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TKe Poducah Son 2A 1 tA ii 6. JOHN JOSEPH Directed local filming Shots of John Doe talking with airport personnel, trying to trade his jacket for a plane ride west Shots of John Doe scaling the airport fence and running for the plane. Shots of airport authorities his body against a crumpled ELIZABETH COURTNEYThe Sun McCracken County Coroner Jerry Beyer asks maintenance to shut off the air conditioner during filming of a scene in which he re-creates bis examination of John Doe, played here by Dan Barringer. MYSTERY Continued from page 1 Walker said crew members showed a real desire to find John Doe's family, not just to capitalize on a bizzare death. "They said they sincerely believe they could (find the man's identity) and they sincerely wanted to," he said.

"Waller is keeping bis fingers crossed until the segment airs this fall. "I certainly hope someone will step forward and we can find this family he said. "It's kind of like a lost piece of a puzzle. Everybody's got family somewhere." Sheriffs Detective Jimmy Grief was pleased with the realistic nature of the filming. were real quick to keep it in that perspective, the way the actual events happened," he said.

"They interviewed everyone who was involved. They wanted it to be an. original They didnt want to exaggerate or anything like that" Grief and others involved in the filming admitted they're already being kidded about their new-found never was so embarrassed in my life as I was here today at the courthouse," he said. rWes Weaver, an employee of Ohio Valley Aviation, said he, too, has been teased. "They ask me when I become a big movie star if I'm going to still talk to them, give them loans," he $aid.

probably was the last person to talk to John Doe before bis death. He spoke with him at the airport when the unidentified man tried to trade bis leather jacket for a plane ride west, and he saw the man jump the airport fence and run toward the taxiing plane. Dan Barringer, hired to 'portray John Doe, looked so similar to the man, Weaver found it a little disconcerting at first. "It was kind of weird," he said. "It was kind of spooky because this guy looked just like him.

He was a pretty good actor because he acted like him, too." Weaver said he enjoyed his brief brush with Hollywood. "I had a good time with it, but it's not something I'd want to do again," he said. He's anxious to see the finished product, but, "I'm more anxious to see if it works or not I talked to this guy and 45 minutes later he's dead, you know? I'd like to know what he was into." Weaver said the television crew trasn't exactly what he expected. "I figured they'd be a bunch of snobs," he said. "I was really impressed with them.

They seemed like they were really interested." DAN BARRINGER Portrays John Doe PLAN Continued from page 1 hitch a ride on a commuter flight leaving Barkley Regional Airport. Admittedly, the case is strange. But what surprised Joseph was the reaction of the people of McCracken County, who saw to it that John Doe's death didn't go unnoticed. About 30 people attended a funeral for him, donated by Roth Funeral Home. Flowers were sent and some tears were shed.

"If this had happened in a big city, it probably would have just been forgotten," Joseph said. "They'd think, 'Another crazy bites the dust The community's reaction was one of the reasons the popular television show accepted the case. That, Joseph said, and, "This was a very strange accident It was a very strange act by mysterious person." The crew was in Paducah for three days of filming, which will be compacted into about 10 minutes of television time that will' air in the fall after the start of the new television season. Paducah and its residents left an impression on Joseph. "Everybody was very cooperative," he said.

"It's such a refreshing experience everybody was so nice and so cooperative. It's nice to come to a small town." The wheels started rolling several months ago and a lot of groundwork was laid before officials at Unsolved Mysteries accepted the story for filming. After suggestions for the story were received, "Unsolved Mysteries" researchers developed information and wrote a summary. The show's executive producer then sent Joseph to Paducah on a scouting expedition. When he saw potential in the story, he returned to Los Angeles and submitted an outline.

Joseph is confident the show's viewers will come through with an identification. "I think we have a very good chance of it being solved," he said. "I'm sure they'll get a lot of calls on this one." While in Paducah, the crew filmed a number of interviews and recreated some of the events surrounding the accident: ries of the night of Sept. 30, although it's never really far from the minds of those involved. "Lots of times, when I'm out making a perimeter check, 111 have to look over there where we found him," he said.

