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452 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Bringhurst did not have bullet-proof glass in his car, and the bullet zipped
past his head and out the rear of the car.
Henry bought a 32.20 revolver and a Colt .32 handgun to protect his
family, in addition to the bullet-proof glass installed in the windows of his
automobiles. The whole Moray family suffered as a result of the mysterious
opposition to Henry's work. Mrs. Ella Moray lived in fear that something
would happen to one of the children, and the children paid the price
of losing a normal childhood. They were forbidden to go anywhere by
themselves. Even when the boys were almost teenagers, they could not go
out without an escort because of the threat of a kidnapping.
R.E.A. MAN SABOTAGES DEVICE
Violence in Henry's laboratory also shocked the family. A man named
Felix Frazer who had been sent by the Rural Electrical Administration to
work in Moray's lab went crazy with a sledge hammer (or as some reports
say, an axe) one day, and destroyed the Radiant Energy machine. He had
not broken into the lab; he had been hired to work there!
What type of person would hammer an important invention into useless
pieces—destroy a device which took years to perfect and which contained
expensive and almost irreplaceable parts John Moray describes the saboteur
as "a double agent trying to force Dr. Moray to co-operate with the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Electrical Administration and a
communist government."
John was 12 years old at the time, and as a grown man he chronicled a
related episode in the book Sea of Energy:
As a result of the constant threat to his life, my father carried a gun with
him at all times. He carried a .32 in his pocket, and whenever he walked
from the house to the laboratory at night he would wear a 32.20 revolver.
He was an excellent shot in the old Western sense . . .
On three different occasions, he was attacked at his laboratory and
shot his way out of the situation.
The incident of March 2, 1940, particularly stands out. . . Late that
afternoon a friend of mine and I were playing on the front lawn of our
home. My cousin was just starting up his car, which was parked beside
my father's car in the garage—the two cars side by side, from the street
one could not tell which car was being cranked or who was driving.
Suddenly several men in a sedan turned into the driveway and pulled
guns as if they intended to fire on the car that was starting up in the
driveway. When my cousin backed out, the men could see that it was
not my father, and they quickly drove away.
I told my father about the incident and he laughed, trying to minimize
it to prevent my worrying. . . .