I have only seen the segment the one time so far.... but I didn't see any major errors re the discrepancies, etc., behind the official "suicide verdict" unless you count the use of the WJC [Western Journalism Center] silver-colored gun as a "prop" for the black Army Colt .38 Special with four-inch barrel manafactured about 1912 that was the official death gun.
I wish Pat Knowlton had gone into the more graphic aspects of his harrassment -- folks simulating pulling a gun from a paper bag and pretending to "shoot" him with a thumb and forefinger "gun," breaking into his building and pounding repeatedly on his door after midnight while standing outside the view of the peephole in his door, the FBI agent's comment when asked if the agent could be trusted: "I don't know, Mr. Knowlton, can you?" That his phone was cut off when the FBI guy arrived in his apartment and that his phone announced its revivial with a ring just as the agent was leaving. The agents's comment that if the FBI had put a tap on his line, Knowlton would never know it, etc.
Also it would have been nice to focus on the specific reason that appears to be why Knowlton was being harassed: He has consistently described the Honda with AR plates to his left as he pulled into Fort Marcy's parking lot as a rusty-brown 1983-1984 four-door Accord and, when shown pictures of Foster's 1989 gray taupe Honda Accord by the FBI, has insisted all along that they were not the same two cars. When the FBI lab tech offered to run a computer list of all 1983/1984 Honda Accord four-door models with AR plates, the FBI agent ordered him not to do so and said, "We're on top of this."
Query: assuming Knowlton is right and the vehicle he saw with AR plates was not Foster's, whose car was it? When did it leave the parking lot and when did Foster's Honda arrive? If it arrived after 5:15 PM or so, he obviously didn't drive it. When did the other AR Honda leave the parking lot?
Note that six of the seven first arrivals among the officials at the park (official arrivals, that is) -- the USPP Officer and the six FCFRD EMS/Firefighter types -- referred to an extra civilian vehicle in the parking lot when they pulled it at 6:12 PM or so EDT. This "extra" civilian vehicle is not referred to in any of the official reports, all of which conclude the death was a suicide some five yards west of the so-called second cannon at Fort Marcy where they body was officially found.
I expect we will hear more on this. I am trying to get an article published in late March or April that covers in detail one of the issues raised in the "700 Club" segment: When did the White House first know of Foster's death and what did they do next? It is very unclear at this time whether any magazine will pick it up, but I ought to know in a few days.
Warm regards,
Hugh Sprunt