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Page 1: A SHORT QUIZ - Janet's Blog · 2018-09-10 · Josephine Gay James Mattioli Jessica Rekos Emilie ... funeral. First, I found an article that appeared in several Connecticut publications

A SHORT QUIZ

The McDonnells

Prepared by Janet Divac

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AREA ONE – DEFINITELY TAKEN OUTSIDE THE FIRE HOUSE

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Emotional family members arrive at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown - Daily Mail

Page 4: A SHORT QUIZ - Janet's Blog · 2018-09-10 · Josephine Gay James Mattioli Jessica Rekos Emilie ... funeral. First, I found an article that appeared in several Connecticut publications
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AREA TWO – ALSO OUTSIDE THE FIRE HOUSE?

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The McDonnells entering an area in front of the fire house with what appears to be an entourage.

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Note their companion from the dramatic photos we just saw walks with the group. The McDonnells are accused of laughing in this scene but it is too grainy to confirm.

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Raw emotion: The photograph of the McDonnells moments after they heard their daughter has been killed has become iconic in expressing the raw grief and sorrow felt by a nation . Daily Mail

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This second location is where that iconic photograph of the McDonnells was taken.

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Sandy Hook truthers think that this area

was a green screen studio.

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Note this area

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Planter in Green Screen area

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Note these photographs of the actual location outside the firehouse. The building in the

background is much farther away than it is in the video and still photos we see of the

McDonnells and their entourage.

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This still is from the same video footage showing the McDonnell entourage. Note the distance

from the planter to the pavillion.

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Same planter

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Pavillion

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Note the Backgrounds.

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QUESTION No. ONE

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WHICH IS MORE LIKELY?

1. After arriving at the fire house Chris McDonnell was cold and despite the crowded, chaotic scene and not knowing his child’s fate went to his car to get another jacket.

2. The second location was a green screen studio set up for photographs and video. A professional photographer felt the McDonnell’s needed a bit more contrast and so added the red jacket.

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Raw emotion: The photograph of the McDonnells moments after they heard their daughter has been killed has become iconic in expressing the raw grief and sorrow felt by a nation . Daily Mail

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Mr and Mrs McDonnell were pictured on December 14 moments after they heard their daughter had been killed.

The photograph of the McDonnells moments

after they heard the horrific news has become iconic in expressing the raw grief and sorrow felt by a nation, and was the main image on many of the nation's newspapers on December 15, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. -Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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Let’s move on.

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Two days after their 7-year-old daughter was murdered the McDonnells called Anderson Cooper to request an interview. Four days after the Sandy Hook tragedy, the McDonnells had

a conversation with Mr. “Keeping Them Honest.”

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In this interview, Lynn McDonnell described arriving at the funeral home, and seeing her daughter’s small white coffin.

‘You felt like the floor was falling beneath you,’ she said.

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Lynn McDonnell went on to describe the family drawing the things she loved – peace signs, ice cream cones, seagulls – on the casket until “there wasn’t even an inch of white.”

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Whenever available, caskets of the children were photographed and/or described, so it would be no problem to find this casket mentioned, or certainly photographed.

Right?

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Josephine Gay James Mattioli

Jessica Rekos Emilie Parker

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So let’s search for Gracie’s casket.

In all of cyberspace I found two articles, and a series of photographs of the McDonnells and others exiting the church following the funeral.

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First, I found an article that appeared in several Connecticut publications written by Kurtis Lee, a staff writer for the Denver Post. Curiously I could not find it at the Denver Post.

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Lee’s article describes the 90-minute service, from the rain as it began, to “the singing of Amazing Grace, and around that moment the church lit up as the sun shone brightly” as the service concluded.

There was no mention of a casket. There were no photographs of a casket.

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Kurtis Lee is a staff writer for the Denver Post?

How did a reporter from Denver, Colorado come to write an article about a funeral in Connecticut, and RAN in Connecticut papers?

This is NOT one of your questions, though, class.

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Still no casket. Let’s move on.

We find another article about little Gracie’s service. This one is by Susan Tuz, a staff writer for News-Times of Danbury, CT.

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Let’s read that again!

NEWTOWN -- A dark blue urn bearing the name "Gracie" in gold script sat Friday in the nave of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.

It held the ashes of 7-year-old Grace Audrey McDonnell, one of 20 first-graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School a week earlier. White seashells arrayed beside the urn reflected the girl's love of the beach.

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Susan Tuz closed her article with:

Then the McDonnell family watched a balloon launch from the lawn of the church, before driving away with Grace's ashes.

http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Service-for-Sandy-Hook-child-reflects-love-of-4137989.php

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QUESTION NO. 2

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How does a white casket covered in Sharpie drawings turn into a blue urn?

1. Magic.

2. Creative writing.

3. After covering Gracie’s casket with Sharpie drawings the McDonnells changed their minds and decided to cremate their child.

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Since the official Sandy Hook story is true, the only correct answer to the previous question

is No. 3 – the McDonnells changed their minds, I have one more question.

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Question No. 3

If you deface – I mean decorate –

a casket with permanent markers, then decide not to use it, what do you do

with the casket?

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Left, Grace McDonnell. Right, girl in Sandy Hook Chorus appearing at the Super Bowl Feb 2013.

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Josephine Gay James Mattioli

Jessica Rekos Emilie Parker

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TEST OVER. CLASS DISMISSED.