , 1945 – July 20 , 1993 ) was a deputy White House Counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton . His death in 1993 , shortly after Clinton took office, was a major story in the Mass Media , and was officially ruled a Suicide by several investigations, including one by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr . LIFE AND CAREER Foster was born in Hope, Arkansas . He graduated first in his law school class in Fayetteville, Arkansas . Additionally he scored the highest in his class on the Arkansas Bar Exam ; see Vince Foster: One of the Best and Brightest A childhood friend of Bill Clinton, Foster had worked at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas with Hillary Clinton . After Clinton's election, Foster joined his White House staff. The Foster residence was on Cambridge Place in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. Foster had difficulty making the transition to life and politics in Washington. He was only a deputy counsel, but he was personally the target of several hostile '' Wall Street Journal '' editorials. DEATH Wrestling with Clinical Depression , Foster was prescribed Trazodone over the phone by his doctor, though he could have taken at most a few pills before he died. The next day, Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park , a federal park in Virginia . A Suicide Note of sorts was found torn into 27 pieces in his briefcase, a list of complaints specifically mentioning the ''Wall Street Journal'' and complaining "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." His funeral Mass was held at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas and he was buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas . Foster was 48 years old, and left behind a widow, Lisa, and three adult children, Vince III, Laura, and Brugh. CONSPIRACY THEORY Background Despite the fact that Foster was officially described as having shot himself in the mouth and as lacking any other wounds, some find the official report questionable. The conservative Accuracy In Media , a group that has received funding from billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife , has made available a transcript of an interview with Miguel Rodriguez , who resigned from the investigation, in which he states, "I knew what the result was going to be, because I was told what the result was going to be from the get-go." {Link without Title} . Based on this assertion and other variables, some go so far as to propose that Foster was murdered to prevent him revealing information derogatory to Clinton, and others allege a romantic relationship between Foster and Hillary Clinton. Scaife funded ). in Miami, at an airport hotel. Armistead laid out an elaborate "Vince Foster murder scenario," Brock said – a scenario that he found implausible." {Link without Title} Besides the official investigations, including s and the right-wing crowd get a hold of this information, and what do they do with it? They start making Movies alleging that the Clintons were involved in this murder. They were also saying that Foster had been having sex with some blond, that he either committed suicide or was murdered at a location other than Fort Marcy Park . That he was wrapped in a carpet and laid out to appear as though he committed suicide, and the gun was placed in his hand. Ruddy was involved with these Videos ." {Link without Title} Different Theories Although it has been officially determined that Foster was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at the park site, some conspiracy theorists allege no bullet fragments were ever found and very little blood was present at the body's final location. Thus, the theorists assert suspicions that the body had been moved from another location to the park site. Some reject the official reports and believe that while Foster was located on an incline, the trickle of blood ran contrary to gravity. No explanation was offered to explain this. The U.S. Park Police were assigned to investigate the murder, but no more information was ever disclosed. With respect to this case, conspiracy theorists are largey divided into two groups. Some suspect that Foster committed suicide in a location that was embarrassing to figures connected to the Clinton administration and that government agents dumped his body in the park to avoid any embarrassment. Others suspect that Foster died from a shot from a small-caliber pistol to the neck and his body was dumped in the park. A book by Christopher Andersen entitled ''Bill and Hillary: The Marriage'' {Link without Title} claims there was an affair between Foster and Hillary Clinton and some claim that this supposed affair has some relation to Foster's death. Three federal judges, David Sentelle, John Butzner, and Peter Fay attached an addendum to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Report on Foster's death, over Starr's objection.[http://www.fbicover-up.com/starr/AddendumtoStarr.pdf] Starr's lead investigator, Assistant U.S. Attorney Miquel Rodriguez, stated in taped telephone conversations that he was told what the result would be before he began his investigation and he said that "Starr's investigation was a sham" because he knew the result before the investigation began. [http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33668] Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , the independent counsel who investigated the Clintons on several other issues, including Whitewater, concluded after a three-year investigation that Foster had shot himself. Urban Legend debunking Website Snopes.com cites this as proof that Foster was not murdered, claiming "If Foster had been murdered or if unanswered questions about his death remained, Starr would have been the last person to want to conclude the investigation prematurely." {Link without Title} SEE ALSO REFERENCES Web |
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