"IH feel a lot better when we do find out who he is." McCracken Coroner Jerry Beyer is another who lives every day with the knowledge John Doe hasn't been identified. "The general public, in the back of their minds, remembers John Doe and remembers he fell into their city, but they don't have to come into work every day and face that case file," he said. "It's frustrating to me that we can't identify this young man." Beyer admitted the filming was a fun experience, but said what he's most concerned about is getting John Doe's picture before the public. "I don't care whether Jerry Beyer is on television or if Howard Walker is on television or if Jimmy Grief is on television, as long as John Doe is on television," he said. "We're sort of grasping at straws.

Yes, I have to be hopeful that" an identification will come from the segment Beyer said the crew shot "probably 20 hours or more of film," but "I think we'll have to wait and see what kind of results we get." He said the segment producer told him a photograph of John Doe which appeared in The Paducah Weaver also mentioned the attention to detail. "We would do the same little -deal, like me driving the truck past him (just before John Doe jumped the airport fence), they did four takes on that to get the right angle and everything," he said. "I bet I drove up and down that road 50 times." Richard Roof, airport manager, and Ronald Jones, aircraft rescue firefighter and security officer at the airport, found John Doe's body after the accident. Both felt the filming stuck close to what happened. "We hope the end result will turn out as they planned," Roof said.

Although he enjoyed the filming, Roof said he isn't about to quit bis job for a spot in Hollywood. "Basically, it's work," he said. "I'm going to be glad to see life return to normal." Jones said he shies away from publicity or notoriety. This time he couldn't avoid it "Usually I like to stay in the background," he said. "After the first day it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be.

I told my wife I know now why I didn't run off to Hollywood." Jones said he's also taking his share of teasing from his friends, who've been asking him for autographs. "My kids have been teasing me, saying they're going to record it," he said. The filming brought back memo Sun several months ago will be shown on the segment "It's my understanding from talking to the producer, when they use a photograph they have a 95 percent solve rate," he said. "It this does not turn up (someone who knows John Doe), well probably never get an identification." Beyer said he disagreed with the crew about the way they wanted to film a scene at the morgue. He said they wanted to cover the body with a sheet, to be lifted here and there for examination.

But, Beyer said, that's not the way it's really done. "They followed my wishes on that," he said. John Doe appears clothed, lying on a table while Beyer searches the man's outer clothing for evidence. "These people were highly professional," he said. "They sought for perfection in everything they did." For example, the morgue scene took 19 takes before the director was satisfied.

"That impressed me, but it also gave me a totally new insight into what it must take" to produce a television show, he said. Beyer confessed he's anxious for the segment to air. "I wish they'd told me it was running Wednesday," he said. "Word got out (Friday) in Cadiz that it was a man from Cadiz. The rumor mill is still generating out there." chain-link fence.

Shots of preliminary investigation at the morgue. The final scene to be filmed John Doe jumping onto the airplane just before it takes off will be completed in California, where the Federal Aviation Administration is more used to dealing with movie and television requests. Dan Barringer, a stuntman from Los Angeles, is portraying John Doe. Investigators and witnesses at the airport say his likeness to John Doe is startling. "We had to find somebody who looked similar to John Doe and somebody who would" jump onto a moving airplane, Joseph said.

"It's a pretty hair-raising stunt" Barringer, a native of Plaines, 111., has been making a living "doubling" people since 1981. He's worked with some top stars, such as Bruce Willis. "I doubled him in 'Billy Barringer said. "I had my feet stuck in cement and got kicked into the East River by Dustin Hoffman." John Doe is a first for him, though. It's the first time he's ever portrayed someone who's already dead.

"I've been killed many times on film," he said. Barringer explained he was contacted about the job by the stunt coordinator for "Unsolved Mysteries." He said he's done an airplane stunt for the show before. After he was hired, he took a photograph of John Doe to his barber to have his hair cut like the unidentified man's. Clothing like John Doe's was bought and an Emmy Award-winning makeup artist from Nashville was brought in to make Barringer appear "dead" for the morgue shots. "It's such a sad story," the stuntman said.

