George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

Bush's alibi for October 18-October 19, 1980 has always appeared dubious. There is in
fact a period of 21 or 22 hours in which his whereabouts cannot be conclusively proven.
According to Bush's campaign records, he was in Philadelphia on October 18, and his last
event of the day was a speech at Widener University in Delaware County that began at
about 8:40 PM. After the speech, he was scheduled to fly to Washington; the next event
on his schedule was an address to the Zionist Organization of America at the Capital
Hilton Hotel in downtown Washington at 7 PM on October 19. In the meantime he would
rest at his campaign residence at 4429 Lowell Street in Washington.
Bush staffer Peter Hart has claimed that Bush arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in the
Maryland suburbs of Washington on the night of October 19 and then proceeded to his
campaign residence. Secret Service records say that Bush landed at Washington National
Airport in northern Virginia at 9:25 PM. The Secret Service records are themselves
suspect in that they were filed 12 days later. (One thinks of the undated combat report of
Bush's mission from the San Jacinto.) This is the same airport and about the same time
mentioned by Rupp in his account of his departure for Paris.
There is some indication that a Bush double may have made an appearance at the Howard
Johnson Motel in Cheshire, Pennsylvania where Bush was staying. According to the
motel manager, Bush did not check out of his establishment until after 11 PM that night,
which cointradicts both Hart and the Secret Service records.
There are some Secret Service logs that indicate something about Bush visiting Chevy
Chase Country Club in suburban Maryland between 10:30 AM and 11:56 AM on the
morning of October 19, but this evidence is highly suspect. The records in question
appear to have been filled out by an advance man from Bush's political staff, not a Secret
Service agent. The documents are dated one week after the events in question. Parts of
the documentation have been heavily censored and "redacted." An investigative journalist
was unable to find anyone among the personnel of the country club who could confirm
that Bush had been there, and there appear to be no files or records at the country club
that could prove his presence.
Don Gregg has also attempted to provide his own alibi for October 18-19. This came in a
trial in Portland, Orgeon in April-May, 1990 in which the Bush regime had indicted
Richard Brenneke for perjury allegedly committed in telling the story of the Paris
meeting and Bush's presence to a federal judge in a Colorado trial in which Heinrich
Rupp had been convicted for bank fraud in September, 1988. Gregg's story was that he
had been at the beach in Delaware with his family during the period in question, and he
produced some photographs he said were made during those days. Expert witness Bob
Lynott, an experienced weatherman, refuted Gregg's testimony by showing that the
weather conditions in Delaware that day did not match those shown by meteorological
records. Gregg was discredited, and Brenneke was acquitted on the charge of perjury.
The Bushmen have also brought forward Gordon Crovitz of the Wall Street Journal with
a log of Bush's activities on October 19 that includes a luncheon with former US