Dad killed by gunman, while teen son hides and survives 30 hours in Sierra wilderness
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/dad-killed-by-gunman-while-teen-son-hides-and-survives-30-hours-in-sierra-wilderness
DANVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - A husband, who was a father of three from Danville, was shot to death during a holiday trip to Sierra County, near the California-Nevada border.
The shooting happened in a remote area of the Tahoe National Forest, north of Highway 49 on Friday.
Authorities said the victim, 45-year-old Dr. Ari Gershman, was off-roading in a new jeep, with his 15-year-old son, when Gershman was shot.
His son was able to elude the shooter, and according to a GoFundMe account, the teen hid and survived in the wilderness for more than 30 hours, before rescuers found him Saturday.
In a Facebook post, the Sierra County Sheriff's Office announced he was discovered in good health and did not need medical treatment.
The post went on to say that shortly after the boy was found, law enforcement officers encountered the suspect driving an all-terrain vehicle.
They tried to stop him, but he drove off towards the community of Downieville.
He was eventually caught about one mile north of Highway 49, said authorities.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect is also accused of shooting two other people on July 3 in a remote, northwestern section of the county.
The victims were taken to the hospital, and are expected to survive.
The Sierra County Sheriff's Office did not discuss a possible motive to the attack but said more details will be released in the "coming days" about what happened.
Gershman was a pulmonary doctor.
The GoFundMe account reports that Gershman's wife, Paige, is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.
The crowdfunding site said the couple's three children are ages 16, 15, and 10.
As of early Tuesday morning,$150,000 had been raised toward the $250,000 goal.
PROCTER & GAMBLE FIGHTS SATAN STORY
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/18/garden/procter-gamble-fights-satan-story.html
By Lisa Belkin
April 18, 1985
LEAFLETS charging that the Procter & Gamble Company is an agent of Satan have recently surfaced throughout the New York metropolitan area and the company is starting a campaign to counteract the rumors. Among other things, the leaflets say that the company's logo represents the Devil and the company's profits are used to support the worship of Satan.
Yesterday, Procter & Gamble held a news conference to deny the stories, which it said prompted 5,600 calls last month and 4,000 calls so far this month to its headquarters in Cincinnati. Sixty percent of those calls were from New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, the company said.
The company has established a toll- free number, 800-354-0508, to handle the calls. It has also hired two investigative agencies to trace the rumors and take legal action against the people who spread them.
They simply are not true, W. Wallace Abbott, a senior vice president of Procter & Gamble, said of the stories. We haven't the vaguest idea how it started; all we know is people are believing it. Do you know how hard it is to fight a rumor?
This is not the first time Procter & Gamble has waged such a fight. The rumors linking the company with the Devil first began on the West Coast in 1982. Someone, Mr. Abbott said the company has no idea who, began sending mimeographed letters to thousands of California residents saying that the Procter & Gamble logo of the man in the moon and 13 stars was really a symbol of Devil worship.
In June and July 1982, the company received 15,000 calls and letters from people, many of whom had seen leaflets addressed to all Christians.
The leaflets said that a representative of Procter & Gamble had appeared on television and boasted that company profits support a group known as the Church of Satan. The statements were said to have been made on the Phil Donahue Show, 60 Minutes or the Merv Griffin Show.
According to Mr. Abbott, no representative of Procter & Gamble ever appeared on any of those programs. When the rumors first started, company representatives read through a year of transcripts from each of the programs, he said, and found no references to the company.
We never had anybody from Procter & Gamble on, said Penny Rotheiser, spokesman for the Phil Donahue Show in New York, which is now receiving 100 calls a day about the rumors. To fight the stories, Procter & Gamble held news conferences, similar to the one at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel yesterday. Spokesmen denied that the logo was a symbol of the Devil. We've used the same trademark since 1882, Mr. Abbott said, explaining that the 13 stars stood for the 13 original colonies. They also said that the company did not support the Church of Satan. We didn't know what that was until we started getting these calls, Mr. Abbott said. We're still not sure what it is.
They asked religious leaders such as the Rev. Jerry Fallwell, the Rev. Billy Graham and cardinals and archbishops to tell their followers that the rumors were untrue.
They also hired investigators to bring legal action against people who spread the rumors. Five lawsuits have been filed against seven individuals thus far. Several were door-to- door salesmen who heard the stories and passed them along. One, Guy Sharpe, a weatherman for a television station in Atlanta, was passed a flyer and then repeated the charges when giving speeches to local civic groups, Mr. Abbott said.
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It's everywhere. Literally right in front of our faces.
We are the frog in a pan on the stove slowly heating up.