I met your father in 1973, when he gave a speech at the University of Oklahoma. Unless by coincidence there was another Scott Camil, he was a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and had been indicted in the Gainesville 8 conspiracy trial. This group of veterans had been accused of planning a violent disruption of the 1972 Republican convention. They were acquitted by a Florida jury. One of the government's principal witnesses against them was an FBI informant named William Lemmer, who had penetrated the VVAW. He was discredited on the witness stand. Lemmer surfaced as an informant after being arrested with a group of antiwar demonstrators at Tinker AFB, near Oklahoma City, on May 4, 1972. He was actually an agent provocateur, and manipulated the demonstration leaders into persuading others to enter the base, so we could be arrested for trespass. I was a member of the group arrested, and spent four months in a penetentiary as a result. I was also the first to suspect Lemmer of being an informant, and instigated an investigation of him which ultimately led to his confession. You can read about the Lemmer/VVAW story in the December 1972 issue of Harpers. Also see my personal online memoir about this ordeal: http://hometown.aol.com/mpwright9/index1.html One of the attorneys in the Tinker trial was Stephen Jones, a very unscrupulous man who later gained international fame for defending Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. ~ Michael Wright Norman, Oklahoma
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