"There's so many strange, bizzare things. You almost have to laugh. When you tell people about it, they cari't believe it actually happened." he flew from Dallas to Houston aboard Air Force One. As a national poll showed him trailing Perot for the first time, he voiced concern during the conversation at what he called "muckraking" press coverage of his children and their business dealings. Speaking after several news organizations published lengthy accounts of those ties, Bush complained: "All of a sudden, for strange reasons, people are trying to suggest that these kids are less than honest, and it really burns me up." White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater suggested later that the stories had been inspired by Democratic Party Chairman Ron Brown, who he said had "talked all the (Washington) bureau chiefs into doing them, and they're unjustified." Bush called the investigation "a sorry process." In language that echoed complaints issued by Clinton throughout the campaign, the president said in defense of his children: "The media ought to be ashamed of itself for what they're doing." Bush insisted in the interview that he remained confident of winning re-election, and said his optimism was based in large part on his optimism that the nation's economic recession "is history." He struck an occasional gracious note in acknowledging that Perot, a fellow Texan, had "captured the imagination of a lot of people." He said it had been "tempting at times" to criticize both Perot and Clinton, but vowed: "I'm not going to do it" He nevertheless seemed unable to resist answering questions about the Texas billionaire, and didn't disguise his attitude toward his candidacy.

Asked about Perot's complaint that he'd paid too little ADDRESS Continued from page 1 in response to a question about the methods Perot has used in his unconventional campaign. UI don't plan to spend a lot of time on the Phil Donahue show Bush said. "I'm president. I try to conduct myself with a reasonable degree of dignity, seriousness." On a day when Bush's mere appearance at Notre Dame graduation ceremonies here was greeted with protest, Bush's published comments reflected bis clear concern at the course of a campaign he acknowledged had "not been a particularly pleasant period." The president used the commencement address to warn that the American family was an "institution under siege" and to preach a gospel of traditional family values. sBut a valedictory speaker won rousing cheers with remarks that Challenged many of Bush's policies, and one-fourth of the 2,300 graduates wore armbands objecting to the president's presence in an election year.

One student stood plainly visible in front of the podium and turned his back to Bush through the fcourse of the 20-minute oration. Bush had granted the interview to the Texas reporter Saturday as whelming opinion (of us) is 'You're They bought furnishings and equipment from the former owner, Chuck Williams, whose grandfather bought the hotel in 1918 for $1,000 and four barrels of whiskey. Williams gave it up last spring in part because he was afraid a new Canadian border-crossing tax would keep away visitors. Unable to find anyone else to run it, the Park Service closed it last summer. That was bad news for tourists, who for years have been fascinated by the hotel's history.

The hotel was built between 1910 and 1913. Until about 1920, prostitutes worked out of the resort and the moonshine flowed. About 145 people lived in the area in 1920, mostly commercial fishermen, lumberjacks, trappers and traders. By the 1930s, sport fishermen, families and others began to move in or use the area for a getaway. HOTEL Continued from page 1 border accessible only by boat or float plane.

Built deep in a pristine wilderness long before the area was a national park, the hotel is on a promontory near where Namakan Lake falls 20 feet over a dam in Rainy Lake and about 250 miles north of Minneapolis. Managers Dan-ell Knutson and his wife, Joan Knutson, have a hobby farm near Minneapolis-St Paul. They heard last fall that Voyageurs National Park was looking for someone to run the old hotel. With a background in real estate development and a hunger for a new adventure, they took the chance. "By nature I'm kind of an entrepreneur," Darrell said.

"Friends, relatives, you name it, the over heed to the budget deficit, Bush replied: "Maybe I missed the answer to it. Has he offered an answer to it?" At the Notre Dame commencement ceremonies here, Bush received an honorary doctorate as he was hailed as the "leader of the Free World." But he was preceded to the podium by class of 1992 valedictorian Sarah J. McGrathy, who criticized such rhetoric as "self-congratulatory" and "divisive." Complaining that the nation had failed to live up to its obligations, she asserted: "The United States can no longer call itself the victor of the Cold War or the one remaining superpower." Bush listened uncomfortably through the remarks but later made no direct reference to them. White youths beaten by black teens after dance, police report ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. Officials at a Louisville amusement park say they'll be stepping up security in the wake of a spree of possibly race-related beatings and robberies.

About 15 to 20 black teen-agers roamed the Kentucky Kingdom parking lot Friday night, beating and robbing a dozen or more white youths over a 25-minute period, police said. The victims were leaving the amusement park at the Kentucky Fair Exposition Center around midnight, following the park's weekly teen dance, which had attracted about 7,000 young people. At least two of the victims, both boys, were treated for injuries at hospitals and released. Five cases involved both assault and robbery, three of assault only and five of robbery only. One girl who was robbed also reported she was sexually abused.

No arrests have been made. Although all of the victims were white and all the alleged assailants were black, Louisville police spokesman said, "We don't want to jump to the conclusion that race was a motive." IRAQ Wilder took a similar step this year in the case of Herbert Bas-sette, a Richmond man convicted of the robbery and execution-style slaying of a teen-age gasoline station attendant. Bassette, who is black, also maintained his innocence. Bassette's lawyers raised new evidence they said pointed to another man as the killer. The claims were never heard by a jury, but Wilder commuted the sentence to life in prison without parole.

Bassette's case didn't attract widespread press coverage outside the state and national groups didn't hold rallies in his support. Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor and once a death penalty opponent, has allowed five other executions to go forward. "I don't think race plays that big a role. People said when Giarratano's case was commuted it was because he was white. Herbert's case proves that wrong," MacNeil said.

Coleman's supporters asked Wilder last week to commute his sentence so they can pursue a hew trial. Wilder is reviewing the request. A federal judge refused to order a hearing on the new claims. Coleman's attorney has appealed. RACE Continued from page 1 good question to ask, whether the fact that this guy is articulate and can state his case makes a difference," Pondiscio said.

Coleman's case is similar to that of. Joseph Giarratano, the Virginia inmate whose scheduled execution last year prompted a massive campaign for Gov. L. Douglas Wilder to grant clemency. Giarratano also is well-spoken and white.

In both cases, petitions flooded the governor's office and media from Japan to Germany closely followed developments. Support for Coleman in some ways grew out of the network formed to help Giarratano, said Marian MacNeil, a spokeswoman for the anti-death penalty group Virginia Coalition on Jails and Prisons. Supporters, including actor Mike Farrell, traveled to Richmond last year in support of Giarratano, convicted of rape and murder in the deaths of a Norfolk woman and her daughter. Wilder commuted Giarratano's sentence to life in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 11 years.

SCAMS Continued from page 1 hioney from you but they've ''promised a great deal more just guaranteed you're going to win pne of these prizes." Grimes said there's nothing he can do about a company from another state that solicits money from a person in McCracken County. It would be up to the attorney general in that state to pursue any suspected illegal practices. Grimes said it's difficult to track down fly-by-night companies. If you receive and decide to look Jnto mail offers, it's a case of dialer rbeware. i "You wouldn't think many people tyould fall for it," Grimes said.

"So people are anxious to get Something for nothing they'll tration officials who directed U.S. policy toward Iraq. Gonzalez has argued that U.S. help for Iraq, despite its human rights abuses and support for terrorism, might have had some justification as long as it was designed to prevent an Iranian victory in the eight-year Persian Gulf war. But that support, he contends, should have ended when the war did in 1988 especially in light of mounting evidence that Iraq gassed thousands of its Kurdish citizens that year.

The House Banking Committee began to investigate U.S. policy as a result of its investigation into the Atlanta branch of an Italian bank, whose manager was indicted last year for making some $2 billion in Continued from page 1 past policies, not ongoing operations. "None of the statements and none of the documents compromise the national security or intelligence sources or methods." Gonzalez demanded that Ban-say specifically which documents had harmed what aspects of U.S. security. "You should not hide behind generalities about 'national he wrote.

Gonzalez pledged to continue his efforts to investigate the policy "that ultimately led to the loss of countless human lives and serious economic consequences." His panel plans two hearings later this month to which it has invited more than a dozen adminis i to n. unreported loans to Iraq..